Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS
Hot Rods And Hot Dogs, We Visit The Optima Batteries Annual Car Show
When the USCA’s Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car series comes to Wisconsin each year, for the Face Off at Road America event, one of the coolest things is the registration and welcome...
Rough Start: This Screaming Chicken Is Looking For It’s New Home
The next Rough Start find takes me to my hometown, Colorado Springs, Colorado. From the mountains to the prairie, from Fountain to North Academy, this city is teeming with great sheetmetal. The warm...
Check Out This Factory Pontiac LeMans Ute! Why Weren’t These More Popular In The States?
(Photo courtesy of Hemmings Motor News and LeadedGasClassics.com) I’ve got a soft spot for utes. El Caminos, Rancheros, even the Rampage/Scamp twins…I like the idea of a car-based ute...
Moroso Launches New Direct Sales Website – The Parts You Want And Need Straight From The Source
Moroso is one of those companies that we’re honored to have as a BangShift sponsor because they have been part of the high performance aftermarket virtually since there was such a thing, they...
2014 LA Roadsters Show Coverage: More Great Hot Rods From The Roadster Heaven Known As SoCal
We’re back, as promised with more coverage from the 2014 LA Roadsters Show that went down at the Pomona Fairplex last weekend. As we have been telling you this was the 50th time the event was...
Carnage Video: Watch a Geo Metro Get Turned Into Farm Fertilizer!
Ah, the manure spreader. It doesn’t lead a glorious life. It spends every second of it’s life either taking crap, giving crap, being filled with crap, or reeking of crap. That’s a...
2014 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion Feature Car: 1967 Dodge D100 Gasser
I enjoy finding vehicles that turn Lohnes into a drooling idiot. It’s a fun game that we here at BangShift have been playing for a few years now on the forums. The recipe is simple: Find a...
2014 LA Roadsters Show Coverage: SOHC Engines, Hemi Engines, And Wall To Wall Cool Cars
Our wall-to-wall coverage of the 2014 LA Roadsters Show continues today with more photos featuring some of the killer cars on the grounds of the Pomona Fairplex where the event was held....
Rough Start: Would You Take a Chance On This Lincoln Mark VII?
(Rough Start is a new feature here at BangShift. With this, McTaggart will scout a random Craigslist area for a car that can be bought and driven for $2,500 [under “by owner” only], and be made...
Watch This Jaguar XJ220 Light The Tires Off Right-Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em!
Whoever is behind Tax The Rich on Facebook is easily the most BangShift-minded supercar owner (owners?) on the effing planet. They are notorious for a series of YouTube videos that show cars that are...
2014 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion Feature Car: 1970 Mustang Grande 351
Every car has a story. Some live fast, die young and end up resting in a field somewhere. Some live basic lives that aren’t real notable, and some, like Rick Pierce’s ’70 Mustang, shine years...
The Promotional Video for the 1978 Dodge Aspen Lineup Is The Most Seventies Thing I’ve Seen…Ever!
It’s not a secret around BangShift that I’m a fan of Chrysler’s F-J-M bodystyles. I’ve at some point or another have dealt with all three: I almost had a really decent Aspen (F-car) when I...
Check out these great vintage photos from New England Dragway on the H.A.M.B.
As you probably know, Lohnes is announcing at the New England Nationals at New England Dragway on RRRRRRRoute 27, EPPING, New Hampshire this weekend. I started digging around trying to find some cool...
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If you have a cell phone or even a point and shoot camera you’ve got a shot at winning an awesome VIP experience with COMP Performance Group that you can “cash in” at either the Car...