Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Gallery, LAND SPEED RACES, Land Speed Races, ROAD TRIPS
Got Salt Fever? With A 2016 Event Looking Likely, We Dug Up A Gallery From McTaggart’s First Trip To Bonneville!
For the last couple of years, anyone talking about Bonneville has spoken of the salt with a tinge of either sadness or anger in their voice. For two years now, there has been no racing on the salt...
BangShift LIVE Presented By Ridetech From Hot Rod Power Tour 2016!
It’s on baby! Hot Rod’s Power Tour starts tomorrow morning and we’ve got BangShift Forum Freaks, Sponsors, and friends from all over the country on site or en route to the kickoff...
Roadside Find: A 1954 Ford Customline That’s Barely Aged And For Sale, And More!
BangShift contributor Scott Liggett has an eye for finding some neat iron that most people haven’t seen outside of a car show in decades. We simply can’t explain why he is able to find...
2,300 Miles! We Take A Roadtrip To Colorado And Back With The Angry Grandpa Chrysler!
I love a good roadtrip. Thousands of miles to see things I haven’t seen before…or, at least, haven’t seen in a while…is a yearly goal of mine. Over the years at BangShift,...
Planning A Road Trip This Summer? Be Sure To Check Out The National Museum Of The US Air Force At Wright-Patterson AFB!
With Spring just around the corner and summer not to far behind, we’re sure that there’s a lot of you planning some kind of vacation for when the weather is warmer. Regardless of whether...
Shop Tours! We Visit Posies Rod and Custom PLUS A Bonus Visit To Worm Inc. Where Dragsters And Funnies Live
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – So the holidays are behind us, spring is still a ways off and we are heading into to bleakest time of the year for outdoor fun car activities. In...
Road Trippin With Doug and Taylor – A Look Back At A Spectacular Fall Cruise To A Natural Wonder In Kentucky
(Words by Doug Gregory – Photos by Taylor and Doug Gregory) – The drive from Somerset to Cumberland Falls State Park is not terribly long, but at this time of year is incredibly...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 5: The Ferry From Hell, The Book Written By Monks, And Seven Minutes In Heaven With A Stone
To read Part 1,Click Here To read Part 2, Click Here To read Part 3, Click Here To read Part 4, Click Here The next morning we boarded the bus and left Edinburgh, driving down to the ferry...
Top 11: The Cars McTaggart Did Not Expect To See On Vacation In Europe
As I headed towards the British Isles for my vacation, first and foremost on my mind was all of the cars that I would expect to see while I was there. No, seriously: after watching bootlegged copies...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 4: Loch Ness, Whisky, And The Dark History Of Edinburgh
After our free day that we used to go to Bute, we started the actual tour of Scotland and Ireland. This necessitated a hotel change, so we called for a taxi and loaded our bags down to the sidewalk...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 3: Finding Out Where You Came From
We woke up from our deep sleep in the Hotel Grasshoppers to a sunny day. After the wonderful homemade breakfast served by the hotel staff (a far cry from the dinner we had the night prior, which was...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 2: It’s Not The Journey, It’s The Destination
To read The Prelude, Click Here At six in the morning, my wife started shaking me in the usual morning ritual of waking me up, which is normally where she shakes me out of deep sleep, then I lay...
A BangShifter Abroad, The Prelude: Going Back To Where I Came From
By the time most of you read this, I will be less than 12 hours away from hopping a plane and taking my first trip across the Atlantic that didn’t require me to wear a camouflaged uniform, on...
On Road Action Photos From Power Tour 2014: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, And More
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) This year was my second year on the Hot Rod Power Tour, but my first time with a respectable camera. The big reason I was excited for this was to harvest enormous...