Category Archive: AMC, Car Features, OTHER, OTHER, Project Cars
Reader’s Project: This 1975 Jeep CJ5 Is All Hot Rod, And We Totally Approve!
When Kim Welch sent us some photos and history on his cool CJ5 build, we knew he was our people. As a regular visitor to BANGshift.com he knew that we love to take content submissions so he sent us...
BangShift Test Drive: 2018 Polaris Slingshot – Sports Car? Motorcycle? Eh, Have Both!
Recently, the missus and I decided that we needed to disconnect from the world for a bit. We tend to do autumn vacations because she gets “fall break” from work and I usually have a...
Custom Truck Feature: LS Swapped 1950 Studebaker | Bello Build
Bello’s Kustoms is owned and operated by Mike Bello who’s one of those SoCal builders everyone knows. He’s got a great attitude, serious metal shaping skills, and an eye for...
Gasser Spotlight: This 1948 Austin Gasser is a Stack-Injected Big-Block-Powered Monster in a Miniature Package
This all-steel 1948 Austin is super rad, and is referred to as the “Bare Metal Brute” for good reason. John Verde owns this thing and built it because his father had one way back in the...
Pro-Touring LS Swapped Cadillac Coupe Deville- Introducing The Chicken Coupe, A Project That Excites Me To No End.
The Chicken Coupe has been a long time coming and is a project that I am behind 100%. After all, good friend Matt Graves is the one behind this craziness and he’s been involved in some...
A 2JZ Swapped Nash Rambler? That’s A Daily Driver? With Carburetors And A Distributor? Yep! Watch.
What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here? Creativity is going on here, that’s what. Richard Holdener went to visit a guy that did a complete 3.0L 2JZ Swap on his WIFE’s 1960...
This LS Swapped 1962 Volvo Is Way Cool And Packs A Punch The Owner Isn’t Afraid To Throw
For some reason I dig old Volvos. I know that seems weird, but there are some cool body styles like this 1962 Volvo Amazon for instance. And the earlier models kinda looked like an early ’40s...
This 1985 AMC Eagle Might Be The Nicest One In The Country…And It’s Loaded, Too!
AMC Eagle wagons are a weird thing to me. On one hand, if you’ve seen one, you’ve pretty much seen them all: you have the same basic shape that first appeared as the AMC Hornet...
If You Don’t Believe That Anything Can Be A Race Car, Then Check Out The Tofu Drift Van
At one point in time a few years back Lohnes referred to me as “BangShift’s patron saint of automotive lost causes” in reference to the SuperBeater Dodge Mirada, and it’s...
Money No Object: 1969 DeTomaso Mangusta…Shelby?!
The DeTomaso Mangusta is a car whose backstory is about as clear as mud. Few things are solid: there was some deal between Alejandro DeTomaso and Carroll Shelby that went south (hence the name, which...
Sleeper Video: Watch A 720hp GT-R and 650hp ZR-1 Get Taken On By A Cobalt SS
The Chevrolet Cobalt SS is what the Shelby GLHS was in the 1980s: an extremely capable and extremely underrated front-driver that, in the right hands, will serve embarrassment up on a silver platter...
Best Of 2014: Living History- Listen To The Darracq V8 Fire Up And Run!
Of all of the strange car names that we’ve paid attention to over the years here at BangShift, Darracq might sound the oddest, but they were the real deal. Darracq was a French car manufacturer...
Rough Start: 1995 Jaguar XJS Convertible – Slip Into Something British For A Moment
Without everybody shouting at once, how many of you took one look at the 1995 Jaguar drop-top that is currently being featured as our latest $5,000, cash-in-hand classifieds find and immediately and...
