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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!
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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
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 [...]
ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]
Hitting the Mainstream: The Los Angeles Times Covers Van Nuys Cruising
Posted in General News January 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The seemingly spontaneous rebirth of cruising on the fabled Van Nuys Blvd. in Los Angeles was one of the few truly bright spots in 2009 for gearheads. What started as a small gathering of guys who used to cruise the strip every week expoloded into a real deal hot rod happening with each consecutive meet [...]
Stolen: Vintage Custom Pontiac in Canada
Posted in General News January 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We really hate it when cool old cars get stolen by scumbags. In this case, the scumbags are presumably Canadian, as this theft went down up in Edmonton, Canada. A customized 1959 Pontiac Parisienne was jacked from a from a hobby shop last weekend. Jerks! According to a story on The Edmonton Sun website, the [...]
Jan Gabriel, Pioneering Drag Radio Ad Voice and Racing Announcer Passes at Age 69
Posted in MISC January 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Jan Gabriel, the original voice of Ben Christ’s historic “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!” drag strip radio ads and a successful television producer, has died at age 69. This marks the third loss of a historic gearhead personality in the last week with Bob Toia of Gratiot Auto Supply Fame and Bob Tasca Sr. joining Gabriel at [...]
Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
Posted in General News January 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Maybe you’ve been there. The in-tank fuel pump on some aging EFI car has quit. You’re in the shop lying on the frigid concrete. The cheap plastic siphon pump you bought to drain the nearly full tank just made a huge mess before it broke. (In-tank fuel pumps never seem to poop out when the [...]
Tim Allen’s Moal Roadster is up for Grabs on eBay
Posted in General News January 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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In the past week we showed you Boyd Coddington’s last custom rod for sale on eBay. Now here is a super high-dollar rod for sale from the collection of Tim Allen, best known for his role on Home Improvement. Maybe hard times are finally reaching the top ranks of wealthy car guys. Or maybe Tim [...]
Event Gallery: New Years Bracket Bash in Fontana California
Posted in DRAG RACES January 13, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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While most of the country was embroiled in one of the most widespread cold spells in history, the greater Los Angeles area was enjoying temps in the mid 70s on New Years. And if that wasn’t enough to make the rest of you hate Southern Californians, we had drag racing as well. You read that [...]
Photo Tour: The Petersen Automotive Museum
Posted in General News January 12, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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A few days ago, we brought you a photo tour of the Justice Bros. Racing Museum in Duarte, California, as an introduction to stuff you can do when you are a gearhead visiting the Los Angeles area. Now here’s a photo gallery of another great destination, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The Petersen [...]
Government Funding Engine Projects, Yunick’s Hot Vapor Engine Seems To Be Among Them
Posted in General News January 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Apparently while sweeping under the rug, the US Government located $187 million dollars and decided to dole it out in the form of grants to companies that build engines. The money is to be used for projects that revolve around increasing fuel economy. One project was granted $7.7 million, is being run by General Motors, [...]
Aussie Spec Ford Falcon is Dead According to Ford’s President Mulally
Posted in General News January 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The Ford Falcon, long a staple of high-performance motoring in Australia, will not be produced in the current form much longer according to Ford boss Alan Mulally. Citing Ford’s new “One Ford” program, where the company will consolidate all their offerings around the world onto global platforms, Mulally said that building different vehicles for different [...]
The Story of a Chevelle and A Demolished Dealership
Posted in General News January 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We ran into a bittersweet story on SouthtownStar.com about an Illinois man who owns a 1967 Chevelle that he bought brand new from the now demolished Sunrise Chevrolet located in Midlothian, Illinois. Upon hearing that the dealer was closed, he managed to get his car on the property to take some last photos before the [...]
Only One Dodge Team Left In NASCAR for 2010
Posted in General News January 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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It has come to this for Dodge in NASCAR. Roger Penske’s team will be the only one left running a car with a Dodge logo and headlight stickers on it for 2010. It is a far cry from the triumphant announcements that came in 2001 when Dodge came back into the sport after a 15-year [...]
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