Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, BangShift News, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery, SHOWS & EVENTS
Cruisin’ SoCal At The 2015 Prolong Twilight Cruise
Just one of the features of living the hot rod life in Southern California, aside from the awesome weather, is the variety and hot rodding ideas reflected in the hundreds of local car shows and...
Wagons, Porsche Powered Hot Rods, And More Great American Iron From Viva Las Vegas 2015
Our never ending crush of photos from the 2015 Viva Las Vegas continues today with this batch of sweetness from the Nevada desert featuring hot rods with weird engines, station wagons, and kustoms...
2015 Buffalo Motorama: We Pound The Floor And Show YOU All The Great Stuff At This Show
(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – For over 60 years, downtown Buffalo has hosted a custom car show to bring people together to welcome springtime in Western NY with high doses of paint and...
Big News: Auto Meter Acquires Palmer Performance Engineering – New Technology Brought Into Fold
In the ever evolving world of aftermarket performance, new technologies are emerging almost weekly. It is always cool when two innovative companies can hook up and work together to the benefit of...
BangShift Project Files: An Old Friend Reappears! The CarJunkieTV.com 1972 Nova Has A New Owner!
If you’ve been around since the beginning of this whole show, back when it was known as CarJunkieTV.com, you might remember this 1972 Chevrolet Nova as one of the CJ fleet cars. There was...
Ratty Gassers, Bare Metal Customs, and Pinstriped Beauties At Viva Las Vegas 2015
One of the cool things about a show like Viva Las Vegas is that there’s no shame in anyone’s game. It is not about judging the most perfectly restored, nut and bolt perfect muscle car. It...
This 1961 Valiant Gasser Project Is Quite Literally A Fire Sale And Needs A New Home
Sometimes life kicks you when you’re down and you have to do whatever is needed to get back on your feet. Unfortunately, the owner of this 1961 Plymouth Valiant has found himself in that...
TCI® AUTO-X GM LS 4L60E Transmission Package Gives Autocross And Road Racers A New Option
Evolution is a cool thing, especially when it comes to the mechanical end of hot rodding. The new TCI® AUTO-X GM LS 4L60E Transmission Package represents some of that evolution and it does so with...
Ebay Find: Could You Resist Cutting Up This 1982 Ford Durango?
Fox-body Fords are easy to come by. But finding a Ford Durango is like finding a diamond in the dirt while pulling weeds in your backyard. Numbers vary, but somewhere between 80 and 350 of the utes...
This 1996 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti Screams And Pops Like A Proper Italian Should – 11,500 RPM!
A V6 engine can make power and pull hard when built right. But one thing that a lot of V6s can’t do is sound the part. Have you ever heard a GM V6 uncorked? It sounds horrible, doesn’t...
Tail Dragging, Pinstriped, Fat Fendered Goodness From Viva Las Vegas 2015
We have long been of the opinion that virtually any car can be made cool and in today’s world of hot rodding more and more people are getting on that bus. Case in point, look at the Chevy...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Can You Name The Make, Displacement, And Year Of This Block?
It has been far too long since I challenged the talented gearhead braintrust known as the BangShift readership so we’re back. Actually, as you read this I am at a secret location shooting...
Wait…What? Cadillac Boss Says That ATS and CTS Are Doomed…Just When Things Are Getting Good
Out of all of General Motors’ dysfunctional behaviors, one really annoying one stands out above all the others: they create a car. It might not be good, but they will give it enough time that...
