American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride In A Turbocharged, Stick-Shifted Crown Vic – 8psi and It Looks FUN!
Apr 07, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Ok, now this looks like fun! We were looking for something cool and different for this week’s American Powertrain Parting Shift. Not that this is the first, only, or best stick shift Crown Vic...
High-Rider: This 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Is A 1970s Street Freak Time Capsule!
Apr 07, 2017Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
To be quite honest, I don’t get the difference between a “street machine” and a “street freak”, so I am probably going to jack this one up a little bit, so bear with...
So Plymouth Used Dune Buggies and Sand To Sell The 1970 Plymouth Fury? This Ad Is Weird and Awesome
Apr 07, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
In what has to be one of the weirdest car ads we have ever seen, this 1970 Plymouth Fury commercial places the massive car on sand dunes with dune buggies! We’re guessing that the idea here is...
Chevrolet Tahoe And Suburban RST: When The Family Wagon Needs To Haul Ass
Apr 07, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY, TRUCKS
(Photos: General Motors) The Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban are the go-to full-size SUVs in the market right now. Look left and right when you are out and about, and I’ll all but promise you that...
The Beast of Both Worlds: A Guy In His 20’s Built A BMW 2002 With The Heart And Bones Of A Honda S2000, And It’s Nuts!
Apr 07, 2017Tony SestitoApex Car Feature, Apex Spotlight, BangShift APEX
(Photos by Kevin Adolf and Grassroots Motorsports Magazine Staff) Author’s Note: Recently, our buddies over at Grassroots Motorsports Magazine asked me if I’d like to help them out with...
This 1976 Jimmy CasaGrande Is An Amazingly Clean Survivor – We’d Cruise And Sleep In This One
Apr 07, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
(Thanks to Jay Spinella for the tip on this!) – Back in the 1970s GM hooked up with a company called Chinook to produce a factory option that was known as the Blazer Chalet on Chevrolets and...
GM Is Unloading Some Of The “Toy Box” Cars At Barret-Jackson This Weekend! Take A Look At Some Of These Beauties!
Apr 07, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CHEVY, Monday Shopper
Ever since I saw the first article about it, the GM “Toy Box” collection and subsequently appropriate concept and one-off vehicles has captured my attention. Summed up, it’s what GM...
2017 Carl Casper Car Show Coverage: Hot Rods, Baby! Our Favorites From The Event
Apr 07, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Rods, to me = traditional definition of a ‘street rod’ which is pre-1949 vehicles. Now with the jargon defined lets delve into this array of rides...
This 1972 Ford LTD Is Near Perfection! Embrace The More Mature You The Right Way!
Apr 07, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
“You always have a hot rod, or some hopped-up beater. Even that Chrysler you have is a joke, it’s like you took Grandpa’s car and stuck NOS on it. You need to grow the **** up and...
Looking For A Job In The Hot Rod Industry? McLeod Clutches Is Hiring!
Apr 07, 2017Brian LohnesSponsor News
If you have been looking to ditch your current job and bust your way into the high performance aftermarket, McLeod may have the opportunity that you are looking for. The company is growing and...
Cool Video: The Story Of Moving A 123-Ton Transformer Through England In 1962 – Measured For Transport
Apr 06, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Moving big stuff is as interesting and challenging a job today as it was more than 50 years ago when this film was made. Human beings can create some pretty massive and heavy things and lots of times...
Cool Old Press Photos: Beauty and the Beast, the 1957 Lincolns
Apr 06, 2017Brian LohnesApex Car Feature, BangShift APEX
If there were ever two cars produced by the same brand in the same year that were on complete opposite ends of the styling and beauty spectrum, the 1957 offerings from Lincoln were them. Yes, the...
This 1965 TVR Griffith Has Drag Racing History And The Battle Scars To Prove It – Awesome Car
Apr 06, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
The TVR Griffith was yet another example of the melding of an English chassis and an American power plant in the 1960s. After the runaway success of the Shelby Cobra and following in the well worn...
With A Hint Of English Leather: This 1982 AMC Concord Sundancer Is A Classy Bandit!
Apr 06, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find
Car people know Burt Reynolds. They know that he is probably responsible for selling more Pontiac Trans-Ams than GM’s marketing team was in the 1970s and early 1980s. They know that he could...
