Category Archive: BangShift News, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
Does This Qualify As A Miracle? Buick Sold Over A Million Cars By September 2016!
When General Motors shuttered Pontiac in 2008 as part of their corporate restructuring program following the near-meltdown of the automotive industry, we were stunned to see that Buick, of all...
Rough Start: Paying By The Ton With A Massive 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood!
You want the most from your hard-earned money, don’t you? Of course you do. That’s why a lot of Americans buy in bulk…it’s the cheapest way to get what you need. Works well...
How’s This For Different: A Malaise Era Olds Omega With A Turbocharged BMW Engine Under The Hood!
One of the best parts of being a car guy in this day and age is accessibility to the amount of crazy builds getting showcased on the internet, often piecing together stuff from multiple vehicles that...
The Great White Whale: This 1973 Cadillac Eldorado Is Cruising Peruvian Boulevards!
Photos don’t do the 1970s Cadillac Eldorados justice…they are freaking massive. Over eighteen feet long, six and a half feet wide, rocking 500 cubic inches of front-driven...
Would You Rather, The Two Grand Edition: Would You Go For The Firebird Or The Charger R/T?
Let’s scale the Rough Start budget down to around two thousand dollars for a minute. What can that buy you? 1980s beater nobody cares about…a ragged-out Fox Mustang…beat-up...
Rough Start: If You Want To Get Ahead Of The Collector Car Curve, This 4-speed Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Is For You!
The other night, as I was surfing Facebook, I came across a discussion about what the next big collector car will be, and the general consensus was third-generation GM F-bodies, though there was a...
On His Own Terms: The Owner Of This 1999 Pontiac Firehawk Is Living The Gearhead Life As It Suits Him
After the black late-model Camaro Z/28 came off of the dyno, the next car up was a silver 1999 Pontiac Firehawk. The owner, a tall, lanky gentleman in surprisingly colorful clothes, shoes and...
Cruising Through Fall In Style! This 1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Droptop Is The Perfect Way To Enjoy Autumn!
If you believed the naysayers back in 1975, cars like this Pontiac Grand Ville convertible were about to be relegated to the history books. It was too big, especially after the first Arab oil embargo...
Rough Start: It Runs, It Drives, But Is This 1953 Buick A Good Project Start?
The problem that naturally occurs with the Rough Start finds is that in order to meet certain criteria (running, driving and basically functional), the general range for hunting gets limited to 1970...
Morning Symphony: Ride Along As The AWD Cutlass Makes A High-Speed Half-Mile Run At Platte Valley!
Brian King and his monster 1984 Hurst/Olds with the neat party trick are at it again! This time the AWD Cutlass was out making half-mile blasts with the Platte Valley Corvette Club in Nebraska,...
Light ‘Em Off: The All-Wheel-Drive Oldsmobile Cutlass Burns Them Down At The Ice Cream Cruise!
Brian King’s 1982 Oldsmobile made one hell of an entrance when he appeared on YouTube hazing all four tires off of the car, the Lingenfelter Performance Engineering-built and ProCharged LS2...
Roadkill! Ever Thought You’d See The Guys Break Out A Machete To Get A Car?
There’s cars in them thar hills! No, really, there are. I don’t care what part of the country you are in, walk a little bit and chances are good that you will find a derelict car...
Not-So-Rough Start: A Cadillac CTS Comes In Under Budget? Yes It Does!
Color us absolutely stunned. A 2003 Cadillac CTS for $3,100? In what looks to be running, driving condition, with no major body damage? Surely, something is wrong here. We know that the regular CTS...
Comfy Cruiser Or Muscle Monster? Why Not Both With This 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J?
It was the introduction of the car of the 1970s, the personal luxury coupe. But in 1969, the Pontiac Grand Prix didn’t look like some overstuffed, underpowered barge but instead more like a...