Category Archive: BangShift News, CHEVY
Pop Goes The Frunk-Lid: The C8 Corvette’s Frunk Lid Opens By Itself?
The only time I’ve ever driven a C7 Corvette, I discovered one seriously annoying thing about it: every single solid time I sat down into the driver’s seat, my left knee would hit the...
Colonnade CPR: Bringing A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Back To The Outside World
When I first saw it, I hated it. When I saw it with wheels that weren’t wearing Chevrolet Celebrity hubcaps, I started to come around. When I bought it in 2007, it spit the harmonic balancer...
Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile
Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...
Money No Object: 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood – Fat Tire Family Ride!
The heyday of the station wagon has been gone for over 40 years now. Long four-door wagons, some with wood paneling, some with excess of chrome, most simply basic transportation for the family, some...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1993 Geo Metro Dually Truck Conversion In Full Trolling Mode!
Do any of you remember the 1993 Chevrolet Highlander concept truck? It was a preview of the upcoming 1994 Chevrolet S-10, with a bunch of the cues that made it to the ZR2 off-roading package, painted...
Money No Object: 1986 Chevrolet El Camino Choo-Choo Super Sport
The small truck. The sport truck. The muscle truck. The coupe utility. The Chevrolet El Camino might not have been the first… The owner goes to an Australian Ford… But it made an impact in the...
Classic YouTube: Mustang Vs. Camaro, 1994, Courtesy Of Motorweek!
Welcome to my “dammit, I’m getting old” moment, right here. In 1994 I was eleven years old, one year away from the rot-box Camaro that would be my first car, and happily tooling...
Classic YouTube: EVOC Training For The California Highway Patrol – 9C1 Caprices, B4C Camaro and SSP Mustangs!
The only way to become proficient at something is to do it until you master it. Doesn’t matter if it’s learning to play a musical instrument or shooting a machine gun, do it enough times...
Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept
Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...
Should’ve Stuck Around: 1968 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible – Making Economy Look Good
Could GM have kept the Chevrolet Corvair around successfully past 1969 if they tried? It’s an easy punchline when discussing anything involving the General: they make a new model, beta-test it...
The Garage Find Dream: Dusting Off A 1969 Chevelle That’s Been Squirreled Away
We had one as a family car. We traded a 1950 Chevy truck that had been hot-rodded up for it. The truck was a ripper, a four-speed screamer, but it had issues…the least of which were the plywood...
Classic YouTube: Going Full-Vertical In A Blazer At Bowling Green
Oil downs are an absolute killer at a drag race. Instead of roaring engines and frying tires, we get the joy of watching the track cleanup crew clean and sweep the track to make sure the next racers...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1981 GMC Caballero
The list of cars I actually want to own longer than a few weeks at a time is fairly short, to be honest. I want to sample everything, I want to push cars to the limit, I want to understand the...
Let The Neighbors Hear It: This 427-Powered 1971 Camaro Screams It’s War Cry!
Some days, you just have to let go of your inhibitions and have some fun. You’ve been good for weeks on end. You’ve shuttled the kids around. You’ve sat through every meeting...