Category Archive: BangShift News, Craigslist Find
Craigslist Find: Super-cool, one-year-only 1969 Pontiac Custom S
There will doubtlessly be debate about whether a 1969 Pontiac A-body in brown is worth $18k, but set that aside for a moment and consider this car: The Custom S replaced the 1968 Pontiac Tempest...
Pinkees Rod Shop Open House Photos. This Is Just The Start Of A Weekend Of Coolness In Colorado.
I’m in Loveland Colorado this weekend to announce the autocross at the Goodguys Show. While I was here I figured I’d get some other cool stuff in, and last night we had an open house and...
More Sweet Cars From The Recent Pomona Swap Meet – Drivers, Draggers, and Resto Projects
Here’s another load of sweet cars from the May 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. The machines range from cars you could have driven out of the place to your home to the basic bones of a project that would...
How to do stunts like Mad Max 2 – Step 1: Be prepared to hurt yourself
I’ve been influenced by a lot of movies over the years, but every single frame of Mad Max 2 — or The Road Warrior, as it was billed in the United States — is burned indelibly in my...
Jeff Howe’s Laid Out 1965 Chevelle Got Him Through School, Got Him The Girl, And Now Just Kicks Ass
Jeff Howe’s 1965 Chevelle represents the perfect hot rodder story. Dad is into Corvairs, Jeff helps work on them from the time he’s 7, and the rest is history. In 1995 Jeff buys the...
Ridetech Is Calling You Out! Bring Your Weird Ass Car To Indy This Weekend For The Goodguys Show And Win Stuff!
The guys at Ridetech are challenging all the Midwestern hot rodders out there. They are using Jim McKamey’s All Wheel Drive, Twin 500 inch Caddy Powered Yugo as bate, to see if you’ll...
Gallery: The Huntington Beach Concours D’Elegance Is Chock Full Of Hot Rods, Odd Balls, And BangShifty Stuff
Our own Craig Fitzgerald can tell you everything you need to know about the normally high brow and snooty world of “Councours” car shows. Thankfully, the Huntington Beach Concours is more...
Cool Cars At The Pomona Swap Meet – From Polished To Pulverized A Neat Selection Here
After a couple days straight of truck photos from the Pomona Swap Meet, the cat calls started. “Were there any cars there?” Of course there were cars there, people. I was just trying to...
Craigslist Find: Someone Decided To Turn A 1970 Chevelle Wagon Into A Weirdo Jeep Surrey Themed Disaster – Good Call
When Powermaster’s Brady Basner tipped me off to this rolling disaster area I immediately defaulted in my brain to blaming George Barris, Doesn’t this seem like something he would have...
Hot Summer Sun Meant Lots Of Hot Rods At The NHRA Prolong Twilight Cruise And We’ve Got Tons Of Photos
This month’s NHRA Prolong Twilight Cruise at the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum had a huge turn out. It’s always packed at the show, but this one was extra busy thanks to mid 80...
This 1929 Model A Phaeton is the coolest thing ever
Model As in any shape or form are cool, but this thing is just incredible. Owned by a fella named Leonard Ouammen, it was modified in the early 1940s for use in delivering mail to rural Montana....
More Cool Cars and Trucks From The Somernites Cruise in Somerset, Kentucky – Plus We Get To Shoot A Cannon!
(Words and photos by Bryan McTaggart) – After a great first day, we hit the sack that night excited for the prospect of tomorrow. We woke the next morning and after a Holiday Inn breakfast, we...
Ultimate Street Car Association Action From Daytona – One Last Look And An Announcement Regarding Upcoming Events
Well we have finally come to the end of the great action photos from the USCA race at Daytona International Speedway where some of the coolest pro touring cars in the country got together and...
Doing It Wrong Video: How To Not Aqua Skip A Dirt Bike And Nearly Kill Yourself In The Process
The two legs jutting out from the massive splash down belong to a dirt bike rider who was attempting to aqua skip his dirt bike across this water obstacle at the Clovis MX park in New Mexico, right...