Category Archive: Event Coverage, OTHER
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...
Big Drag Gallery: The 2011 Yellow Bullet Nationals
The second Yellow Bullet Nationals did lots of stuff. It showcased some of the best doorslammer racers in the country, it packed Cecil County Dragway, and best of all, it silenced all the idiots who...
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...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 Countdown: Rumors, Reality, and More!
It’s September boys and girls and that means the baddest street cars on the planet are about to embark on the most bitchin road trip in history; Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, presented by...
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...