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Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!
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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
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Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
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Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We love Goodguys events, mainly because they’re not your typical car show. It’s much more than that, and it actually involves beating on your car, which is totally our style. This past weekend we checked out the Goodguys Nashville Nationals at LP Field and had a great [...]
Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) - We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for his job as a pipeline welder. The welder/generator is belt driven off the driveshaft, there is a gearbox that allows either [...]
Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere white Chevy Chevette Scooter riding on skinny front tires and plain steel rims – emerging from a dense cloud of tire [...]
Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level blasting away with his still camera. He captured some great images before coming down with something and having to leave the track in a [...]
Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to accommodate the cars that come from all over, this year car count was well over 300. It looked like almost [...]
Finally, An Update in the Jeremy Mayfield Case
Posted in General News February 10, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Finally! We’ve been waiting for months to hear some new stuff about the Jeremy Mayfield case against NASCAR. The actual trial is not set to begin until September, but the pre-trial wrangling is well under way. The most resent dust-up has to do with where Brian France lives. What the hell does that have to [...]
Ebay Find: The $200,000 1985 Camaro IROC
Posted in eBay Find February 10, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We didn’t screw up on the dollar amount in the title. This is a 1985 IROC Z28 sporting a TPI 305, an automatic transmission, 747 miles, and the signatures of nearly 100 actors, musicians, and celebrities who were at Live Aid in 1985. This is the motherload of autograph collections, and one hell of a [...]
Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past
Posted in MISC February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Engines are the life force of the gearhead world. We like to think about them in hot rods, trucks, and muscle cars, but there is a much broader scope that needs to be considered. Engines powered far more than cars in the days of old. Often factories would be powered by massive stationary engines used [...]
Caption This Photo: The Vanishing Tractor
Posted in General News February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We were sent this photo by BangShift.com member Mike Casella and we immediately thought that we needed to put it forth to be captioned. Is it a photo chop? Is it a whimsical country art project? Is is a slow motion, tractor eating sink hole? Who knows, but you’ve got to admit that it’s pretty [...]
War on Racetracks: A Refresher Course on the Saga of Social Circle, Georgia’s Proposed Drag Strip
Posted in General News February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The Walton Tribune recently ran a piece that does a nice job summing up the current state of the debate going on in Social Circle, Georgia, with respect to a proposed drag strip for the community. There is vocal opposition to the project which by all accounts is being spearheaded by some of the village [...]
The Superbowl Car Ads: Speedy Picks the Winners, Watch Them Here!
Posted in MISC February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The Super Bowl is probably the closest thing to a universal social event in America. Even the most hard-core BangShifters probably watched at least part of it. But the real Super Bowl wasn’t fought on the gridiron. The main event was the epic battle of the advertisers. It’s the admen’s annual Donnybrook, slugged out at [...]
Neat Story: The Tale of the Iranian Baldwin Motion Phase III Camaro
Posted in General News February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Here’s the improbable story of a 1974 Baldwin-Motion Phase III Camaro that has lived its entire life in Tehran, Iran. The car was built new by Joel Rosen and the guys at Motion Performance for a wealthy automotive enthusiast. The car survived the 1979 revolution and subsequent lockdown the country has been in seemingly ever [...]
RacingJunk Find: Multi-Engine, 8,000lb Unlimited Modified Pulling Tractor
Posted in General News February 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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If you’ve ever wanted to get a sneak preview of what the end of the world will sound like, attend a tractor pull where the big, 8,000-pound Unlimited Modifieds are competing. Better yet, buy this one that’s for sale over on RacingJunk.com. When the hammer drops on the three- and four-engine tractors, the noise is [...]
Project Car: Fatlane, the Chevy-Powered, ProCharged 1964 Ford Fairlane. Update: Suspension Fabrication
Posted in FORD February 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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ABOUT PROJECT FATLANE This project car is a 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt look-a-like that is being constructed to compete in the Heavy Street drag class at races like the YellowBullet Nationals, Street Car Super Nationals and a host of others. The car will be powered by a 540ci Keith Black Olds based wedge engine that is topped [...]
Not BangShift Approved: A PT Cruiser That is Supposed to Look Like a Cat
Posted in General News February 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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This is a true automotive abomination. Combine the lame-ass PT Cruiser with large fiberglass appendages in an effort to make it look like a cat? Congrats, you have managed to create the worst looking vehicle in America. Have some freaking self respect! Driving a car around that has a massive tail attached to its rear? [...]
Cool Video: Charles Taylor’s One-Wheeled Vehicle
Posted in HISTORIC February 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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One of the neat things that we’ve come to expect here at BangShift.com is the unexpected. Learning about stuff that we never knew existed is pure awesome to us, and when we were tipped off about Charles Taylor and the video of his experiments driving the one-wheel vehicles that he built, we were apoplectic. His [...]
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