Photo Gallery: Giant Cackle Fest at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
A couple years ago if you told us that people would fill the grandstands just to see a dragsters fire up and idle, we’d have called BS. We would have been way wrong. The Cackle Fest events,...
Photo Gallery: Saturday Car Show and Pits at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
Saturday at the Hot Rod Reunion is the big day, with more show cars, more action in the pits, and more spectators than any other day. On Friday we covered most of the show cars, but there were so...
Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
Nostalgia car shows are great and everything, but one of the best things about the California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Auto Club of Southern California, is that dudes are out there actually...
Photo Gallery: 200 Pics of the Car Show Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
It’s not just that the California Hot Rod Reunion has awesome nostalgia drag racing. The event also has a huge car show held in The Grove, the area just behind the grandstands at Auto Club...
Photo Gallery: Historic Drag Cars from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
BangShift.com will be on site all weekend long to bring you coverage of the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California. We had live streaming video all...
Photo Gallery: Action in the Pits from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
While Auto Club Famoso Raceway has lots of action on the quarter mile, it’s also famous for a great time in the pits, especially during events like the California Hot Rod Reunion. Perhaps...
Photo Gallery: The Swap Meet on Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion
If we had any money we would have been really dangerous at the swap meet held at the top end of the drag strip at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion. I got a set of old license plates last year, but...
Photo Tour: Inside the NHRA Motorsports Museum
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum produces the California Hot Rod Reunion vintage drag race event that BangShift.com will be covering with live video the weekend of October 16-18, 2009, so the...
Event Coverage: 2009 Hershey AACA Car Show & Swap Meet
BangShift.com forum member Joe Grippo has contributed yet another bunch of photos, these from the massive Antique Automobile Club of America event held every fall in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Joe...
2009 Hot Rod Drag Week Wrapup
OK, so it’s like weeks after the end of the 2009 Hot Rod Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors. After covering the race for a solid week, I’ve almost caught up on sleep. Probably not. But...
Event Coverage: 2009 Jax Wax Show and Shine, Michigan
BangShift.com member Joe (Joe Lopez) gave us a photo gallery of the 2009 Jax Wax show and shine held October 9 at the Dawg House Restaraunt in Clinton Township, Michigan. There seems to have been a...
Carnage Video: 13 Crashes in 13 Months as Trucks Smash Themselves Topless Under a Low Bridge
There exists a rail road trestle in Durham, North Carolina. Said trestle only has 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance. Lots of trucks are 12 feet high and taller, so this presents a large problem. The...
Meet the Record Holding Infidel Streamliner: 330 MPH With a Cadillac Engine
Boys and girls, say hello to the record holding AA/BGS (Blown Gas Streamliner) Infidel streamliner run by the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. It’s powered by a twin-turbocharged 529ci...
Australian Cops are Confiscating Cars at a Record Pace
Police in the city of Werribee in Australia have confiscated more than 60 cars in the last nine months due to driving violations. We’ve blogged before about the stringent road laws down under,...
