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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Videos

Event Coverage: Friday at the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, With Video

We’re here and we’re delivering the goods from the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion being held at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, KY. We were shooting photos and video of day one...

Event Coverage: 46 Photos from the Long Beach Swap Meet, 6/14/2009

The swap meet held in Long Beach, Califoria, by Topping Events is nearly as famous as the one in Pomona. I have to admit that I like this one much better than Pomona. Yes, it’s smaller in size,...

Event Coverage: 40 Photos from Danvers Ford car show

Here’s a gallery to start off your work week. It’s 40 photos from a local show we hung out at. It was hosted at Danvers Ford in Danvers, Massachusetts, and the show had a smattering of...

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd: It’s 1977 in San Fernando Valley Again.

300 plus muscle cars, street machines, and customs cruised Van Nuys Blvd in San Fernando Valley for the first time in decades, and we were there for all the action. What started as a grassroots...

Event Coverage: Pep Boys Speed Shop Grand Opening

On May 30th, BangShift.com attended the grand opening of the all-new Pep Boys Speed Shop on Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles. This is a new deal for Pep Boys where they took a bunch of the brand-name...

Event Coverage: 2009 Michigan Vintage VW Festival

Note: This is an event coverage story and photos that we got from BangShift.com forum member Fast Ed. If you attend a car show or race and have photos and info that you’d like to contribute for...

Video: 2009 March Meet Dragsters in Violent, Sideways Action

When the 2009 March Meet came to Bakersfield’s Famoso Raceway for round one of the year’s NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series, BangShift.com was there, on the starting line, capturing...

Video: Drag Racing Altereds in Action at the 2009 March Meet

Here’s the next BangShift.com video of the action at the 2009 March Meet at Famoso Raceway, and this time it’s all about the Altereds. There are many modern cars here, but also some...

Video: Vintage Nitro Funny Cars from the 2009 March Meet

On Monday we blogged up the fact that we’ve got more video coming and told you that a bunch of drag racing action was headed your way. We started off with a general action reel, then posted a...

Event Coverage: The NEATTA Antique Tractor Show and Pull

I love old tractors. I really have no idea why but I have just as much love for a 1948 Ford 8N as I do a 1970 LS6 Chevelle. Luckily, show season is getting cranked up here in New England and we...

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...

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...

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...

BangShift.com Event Coverage: 2009 Goodguys Pleasanton, 351 Photos!

We’ve attended Goodguys shows all across the country, but our favorites are at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. We are there this weekend, March 27-29, for the 27th...