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Car Feature: Bitchin’ Blue Custom 1965 Acadian Wagon
When we saw Dave Show’s 1965 Acadian Wagon, sitting in The Grove at Famoso Raceway during DragFest, we fell in love with the killer stance, insane paint, and cool cruiser vibe. The fact that Dave saw...
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Car Feature: Bob Johnson’s ’55 Chevy. Could It Really Be The First To 200 At...
Bob Johnson is a character. Not only does he always have something funny to say, but he also has bitchin cars, strong opinions, and a knack for bringing slightly strange cars out to Bonneville in the...
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SEMA 2012 Featurette: Mark Stielow’s 1967 Camaro “Mayhem”– Greatest Pro...
Mark Stielow’s name has been and will forever be connected to Camaros and for good reason. His awesome string of 1967 and 1969 Chevys have helped to both birth and revolutionize the Pro Touring world...
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Project Car Introduction: El Monte Carvo – A 1987 G-Body With A Literal and...
(Editor’s note: You’ve seen Dave Nutting’s byline many times on the electronic pages of BangShift. He our ace lensmen at BS Eastern World HQ. Outside of his handiness with a camera, the dude can also...
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PRI 2012 Featurette: The Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified Pulling Tractor –...
Of all the booth vehicles that were on display at the 2012 PRI Show in Orlando, none drew a larger crowd than the Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified pulling tractor that’s campaigned by Rick and Keith...
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Best of BS 2012 Feature: Cummins Powered, Laid Out, Custom, 1957 Chevy 2-Ton...
Being the resident old truck lover here at BangShift, I nearly drove our golf cart into a ditch when I laid eyes on Brad Starks’s absolutely bitchin’ 1957 two ton truck at the Holley NHRA National Hot...
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Feature: A 1973 Chevelle That Personifies Working Man’s Pro Touring
There were some truly incredible rides at the 2012 Run to the Shore event held at New Jersey Motorsports Park in April. We oogled the likes of Billy Utley’s all conquering Nova and Jeff Schwartz’s...
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Car Feature: The Granny Goose II Modified Production 1969 Camaro
We’re lucky enough to spend lots of time at cool events either shooting video or photos of neat cars. During the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we saw a D/Modified Production 1969 Camaro called...
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Gasser Barn Find: The Surprise Package 1957 Chevy Bel Air D/Gas – 426 Max...
Lauren & John McKee have recently purchased the coolest barn find in America. This is the “Surprise Package” 1957 Chevy D/Gas machine that is exactly how it was last raced in the early 1970s...
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Goliath’s Younger Brother! A 1972 Chevy C50 Pickup That Is Cool Truck Perfection
You are never going to believe this one! Jeff Angeleri, GM Design engineer extraordinaire, among other things, sent us a picture of his super cool 1972 C50 pickup which is the brother of Goliath,...
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Mini-Feature: The Wildest Paint Job We’ve Ever Seen On A Car That Actually...
While walking through the grove at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield last Friday during the rain, BangShifter Randal Burns and I spotted the most amazingly painted 1954 Chevy I have ever seen…and its a...
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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...
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Truckin’ Awesome: A 1972 Chevy Ramp Truck That Hauls A Chevelle and Hauls...
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Okay, so if you haven’t noticed, we really dig trucks. We like bigger-than-normal trucks and the weird ones too, but sometimes it takes a simple classic truck to...
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Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad Seed” Chevette,...
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New England’s Newest Pro Mod Is Going To Be A Tim McAmis Lightweight Bad Ass!
Very few classes in drag racing have had the kind of incredible groundswell of development and performance gains as Pro Mod has had over the last 10 years. From the technology in the suspension and...
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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of...
(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere white Chevy...
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Magnante Speaks: The Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Cheap Project Car...
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante) - 11 Seconds For $2,000 Fast & Cheap! Editors Go Insane! This is the continued story of the Bad Seed Caddy 500 powered Chevy Chevette, one of the more...
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We Drive The 2013 Camaro SS Hot Wheels Special Edition – Full Road Test And...
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – When the 2013 Hot Wheels Special Edition Camaro SS made the left hand turn into our driveway, my six year old son had eyes the size of pie plates and then literally wept...
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Death Of The Bad Seed: How I Almost Fired Myself for Street Racing the Bad...
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante) – It all started innocently enough with a Friday afternoon bench racing session in my office at Hot Rod magazine. It was summertime in L.A., July 6, 2001 to be...
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Vintage Baja Chevy Truck Formerly Owned By Steve McQueen And Raced By Mickey...
Well if this isn’t the coolest Chevy 4×4 of all time, I’m not quite sure what is. This 1969 Chevy truck was the first ever factory built Baja competition truck that the company built. According to the...
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