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Category Archive: Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, OTHER

Awesome Gallery: The 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational

Last weekend’s Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational pitted the world’s best Pro Touring cars against one another in a variety of competitions. From the road rally through the streets...

Neat Gallery: Touring a Little Texas Shop That is Full of Cool Junk

Consider this gallery a little departure from our normal galleries of car shows, races, and tours of museums and professional shops. The Lee Hartung collection auction reminded us that there are...

SEMA Gallery: A Quick Look At Mopar Crate Engines and Pro Stock Heads

After showing the massive Chevrolet engine display at SEMA 2011, we got some e-mails asking where the Chrysler stuff was. Well, here it is! The gallery is pretty small as the Mopar brand didn’t...

Awesome Gallery: The Lee Hartung Collection – An Amazing Collection Gone to Auction

Last weekend the Lee Hartung collection was auctioned off. Unfortunately we were late on the trigger letting you know that, but luckily Bob Chiluk made it there before the auction and documented the...

Lingenfelter has it all! New Crate Engines, Signature Series Camaros, and More.

Lingenfelter has always been know for big boy power on the both the street and the strip. Well this week Lingenfelter is back on the Vegas Strip for the first time in 10 years, brought the big guns...

Gallery: A Tour of the Edelbrock Collection and Facility

We’re beginning to think that photo contributor Bob Chiluk visited every single gearhead spot in California during his recent trip to the Golden State. In this photo gallery, you’ll see...

Road Trippin’ With Scott: Racking up 1200 Miles in a Recently Freshened 1973 Monte Carlo

I’m surprised to hear how few people will actually get in their old project ride and just hit the road. Sure, thousands cruise Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour, but that number pales in...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Carlisle Fall Swap Meet

Each year gearheads in the Northeast swarm all 150 acres of the Carlisle, PA Fairgrounds to oogle, haggle, and purchase all manner of stuff from cars to toys. More than 8,000 vendor spaces make up...

Photo Link: Optima Batteries Coverage of the 2011 Holley LS Fest

It was another great weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky as the second annual Holley LS Fest went down at historic Beech Bend Raceway just a couple days ago. Our own Chad Reynolds was in town to serve...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Paw Paw Pull in the Park – Paw Paw, Illnois

We normally get photo dispatches from Greg Rourke that feature cool shows, drag strip action, and muscle car hooliganism. This time we’re heading to the smoking section with pulling tractors...

BangShift Sponsors tear it up at the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge

BangShift Sponsors Detroit Speed, Ridetech and Spectre Performance were all on hand at this past weekend’s Midwest Muscle Car Challenge where, as usual, they tore it up in grand fashion. The...

Huge Museum Gallery: The Northeast Classic Car Museum Summer Exhibit – August 2011

Jeremy George recently went to check out the Northeast Classic Car Museum’s summer exhibit which focuses on cars and bikes names after animals, either directly (think Studebaker Hawk) or...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Rough and Tumble Thresherman’s Reunion – Kinzer, PA

While Chad was making his way home from the Bonneville Salt Flats, home to the world’s fastest and most powerful cars, I was heading due south with my family to Kinzer, PA home of one of the...

Quick Gallery: Pit Shots From the SOVREN Northwest Historics

A while back we brought you a series of galleries from the SOVREN Northwest Historic road races at Pacific Raceways in Washington state. The event had a ton of different categories that ranged from...