Category Archive: Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Gallery, Shop Tours
BangShift Winter Shop Tour Series: Schwartz Performance Shop Visit
Feb 02, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift Winter Shop Tour Series: Schwartz Performance Shop Visit
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Some parts of the country are lucky enough to enjoy their cars all year round while the rest of us are locked in waiting for the ice to melt and the snow to...
Cornfield Customs: Our Tour Of The Shop Continues – Cool Stuff Everywhere
Jul 21, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on Cornfield Customs: Our Tour Of The Shop Continues – Cool Stuff Everywhere
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – But there’s more…. There was no way to contain our visit to Cornfield Customs into just one article. Even though they are still getting things...
Shop Tour: We Hang Out With The Crew At Cornfield Customs
Jul 11, 2016Brian Lohnes1
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Mike Wagner started Cornfield Customs as a side-business in 2007 and that grew into full-blown self-employment in 2009. We’d been aware of the...
Tour Nebraska Coverage: Hundreds of Hot Rods Hit The Highway In The Heartland
Jun 16, 2016Brian Lohnes6
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – Hot Rod Magazine’s famous Power Tour is now in full swing. But, last weekend was another classic car tour right in the state of Nebraska. The...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: We Look At The Cast-Aside Work Trucks That Rest And Rust In Vermont
Dec 17, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
As much as we all would hope to find a yard filled with nothing but the desirable parts of automotive history that span between 1930 and the present, the more likely scenario is that between the gems...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Automotive Archeology From The Woods Of Vermont
Dec 16, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
Seeing the photos that Lohnes and Fitzgerald took at Gates Auto Salvage keeps bringing up the word “haunting” into my head. It’s not hard to see why: in amongst the thin trees, you...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Haunting Visions From The Past In The Yard In Vermont
Dec 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
When Brian told me about Gates Salvage Yard and how he and Craig Fitzgerald were making a run north to check it out, I was dying to go with them. Hey, for $500 per car, maybe luck would pan out,...
Short Street Rod Shop Tour: The Henry J, The Chryslers, The ’55 Chevy
Aug 17, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Short Street Rod Shop Tour: The Henry J, The Chryslers, The ’55 Chevy
If you missed the 1955 Ford Fairlane street freak, CLICK HERE! If you missed the ’46 Chevy truck and the Model A, CLICK HERE! As we dug deeper into Jensen Masters’ shop, we started to get...
Shop Tour Gallery: An Amazing Look Inside The Roadster Shop – Cutting Edge Builds!
Apr 18, 2013Brian Lohnes3
(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) – This past summer when the Goodguys Rodfather Tour stopped at the Roasdster Shop just outside of Chicago, Chad and I agreed that we’d have to come back...
Shop Tour: Murpho’s Hot Rod and Customs – Austin, Texas
Apr 15, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Shop Tour: Murpho’s Hot Rod and Customs – Austin, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re finally at the end of Wickam’s amazing 2013 Lonestar Round Up photo coverage with this great shop tour gallery at Murpho’s Hot Rods and...
Massive Shop Tour Gallery: The Hot Rod Barn – Morris, Illinois – Muscle Car Restorations, Drag Builds, Killer Shop!
Mar 26, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Massive Shop Tour Gallery: The Hot Rod Barn – Morris, Illinois – Muscle Car Restorations, Drag Builds, Killer Shop!
(By Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Just west of Morris, Il. on Interstate 80 is what looks like an old Stuckeys. And with good reason, it was an old Stuckeys. Instead of Pecan Log Rolls and...
Gallery: A Peek Inside DMC Racing At Paul Major’s Corvette And Tim Meagher’s Mustang
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: A Peek Inside DMC Racing At Paul Major’s Corvette And Tim Meagher’s Mustang
Yesterday we showed you the awesome twin turbo Oldsmobile that the guys at DMC are updating and improving for its owner so he can really lay the lumber to it this Spring. That certainly isn’t...
Gallery: Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night 2013 – Awesome Rods, Engines, And More!
Feb 13, 2013Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The recently wedded Joe Grippo attended an open garage night at the famed Rolling Bones hot rod shop where he hung out with a bunch of people and blasted a ton of...
Gallery: The Posies Hot Rods and Customs Winter Get Together/Open House 2013
Jan 16, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: The Posies Hot Rods and Customs Winter Get Together/Open House 2013
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Every winter Ken Fenical of Posies Hot Rods and Customs throws open the doors to his shop and the gate to his parking lot of a winter time get together, hot rod show,...