Category Archive: BangShift Road Tests, Car Features
Double Down: A Second Opinion On The 2017 Dodge Challenger GT – Is It Answering A Question No One Asked?
A couple of weeks ago McTaggart sweet talked the boys at the local Dodge dealer to let him take a new 2017 Dodge Challenger GT out for a spin. Well unbeknownst to him, the people at Dodge had sent...
Turbocharged Barra FTW! This Little Ford Cortina Gets Moving With Six Buzzing!
I’m still working on the culture shock I experienced when it comes to a turbocharged inline-six cylinder engine that can run. For an engine design that I’ve always figured was the...
Money No Object: This Sweet 1977 Chevrolet Monza Is The Most Wild Do-It-All Car We’ve Ever Seen!
We aren’t sold on this 1977 Chevrolet Monza because it was a magazine feature car (Super Chevy, May 2015) or because it’s eye-searing orange paint, a Lamborghini color, can be spotted by...
This 1977 Pontiac LeMans Was Supposed To Be A Figure 8 Car, But Was Spared – How Would You Finish It?
When I see things listings that say, “Figure-8” car, I automatically figure that within months, the car will be a dead carcass on a rollback headed to the crusher. Amateur racing is...
Check It Out: A 1978 Dodge Monaco That Wasn’t Crashed Or Turned Into A Fake Cop Car!
Has anybody ever bothered to count just how many 1975-78 Mopar B-body sedans were killed off in movies and on television? Lots of people know how many General Lee Chargers were launched into the...
Classic YouTube: Can A Fox-Body Mustang Survive A Tough-Truck Course?
Where do you draw the line between rally racing and just simply beating the hell out of a car in the dirt for the hell of it? Tough Truck racing. That’s right, Tough Truck ain’t just for...
Classic YouTube: A 1970s Pro Stock Matchup Between Bunny Burnett’s Pinto vs. Jungle George’s Arrow
Towards the mid and late 1970s, Pro Stock cars morphed. What had been filled with cars like Camaros and Mustangs were now filled with small cars. Pintos, Vegas, Mavericks, Monzas, Darts, Mustang IIs...
Unhinged: Ok, Survivors Of The 1970s, Let’s Have A Talk About Vanning…
At the time of writing this, I’m more or less thirty-four. That means that I was born in 1983, which means that I was lucky enough to miss the custom van craze. By the time I was a kid who was...
Money No Object: We’d Use This 1965 Mercury Comet To Run Errands With…Just To Freak People Out!
The further you step out of the normal, the more uncomfortable society, on the whole, becomes about your presence. For example: the other day I had to run a few cars down to get fueled up while we...
Money No Object: This 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air Bubbletop Is Vintage Racer Sweetness!
Frankly, even if this 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air isn’t one of the cars that NASCAR legend Rex White ran, we would still encourage you to smash the piggybank open. Why, though? Because it’s a...
The Ultimate Family Wagon? This 757 Horsepower Tahoe Sounds Mean!
The Dyno Day at Sloppy Mechanics usually brings out some interesting creations, but none quite like this Tahoe. Earlier this week, I was sorting out whether or not a brand new Ram pickup could be a...
Rough Start: Would You Roll The Dice On This Small-Block Swapped Mazda?
When you only have a few grand to spend and you are preparing to make a purchase as major as a car, you want to get the most for every dollar you are spending. You want reliability. You want to be...
This Turbocharged, Four Wheel Drive Chevy Silverado Claws The Strip At LVMS!
One of the most wicked drag race setups I know of is the Miss Misery, the screw-blown, all-wheel-driven monster of a square-body Chevy that looked as mental as all get-out. Filled to the brim of...
Roadtrip Motorcars Tour: We’ve Seen The Funky, Now Let’s Check Out The Fast Imports!
Ok, our introduction to Roadtrip Motorcars’ current fleet of Japanese import vehicles tended to fall on the strange and unique side of the house. But for every cute little kei car or funky...