Even In a Commercial, A Running Diesel Oldsmobile Is Kind Of Amazing
As its name suggests, the Malaise Era was a truly miserable period of American car manufacturing. The last 1970s and early 1980s found carmakers struggling to produce fuel economy in line with...
Project BSx: Where We Try To Keep A Nova From Becoming A Future Barn Find
(Words and photos by John Ulazek) – Introducing Project BSx. While we batted around a lot of ridiculous names for this project we are going to keep it simple, BangShift X-body gives us BSX.For...
Major Style Points: This 1959 Cadillac DeVille Owner Took the Car Autocrossing in Dubai
Autocross. The word conveys an image of auto enthusiasts pitching Miatas and CRXs and BMWs and Porsches around a cone-sea in an open parking lot. The nimble little cars squeak through slaloms and...
Ouch! This Evo’s Engine Annihilates Itself at a Track Day in Australia
Sandown Raceway in Australia is one heck of a place. The racing circuit is built around the outside of a horse racing track and hosts one of the big three endurance races on the Virgin Supercars...
Morning Symphony: Listen To These BMW M3s Rip Up A Tight Drift Course!
For this morning’s aural treat, we are going straight to the sharp howl of the E36 series BMW M3’s 3.2L inline-six. If you want to see what true brand loyalty looks like, ask a BMW fan...
Here’s a Curious, Sharp-Looking Javelin For Sale In AMC Racing Livery
While American Motors Corporation is perhaps best-known in the general populace as company that built the oddly proportioned Pacer and Gremlin, AMC also produced a few iconic muscle cars. The...
This Kellison Kit Car Is Hemi Powered And On A C1 Corvette Chassis
This one seems a little odd to us, but we’re down because you don’t see these Kellison kits very often and we dig them. The body on these things is super sexy and cool, with an aggressive...
This Cayman Spins On the Nurburgring At 150 MPH and Somehow Doesn’t Hit Anything
Ah, the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, that narrow 15-mile ribbon of asphalt winding through the Eiffel Mountains in western Germany. The harrowing “Green Hell” has crunched up many a car during...
In Australia, NASCAR Only Used To Turn Right
If you’re a devoted fan of The Simpsons, you already know the most important question about crossing the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere: When you flush a toilet, does the water swirl the...
Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
It’s no secret that we at BangShift love the McLaren M8 Can-Am cars: They’re absolutely brutal machines with big displacement, big noise, big power, and requiring big commitment from a driver. As...
Buy This Rolling Race Car Chassis For $2000 And Drop Any Body On It You Like!
Cars like Mike Dusold’s Camaro piss people off. That’s because his car is a tube chassis equipped ride that is taking a Camaro to a whole new level. Now Mike did all the work to develop...
We’ve Got Video Of The Hand Built, Street Driven, Kawasaki Powered Mini Nova!
Last week we showed you pictures of this hand built Kawasaki powered Mini Nova, as we were blown away when we saw this thing. It’s street legal, totally bitchin, and now we’ve got video...
Awesome Video: Peter Brock Talks About The Creation Of The Shelby Daytona Coupe
If there is a guy who can lay claim to some of the coolest products in American automotive history, it is Peter Brock. A designer of amazing repute, he was the youngest person ever hired by the...
