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Category Archive: HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, ROAD TRIPS

Video and Photos: The Rodfather Tour Invades Colorado, Chad Pours Beer, Drinks Beer, and More.

We’ve got a some cool photos from Day 2 of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour, along with a cool on the spot teaser video from Saturday that includes Chad pouring beer! We’ll have our full...

Video: Chad And The Route2Media Gang Cruise Through Utah With Roy Brizio And Friends.

Day one of the Rodfather Goodguys Cruise was super bitchin. Some of the coolest hot rods around are cruising cross country from Bonneville to Indy and we are covering all the action. Wix Filters was...

Road Trip! Photos and Video: The Rodfather Tour Has Officially Started!

We’ve spent the last two days cruising from Pleasanton, California to Wendover, Utah for the start of the Goodguys Rodfather Tour, but today was the official start. And where better to start a...

Video: Goodguys RodFather Tour Update – BangShift Chad Interviews Some of the Cool Dudes On The Trip!

As you read this, Chad is on the edge of the Bonneville salt flats with the more than 100 participants in the 2012 Goodguys Rodfather tour, helping to wrangle them all for a massive group photo. In...

Video: Hot Rodding Is About Friends, Driving, and Fun… More From The Rodfather Tour

The Rodfather Tour left Pleasanton California on Wednesday morning and ended up in Reno, Nevada for the night. We hooked up with a bunch of the gang, including Andy Brizio himself, in the bar where...

Video: We’re On The Goodguys Rodfather Tour With Andy Brizio And Friends

Andy “The Rodfather” Brizio is one of the icons of all that is hot rodding. And his mantra has always been that trailering them sucks, but driving them is bitchin. This year he told Gary...

Video: Champion Speed Shop Front Engine Dragster Wins Pepsi Night Fire Nationals In Boise

Les Mayhew does some great video work, and is another one of the great supporters of Nostalgia Drag Racing. We weren’t able to make it to the Pepsi Night Fire Nationals in Boise last month, but...

Video: On The Bumper! In, On, And Outside Ray Litz X275 Car At Holley’s LSFest

BangShifter Brian Wagner was at LSFest this weekend with us, and unfortunately we didn’t have any time to hang out since I was running around in an attempt to reach Olympic Athlete status. But,...

Watch Video of a Tube Chassis Mustang Powered by a Cummins Diesel Run Low 5s in the Eighth!

Mike Wood’s Duramax powered Mustang was a huge success on Drag Week for the couple of outings it went on. Knocking down 10-second elapsed times while also knocking down over 35mpg (including...

Watch Awesome, Gear Jamming, In-Truck Video From the Latest Insano Canadian Big Rig Drag Race

St. Joseph De Beauce, Canada was the scene of the most recent big rig street race in the Great White North. Leon Smith of hot rod Kenworth dump truck fame was there to mix it up with the competition...

Event Coverage: Cacklefest Video And Nitro Cars At Ardmore Dragway Hot Rod Reunion

You already saw the crash photo sequence from Ardmore, where Bebo Chandler crashed his Outlaw Pro Mod car, but here are some photos, and video,  from the race that will let you in on how cool the...

Video Bonanza: Insane Wrecks, Saves, and Wheelstands From the 2012 YellowBullet Nationals

While the US Nationals was a rain filled disaster, the YellowBullet Nationals held at Cecil County Dragway was another epic success. With a huge field of doorslammers in every shape and size...

Ride Along On A 277Mph Bonneville Run in Lee Sicilio’s Dodge Charger Daytona – This Thing Is NUTS

If you followed BangShift’s 2012 Bonneville Speed Week coverage (and a zillion of you did!) you know that we closely followed the week of Lee Sicilio, our pal Scott Clark, and the rest of the...

Video: Triple Black 440 6-Pack 1970 Cuda Owned By BangShifter John Cross On Big Muscle

BangShifter John Cross sent us this cool video that the guys at Big Muscle put together on his NorCal based 1970 440 6-pack Cuda. Although it is a numbers matching car, John pulled the original 440,...