Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
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...
Show Gallery: The 28th Annual Long Horn Rod Run
The weather in Texas has cooled to sub-nuclear levels so Charles Wickam is back on the scene. Last weekend the lunatic shot four different events, this one, the 28th annual Long Horn Rod run was one...
Drag Gallery: The 2011 Nitro Nationals and Old Time Drags – Tulsa Raceway – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Recently BangShifter John Gatliff attended the Nitro Nationals and Old Time Drags at Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma. Unlike some nostalgia races that feature pokey street rods on the strip, this one...
Grunt Force Trauma: The Recovery of Project Brutus – Our 1968 Chevy C50 Wrecker!
Well, I can check the bucket list box that reads, “buy an old heap sight unseen, show up and drive it home 500 miles,” now. The mission to go out and get Brutus, the newest addition to...
Drag Week 2011 Wrap Up: Winners, BangShifters, and Rain
Gear Vendor’s Drag Week 2011 is over and, as usual, racers around the world are scheming up their newest dream racecar to take down Larry Larson, Todd Maschmeier, or Tim Reed at Drag Week 2012....
LIVE Streaming Video of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Awards Ceremony NOW
We have live streaming video of Drag Week 2011, right here. Visit us daily to see all the coverage right here at BangShift.com including Hot Rod’s Live Coverage, photo galleries, 1320video, and...
Even More 1320Video from Drag Week 2011: Day 4 Tulsa Action
Day 4 of Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 had all the drama you expect from an event that has put competitors through rain, heat, hills, wind, oil, “challenging” track conditions, and more. Our...
Car Show Gallery: The Womelsdorf, PA 250th Anniversary Car Show
Another day, another great car show gallery from our Pennsylvanian photo contributor Doug Garrison. Recently, Doug attended a car show in Womelsdorf, PA that was part of the town’s year long...
Drag Week News and Gallery: Day Four Action and News from Tulsa, Oklahoma
It was a weird weather day in Tulsa on Thursday as the road weary Drag Week crew attacked the strip during the fourth day of competition. There was sun, rain, more sun, a little more rain, oil,...
More Drag Week video from 1320Video: Day Three in Amarillo
It’s the start of Day 4, and Kyle and the 1320Video crew have another video to watch. This one from Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 Day Three. As usual, Kyle is out there busting his ass to get in car,...
Drag Week Gallery: Day Three Racing Photos From Amarillo, Dragway
Drag Week day three racing happened at the old school Amarillo Dragway in Amarillo, Texas. The track has been open since the 1950s! It was cool as hell for the race organizers to hit two strips like...