Category Archive: Car Features, CHEVY, FORD, TRUCKS
The After Hours Hobby: Check Out This Guy’s Garage Creations!
(Photos courtesy of Vince VanDyke) The notification we got in our inbox was simple enough. Gilbert Labonté had a friend he knew that built a couple of badass trucks that we needed to get our eyes...
Sorry, Folks, Plant’s Closed: The Bowling Green Assembly Plant Suspends Corvette Tours Until 2018!
(Lead photo: General Motors) One of the best ways to kill time when you are visiting Bowling Green, Kentucky is to stop in and take a tour of GM’s Bowling Green Assembly plant, better known as...
One Of Ninety: This 1980 Chevrolet Hugger Camaro Is A Rare Find!
Although the performance flame was almost dead by 1980, there was just enough of a flicker that you could see by. Vehicles like the Dodge L’il Red Express, which found a loophole that allowed...
The Smart Build: This Guy Did Everything To His Camaro RS Before Going For The Engine!
The first thing I always hear from people who ask me for advice on their cars: “I want it to go faster.” They don’t care about handling or aero so much as they do the horsepower...
Money No Object: This 1963 Split-Window Corvette Needs Nothing! Drive The Wheels Off Of This Sucker!
Living in Bowling Green means that I am inundated with Corvettes. Here a Vette, there a Vette, seems like everywhere there’s another Vette. But from a BangShifter’s point of view, they...
Rare Malaise Performer: This 1980 Chevrolet Malibu M-80 Needs A New Home (And Much, Much More Horsepower!)
We’ve covered the 1980 Chevrolet Malibu M-80 a while back (CLICK HERE to check out the in-depth writeup on it) but here is what it was all about in a nutshell: it’s a regional...
Money No Object: This Wild 1978 Camaro Isn’t For The Timid!
Sleepers are cool. We like the idea of blending in with everyone else, knowing that we have something powerful at our disposal if we see the need or simply have the urge to exercise our right foot....
This 1976 Chevrolet LUV Is A Small-Block Swap Candidate If We’ve Ever Seen One!
Is it fair to say that the Chevrolet LUV pickup truck is an endangered species? The Americanized Isuzu Faster has all but disappeared from the radar screen. Every time we see one of these little...
Rough Start: This 1965 Corvair Monza Sedan Is Too Sweet To Pass Up!
When five grand is burning a hole in your pocket and you want to be able to hit the road in short order, generally speaking, hunting down a fifty-ish year old car isn’t your best bet. For five...
Would You Rather, The Alternate Future Edition: Which FWD Pony Car Concept Appeals To You Most?
We know how the pony cars managed to survive the 1980s: Ford managed to give the Mustang a desperately needed horsepower injection that really came into play in 1982, and over at GM, the...
Super Sano Sleeper: This 1974 Chevrolet Vega Can Make You Forget Those Nasty Issues From The Past!
The trials and tribulations of the Chevrolet Vega are well known. GM wanted a small car to take on a new section of market and produced a very handsome vehicle with some major flaws. Pick your...
Chevrolet Tahoe And Suburban RST: When The Family Wagon Needs To Haul Ass
(Photos: General Motors) The Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban are the go-to full-size SUVs in the market right now. Look left and right when you are out and about, and I’ll all but promise you that...
GM Is Unloading Some Of The “Toy Box” Cars At Barret-Jackson This Weekend! Take A Look At Some Of These Beauties!
Ever since I saw the first article about it, the GM “Toy Box” collection and subsequently appropriate concept and one-off vehicles has captured my attention. Summed up, it’s what GM...
