Category Archive: BangShift News, Car Features, CHEVY, Gallery
Feature: A Cummins Powered, Laid Out, Custom, 1957 Chevy 2-Ton Shop Truck
(Here’s another of our favorite features that we dug up from previous coverage of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. This truck is one of our all-time “wish list” trucks.)...
Four-door Fursday: Five of the coolest four-doors ever
In yesterday’s Craigslist Bait-N-Switch of the Week, I mentioned that the Skylark in question had two doors two many. A few of our Facebook fans took issue with the lack of respect for sedans...
Deep in the bowels of the New York International Auto Show is the coolest display of former cop cars you’ll ever see
As Lohnes mentioned yesterday, I was stationed at the New York International Auto Show, which opens to the public this morning. There’s always lots of new stuff to look at, but my favorite...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Bruce Larson’s 1966 Chevelle
It’s darn near impossible to nail down who exactly had the “first” Funny Car and when it debuted. Dick Landy’s 1964 altered-wheelbase Dodge is most often credited, but different...
There’s something uniquely badass about seeing vintage cop cars in their natural habitat
I don’t know what it is, but I have a serious thing for vintage photos of cop cars in action. I get some special thrill seeing cars you normally see in car shows going about their daily...
Daily Update 4: We Spend A Week Driving A ZL1 Camaro Everyday And So Far We Love It
If you haven’t been watching our back and forth antics with regards to the ZL1 Camaro and Z71 Silverado that GM loaned us for a week, you have missed a lot. Besides the daily update videos like...
The ZL1 vs Z71 Battle Continues: Here is Chad’s Day 3 Update After Saturday’s Autocross
Somehow Brian thinks the Z71 vs ZL1 Battle is a tie so far. I don’t get it, but I’ll play along since he tends to be kind fragile. Don’t get me wrong, I want to break him. Break him...
Brian and Chad’s ZL1 VS Z71 Battle Moves Into Day Two – They Have Fought To A Draw So Far!
So if you missed the memo, Chad was handed the keys to a 2014 Camaro ZL1 late last week to test out and review. At about the same time, Lohnes was handed the keys to a 2014 Chevy Silverado Z71...
Video: We’ve Got A New ZL1 Camaro For A Week: Dragstrips, Autocross, Smack Talk, Oh My!
That’s right folks, yesterday at 4pm the guys from GM dropped of a brand new Red Hot 2014 ZL1 Camaro for me to beat on, errr test out, for a week. Well at 5:30 we made out first pass down the...
Roadside Find: A 1929 Chevy That Came Out Of A Barn And Is Begging For Traditional Hot Rodding Love!
So a friend of mine has put me on the job of hunting down a traditional hot rod for him. He’s not looking for a cartoon rat rod, some sort of weirdo mish-mash, or anything along those lines....
Luxury Liner: We Drive The 2013 GMC Sierra Denali 2500HD Crew Cab – A Velvet Brute!
(Words by Brian Lohnes Photos by Dave Nutting) – As the resident lover of all things truck related here at BangShift, I was more than happy to get my grubby mitts on this 2013 GMC Sierra Denali...
New England’s Newest Pro Mod Is Going To Be A Tim McAmis Lightweight Bad Ass!
Very few classes in drag racing have had the kind of incredible groundswell of development and performance gains as Pro Mod has had over the last 10 years. From the technology in the suspension and...
Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad...
Mini-Feature: The Wildest Paint Job We’ve Ever Seen On A Car That Actually Gets Driven
While walking through the grove at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield last Friday during the rain, BangShifter Randal Burns and I spotted the most amazingly painted 1954 Chevy I have ever seen…and...