Category Archive: CHEVY, eBay Find
Money No Object: This 1979 Chevrolet El Camino Pro Street Build Is The Perfect 1990s Throwback!
I grew up going through all of the magazines…Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding and every other rag that my stepdad had subscriptions for…and seeing cars just like this Chevrolet El...
Performance Ain’t Dead Yet: Hellcat Sales Nearly Doubled In 2016!
It was hard to predict how Hellcat sales would affect Dodge and FCA…on one hand, you cannot deny the absolute bomb blast that shook the market when the twin 707-horsepower monsters dropped, but...
Question Of The Day: How Would You Built This Four-Speed Chevrolet Celebrity?
Yes, it’s another 1980s front-driver from McTaggart, the patron saint of automotive lost causes. Bear with me on this one, because this is one of the strangest oddballs I’ve come across...
Formal Done Right: This 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ Is One Classy Machine!
You know what a 1970s “personal luxury coupe” really is, right? That’s where the manufacturers took what was a muscle car, stuffed it with the kind of luxury they thought buyers...
Ride Along With Matt Farah As He Takes The Detroit Speed Monte Carlo SS Shop Car Out For A Run!
There are plenty of GM G-body fans within the BangShift readership. Aw, who are we kidding…there are two major G-body fans writing: Nutting, who owns two Monte Carlos (that I can remember at...
SEMA 2016 Preview: Hot Rod Garage’s Project FishTail – Tony And Lucky Are Bringing A Drift ‘Cuda!
It’s called the SEMA crunch: it seems that right before the big event that everyone in the automotive world waits for, all of the builders suddenly realize that they are down to weeks in order...
SEMA 2016: One Of The Cars We Can’t Wait To See On The Floor, “The Underdog” Ford Maverick: EcoBoost Power, Built By High Schoolers!
One car that unanimously dropped jaws at SEMA last year was “FuguZ”, Sung Kang’s 1973 Datsun 240Z. It was damn hard to not find something to like about the car that wasn’t...
Morning Symphony: Hanging The Tail Out On A RWD-Converted Ford Escort RS Cosworth!
All hail the mighty Cosworth 2.0L four-cylinder turbocharged wonder mill. Paired off with one of the most praised suspension setups in the automotive world and a four-wheel-drive system that just...
Really Rough Start: How Would You Build This Roller Four-Eye Fox From The Rust Belt
Searching through any Ohio-area Craigslist ads usually leave me feeling like the two Stormtroopers afro-picking the desert in the movie “Spaceballs”. It’s the rust belt for a...
Answering The Call Of The Blower With A 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!
Normally, this is where I’d put some cheesy line about “Autumn is blower season”, but seriously…blower cars don’t have a season unless you live in a place where you risk...
The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!
Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew...
Copart Cadavers: This 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Needs To Be Saved From The Crusher!
By the time I turned 18, I was already guilty of committing many, many atrocities against cars that didn’t deserve their fate. A 1975 Dodge Coronet was jumped, rolled, driven through trees,...
Pimp My Nova: This 1979 Cadillac Seville Opera Coupe Convertible Is Classy (In A Freak Show Kind Of Way!)
Forget opera windows, padded vinyl roofs or opera lights. Will someone who lived through the 1970s please explain how this coach-built Cadillac Seville actually saw the light of day, let alone a...
