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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage

2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – Shine, Patina, Customs, Even A Kit Car Or Two!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While the VW Beetle may have had some nefarious beginnings, it was (and continues to be) a worldwide icon of fun, freedom, and a blank canvass for anyone with...

Highway Creepers Show Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Event

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – For about as long as there have been people messing with cars there have been car clubs serving as places for enthusiasts to gather, bench race, fight, talk smack,...

2015 FE Race and Reunion: Our Last Blast Of Killer Photos From The Pits – A Cammer Powered Fairmont?!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Hardcore Ford fans came in droves to Pennsylvania’s Beaver Springs Dragway over the weekend of April 24th & 25th 2015 for the third annual FE Race and...

Event Gallery: 14th Annual Quick Fuel Technology NCMA Muscle Car Nationals At Beech Bend

The recipe looked great for a promising weekend of racing. The track staff at Beech Bend in Bowling Green, Kentucky had busted their backsides getting the track just right, and plenty of NCMA racers...

NTPA Pulling Action Photos: Flying Dirt, Smoking Tractors, And Crazed Trucks From the NTPA Pinetops 300

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – What does a small quiet downeast North Carolina town of Pinetops (pop. 1360) do for excitement after the hosting the best Christmas parade east of...

Show Coverage: 2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – One Awesome Texas VW Gathering!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The old saw is that “everything is bigger in Texas” and our own Charles Wickam lived up to that adage last weekend when he managed to attend multiple...

Highway Creepers 2015 Car Show Coverage: More Photos From The Fun Nebraska Get Together

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Scott Liggett told me he had plenty of photos from the Highway Creepers show, I wasn’t exactly sure if I should thank him or call the cops. After asking...

Event Gallery: The Mopars Of The 14th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Nationals

The NCMA brings out a wide variety of cars, from Pro Mods and late-model stuff to as far back as you can go, but what I find impressive is how many Mopars run the track in bona-fide anger. Wedges,...

Ohio Mile Coverage: Dedicated Land Speed Cars And Classic Bodied Machines At Speed

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I am a throwback, traditionalist, and have a soft spot for older things.  This is why these are some of my favorite photo subjects.  The flattie-powered,...

Highway Creepers Car Show 2015: Trucks, Rats, Kustoms, More!

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – Central Nebraska car shows are already in full swing starting with a local car club’s second annual Rock n Rods car show hosted by Kearney’s...

Ohio Mile Motorcycles: A Look At The Wide Variety Of Two Wheeled Terrors That Raced At The May ECTA Event

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I will admit I am not a biker.  I like bikes and can appreciate the effort that goes into building them and am in complete awe of the courage it takes to...

Ohio Mile Coverage: Unique Cars And Weirdo Engines From The ECTA

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Getting to the site of an event when it first opens is usually a great time to walk around and catch some really good photos as the sun comes up....

Photos: 16 Cool Engines From Bonneville

While lots of people are seduced by the amazing bodies and incredible chassis fabrication at Bonneville, I am a knuckle dragging horsepower loving kind of dude, so motors are my obsession. There are...

Ohio Mile May 2015: Cool Non-Race Vehicles (Or Bits From The Land Speed Pits!)

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – Anytime you visit a land speed event you are bound to see some interesting stuff that isn’t going to run the track.  As we check out the competition we...