Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Event Coverage: 2009 Detroit Autorama at Cobo Hall, 66 Photos
Last weekend was the Midwest’s official icebreaker for the car season, the Detroit Autorama at Cobo Hall. While most indoor car shows are not our speed, this one brings out all the real hot...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: 1960-1965 Birdcage Maseratis
Some cars, like the Gurney Eagle that was profiled last week are just cosmically right from the moment of conception. The Birdcage Maseratis were born of a company that had tried and largely failed...
Book Review: How to Keep Your Muscle Car Alive
How to Keep Your Muscle Car Alive by Harvey White Jr. is a brand new release from Motorbooks and is part of the Motorbooks Workshop series of technical titles. This book is a neat reference material...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: The End of Leo Santucci’s 1950 Chevy
For fans of GM straight-six performance, the name Leo Santucci is household. He has been a recognized authority on these engines for some time and his history racing them on the dragstrip is quite...
Safety Pioneer Jim Deist Dies
Legendary racing safety pioneer Jim Deist died today, March 9th. Details of his passing are unavailable at the time of this writing. Deist was one of the absolute originators of the racing safety...
Barnstormin’: That Guy
As I was finally starting work on the Javelin the other day, I was sitting inside the car, hammering steel that had been serious defiled in the car’s previous live as a dirt-track stock car. As...
Top 11 Reasons Why We’re Thankful Spring is Coming!
Here in New England we’ve just managed to string two days together with temperatures above 50 degrees. This is a sure sign that we are headed for decent weather and we’ll be able to play...
eBay Pick of the Week: 1LE Camaro Road Racer
We’ve a bit of a checkered road racing past around here. Chad has been through driving school and competed wheel-to-wheel at the 24 Hours of Lemons and I spent a couple years up to my eyeballs...
Monday Time Killer: Vintage Drag Racing Photos
While Chad is out at the March Meet working his beard off, we’re feeding the unrelenting appetite of the blog. We’re throwing a counter punch to Chad’s weekend full of retro-drag...
Charles Carpenter Wrecks in Houston
Charles Carpenter is recognized as one of the godfathers of guts-out doorslammer racing. He is one of the great ones, racing 1955 Chevys throughout his career, which started decades ago. His son and...
Event Coverage: Another 198 Photos from the 2009 March Meet
It’s been tough to sit here at the Easy Coast bureau and watch the photos roll in from afar, but it sure looks like the kickoff to the 2009 NHRA Heritage Series lit off like a barrel of TNT...
Event Coverage: 2009 March Meet Pits, Swap Meet, and Car Show
First we brought you a photo gallery of action from Friday at the 2009 March Meet, and today we’re going to have two more sections of event coverage. This one here is all photos from the swap...
Event Coverage: The 2009 March Meet, 100 Friday Photos
Today, Friday, March 6, was the kickoff day of the 2009 March Meet at historic Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. It’s actually in McFarland, but no one really cares....
Chadmouth: I Want to be the Guy with the Mullet
While walking through the Long Beach Swap Meet last weekend, I saw some guy in a tube-chassis Duster cruising the parking lot on his way to the car corral and it got me pondering the fact that you...