(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I spend lots of time telling you to get out there and do stuff with your car. Whether it be the drags, cruising, the road course, or autocrossing, I’m constantly harping on you to ditch the couch and burn some tire. Unlike other places that like to talk and talk [...]

(Photos by Dynotech Engineering and the Author) – At its base, hot rodding has always been about trying stuff, breaking stuff, fixing stuff, and getting better, faster, and stronger along the way. That’s been the case with the 1987 Caprice Buford T Justice project thus far as I’ve taken the worn out stock suspension and [...]

Well I celebrated Buford’s one year anniversary in fine style last week by finally getting back to wrenching on the car. The weather has broken, Spring is here, and I found both of my kids when the snow banks melted. Life is very good! If you have been following the saga of Buford T Justice, [...]

In our never ending quest for putting together a nice, comfortable, and capable tow rig, without spending piles of cash, and without having a new car payment, we continue to thrash on the $200 Hauler 2000 Chevrolet Suburban. Since it’s theft and recovery, we’ve gotten the interior back to almost good shape again, and have [...]

(Words and photos by Matt Graves) – Sorry for the long dry spell on the Chicken Coupe update. I can’t let Brian steal the spot light this week with his half-assed Buford T Justice update (editor’s note: aren’t they all?!). Mine report actually has some meat in it.  After a very long and cold winter [...]

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – So it has been a while since you’ve seen anything with respect to our much beloved project Buford T Justice Caprice. What the Hell, right? We can assure you that nothing underhanded is going on and that we’re actually on a short holding pattern until we return to the dyno [...]

During the refresh of our $200 Hauler Suburban Project you have seen us give it a wrap thanks to the folks at The Shirt Shak, along with a new grille, billet bowtie, rear bumper, trim, and more from LMC Trucks. We’ve also had the stupid thing stolen, have recovered it, and patched it back together. [...]

Readers of BangShift know the name Mike Casella from his awesome work at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mike is the guy who makes stuff from scratch and saves unobtanium parts that you literally cannot buy no matter how rich you are. Mike’s had hot rods and drag cars over the years but [...]