Category Archive: BangShift News, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
Good News, Aussies: The Holden Commodore Name Will Live! Now, About The Car It Will Live On…
Before you really start belting out the cheers, let’s be up-front: only the Holden Commodore nameplate will remain. Unfortunately, GM still hasn’t reconsidered it’s position when it...
Some Deals From The 2015 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction – At Least A Few Cars Weren’t Priced Through The Stratosphere!
Barrett-Jackson equals stupid money. We’ve known this combination for years, yet somehow we still pay attention to the train wreck of “more money than brains” in the desert as cars...
BangShift Tune Up: “The Best Things” By Filter (1999)
It’s a Monday morning and it’s time to get motivated. Yours truly is either running around the garage trying to get things accomplished on the car while the weather is tolerable, or is...
BangShift Project Files: TheSilverBuick’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird
Randal Burns, better known as TheSilverBuick around here, is an engineer to the core. His 455-powered Buick Skylark is a Drag Week veteran that can easily be pressed into daily-driver duty with no...
Question Of The Day: The 2015 Detroit Auto Show Is Here! What Would You Like To See Come Out Of It?
This year’s Detroit Auto Show (oh, wait…I’m sorry…North American International Auto Show) kicks off today and you better believe that we will be bringing you the better pieces...
Blog War: The Last Of The Traditional Longroofs, This Buick Roadmaster Estate Brings All The Modern Conveniences To The Table
So Lohnes decided to reply to the Ford wagon I offered up with a copycat version of the car that started it all. A 1973 Oldsmobile and a 1975 Pontiac aren’t that far apart from each other, and...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Buick Goes Topless, Viper Goes Custom, And Corvette Goes DIY
New year, same old ingredients: take press releases hyping new products we could care less about, cars that don’t come close to our radar, and some of the worst quotes and diatribe from the...
BangShift Project Files: A 1978 Olds Cutlass With A 6.0L Swap On The Cheap
If you dig through the BangShift project car forums, you will find our $5,000 Challenge. The premise is simple: build the baddest mother you can for under five big bills. It doesn’t have to be...
Ebay Find: A Nine-Passenger Pontiac Clamshell Wagon, Perfect For Loading Up The Entire “Family”
We love station wagons. They are roomy, useable, aren’t really much different than any modern SUV, and since they pretty much lost their “mom and dad” stigma about twenty years ago,...
Trailer For “Sleepers Two” Released: The Guy Who Goes Hunting With A W-body Regal Is Back!
YouTube user “JuniorN316” has made a name for himself when it comes to the art of the sleeper. His take on hot rodding, his history with sleepers, his Buick Regal and the antics...
Was The Late-Model GTO The Car That Killed Pontiac? These Guys Seem To Think So, We Disagree
The 2004-06 Pontiac GTO was, depending on your view, either a great modern musclecar that suffered from a bad exchange rate with the Australian Dollar or was a bland attempt at reviving a storied...
Best of 2014: Car Feature: The 196mph LSR 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Kill – Caddy Powered And Homebuilt!
(Just about a month ago we ran this feature on Sean Mote’s wild turbocharged Caddy. Well, it went viral and was viewed by seemingly half of the gearhead world. It quickly jumped into our top 10...
Ebay Find: A Clean Colonnade Buick Century Up For Auction…The Engine Options Are Limitless!
As with any era of GM cars, there are the ones people remember, and the ones that they don’t, and the ’73-’77 Colonnade-era A-bodies are no exception. Chevelle, Laguna, Cutlass/442...
