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Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, CHEVY

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...

Would You Rather? This Time, Pick Your Poison, C4 Style: 1995 ZR-1 Vs. 1991 RPO B2K Twin-Turbo

Chevrolet’s 4th generation Corvette might have been a nice departure from the languishing and honestly outdated C3 platform, and sure, Chevrolet pretty much took a gap year in 1983 to make sure...

Lessons On Preparing Your Rear End And Gratuitous Van Burnouts, Courtesy Of Hot Rod Garage!

As you may have known, the Roadkill guys jammed a healthy LS7 into a 1973 Chevrolet van with help and parts from MSD and Holley for the goal of taking it on Power Tour this year. It’s a unique...

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Caption This: When You Want Everything And Don’t Want To Choose…Meet The Cobrette!

“You can have your cake and eat it too”, the saying goes. You’re damn right I’ll eat my cake if I have it, but that’s not the point. Some people just refuse to pick one...

Two Beautiful 1964 Chevrolet Impalas And The Owner Who Restored Them From The Ground Up

When you roam a car show, look at the vehicles not for their beauty, or their power, but instead, next time, look at them and wonder what kind of stories they could tell. Automobiles have been such...

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Regular Car Reviews Got Their Hands On A 1988 Corvette – Does The Digital Dash Turn Mr. Regular On?

The first car I owned to myself was a 1983 Corvette. Wanna call BS on that one? Go ahead…it was a silver C4 with a red interior and chrome wheels. It was a Hot Wheels car, and it’s the...

BangShift Adoption Services: These Two RideTech Test Cars Need A New Home!

Our good friends at RideTech have garages full of cool toys that they have used for construction, racing and testing purposes, the likes of which we’d quite happily pay for the privilege to...

24 Hours Of LeMans: #63 Corvette C7.R Is Out Of Competition After This Huge Wreck In Qualifying

When the flag drops on the 24 Hours of LeMans today, one car that will not be in the running is the #63 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, which was slated to be driven by Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia and...

Rough Start: This Chevelle Trar Is Up There, Both In Stature And In Price, But Is It Worth The Risk?

It’s strange to find a nearly-complete trar that falls under the Rough Start budget, but the last time we stumbled upon a decent one it was fairly loved. But the last trar we showed was...

Top 11: McTaggart’s Favorites From Somernites Cruise’s 100th Anniversary and Mopar Show!

It’s taken fourteen years for the Somernites Cruise to reach 100 shows. Starting from a small crowd of a couple hundred cars in 2001, the event has grown into a huge gathering that decends upon...