Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
Event Gallery: Lead East 2010
Lead East continues to be one of the most fun, and full, car shows on the East Coast. Founded by Terry Cook to be a massive 1950s party, Lead East features not only cars, but events like a drive in...
Event Coverage: The Kemah, Texas, Kruise, September 2010
BangShift.com’s unrelenting barrage of show coverage continues with this dispatch from Charles Wickam, our Texas, based photos contributor. He once again hit up the Kemah Kruise in Kemah,...
Event Coverage: The 2010 Symco Shakedown, With Fire!
After seeing event coverage from both coasts, BangShift reader Shane Hansen sent us a load of 400 photos from the 2010 Symco Shakedown that happened back in August. The event is a traditional hot rod...
Updated Event Coverage: 2010 Goodguys Midwestern Nationals at Kansas Speedway
The 2010 Good Guys Midwestern Nationals at Kansas Speedway is in full swing this weekend, and we’re going to be here all weekend snapping pictures. The Friday crowds were great, and we had...
Event Gallery: The Goodguys Blue Suede Cruise 2010, Norwalk, Ohio
The Goodguys Blue Suede Cruise is one of the biggest and coolest car show/drag races held anywhere in the country. Combine the true awesomeness of Summit Motorsports Park with a humongous crowd of...
Event Gallery: The Radir Wheels Dead Man’s Curve Hot Rod Party 2010
The Radir Wheels Dead Man’s Curve Wild Hot Rod Party, held at Rich Conklin Farm in Montville, New Jersey, is the unofficial kickoff to the massive Lead East car show and ’50s party in...
Get There: Lead East 2010 Happens This Weekend (W/Photo Gallery)
Lead East, the rollicking car show created by Terry Cook, and known as the “World’s Largest 50s Party,” is kicking off as you read this in Parsippany, New Jersey. The show is...
It Came From the Forums: Photo Coverage of the 2010 Frog Follies Pre-’49 Car Show
Indiana-based BangShift member Drew recently attended the Frog Follies car show in Evansville, Indiana. This event is billed as the largest pre-49 car show on Earth and draws more than 4,000 cars!...
Event Gallery: New England Dragway’s 2010 Dragin’ in the ’50s Show
We were in the mood to see some neato nostalgia drag racing recently, so we gave our wife the day off, loaded up the kiddos and headed to the local strip. Luckily for us, New England Dragway was...
Event Coverage: 4th Annual Burbank Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show with Cacklefest Video
The 4th Annual Burbank, California, Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show was a big hit on August 28th, 2010. The Masonic Lodge of Burbank puts on the show every year, with all proceeds going to support...
Great Thread: Antique Race Boats Are Truly Hot Rods on Water
Like nostalgia drag racing or old timey stock car racing, the world of boat racing is chock full of vintage equipment that thundered down waterways in years past. Again, like those other forms of...
World’s Fastest Electric Vehicle going for FIA World Record on the Salt Now!
As we speak, the Buckeye Bullet Electric Streamliner, is slowing down from setting a new FIA speed record of 291 mph on the famed salt of Bonneville. The team stayed for a private FIA record attempt...
Great Thread: Cruising American Iron in Sweden
BangShift forum member Jobergg lives in Sweden and is neck deep in the American car and hot rod scene in that country. He comes up with awesome video and photos pretty frequently and his most recent...