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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
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Show Gallery: The 2013 Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Hot Rods, Cool Trucks, Muscle and More!
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 [...]
Show Gallery: The 2013 Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Hot Rods, Cool Trucks, Muscle and More!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Last weekend, Tommy Lee Byrd made his annual trip (a whole 4 miles) to the Strawberry Festival Cruise In, held in his hometown of Dayton, Tennessee. It’s a typical small town festival that features a block party on Friday night, and a big parade on Saturday afternoon. [...]
BangShift Question of the Day: Are You the Last Gearhead Standing In Your Social Circle?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? June 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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A weekend away with my wife and family had me thinking about my own gearhead life and I quickly realized that most everyone I’ve wrenched with, bled with, raced with, and screwed around with cars with has hung up their spurs. Life throws all of us a curveball or wake up call and for many [...]
Replay and Results: The 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals From Las Vegas – Watch the Stuff You Missed!
Posted in RACING & ACTION November 17, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Click here for results from the 2011 SCSN! CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS FROM THE 2011 SCSN
Question of the Day: What’s the Coolest Wheel Ever?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? April 18, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Wheels are such a huge part of the look and performance package of any car. There are thousands of different designs out there, from the classic steel “rally” wheels that adorned so many cars to far more racy looking stuff like Mini-lites, magnesium Halibrands, and on and on. Outside of the commercially available stuff there [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: The General Lee Versus KITT – Who Survives?
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match April 10, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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So here’s the deal. We’re going to be running a series of items over the coming days and weeks called “Celebrity Car Death Match” where we’ll pit two iconic cars, trucks, motorcycles, or other vehicles against one another in a tournament of death matches. Winner moves on, loser burns with the shame of defeat! This [...]
Best of BangShift 2012: The1967 Shelby GT500 Barn Find – Found in Death Valley California
Posted in Car Features December 24, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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When we got the call from our pal Jon at Tube Chassis Designz that we needed to get down to his shop to see something cool, we jumped in the car and went. We were greeted with one of the coolest single cars we have ever seen. This is a factory stock 1967 Shelby GT500 [...]
Question of the Day: What Brand or Model of Car Has the Most Rabidly Devoted (WEIRD) Owners?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? May 11, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This question came to me when I was driving and a Corvette pulled up along side of me. Inside the car was a man wearing a Corvette hat, Corvette jacket, and he had adorned the car with both a personalized Corvette themed license plate and a Corvette emblazoned license plate frame. He was definitely in a [...]
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Swap Would Be The Ultimate Sacrilege?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? February 22, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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Last night on PowerShift LIVE, Brian and I discussed some crazy engine swaps and was was wrong and/or right about them. Swaps like the 426 Max Wedge Engine that was found in the Barn Find ’57 Chevy drag car. Or the 2JZ Toyota that was in the Camaro. How about the guy that puts an [...]
Question of the Day: What’s The Best Bolt On Upgrade You Have Ever Made To A Project?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? August 3, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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So I’ve been wrenching hard on ol’ Bufort T Justice this week installing the Hotchkis Sport Suspension parts and pieces. It has been a long process mainly because I am taking my time and that’s also due to the fact that disassembling a crusty, 25 year old car ain’t exactly a process that moves swiftly, [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: The Monkeemobile VS The Munster Koach
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match April 29, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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So I am writing this after a marathon 15-hour drive home from the ECTA meet in Wilmington, Ohio. The idea came to me as I was watching the sun rise in some state east of the Mississippi. I honestly can’t remember which one. Anyway, we’re pitting two TV icons against one another today and this [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: Bigfoot 1 From Take This Job And Shove It VS The Wild ’67 Chevy From Fast And Furious 4
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match May 2, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Today’s death match is all about trucks. We have two very different competitors here in the ring of doom. There’s the giant Bigfoot and the slammed 1967 Chevy from The Fast and the Furious 4. Before we get too deep into the karmic impact of this fight, let’s check the tale of the tape from [...]
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Stupidest Thing You’ve Been Pulled Over For?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? August 24, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Looking at the troubles that our fellow hot rodders in the UK may be in, got us thinking. There are too many stupid pieces of automotive legislation to list, but what are your favorites for the ultimate list of stupid automotive laws or regulations? And what is the stupidest one that you’ve actually been pulled [...]
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