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2020 AACA Fall Meet: The Coolest Cars And Trucks Of The 1960s, 1970s, 1980s!
Jan 08, 2021Brian Lohnes3
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Do you enjoy four wheeled 1960’s goodness? Are you into land yachts from the 1970’s? Do super clean 1980’s shit-boxes flip your switch? Then do we have...
2020 AACA Fall Meet Coverage: The Amazing Cars, Colors, And Shapes Of The Fabulous Fifties
Jan 07, 2021Brian Lohnes4
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The year 2020 and its evil sister Rona conspired to royally screw up our automotive fun season and unfortunately had some success. After the AACA had to kill...
2020 AACA Fall Meet Coverage: Photos Of The Vintage Iron That Showed Up In Droves!
Jan 06, 2021Brian Lohnes2
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – A few months ago, when the word came down that the annual massive gearhead gathering known as Hershey was shelved for 2020, the car hobby collectively sighed...
2020 Photo Highlight Reel: David Whealon Shows Off His Best Stuff (Part 2)
Jan 05, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on 2020 Photo Highlight Reel: David Whealon Shows Off His Best Stuff (Part 2)
(Photos by David Whealon) – Here’s our second of two galleries supplied by BangShift shooting ace David Whealon that take a look back at some of his favorites images captured in 2020....
Best of 2020: Street Car Takeover Bowling Green: For A Moment, All Was Right With The World
Jan 01, 2021Bryan McTaggart1
So here’s the full disclosure on how Friday went down: for some reason my heat-soaked brain didn’t comprehend that racing happened on a Friday for the first time in decades and I left...
Cruise Photos: Donut Derelicts Is Still Going Strong Despite It All – So Cal Hot Rodders Hanging Out!
Dec 21, 2020Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Wes Allison) – It has been a year of cancellation. A year of delay. A year of isolation. It has also been a year of incredible and seemingly counter-intuitive business growth for...
Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Sending The Year Off With Screaming Engines
Nov 18, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
The one thing that stands out about Ratty Muscle Cars events isn’t that the cars are wicked fast, or that they are just rough versions of dream machines. It’s that they are used and not...
Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Welcome To A Day Full Of Surprises
Nov 17, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
Everything that occurred this past weekend in Alabama should not have happened. T-shirt weather with sunny skies is something that does not happen this late in the year. Postcard-worthy drives in...
Our Ribs And Rods Photo Coverage Continues: Beautiful Weather And Bitchin Venue Meant Cool Cars, Trucks, Customs, And More
Nov 15, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Our Ribs And Rods Photo Coverage Continues: Beautiful Weather And Bitchin Venue Meant Cool Cars, Trucks, Customs, And More
Yep, we’ve still got more photos from the Ribs and Rods show last weekend in Temple Texas. Each and every photo gallery we’ve posted so far is full of cars and trucks from the show, and...
Drag Action Photos: The Southeast Gassers Association At Shadyside Dragway! More Wheels Up Madness!
Nov 13, 2020Brian Lohnes2
(Photos by David Whealon) – Most people do not understand that drag racing is a sport that kind of grows by rebellion and it always has. It is a sport of movements and counter movements even...
Wheels Up, Revs Up, Fun Up! Action Photos From The Southeast Gassers Association At Shadyside Dragway
Nov 12, 2020Brian Lohnes2
(Photos by David Whealon) – The Southeast Gassers Association continues to be one of the great shining lights in the world of drag racing and the these photos from a recent outing at Shadyside...
Here’s Our Second Gallery Of Photos From The Rods And Ribs Car Show In Texas
Nov 09, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Here’s Our Second Gallery Of Photos From The Rods And Ribs Car Show In Texas
We told you that we had an awesome time at the Rods and Ribs show in Temple this weekend, thanks to our pal Charles Wickam who reminded us it was going on. The show was great, the venue is super...
Ribs And Rods 2020 Was A HUGE Hit In Belton Texas And We’ve Got The Photos Right Here!
Nov 08, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Ribs And Rods 2020 Was A HUGE Hit In Belton Texas And We’ve Got The Photos Right Here!
When Wickman, aka Charles Wickam, a longtime BANGshifter and friend here in Texas says I’ve got to come see a car show then I almost always listen to him. Unless I’m out of town for a...
2020 PDRA Brian Olson Memorial World Finals: Our Last Batch Of Fresh Tire Smoking’ Photography!
Nov 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on 2020 PDRA Brian Olson Memorial World Finals: Our Last Batch Of Fresh Tire Smoking’ Photography!
(Photos by David Whealon) – It’s hard to create signature events in drag racing. Why? Because there are so many of them already. You need to have a few elements in place to really get...






