Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
Car Show Gallery: 2011 Chrysler Performance West Fall Fling
The Chrysler Performance West Car Club puts on two big Mopar shows every year. Their Spring and Fall Fling events draw people from all over the USA, Canada, and points even farther off than that. The...
Cruise Gallery: Donut Derelicts – Huntington Beach, California
Bob Chiluk’s California automotive adventure tour galleries continue today with a nice one from the vaunted Donut Derelicts weekly get together in Huntington Beach, California. This early...
Car Show Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Bass Pro Shop Cruise – October 2011
The cherry was effectively placed on the top of the cruising season in New England last week with the last running of the Mass. Cruisers Association Bass Pro Shops Cruise. This is the largest cruise...
Cruise Gallery: Bob’s Big Boy Cruise – October 2011
Normally Bob Chiluk is sending us galleries from the Chicago car scene, but he escaped the Fall doldrums and went out to California recently for a week or cars and surfing. We hate him too. Anyway,...
Show Gallery: The Burnout Houston 2011
The Burnout Houston 2011 was a rockin’ good time as BangShift Texas photo correspondent Charles Wickam found out. The show bills itself as being about, “Beer, Babes, Brats, Badass Rods,...
Event Coverage: Final Hunnert Car Pile Up Photo Gallery
The Hunnert Car Pileup has been held in Decatur Illinois for the last 10 years, and 2011 marks the end of an era. When the newly formed Chrome Czars Car Club decided they were going to put on an...
Event Coverage: Hershey AACA Fall Regional Show Gallery
One of the most bad assed must see car shows in the world is Hershey Pennsylvania’s Antique Automobile Club of America Regional Fall Meet. It’s been going on in the same place since 1955,...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Elburn Lions Club Classic Car Show – Elburn, Illinois.
Chicago area photo contributor Greg Rourke recently hit up the 2011 Elburn, Illinois Lions Club Classic Car show and sent us 200 photos back for the gallery. Like here in New England, the car show...
Event Coverage: Goodguys Lonestar Nationals including Ridetech Autocross Win
Hot rodding in Texas is huge, and there is no better place to see that than Texas Motorspeedway during the Goodguys Lonestar Nationals. We were on site announcing the Goodguys Autocross action all...
Cool Collection Gallery: The Larry Klairmont Collection – Chicago, Illinois
Larry Klairmont seems like the kind of dude we want to have a beer with. At 85-years old, the highly successful real estate developer has amassed a collection of more the 300 cars. He keeps it open...
Show Gallery: The 2011 Long Beach Autorama
The 2011 Long Beach Autorama once again turned out to be a great show. Since 1958, the event has been showcasing some of the coolest kustoms, race cars, and hot rods in the country. It is open to...
Car Show Gallery: The Pearland, Texas Cruise – September 2011
Continuing on with Charles Wickam’s extreme weekend of car show photography, he sent us this dispatch from the Pearland, Texas cruise. The evening event is an informal affair, held at a Lowes...
Car Show Gallery: The DeSantis Chevrolet Car Show – Brockton, MA
Last weekend, we took in the 18th annual car show held at DeSantis Chevrolet in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was an all makes show that had a zillion and a half classes and trophies to boot. We were...