Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Truck / Tractor Events
Show Gallery: The NEATTA Spring Tractor Pull and Antique Tractor Show
Our annual rite of Spring arrived just yesterday in the form of the New England Antique Truck and Tractor Association’s Spring Show and Pull. This year we had a twist on our visitation of the...
Car Show Gallery: The 24th Annual Seal Beach Classic Car Show
The town of Seal Beach, California has been holding this weekend long car show for nearly a quarter century! In that space of time, lots of stuff has changed, and in many ways for the worse. What has...
Gallery: The 2011 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet
Joe Grippo was at the 2011 Spring Carlisle Sawp Meet this past weekend and he filed a great pile of photos from the event. While the internet has really put a damper on the whole “swap...
The 2011 Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance – Seabrook, Texas
We’re starting a big day of galleries in Texas at a very unique show, the Keels and Wheels Concours d’elegance in Seabrook, Texas. This is not a hoity-toity Pebble Beach type deal....
Quick Car Show Gallery: The 2011 McRee Ford Quick Lane Car Show – Dickinson, Texas
The hit parade of car shows from Texas continues! This show was held at a Dickinson, Texas Ford dealer and showcased a majority of Ford products, aside from the few Chevy models organizers had to...
Event Gallery: The 2011 SSC Spring Car Show
As we’re just starting to entertain ideas with what the heck we should do this summer, one thing became really clear, we need to hit as many shows and cruises in Goliath as is humanly possible....
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise – April 2011
The great American cruise night is alive and well, despite pressures from high fuel prices, shrinking job opportunities, and a general case of the blahs that has been hovering over the USA since the...
Event Gallery: Shelbys at the Hershey AACA Museum
Just this past weekend, the Hershey Antique Auto Museum hosted their big Shelby show and luckily for BangShift nation, our Pennsylvanian photo contributor, Joe Grippo was on the scene. When...
Car Show Gallery: 500 Photos from the 2011 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender
The traditional hot rodding has once again descended on Las Vegas for the 14th version of the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender, a huge pre-1963 car show, that also celebrates the culture and music...
Drag Gallery: Test-N-Tune Action From Byron Dragway
Byron Dragway is one of the legendary drag plants in the USA. Owner/operator Ron Leek is the man that many people credit with fostering bracket racing through the early days of life, as well as the...
Shop Tour Gallery: We Check Out Overland Journal’s Arizona Shop
(Words and photos: Bryan McTaggart) A hard core BangShifter can spot Michigan manufacturer plates a mile away. The plate is a dead giveaway for a manufacturer’s mule vehicle, the one they test...
Event Gallery: Mud Drags Action From Texas
Last weekend our intrepid Texas photo master, Charles Wickam snuck through a hole in the fence and photographed a pretty bitchin’ looking mud drag race event down near where he lives. Between...
Event Coverage: 350 Photos from the 2011 Fabulous Fords Forever Car Show at Knott’s Berry Farm
Living in Southern California means there are car shows each and every week, regardless of the time of year. But when spring rolls around, the car show scene really starts jumping. Last weekend,...