Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
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...
eBay Find: This 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Mint! This Hardtop Would Be A Killer Cruiser!
When I was a kid, if you hunted around long enough and stayed away from the more desirable model names, you could pick up an extremely nice 1960s era ride for a song. That was in the late 1990s....
Rough Start: This Oldsmobile Omega Is Nice Enough That You Won’t Mind Repeating “It’s Not A Nova” Over And Over
When it comes to GM’s platform-sharing and badge-engineering, the normal way things work is that one car shines and the rest are kind of “there”. There are few exceptions. The...
The “Vader” Trans Am’s Last Run With A Flat Hood…Stock-Bodied Sucker Maker!
You have to love a black Pontiac Trans Am that is legitimately fast. I know the colors are supposed to be white/blue, or black/gold, but all-black, especially on the third-gen cars, just suits...
Breaking News: Buick Unveils The Avista Concept Coupe – 400 Horsepower Twin-Turbo V6, Rear Wheel Drive, And It’s A True Hardtop!
(All photos: General Motors) The name says Avista, but with a thumper twin turbocharged V6 powering the rear wheels on Buick’s new beauty, there is zero question where the inspiration came...
Carnage Video: Doug Garrison’s Drag Week Pontiac GTO Hits The Barrier At Cecil County
Long-time readers of BangShift and Drag Week fans will know this Pontiac GTO. It belongs to Doug Garrison, and a couple of days ago it broke an axle while at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland, sending...
Regular Car Review: The 1985-91 Pontiac Trans Am Tojan – A Factory Supported Kit Car In The Finest Traditions Of The 1980s
You know the third-generation Pontiac Firebird and Trans-Am well. The era of hidden headlights, KITT references, high-performance 305ci V8s, corporate engines, and a faint but growing pulse of...