Category Archive: 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, Racing Junk Find
Two Thousand Horsepower And Tons Of Beauty: This Impala SS Is A Beast!
If there is nothing I love more, it’s a race car that you don’t see many of every day. Yes, you see Camaros, Mustangs, Vegas, AMXs and other typical finds for a reason: the recipe works...
Money No Object: The “Chemical City Coupe” 1932 Ford 5-Window With Buick Nailhead Power Would Look Great In Your Driveway!
I’d love to sit down one day and figure out where Chad, Lohnes and I sit on typical cars. Not big trucks, not rusted Chevrolets, and not weird-ass Mopars…builds that really matter. Builds...
Suit-And-Tie 1960’s Badass: This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere II Is Lust-Worthy!
Clean, straightforward, all-business. Trimmed hair, suit dialed in to perfection, tie choice excellent and demure. The man’s man of the early 1960s…all business, all professional. The...
Epic Trolling: We’d Put This 1978 Dodge Challenger On The Street In Seconds!
Chad actually rolls his eyes far enough into the back of his head that he can inspect his brain whenever I start talking about any Chrysler product made after 1974. They’re the wrong years,...
Rough Start: First Gen RX-7, Small-Block Chevrolet, Together For Well Under Budget!
Do you like the idea of racing at all? Of course, you must…you’re reading a story on BangShift, so there has to be some kind of racing you’re into. Surely you like drag racing,...
Money No Object: A 1957 Chevrolet 150 The Way We’d Order One…Bare-Bones With The Fuelie Motor!
Motorsports in 1957 wasn’t exactly a thing. In fact, there was still a very dark cloud surrounding the idea of racing that was a direct result of the horrific crash that occurred at the 1955 24...
You Don’t See 1980s Dodge Trucks Done Like This 1984 Ram – Tubbed And Three Pedals!
You can throw a rock and find a well-sorted square-body GM pickup truck, and for good reason: they are simply one of the best pickup truck designs out there, ever. If you hunt around, you might find...
Could Be Fun: This 1972 Pontiac Wagon Has The Fun Bits Ready…How Would You Finish It?
Creating a phantom musclecar out of an otherwise ho-hum station wagon variant of the same model is always a popular idea. Satellites into Road Runner wagons, a Vista Cruiser turned 442 W-30, even the...
Need A Hemi IN Your Life? This 1955 DeSoto Firedome Could Be The Cheap Way In
Fellow NHRA announcer and pal of mine Alan Reinhart sent this gem along for all of you in BangShift National desperately seeking a hemi but without major league fundage. You are looking at a 1955...
This Kind Of Gross, Moldy, Mossy Escape is Harboring A Strange Secret – Someone Needs This!
First of all we have to thank AMP EFI’s Matt Cramer for sending us the tip on this interesting little Craigslist find.The vehicle is a 2001 Ford Escape and it is harboring a weird secret. At...
This 1962 Pontiac Catalina May Not Be Your Definition Of A Survivor But It Is Amazingly Cool!
As has been well documented here on BangShift over the years, I have a soft spot as wide as the Grand Canyon for early 1960s Pontiacs. It was then that the brand was really at the pinnacle of its...
Racing Junk Find: This 1957 Buick Special Is The Quickest Ever. 7-Second Street Car Greatness!
We know this particular 1957 Buick Special well and can tell you that there is no other like it on earth! We were around when Larry Larson Race Cars was finishing it up a few years ago and can tell...
Bow, Peasants: This 1980 Chevrolet El Camino Royal Knight Demands Respect
Excepting the notable half-assed attempt by Pontiac with the Grand Prix 2+2, every General Motors’ G-body got a hot version worth giving a shot. Monte Carlo SS, Olds 442, and of course...
This B&M Mega Blower Is Just What Your Pro Street Project Needs!
In the days of Pro Street dominance, the baddest of the bad had a big blower with two Holleys on top of a big block under the hood of whatever it was they built. Sure most of them were just trailer...