Category Archive: 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
eBay Find: One Sinister Pro Street 1978 Pontiac LeMans – Need A Drag Week Car?
Oh, this is tasty: the Pontiac LeMans, the kissing cousin to the Chevrolet Malibu, in full back-halved trim and ready to run. In flat black, tubbed out and prepared, this A/G body is calling out to...
Late-Model Sleeper: The Cadillac ATS-V Might Be Fast Stock, But They Don’t Normally Run 10.92s!
Dismissing six cylinder cars as weak attempts at performance no longer applies. Buick guys have known this for decades, the Mustang guys started picking this up a few years ago, and Cadillac has...
Weather Out The Apocalypse In This 1976 Buick Electra…Complete With Hood-Mounted Flame Throwers (Really!)
I’ve seen it all now. I give up. Out of all of the strange mid-1970s things I’ve pasted to the front page here, this is by far and away the new current champion. This 1976 Buick Electra...
Craigslist Find: A Cut-Away Pontiac OHC-6 Engine! How Cool Is This?!
It might only be good as a decoration, but this cut-away Pontiac overhead cam inline-six cylinder engine would make an awesome conversation piece in the garage or anywhere else you could make room...
Question Of The Day: Are There Cars That Just Shouldn’t Be Modified?
The question is simple: Was there ever a car made that, if modified or deviated from stock for any reason other than reliability or safety, would be absolutely ruined? Normally, I’d say no. I...
Rough Start: Can A Buick Grand National Come In Under The Budget? If You Are Willing To Work On It, It Can!
The Buick Grand National has come into it’s own as an iconic car. The turbocharged V6 was decent for the time stock, but if you knew your way around a turbocharged engine, you were a god on the...
Rough Start: Taking The Road Less Traveled With A Sweet G-body Grand Prix
For the budget-minded gearhead, GM G-bodies are still a very affordable option and are an excellent car to consider. They offer the best of two worlds: they have the basic old school setup of a...
This 1979 Pontiac Phoenix LJ Is Too Clean For Words – Which Is Strange For A Late 1970s Compact!
Take a moment and think of all of the cars made in 1979 that would be considered worth collecting. Seriously…not just to own, but collect like people do for muscle cars of the Sixties and early...
Craigslist Find: This 1994 Cadillac Pickup Conversion Could Be Your Sweet-Riding Parts Hauler!
It might actually surprise you to know that I have a soft spot for Northstar-powered Cadillacs of the 1990s and 2000s. I shouldn’t…if that engine isn’t 100% perfect, it’s...
This 1973 Pontiac GTO Is So Damn Perfect, It Hurts! 455, Four-Speed, And Black? YES PLEASE!
“The patron saint of automotive lost causes.” Brian Lohnes once wrote that about me, because my taste in cars is at the fringe edge of acceptable on a good day. It’s not that I...
Who Needs A V8? This V6 Firebird Gets Into The Sevens With A Twin-Turbo Buick Stage Two Under The Hood!
Buick has two modes of production, as far as we are concerned: off and on. When they are off, they are the quintessential old man’s car company, producing cars that are comfortable bordering...
BangShift Project Files: Bucking The LS Trend With A V6 Firebird That Is Being Built To Carve Corners!
BangShift member “WarShrike” and his 2000 Pontiac Firebird have been around the forums for quite a while, making one hell of an impression with his desire to retain the 3.8L V6 that the...
Craigslist Find: This Beautiful Cadillac Seville Is Packing A Huge Surprise Under The Hood…And It Isn’t A GM Piece.
Some people aren’t bothered by cross-breed engine swaps. Others take a strong personal offense to seeing a Hemi in a Ford, or a Chevy engine jammed into any and everything possible. The GM...
Ebay Find: A 427-Powered 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Station Wagon. Good Luck Finding Another One!
Matt Graves at American Powertrain has one of the most unique projects that we are aware of currently under construction, the Chicken Coupe Cadillac. Basically, cross all the good parts of a Burt...