Category Archive: Event Coverage, OTHER
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...
Ridetech takes 3 of 4 class wins at Goodguys Kansas Autocross…Full Results Here
Not since Britney Spears and Madonna has going both ways been such a hit, and who knew that it would apply to shocks just as much as hot chicks? Ever since Ridetech came out of the closet and...
Combo Show Gallery: The Country Cruisers and Kauffman’s Chicken Farm Car Shows
Rain totally sucks. It kills attendance at shows, closes the drag strip, and makes working on your junk outside a deplorable experience. Doug Garrison, our intrepid Pennsylvanian photog, donned his...
Cruise Gallery: The Great Pottstown Cruise 2011 – Pottstown, PA
Pottstown, PA was known as a crazy cruising and street racing capital for decades until the man cracked down on all forms of automotive tom foolery and things went sadly silent. Then slowly, starting...
Drag Gallery: The Cobra Jet Shootout and NMCA Race From Milan, Michigan
In an event that history will record as being the first of its kind, the NMCA hosted a Cobra Jet shootout at the race at Milan Dragway recently. The modern Cobra Jets are the craziest factory drag...
UPDATE: We Made It! A Quick Update on the Successful Completion of Our 500-mile, 6-MPG Road Trip!
By the time you see this, my wife and I should be an hour or two into a seven hour trek to Salmanca, NY to pick up BangShift’s newest piece of project iron, a 1968 C50 Chevy tow truck...
Cruise Gallery: The Hot Rod Magazine Cruise Night – El Segundo, California
Scott Liggett, our man on the scene in Southern California recently took in the monthly Hot Rod Magazine Cruise night, held on the last Friday of the month at the Automobile Driving Museum in El...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Geneva Concours d’Elegance – Geneva, Illinois
Normally with the words Concours d’Eelgance are thrown around, visions of important people dressed in dumb clothing gawking at old foreign cars come to mind. In the case of the...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Wheels of Time Rod and Custom Jamboree – Macungie, PA
For 33 years the Wheels of Tim Rod and Custom Jamboree has been taking place. This year, one of our Pennsylvanian photo dudes, Doug Garrison hit the show with his camera and sent us back more than...
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Cruise – Kemah, Texas
Charles Wickam, our talented embedded Texas BangShift photographer has been laying low as of late. The oppressive summer heat in Texas tends to slow the scene down for a couple months. Now that it...
Big Show Gallery: 2011 Goodguys East Coast Nationals – Rhinebeck, NY
Back in June, the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association held the 20th annual East Coast Nationals in Rhinebeck, NY. Doug Garrison who has been pummeling us with photos, sent us nearly 200 from one of...
Drag Gallery: Flashback Friday at Beaver Springs Dragway – August 2011
If you are a drag racing fiend, Beaver Springs Dragway should be on your personal bucket list of tracks to visit. Easily one of the coolest drag strips in the country, the place is retro-awesome to a...
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...