Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
Handbuilt, You Say: The Real Story On That Blue Knockout Based On A 1984 Pontiac Firebird!
Last year’s top-pick Craigslist find for me was this…well, thing. All we knew was that it was based on a 1984 Pontiac Firebird and that it looked like something straight from a video game...
Best of 2019: Check Out This LS4-Swapped Pontiac Montana!
The GM U-vans came in three generations: Dustbuster, Dustbuster II, and “Crossover Sport Vans”. Yeah…that was GM’s own term for the revised third generation that were intended...
Best of 2019: Question Of The Day: Ok, Haters, What Car SHOULD Get LS-Swapped?
We get it, OK? We read the comments, we’ve seen the bashing. We’re half-ready to see if we can find a doc to prescribe half of you happy pills while the other half of y’all need a...
Best of 2019: Even A 1974 Oldsmobile Omega Looks Like A Riot To Wheel Around
So a subject has come up in the BangShift forums about whether or not a hot rod has ever been cheap. There’s always been those who can squeeze the last drop of blood from a stone to make their...
Best of 2019: This Rumble-Seat Cadillac Will Always Be Stared At
As I look at the photos of what used to be some sort of 1968 Cadillac, I find myself wondering what angle I should take this particular post. It would be easy to go full-on troll and talk all sorts...
Classic YouTube: Buddy Ingersoll At Bristol, 1986 – How To Screw With Pro Stock Using A 4.4L V6
The phrase for IHRA Pro Stock in 1986 was “mountain motor”. But there was an exception. Sitting over in the corner, tweaking on a former Warren Johnson Oldsmobile that had been re-skinned...
Ice Cream Wagon: This 1965 Pontiac Tempest Is As Cool As It Gets!
Welcome to summer, readers! The long, hot days of the year are upon us and I, for one, am so grateful they are here. I love the warm temperatures. I love the long evenings. And above all else, I love...
Different Flavors: An Opel Manta A And Some Project Dreaming
Recently, Haley and I took a trip up north to Cincinnati, Ohio to one of our favorite places to grocery shop: Jungle Jim’s International Market. Sadly, there isn’t a Nova-bodied flopper...
Morning Symphony: Have A Listen To A Buick Stage II Turbo Six On The Dyno!
The Buick GNX was not the end-all, be all of the Buick V6 program. It was certainly a hot piece, one that would have it’s own legend, but as for Buick’s six, it was just the beginning of...
Is This The World’s Best Hot Rod? The Guys At Nelson Think So. All Wheel Drive, Mid-Engine GTO!
Tom Nelson and the crew at Nelson Racing Engines have built some bad ass cars in their time, and are known for building big turbocharged power of course, but this is a car that is taking things to...
Be The Party: Make Friends By Dragging This All-In-One Eldorado Around Wherever You Go!
1979-85 Cadillac Eldorados really don’t do it for me. They look like a huge version of Lee Iacocca’s fever dream, with a big grille, a notchback rear glass area, wire hubcaps, subdued...
Call It Ingénue: Get A Walk-Around Of The Buick-Powered Buick GS Funny Car!
Nostalgia Funny Cars are wonderful things. One look at today’s aerodynamic, bar-of-soap shapes will have you looking at cars like the USA-1 Camaro or the Super Nova and wondering just what the...
Figure It Out: This 1969 Beaumont Is The Special Way To Speak A-body!
My trip into the eastern side of Canada didn’t radically open my eyes to the country north of the United States. Neither did my forays into British Columbia years ago when I used to visit...
