Category Archive: BangShift News, CHEVY, Event Coverage, OTHER
Sinkhole Be Gone: The National Corvette Museum’s Skydome Will Reopen September 3rd!
A year and a half has gone by since the floor opened up underneath the National Corvette Museum’s Skydome, allowing eight of the Museum’s most prized Corvettes to drop into the karst...
Classic YouTube: It’s Big, It’s Brown, And It Hauls! It’s A 700-horse Caprice Wagon!
If you want to see one car that Brian, Chad and I would all agree on, this slightly ragged-looking 1980s Chevy Caprice wagon would be a great choice. For Chad, it’s a Chevy wagon. For Brian,...
This Suburban Blurs The Line Between Mudding And Swimming – Was That A Fish That Just Brushed Your Leg?
Where does one draw the line between mudding and a sunken truck? Is it when the bumper dips below the water line? Maybe it is when tire motion is only noticeable by ripples along the surface of the...
This 1970 Chevelle SS Shorty Looks Like A Riot…If You Can Fit Inside Of It!
Take a stroked 427 breathing through dual quads on a tunnel ram, hook it to an automatic trans, and jam it into a 1970 Chevelle that has had 27 inches whacked out of the wheelbase and a Pro...
V8 Chevrolet LUV vs Blown Chrysler V8-Powered Alfa Romeo GTV6 In Germany –
Straight from Hockenheimring’s drag strip in Germany, we bring you one of the more strange pairings we’ve seen. In the near lane is a mostly-typical V8 Chevrolet LUV build. A 400ci...
1976 Road Runner Vs. C6 Corvette In Iceland: Does GM’s Supercar Stand Up To A Malaise Mopar?
Even with my love for Malaise Mopars, I’ll admit that slapping the Road Runner name onto the Plymouth Volaré was a bit cynical, but to be fair, they didn’t have much else to offer. The...
Short Street Rod Shop Tour: The “Hustlin’ Hillbilly” 1946 Chevrolet And The 1929 Ford Model A Phantom Build!
Missed the first installment? CLICK HERE to see the 1955 Ford Fairlane street freak! The Fairlane might be the newest ride at the shop, but it isn’t the only ride. There are currently nine cars...
You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Loose Wheel: This Corvette Z06 Loses A Wheel And Crashes At The Nurburgring!
If you’ve made your mind up to race your car, some things need to be checked out to make sure they are up to the rigors of the track. You are pushing the car further than the car was ever...
This Guy’s Roll Racing A Pro Mod Corvette – Isn’t That Cheating? It Looks Like Cheating…
Roll racing looks awesome. Meant to duplicate freeway blasts, the idea is to get the cars to a matched speed and side-by-side by the Christmas tree, then let them go for broke down the quarter mile....
Would You Rather?, The Evil Chevrolet Edition: Take Your Pick Between Cooter’s Chevelle And Sean’s Monte Carlo From Tokyo Drift!
Chevrolets were never meant to be full-on luxobarges. That job belongs to Cadillac, Buick, and in the past Oldsmobile. Chevy products are meant to be the workhorse, the journeyman’s car, the...
Ebay Find: This Full-Race 1991 Chevrolet Caprice Is Beautiful, In A Blunt-Force-Trauma Kind Of Way
The 1991 Chevrolet Caprice was the signal that things were going horribly wrong at GM. Originally, the big B-body was supposed to bow out at the end of the design cycle (about 1990 or so), but oddly...
This Camaro Is Meant To Be A Middle Finger To The Internet’s Idea Of A Good Build
The idea of building a car to a trend has always kind of tweaked me a bit. Pro Street. Pro Touring. Street Freak. Day Two. Whatever happened to building a car your way, the way you envisioned it from...
BangShift Test Drive: Chevrolet SS – An American Sedan That Hides A Split Personality In A Discreet Package
When Bob Lutz read a Car and Driver article praising the Holden Commodore but lamenting that it couldn’t be bought in the United States, he had a brainchild. After driving a Commodore...
How In The…?! Balancing A Camaro On A Subaru In Tennessee
The photo kind of says it all. Somehow, some strange series of events caused this late model Camaro to wind up as an oversized hood ornament for this unwitting Subaru in Maryville, Tennessee. While...