Cruise Gallery: The Fort Oglethorpe Cruise In – Georgia
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – On his way home from Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s first Heads Up race of the season, Tommy Lee Byrd stopped by the Fort Oglethorpe (Georgia) Cruise...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Panama – Van Halen (1984)
Lots of people think that Van Halen’s 1984 hit (off of the album 1984) is about a country. Those people are wrong! Panama is a car song, believe it or now. David Lee Roth said that he saw a car...
Hot Rod Magazine Homecoming Car Show This Weekend! BE THERE! 300+ Former Cover and Feature Cars On Display At Pomona!
This weekend is the Hot Rod Homecoming Car Show at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California. Saying just that is selling it way short. The Homecoming is the greatest gathering of former feature and...
Rare Clone: A Perfect Recreation Of Drag Racing’s Ultimate Misfit Nova
While rolling around the pits during the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green last summer something strange caught my eye. It actually caught my entire body as I executed a full...
Show Gallery: The 2013 World of Wheels – Omaha, Nebraska
(Photos by Jay Oviatt) – BangShifter did last weekend what I plan to do this weekend, which is to attend the local “World of Wheels” indoor car show. The same company that puts on...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is The New Delta Wing Coupe Super Cool or Too Weird?
The Delta Wing race car has been running at tracks across the world for a couple of seasons now. Originally designed as a replacement chassis for IndyCar, the innovative machine was not chosen for...
Powermaster Performance Sponsors The Chattanooga Cruise-In – April 6,2013 – Looks Like A Blast! Be There!
If you are in the greater Chattanooga, Tennessee area on April 6, 2012 and you are not at the Chattanooga Cruise-In, you officially fail. The event is put on right in downtown Chattanooga with Coker...
Bitchin’ Rods Gallery: The St Patty’s Day Bash At Murray Kustom Rods – Ft. Worth, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles worked his ass off during the weekend he spend at the Goodguys show. Between harassing Chad, shooting a couple of upcoming feature cars, making autocross...
Videos Of Win: A Twin Turbo Olds 455 Cutlass Sleeper Runs 10s – Plus A Crafty Home Made Solution To Modifying Pistons At Home For Full Floating Wrist Pins!
You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like...
Drag Action Gallery: Fast Door Slammers At Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip! Big Tire and Small Tire Fun!
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift contributor Tommy Lee Byrd hit it hard this weekend and covered a cool Heads Up race at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip in Ringgold, Georgia. The...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Fast Car – Hanoi Rocks (1986)
We’ve got a bunch of readers that have suggested Hanoi Rocks tunes to us for use in the BS Daily Tune up, so today we’re finally going to highlight one. The tune is called Fast Car and it...
MSD’s Atomic EFI LS System Wins Innovation Award At The 2013 Hot Rod And Restoration Trade Show
The news is certainly out about MSD’s cool Atomic LS EFI system that removed lots of headaches and wiring from the job of swapping an LS engine into whatever application you can dream up. Since...
Aussie Road Trip Gallery: The Roadside Finds On A Long Trip Across Oz
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – We’ve been showing you cool photos from the Top Gear Festival in Australia recently and those photos came from Darryl Danies who lives down there. Darryl went...
