Category Archive: BangShift News, CHEVY
Recall Number…We’ve Lost Count: Impalas and Cadillacs Recalled For Brakes That Can Catch Fire
It’s almost like Groundhog Day: Wake up, check news, report on another GM recall. This time it’s one of the newer GM platforms, the Epsilon-platformed Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS...
Chevrolet Issues “Stop Sales” Orders For C7 Corvette
This wasn’t what Chevrolet needed. GM put out two separate “stop sales” orders on C7 Corvettes to fix two issues that popped up. The first one is for an improperly-installed...
The WTF? Files: Somebody Turned A Chevrolet SSR Into A Reptile
It’s hard to like the Chevy SSR. It’s a cynical mashup of a 1950 Chevy pickup, an El Camino, a Corvette, a TrailBlazer, and a Chrysler Sebring convertible: Individually, they were all...
Car Feature: Bob Johnson’s ’55 Chevy – The 202mph Shoebox!
(Editor’s note: This car feature on one of our favorite cars we have ever seen on the salt, Bob Johnson’s incredible 1955 Chevy. After this story was written Bob ended up running 202 in...
The 1980 Chevy Malibu M-80: Proof That Performance Wasn’t Dead, Just On An Iron Lung
1980 could be considered the low point in the American automotive arena. Horsepower figures were at their lowest, most of the big blocks were dead, with the remaining ones hiding in heavy-duty trucks...
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...