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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, Truck, Patina, Main St USA Setting!
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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, Truck, Patina, Main St USA Setting!
(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 [...]
eBay Pick: Crazy 1962 Pontiac Catalina That Never Was
Posted in General News December 28, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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A bubble-top 1962 Catalina is a damn cool car on its own. One packing a developmental all-aluminum 389 engine that was one of 14 built for Mickey Thompson is freaking sublime. This car is not a clone or recreation, it is a total what-if. What if a factory engineer was able to tinker with one [...]
Monday Time Killer: The Amazing Hand Made Aluminum Models of Young C. Park
Posted in General News December 28, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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We had never heard of the internet craftsmanship museum until we were tipped off about an amazing page on the site by BangShift.com forum member Joes66Fury2. He urged us to look at the page highlighting the incredible hand made aluminum airplane models made by retired dentist Young C. Park. These aren’t just milled out airplanes, [...]
Vote for BangShift.com in the Best of 2009 Poll at CompetitionPlus.com!
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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We at BangShift.com were surprised and honored to discover that we made the list for the annual Best Of poll at CompetitionPlus.com, one of the oldest web sites serving the drag racing community. BangShift.com was nominated for both Drag Racing News Web Site of the Year (probably in recognition of our live coverage of the [...]
Santa Please: A 598ci, 900hp, Pump Gas Big Block Chevy
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Hey Santa, thanks in advance for all the awesome stuff. Listen, we got to thinking about the ramp truck and that 350 in there isn’t going to cut the mustard. We’ll put it to you like this, would you run your sleigh with only half your reindeer or less? Of course you wouldn’t. We’re always [...]
More Great Vintage Drag Photos from Phil Burgess at National Dragster
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Phil Burgess, editor of National Dragster, keeps catching our attention with his online Dragster Insider column that recently has been featuring a lot of vintage photos of the drag racing era we all love. This time, reader Cliff Morgan sent in some fan photos that he shot personally in his years around Southern California drag [...]
Santa Please: Killer 1979 Chevy Ramp Truck
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Santa, dude, we’ve got just one more request. We’re going to thank you in advance for the two race cars, but man, we really need something to move them around with. The good news is that we’ve made it easy for you by finding this neato 1979 Chevy crew cab ramp truck on eBay. We’re [...]
Hilarious Christmas Wish List for Big-Name Racers
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Terry Blount over at ESPN.com wrote up a Christmas wish list for a number of big-name racers from the worlds of NHRA, NASCAR, and F1 racing. Some are pot shots, others are hilarious observations, and they are all worth reading. For example, for Ashley Force, “A practice Christmas tree, NHRA style” so she can get [...]
Killer Video: The Weekend They Made Bristol a Dirt Track
Posted in MISC December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday we told you about an asphalt track that was going back to its roots and replacing the surface with dirt. Several readers told us about other tracks that have been making the same transition. About ten years ago, one of the most famous circle tracks in the country, Bristol Motor Speedway, made the switch [...]
Horror Show: Audi R8 Skewered By Guardrail, Driver Loses Legs
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Armco guardrails scare the crap out of us. They were used at drag strips for years and caused the unnecessary injury of many drivers and unnecessary destruction of many race cars. Armco-style steel guardrails are still the most widely used type of barrier on highways across the country, and the evidence of the bad junk [...]
Santa Please: A Road Racing VW Rabbit
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Hate VWs? Oh well, this is our wish list. Santa, I know we just demanded you bring us that killer Camaro Funny Car an hour ago, but we’re not done yet. We need something that can turn and stop too. We’ll go easy on you with this one and do it on the cheap with [...]
Santa Please: A 1967 Chevy Camaro Funny Car
Posted in General News December 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Santa, we’ve been good this year. OK maybe that’s a stretch, but we haven’t committed any felonies. That’s the truth. OK, it’s kind of the truth. We’ve not been convicted of any felonies this year. Anyway, we’re asking for a few simple things this year and this 1967 Camaro Funny Car is one of them. [...]
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