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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 [...]
The Parting Shift: Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am Action
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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We know what you’re thinking. The Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am is legendary, but it’s an automatic. At least the interior of the car is shown to have an automatic transmission shifter, but watch closely and listen to the soundtrack more and you’ll find that there must have been at least a few four-speed [...]
Just Because: Newspaper in the Philippines Reviews Shelby GT500
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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So it’s Friday and we’re in a Friday mood. Is there any good reason that we’re directing you to read a review of the latest Shelby GT500 Mustang from a newspaper in the Philippines? There probably is, but we can’t think of it right now. Actually we do have a reason. It is the only [...]
Great Read: How Danica Patrick Ended Up With The Dale Jr. NASCAR Operation
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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It was a trip to Monaco, a Jay-Z video, and a night of no sleep that ultimately led Danica Patrick to sign on with Dale Jr.’s NASCAR team. She will run a limited schedule in the Nationwide series next season, and no matter if she’s good or bad, she will dominate the headlines. SI.com’s Brant [...]
Stolen: Valuable Custom Camaro
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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A custom Camaro has been stolen from a shop in Delaware County, Oklahoma. The shop claims that the car is worth $185,000. It’s not exactly our taste, but it still sucks that it was stolen and these guys are out a car that supposedly took them 2,400 man hours to build. A story from a [...]
New Head of GM North America Formerly Ran GM Performance, Holden
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Mark Reuss is the new head of GM’s North American operations and you’ll be happy to know that he is a hard core car guy. Reuss previously ran the GM Performance Division and oversaw GM’s Australian wing, Holden. He is now sitting in the hottest seat in America. Failure is not an option and success [...]
Stick to Your Prius: Canadian Reviewer Pans Camaro
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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The new Camaro has been reviewed by tons of media outlets. Most of the issues encountered by test drivers have been the same. There were some ergonomic complaints about the cabin and some issues with gauge placement and readability, but the road manners and engineering of the car were basically praised by everyone. Everyone, that [...]
Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor
Posted in MISC December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one of the craziest things we have ever seen. The video we dug up shows a very small remote control pulling tractor powered by an actual, tiny, turbine engine. We’d by lying if we said we knew anything more than that about it. We searched the web looking for info and came up [...]
It’s Good to be the Sheik: Al-Anabi Team Owner Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani Drives F1 Car
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani, the owner of the massive, international Al-Anabi drag racing team, recently made history, becoming the first ever Qatari to drive a Formula One car. The ride was taken in a William FW31 race car and was made at Quatar’s new Formula One track. He went through training on a simulator [...]
Wheels Up Video: The Psycho Wheelstander Pulling Truck
Posted in MISC December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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George Stinnett’s Psycho Ford Econoline pulling truck was one of the most famous pulling machines of the 1980s. Built just like an old school drag racing wheelstander, the truck would hike the front end sky high, plant the big Dick Cepek Giant Puller tires into the pulling surface, and tug the sled. Although the truck [...]
Craigslist Pick of the Week: A Monster 1973 Cadillac Eldorado
Posted in General News December 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Whale-like Cadillacs from the early and mid-’70s are kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand they’re cool for their sheer girth and the fact that they were often packing 500 cubes beneath a hood large enough that it could serve as the roof for a car port. On the other hand they are a [...]
Killer Digger Follow Up: Great Photos of Another SPE Slingshot in action
Posted in General News December 10, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday we told you about a neat old front engine dragster that is for sale. The car has some cool history and was built by the west coast shop of Roy Fjastad called Speed Products Engineering. We mentioned that Roy built a lot of dragsters, we weren’t kidding. Shortly after the item hit the blog [...]
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