Category Archive: BangShift Projects, Car Features, CHEVY, CHEVY, Project Cars, TRUCKS, TRUCKS
BangShift Project Files: A Rough Chevy Longbed Is Being Brought To Life By One Of Our Resident Mad Mechanics!
Many things are said to haunt the forests of Western Washington. If you are near the village of Olalla, you might hear the victims of Starvation Heights on a chilly night. If you hang around the Hoh...
eBay Find: A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna That Needs More Miles Put On The Clock!
Pointing out that the 1973-77 GM A-bodies’ rise in popularity is simply a formality at this point. The truth is that they are roomy handlers that can be built into a stomping, roomy muscle car...
Not A Bad Day At Work: Pitting The Corvette ZO6 Against The Dodge Viper ACR
The Dodge Viper has always made a strange competitor against the Corvette. On paper, it seemed to make sense: two American high-performance rear-drive two seaters that had aspirations of taking on...
Question Of The Day: Will The Crapboxes Of Yesterday Become The Collectables Of Today?
GM J-cars, Ford Escorts, K-cars…hell, even the AMC/Renault Medallion. All cars from the early 1980s that have a reputation for being cracker boxes, none of which really have a following past...
Sleeper Supreme! This 1985 Chevrolet El Camino Looks Like A Clean Driver, But Is Packing 427 Power Under The Hood!
Here’s how this one panned out: as Lohnes and I sit in Maine cranking out stories, I decided to paw through the Mecum Kissimmee auction that is coming up later this month to find some iron to...
Supra-Powered Corvette. Yup, Here It Is…Because How Can You Argue With 1100 Horsepower?
Hey, look at the bright side, folks: it isn’t another LS swap! Nope, instead we have one of the heavy hitters from the land of the rising sun sitting inside this clean Corvette, where a 572ci...
Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!
Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...
Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North
What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...
Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?
You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...
Best Of 2015: This 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Looks Innocent Enough, Doesn’t It? Don’t Trust The Quiet One…
(Editor’s Note: This 1980 Chevrolet has to be the best Craigslist find we saw this year…mostly for the Farmer John looks coupled with a sledgehammer under the hood, but because a reader...
Best Of 2015: This C3 Corvette Is Hiding A Secret That Would Send Both Vette And Ford Fans Into Fits – Meet The Cobravette!
“The devil is in the details,” we’ve heard over and over again. The point of that statement is to slow down and fully appreciate what it is that you are looking at instead of taking...
Best Of 2015: It’s A Turbocharged, EcoTech-Powered, Mid-Engined Chevrolet Cavalier Convertible With Right-Hand Drive, And It’s Wicked!
(Photos: BWC Fabrications) (Note: Easily the wildest car I’ve laid eyes on this year, this Cavalier looks like something I would’ve drawn in the middle of math class in junior high....
Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!
It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...
Best Of 2015: The One Chevy Lumina Z34 That You Do Not Want To Provoke – It’s Really A 4th Gen Trans Am! Meet The Z57 Lumina!
Does anybody really remember the Chevrolet Lumina with positive feelings? Nope, not really. The new-for-1990 Lumina, in coupe form anyways, was the replacement for the G-body Chevrolet Monte Carlo,...