Category Archive: 1320 Project Cars, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, CHEVY, Project Cars
Project Malibuuhoo: The International Drag Week Malibu Ate The Engine – UPDATE: IT LIVES AGAIN!
Project Malibuuhoo, the Chevrolet Malibu that Christian Damgaard, Andy Warren, Ben Snodgrass, and Steve and Jacob Weigl have been thrashing on for Drag Week 2017, looked to be ready for tuning. The...
Project Malibuuhoo: Meet The Turbocharged Malibu That Will Run Drag Week 2017!
Andy Warren is many things: he’s a friend to BangShift, he’s a five-time NMCA Nostalgia Muscle Car champion (his 1971 Chevrolet Caprice is a dominant force in the class) and he’s a...
Project Angry Grandpa: The Second Round Of Work At BFNY Performance And Milan
When we last left our in-house project Chrysler action-wise, I had finished up running at ChallengerFest 8 and was pretty content with the performance of the big gold brick. It wasn’t running...
Project Weapon X Update: The Drag Week Project Thrash Advances – Big Progress!
(By Robert Willliams) – With my departure date for Power Tour set for tomorrow as I write this, the Weapon X project is still behind schedule, but ground is being made up. With the rearend...
Road Trippin’: A Quick Return To Watt’s Repair & Auto Salvage Means More Parts, More Photos, And Picking Up A Pick Up
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – I certainly I had not planned to go back to Watt’s Repair & Auto Salvage so quickly, but this past weekend I was being dragged back to that...
BangShift Adoption Services: This 1961 Ford Falcon Is In Need Of A Loving Home!
Whenever I get a text from Jensen Masters at Short Street Rod Shop, I know I’m gonna see some good stuff. From the moment I met the guy three years ago, he has had nothing but some of the most...
Project Angry Grandpa: The Final Race At ATCO – Did Grandpa Redeem Himself?
Let’s not sugarcoat how things were after the last Angry Grandpa update: after parts-bombing our Chrysler 300C with a healthy amount of go-fast goodies, the first trip out to the track proved...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our First Test With The New Setup At Beech Bend – How Close Are We To The 12-Second Goal?
You are damn skippy that I was going to take the new and improved Chrysler out to Beech Bend the first chance I got! After thrashing earlier in the week to give old Gramps a bit more get-up-and-go,...
260ci and 1,000hp – Automotive Specialties Has Built A Very Nasty E-Motor For Bonneville
Keith and Jeff Dorton from Automotive Specialties are known across the country and across the globe as two of the most serious, innovative, and all around bad assed engine guys alive in the world...
Sleeper Alert: This Jeep Cherokee Project Is Hiding A Turbocharged Secret!
(Photos courtesy of Dustin Foust and Ryan Hogan) –A few days ago, I was having a conversation with one of my buddies, and he told me about a crazy Turbo Jeep Cherokee 4.7 stroker I6 project he...
BangShift Project Files: Why Are We Featuring A Left-For-Dead Buick Regal GS? Because It’s Being Built Up For One Of The Coolest Races We’ve Ever Heard Of!
Are you familiar with the concept of ChumpCar or the 24 Hours of LeMons? That’s where you take a $500 beater, make it safe enough to race without killing yourself, and beat on it until you...
BangShift Project Profile: A Chevy S10 Land Speed Truck…Powered By A Mercedes Turbo Diesel?!
We’ve always been pretty hot on land speed racing here at BangShift and the big reason is that it provides one of the most amazing creative platforms for gear heads in the world today. There...
A Lunatic Is Building A Small Block V8 Powered 1970 Daihatsu Hijet – This Thing Is Off The Charts Wild!
(By Tony Sestito) – Ok, this thing is nuts. As I was browsing some of my usual Internet stomping grounds recently, I came across this little trucklet: a 1970 Daihatsu Hijet. These were very...
This 1958 Ford Was Built Into A Junior Stock Drag Car In The 1960s And Now It Is For Sale – Time Capsule
There’s nothing better than seeing a car that was modified back in the day and then never really touched or messed with again after. That’s pretty near the car of thie 1958 Ford which was...