Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Car Features, Project Cars
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...
Auction Update: The Burt Reynolds “Bandit” Trans Am Sells For $450,000!
If you know of a more expensive second-generation GM F-body, show us, because this is the highest price that we’re aware of yet for one. Julien’s Auctions was in charge of selling off...
Random Car Review: Pontiac Firebird “Type K” Concepts
GM wasted no time getting to work on the second-generation F-car, with preliminary sketches and mockups taking place even as the first generation cars were going on sale. Both Camaro and Firebird...
Christmas Caroling, BangShift-Style: Fun In The Snow With A Big-Block Buick To Bing Crosby’s “Winter Wonderland”!
When we were kids, snow was the best thing ever. It meant that school was possibly delayed or, if the odds favored us, closed. It meant that sledding and snowball fights were options, and it meant...
Jumping The Gun? North Carolina Buick Dealership Has Waiting Lists For New Grand National And GNX
Rumors have been hovering around since 2012 that Buick was thinking about bringing the Grand National and GNX nameplates back into the market, and there are some traces of truth to it, with GM...
1970’s Hangover: The “Travolta Fever” Pontiac Firebird, By George Barris
When I first saw the picture I thought it was a bad Photoshop. Seriously, even in the most drug-addled section of the 1970s, someone had to take one look at what they were doing and realize it was...
Ebay Find: This 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Wild! Four-Wheel steering, Four-Wheel Drive And Still Has The Original Frame!
This Oldsmobile Cutlass is wild. I don’t know how else to properly describe the car that is sitting on eBay right now. From the diamond-plate engine compartment to the radically chopped...
Rough Start: It’s Mostly Buick, Has Some Pontiac And A Lot Of Corporate, But Do You Really Care?
Yes, folks, BangShift’s resident cheap-ass is back to surfing Craigslist for cars that with a total investment of $5000 just might be worth the work. Today’s surfing has taken me to the...
Ebay Find: This 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Has A 400ci V8 And The Lightning Rods Shifter…We Want It!
Let’s get the bad out of the way right off the bat: The price is higher than I’d pay, the paint is rough, there’s rust around the vinyl top, and there’s signs of past bodywork...