Category Archive: Event Coverage, ROAD TRIPS
Here’s How A Race Engine Shop Saved Our Caddy Powered C10 From Long Haul Failure!
(Words and Photos by Mike Brooks) Hot Rod Power has been something I wanted to participate in for at least 15 years. It was one of many shows, races, and events that I dreamt about over the several...
More FM3 Road Trip Photo Coverage Is Coming Your Way!
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) The FM3 RoadTrip: Cars and Cones is a really bitchin event and we’re so thrilled to have been a part of it again this year. We’re lucky as hell to have driven...
Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos From The 2018 Tour de’ Orange Cruise In SoCal
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Because they change the route and meeting places each year, we don’t know where the 2019 Tour de’ Orange will be held exactly, but if we’re in town we will...
Here’s The Latest Photos From The Tour de’ Orange SoCal Cruise
The cruise route was great, and had us cruising from Aliso Viejo over to Pacific Coast Highway and then up the coast through Laguna Beach and then up near Newport Beach. There we turned inland and...
Our Tour De’ Orange New Year’s Day SoCal Cruise Photos Continue Right Here
Yesterday we shared our first gallery of photos from the Tour de’ Orange New Year’s Day Cruise and today we’ve got even more. The cruise route was great, and had us cruising from...
Tour de’ Orange Cruise Photos: We Spent New Year’s Day Morning On A SoCal Cruise Up The Coast
For the past few years, on New Year’s Day morning, a group of folks have been putting on a cruise through Orange County here in SoCal that has become known as Tour de’ Orange and this...
Best Of BS 2017: Ratty Muscle Cars’ “No Shine Sh*t List” Under The Lights Meet 2017: Part One, The Meet-Up And Cruise
The last time I made the trip down to Decatur, Alabama to check out a Ratty Muscle Cars gig, the weather called for cloudy with a chance of snow and ice, so I cut bait before any action went down and...
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...