Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: A Quick Look at the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame
The tow truck. It’s both a dreaded enemy and a welcome friend in the world of the BangShifter. Dreaded because it means your junk is broken when riding in one, and welcome when it saves your...
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: The Cherry Bomb Guys Fight Their Truck…and WIN
The guys from Cherry Bomb have been battling day in and day out this week. The van cooked some of the wiring in the engine compartment, rendering it a trailer specimen, the dudes with the rat rod...
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: Keys in Cars, Hanging with Rocky and Jim
Earlier this week we ran a bunch of stories of people heading to the starting point of the 2010 Power Tour. There are still people hooking up with the tail end of the tour, and as everyone knows,...
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: More Bologna, Tickets, and Bumper Stickers
The 2010 Power Tour is raging on and the BangShift reading population has kicked their submissions into high gear. There were fines, keys locked in cars, and rain drops, but spirits remain high and...
Coverage: First Annual BangShift.com Forum Freaks Bologna Bash
When Ridetech decided to partner with us here at BangShift.com, in an effort to support our own Forum Freaks during Hot Rod’s Power Tour, we all knew it was going to be a good time. And when we...
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Evening Edition
The Tuesday evening submissions are rolling in! There’s action at Beech Bend Raceway tonight with lots of Power Tour participants thrashing on their junk, the...
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Busted Cars, Superman, and Deer Heads
The hits just keep on coming! Tomfoolery and fun seemed to be the big theme of the photo submissions today as Power Tour participants made their way toward Bowling Green, Kentucky....
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: One Dead Van….One Dead Matt?
We received the following photos from an unnamed source on the Power Tour trail. They show the totally sweet Cherry Bomb Dodge Van on a trailer, and apparently, it ain’t coming...
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Drag Racing at I57, Americana, and Waffle Repellant
The images from the front lines of the 2010 Power Tour are raining in hot and heavy tonight. With drag racing action happening at I57 dragway, some cool road side attractions, and a...
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Cooked Spindles, Big Tires, and High Pants
As the Power Tour rolls across America we’re getting cool and hilarious installments from Power Tour participants from the road. In this installment of our Guerilla Power...
Hot Rod Power Tour Day 3 Coverage Part 1
Day Three of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour started with us trying to thread the Ridetech Tour Bus through the incredibly tight gates here in Du Quoin Illinois. The grounds are full of hot rods,...
Hot Rod Power Tour: A good hot rodder always carries his own spare.
Well, we knew it was unlikely we would make it through Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2010 without doing some kind of repair. We were hoping we were done after applying some tape to a piece of...
Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2010 Day 2 Show Coverage
Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour was just what we expected. After having a perfectly smooth uneventful first day, many folks, including ourselves, got comfortable with the trip, headed...