Sean Rich's 1973 Chevelle is an example of what we believe Pro Touring to be about. This is a car that looks and functions at a far higher level than it could have dreamed of when stock. It has been built on the budget but a regular guy in his home garage. It combines frugality and critical thought to make a great high performance package. It is fast, it is loud, and it turns like a mother. What's not to love?!

Feature: A 1973 Chevelle That Personifies Working Man’s Pro Touring

Posted in Car Features May 2, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  10 comments

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 uber-bitchin’ Tempest, but it was this 1973 Chevelle of New Jersey’s Sean Rich that really spun our crank. This is [...]

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Car Feature Re-Run: The King Komet, A 1968 Mercury Cyclone Drag Race Survivor

Posted in Car Features April 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

There’s a lame saying about old drag cars and how they never die and it is total crap. Old drag cars get bent, wrecked, blown up, burned down, hacked up, and restored to factory condition all the time. That’s why one that survives with the total package of history, coolness, a winning pedigree, and a [...]

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Win the Lottery and Buy the Friggin’ A-Team Van!

Posted in Car Features March 30, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  8 comments

We remember Mike Meyers for his funny TV characters, being the voice of Shrek, starring in such cinematic hits as, So I Married an Ax Murderer, and generally being as funny as a Canadian can be. Little did we know that the dude is into cars or at least 1980s TV cars, because he commissioned [...]

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Project Buford T Justice: Our Cop Car Cruises Home and Then We Beat on It!

Posted in Car Features March 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  12 comments

(Photos by Dave Nutting, Gene Stauffer, and Brian Lohnes) - Project Buford T Justice, BangShift’s 1987 9C1 Caprice cop car is back home in Massachusetts safe and sound and we have begun to put the old girl through her paces in anticipation of future upgrades to crank up the fun factor of the car by several [...]

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Mini-Feature Re-Run: Ohio George Montgomery’s 1969 Mustang Boss 429 Twin Turbo Gasser

Posted in Car Features March 23, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

(Editor’s note: On Monday we are running a story about a bunch of old school turbo drag cars that you have probably never heard of before. This is one of them. We ran this little mini-feature a couple of years ago when we saw the car at the Holley NHRR. Here’s another look. There were [...]

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Car Feature – Boss Hoss: A 1969 Pro Street Mustang Powered by 604ci of Alan Root Headed Ford Hemi

Posted in Car Features March 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  9 comments

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Lately we have been featuring sleepers here on BangShift, so consider this our way of breaking that trend. This car is a sledgehammer, both visually and mechanically. It would be impressive enough to tell you that the car was powered by a 604ci Ford engine, but that would be selling [...]

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Progress Continues on Ridetech’s Killer Factory Five ’33 Build

Posted in Car Features March 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

As you know, the guys and girls at Ridetech are always up to something awesome. Whether it is buying or selling cars at auction, thrashing their stuff on road courses and autocrosses across the country or building their next world beater, they really know how to have fun. The crew at Ridetech is closing in [...]

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Car Feature Re-Run: An Original-Owner 1987 Buick GNX

Car Feature Re-Run: An Original-Owner 1987 Buick GNX

Posted in BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC March 16, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

Gary and Pam Beineke have a stable of awesome cars. We invaded their privacy to shoot and video several cars a couple of years ago and we featured those cars a while back. Most of the cars in their collection are Mopars that the couple built from scratch, but there’s one that they just picked [...]

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1967 Shelby GT500 Barn Find – Amazing Car Found in Death Valley California

Posted in Car Features March 15, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  30 comments

When we got the call from our pal Jon at Tube Chassis Designz that we needed to get down to his shop to see something cool, we jumped in the car and went. We were greeted with one of the coolest single cars we have ever seen. This is a factory stock 1967 Shelby GT500 [...]

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Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]

Posted in Car Features February 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this kick ass dragster he spied in the staging lanes. He wasn’t the only one who was smitten by the big block [...]

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BangShift New Car Review: The 2012 Buick Regal GS [w/video]

Posted in BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC February 17, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  7 comments

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buick fans, it’s time to tell your friends that “Going Fast with Class” is back! After seven days and seven hundred-plus miles behind the wheel of a 2012 Buick Regal GS, I came away both impressed and relieved. I was impressed with the overall quality of the car, the refinement [...]

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Feature w/Video:Thump Truck – A 23,000lb Kenworth That’s About to Run 13s

Posted in Car Features February 1, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Brian Lohnes) – This thing is truly insane. A 23,000lb behemoth making 1,000hp at the tire that defies logic, the known laws of physics, and all levels of common sense. On the day photog Dave Nutting and I met Leon Smith, the owner of this 1998 Kenworth T-800 truck, it was [...]

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1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!

Posted in Car Features January 31, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working on another feature, one that involves more than a hundred pounds of boost, several thousand foot-pounds of torque, and smoky, rolling burnouts galore. After [...]

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Cool or Not: A Chrysler Cordoba Made to Look Like a Superbird!

Posted in Car Features January 16, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

After seeing these photos posted on the BangShift forums by member Remy-Z we had to get them in front of the BangShift readership and get your collective opinion. In the interest of full disclosure, we don’t actually hate this thing and there are parts of it, we kinda like. Sure it takes some courage to [...]

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Mini-Feature - The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks

Mini-Feature – The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks

Posted in Car Features November 7, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Of all the vehicles I saw and crawled over at the 2011 SEMA show, none hit me harder than this 1960 F100 truck, built by 2 Brothers Custom Trucks of Springfield, Illinois. Cool from every angle, sporting a twin turbocharged, stroked, Y-Block engine, and a manual transmission, it is stunning. Sure, the big wheel look [...]

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Video: 48 Hour Camaro Highlights including Air Conditioning Tech

Video: 48 Hour Camaro Highlights including Air Conditioning Tech

Posted in Car Features July 18, 2011  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

If you missed out on the crazy, live, build of the 48 Hour Camaro, you missed out on a lot. We’ve got video coming over the next few weeks highlighting all the components that went into this build, but until then we’ll be showing you snipits from the build as we went through all the [...]

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