Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Cool Show Coverage From Down Under: The 44th Victorian Hot Rod Show
The guys over at CarDomain posted some show coverage from the 44th Victorian Hot Rod show held in Melbourne, Australia. This is one of the longest running shows in Oz and therefore draws lots of the...
Gallery: Van Nuys Blvd. Cruise Night, January 2010
On Wednesday night we headed to Van Nuys, California, for the new tradition of the revised cruise night on famous Van Nuys Blvd. It was the first one of the new year, and it was ice cold for So Cal,...
Photo Gallery: Donut Derelicts Cruise, January 2010
Back in 1986 a few buddies started getting together with their hot rods on Saturday mornings in Huntington Beach, California. Over the years, this weekly gathering of cool rods, muscle cars, trucks,...
Photo Gallery: The John Force Racing Holiday Car Show
You out-of-towners may not believe this, but it actually rained in SoCal this weekend. That made us worry that there would be a small turnout at the annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show, but the...
Photo Gallery: NHRA Museum Christmas Cruise Night
Say want you want about California, but our cruise season ends December 2nd with the Christmas Cruise at the NHRA Motorsports Museum and picks up again like 20 minutes later. BangShift member Newell...
Event Gallery: Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Dragfest 2009
Bruce Larson, the 1989 NHRA Funny Car champion and long time legend, opens up his barn and property to the public every Fall for Dragfest. It’s part car show, part gathering of legends, and all...
Event Coverage: Pistons and Paint Numero 8
Big thanks to BangShift.com forum member BigDad for providing us this gallery from the Pistons and Paint Numero 8 show in Denton, Texas, on November 14, 2009. The show has humble origins as a small...
Photo Gallery: Great Car Show at a Better Junkyard!
Once again, our eastern contributor Joe Grippo has delivered the goods with two big photo galleries from a great car show held November 7 at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor Township, New...
BangShift.com’s favorite Mustangs from SEMA 2009
One of the biggest surprises for us at the 2009 SEMA Show was the number of cool old Mustangs. We were expecting nothing but late models, but much to our delight, we found Trans Am racers, Cammer...
Event Coverage: SEMA 2009 Friday Photo Bonanza
Here’s our last big gallery from the 2009 SEMA show. This one was shot on Friday and looks at some parts and lots of cars and trucks. One of the neatest parts of the show is the major traffic...
Event Coverage: SEMA 2009 Wednesday Early Gallery
We’re here at SEMA 2009 and we’re not making up stories when we tell you that this deal is massive. Here’s small sampling of some cool cars, parts and people we saw while making the...
Event Coverage: 2009 SEMA Show Tuesday Gallery
The 2009 SEMA show is now in full swing with all of the parts, cars, trucks, and even semi tractors loaded into place and polished up. We were running around like a chicken with it’s head cut...
Event Coverage: 2009 Jalopyrama Car Show from Annapolis, Maryland
The sixth annual Jalopyrama took place on October 31st in Annapolis, Maryland. Lucky for us, our intrepid east coast lensman, Joe Grippo was on hand to capture all the hot rods and action. He got...