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Money No Object: This 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Is Hiding In Plain Sight, Done Right

With all of the cars I’ve owned over the years, I’ve tried to own something different from the others over the years. I’ve had a big four by four, a V6 front driver, and a wreck of...

Titled And Legal: Who Wants This NASCAR-Style Chevrolet Malibu?

Information? All the information you could possibly want on this Chevrolet Malibu is this: it’s got a North Carolina title and it’s street legal. Of course it is…North Carolina...

2018 Buffalo Motorama Coverage: This Show’s Been Going On Forever And It Keeps Getting Better

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Those who follow me here at Bangshift know that after hitting up several cities, my indoor car show coverage wraps up here at home with the Buffalo Motorama. This...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your Dumbest Teenage Stunt, And Did You Get Away With It?

Sergeant Tracy Frost, a school resource officer, had noticed a hopped-up pickup truck with a high-school kid at the wheel last week. The driver noticed the cop, looked him dead-square in the eyes,...

2018 NHRA Gatornationals Images: We’re Still Bringing You Header Flamin’ Fresh Photos

(Photos by James Champion) – If there is one weird thing about the NHRA season that I wish I could wave a wand and change overnight it is the way the thing kind of comes out of the station. We...

Spin-Cycle: Hoonigan’s Caster-Kart Volvo Is Done! Would You Have The Guts To Ride In It?

It’s a known fact: Take a front-wheel-drive car, leave the powertrain intact and hack everything behind the front seats off and you technically still have a useable car. You’ll have to...

This 1994 Corvette Limo Is Like A Strange Land-Bound Private Jet – Oddly Interesting!

So we have started to see McTaggart’s misadventures with his cheapo Cadillac limo project and while that looks fun and pretty disease ridden, this 1994 Corvette limo that Bangshifter Rocco...

The RTRA Texas Radial Roundup Rescheduled Due To Weather – Now May 3-5!

BAD NEWS GUYS! THE WEATHER HAS CAUSED OFFICIALS TO POSTPONE THE TEXAS RADIAL ROUNDUP AT NORTHSTAR DRAGWAY IN DENTON, TEXAS UNTIL MAY 3-5. WE’LL BACK BACK FOR THAT ONE TO SHOW YOU THE LIVE...

Nitro Video: The First Ever Nitro Outlaw Drag Racing Association Race – Big Show Cars, More Reasonable Budget

Here’s some neat stuff to watch during a mid-week racing lull. What you are about to see is the first race of the new Outlaw Nitro Drag Racing Association which happened at few weeks back in...

2018 Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals Nationals – More Photos From The Track And The Pits!

(Photo by James Champion) – So we’re counting the minutes until we head to Las Vegas for the Denso NHRA 4-Wide Nationals this weekend but we still have plenty of cool images from the...

Rough Start: This 1984 Mercury Cougar Looks Ready To Party For The Right Price Tag!

The “aero” makeover for the Fox-body Mercury Cougar couldn’t come quick enough. Between 1980 and 1982, the Cougar nameplate was applied to three different forms: the base Cougar was...

The Falcon That Never Flew Here: Take A Closer Look At The Ford Falcon XR6, Ford Australia’s Multi-Role Sedan

We were right to mourn the loss of Australian automotive manufacturing. Yeah, there were the utes and the properly powerful sedans that we don’t get until they are a few years past drinking...

Wanna Get Away For A Bit? This Ford F-550 Bus Conversion Can Be Your Rolling Home!

Readers, I have a question for you: have you ever wanted to relocate, even if it’s just for a day or two? I’m not talking camping, per se, I’m talking about packing up enough to...

Zero Frills: This 1983 Camaro Is One Of The Basiest Base Models We’ve Ever Seen!

A car that really needs no introduction to all of you BangShift readers is the 3rd Generation Chevrolet Camaro. As I’m sure you are all aware of by now, these cars were built from 1982 until...