Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
Great Garage Sale Coming to the San Diego Area
Our computer guys at Namtra Media are tight with the rod builders at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff, a shop that won the Ridler award a few years ago and that cranks out tons of killer iron. And...
Video: Muscle Car Burnouts and Launches from the 2009 March Meet
Here’s another entry in the 2009 March Meet drag racing action videos that we introduced to you here. This installment features burnouts, wheelies, and launches from the doorslammers of the...
Video: 1,000-Plus Horsepower Blown Big-Block Chevy
Here at BangShift.com, we’re tuning up our video skills to bring you more action more often. One of the things we’ve been doing is hanging out more often at the Westech Performance Group...
Video: 2009 March Meet Action!
Way back when it was fresh news, we brought you six big photo galleries of the scene at the 2009 March Meet at Famoso Raceway near Bakersfield, California. At the time we also shot a bunch of video,...
Site of the Week: Ultimate Source of Old Shop Manuals
Shop manuals aren’t exactly the most stimulating reading in the world, but we cherish them more than dad’s Playboy collection, plus they’re more useful when it comes time to work on...
Event Coverage: The 5th Annual Jeg’s NHRA SportsNationals
The 5th Annual 2009 Jeg’s Pacific SPORTSNationals presented by K&N on April 18-19 in Fontana, California, was hot and fast, and we’re not just talking about the weather. While the...
Rig and El Camino Stolen from Spectre Performance has been Recovered!
On the 13th we reported that a truck and trailer and a radical El Camino had been ripped off from Spectre Performance. We just got word that the stuff has been found! Here’s the email text from...
Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks
We’ve been collecting up photo galleries of all sorts of car that we see during our car-guy travels, and this time it’s a gallery of 31 Buick photos. We would have liked to have more, but...
More of Our Videos, Now at MSDVideos.com
Several months ago, David Freiburger and I made a bunch of videos for MSD Ignition. The one called Set Your Timing has been posted for a while now, but more recently, they put up vids on how to know...
Event Coverage: 159 Photos from the 2009 Viva Las Vegas Car Show
As promised last week when we posted this gallery of 66 retro custom cars, BangShift.com spent Saturday in Las Vegas for the 12th Annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender. The event is now held at...
Photo Gallery: 66 Retro-Style Custom Cars
BangShift.com is heading to the Viva Las Vegas rockabilly car show this weekend, so we’ve got retro on the brain right now. That seemed like a good reason to post up this new photo gallery with...
Video: The Real F-Bomb Camaro in Action for the Fast and Furious Sound Crew
Here’s a video that we made last summer during a day at California’s Willow Springs International Raceway when the gearhead crew from the Fast and Furious movie was having a fun day...
Event Coverage: 200 Photos from Goodguys Del Mar Car Show
It was another great weekend in California on April 3-5 for the 9th Annual Goodguys Del Mar Nationals at the fairgrounds in, you guessed it, Del Mar. BangShift.com was there all weekend as I once...
New Gallery: 50 Photos of Mopar B-Bodies
OK, Mopar guys, here’s a new photo gallery loaded with a bunch of big B-bodies that we’ve seen over the past year or so at places like the Spring Fling (next one is coming soon!), the...