Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, BangShift XL, Gallery, Historic Photos, XL Gallery
Historic Gearhead Americana: Packard Car Haulers, Army Trucks, Big Rigs, Turn of The Century Car Shows, and More!
(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Archive) – I know some pretty tough people but I’m not sure even the modern toughies I know would thrive in the harsh realities of the world...
More Awesome Historical Photos From The Detroit Public Library: America On Wheels From The ‘Teens To The 70s!
(Photos from the Detroit Public Library Digital Archive) – My favorite thing to do on the internet when I have time is to hit the Detroit Public Library website and search random words in...
Historic Gearhead Americana Gallery: From Futureliners To 1970s Ford Vans, These Photos Rule
(Photos from the Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – It has been a while since I have roamed the digital stacks at the Detroit Public Library but finding myself with a few minutes the...
Steamtown USA: One More Batch Of Photos From The Land Of The Iron Giants In PA
(Photos by the author) – Yesterday we showed you a load of images from a family trip we took to Steamtown USA which is a national historic site in Scranton, PA. It’s basically the land...
Time Killer: A Massive Treasure Trove of Vintage Late 1960s Trans Am Photos
One of the most romanticized periods in American racing is the late 1960s. Drag Racing was huge, stock car racing featured the wild winged warriors on America’s super speedways and on the road...
Gallery: Vintage Truck Ads From 1966
America was booming in the middle 1960s. There were massive construction projects going on all over the country, industry was consuming resources that needed to be cut, moved, or mined out of the...
Gallery: Awesome Ads For Trucks and Equipment Circa 1959 – Great American Gearhead History
While helping my pop clean out my late grandfather’s home we came across some really cool gearhead treasures that I was allowed to bring home and add to my collection of stuff. Two of the most...
Vintage Photo Flood Continues: It Is More 1970s Funny Car, Door Slammer, And Dragster Greatness
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – By now you know what’s going on with these photo galleries. Canadian photographer Bob Boudreau has been rummaging through his old negatives and producing the...
Drag History Gallery: More Fantastic Photos From The 1978 NHRA Le GrandNational At Sanair!
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – The racing action photos are beyond awesome, there’s never before seen Linda Vaughn photos in here to dozens of other awesome cars to boot. If you like old...
From The Rodder’s Journal Vault: Incredible Vintage Photos And The Stories Behind Them
Sincere thanks to the staff at The Rodder’s Journal for sharing these amazing images. We’re going to let them do the talking on this one! Vintage Photos from The Rodder’s Journal One of...
Gearhead History Americana: More Photos Of Machines, Factories, Cars, Trucks, and More From The Past
(Photos from the Detroit Library Digital Collection) – I love this stuff. So my addiction to crawling the digital stacks of the Detroit Public Library has hit a fever pitch and today I found...
Gallery: 50 Photos of Street Legal Drag Race Cars
We thought it would be cool to troll through the BangShift electronic archives and nab 50 cool photos of street legal cars ripping it up at the strip. Yes, most of the photos come from our multi-year...
Junkyard Tour: The Beautiful Sights At L&L Classic Auto Salvage In Wendell, Idaho
(Photos by Diana Sterk) – For 80 years L&L Classic Auto Salvage in Wendell, Idaho has contained about 100 acres of steel, dreams, and potential projects. The business is in the process of...
