Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, BangShift XL, Event Coverage, Gallery, OTHER, Truck / Tractor Events, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery

Pulling Action Coverage: 2019 NTPA Mule City 300 – Horsepower, Carnage, and Big Tractor Counts!

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – As always, the first weekend in June marks the time when Galot Motorsports Park gives the 1/8 mile dragstrip a break and opens the up the back gates for...

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2019 at Kentucky Speedway: Show And Shine For Miles!

It’s difficult to grasp the scale of what the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour is like if you haven’t been on one yourself, so let’s put it like this: Kentucky Speedway is a NASCAR...

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2019 at Kentucky Speedway: The Rolling Roadshow Comes To Town!

Twenty-five years ago, eight Hot Rod Magazine staff vehicles and eight cars driven by readers left Los Angeles, California on a 2,200 mile trek across the country to Norwalk, Ohio en route to one of...

Summertime At The OPGI Car Show Series – We’ve got the Chevys!

(Photos by Roger Rohrdanz) – Summer is here in Southern California and if you cannot find a dozen car shows, autocross, drag races, sprint car races or short track late models, you’re not looking...

The Next Gen Vehicle Experience: OEM Experts Gathered At MIT To Share Their Vision And The Industry’s Direction

(Photos by New England Motor Press Association) –  Throughout the history of the automotive industry there have been benchmarks to measure one car against another. Ways to tell what vehicle...

Gallery: 50 Photos of Gassers and Gasser Style Cars From All Over The Country And The World!

(Photos from the BangShift Archives) – We combed some of our photo galleries to grab photos featuring gassers and gasser style cars. There are Henry Js, shoebox Chevys, and lots of nose high,...

LIVE VIDEO: The Showdown at the River 2019 In Texas – Nostalgia Racing At Little River Dragway!

We’ve been patient and waited out the month of May and the flood waters, but now it’s time…we are heading to Temple, Texas and will be providing LIVE coverage of the Showdown at the...

Be There: Aeromotive Fuel Systems Open House and Car Show On For Thursday August 1st – Food, Cars, Fun!

The thing that we love the most about the high performance automotive aftermarket is that the people in it are as enthusiastic about their cars as their customers are about their products. Take our...

Big Dog Coverage: Results and Photos From The Spring 2019 Big Dog Shootout At Piedmont Dragway!

(Words and photos by Greg Burrow) – Competitors in the  popular Big Dog Shootout at historic Piedmont Dragway have two complete seasons under a new rules package, designed to make competition...

2019 NHRA Virginia Nationals Action Photos: Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle Images From The Strip!

(Photos by David Whealon) – In the world of NHRA drag racing there are two categories that stand apart in their brutally tight and precise nature. Those two categories are pro stock car and pro...

2019 NHRA Virginia Nationals: Action Photos From The Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car Categories

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a wild race from start to finish and from end to end at Virginia Motorsports Park last weekend. The NHRA Mello Yello Drag racing series made its eighth stop...

2019 Somernites Cruise Coverage: Trucks Were Out In Force – Our Favorite Hualers of The Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last group of shots from the April 2019 Somernites Cruise.  I promise that if I get the Nova going we’ll come down again and get good shots of cruising...

2019 NHRA Virginia Nationals Photo Coverage: E3 Spark Plugs Pro Modified Series Action Images!

(Photos by David Whealon) – The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA pro mod series has been putting on an incredible show all year long and at every event there have been moments of celebration, hair-raising...

Somernites 2019 April Cruise Photo Coverage: Cars and Trucks From The 1950s and Older! History, Styling, and Coolness Galore

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here’s the group of old farts from the 1950s and older.  Fourth photo is of the little hot rod Somernites is raffling off this year.  It’s hard to...