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Category Archive: BangShift Road Tests, Car Features, CHEVY

Has The Chevrolet Camaro Become Too Much Of A Sports Car? We Drive A Camaro SS Convertible Back-To-Back Against A C7 Corvette To Find Out!

Something has been bothering me lately about the new Camaro, besides the fact that I barely fit inside of one comfortably: when did Chevrolet decide that being a muscular coupe just wasn’t...

This Monster Chevy Tahoe Is A Beast! ProChargers…They Aren’t Just For Drag Racers!

A tornado is one of Nature’s most fear-inducing phenomena, and for good reason: from beginning to end, there is no good news that comes out of the appearance of a funnel cloud. When the sky...

You Know What Grandpa Needs? That’s Right…Dual Exhaust For The Grand Marquis!

It’s difficult to look at your grandparents and see them as anything other than the kind, polite, old couple that spoil you senseless, isn’t it? I never saw my grandpa Ken as anything...

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Theoretical Build: This 1969 Dodge Charger Looks Like A Plucked Chicken, But It’s Got Every Body Panel And Parts In Boxes. How Would You Finish It?

Finding a 1969 Dodge Charger that is complete enough to make a running and driving car out of for under $10,000 in any condition is like finding the golden ticket in your chocolate bar…stupid...

Morning Symphony: Cutting A Hemi-Powered 1970 Dodge Challenger Loose In A Drift Pit!

The Dodge Challenger may have been seriously late to the pony car party, but as the years have gone on the strange pony car from Dodge has become a sincere icon of the automotive world. With such...

Rough Start: A Super-Clean 1982 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 That Needs A Second Lease On Life!

Matt Graves’ article about potential first car fodder in today’s market was spot-on. Face facts, folks: twenty years ago was 1996, and the cars you would rather see young guns getting...

Money No Object: This 1968 Holden Monaro GTS Bathurst Series 1 Is In The States And Up For Sale!

The one bad thing about being an American fan of Australian cars is that if you really want to enjoy one, you usually have to bring it over yourself. That means paperwork, the hassle of dealing with...

It’s Just Cylinder Six, Nothing More – Watch As This Malibu Wagon Kills ‘Em All Wounded!

There are many tired, hackneyed cliches about never giving up in the face of defeat. And they exist for a reason: You aren’t defeated until you either give up or can’t physically move...

Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Sonic RS Turbo – An Exercise In Masochism Or Is There Something To Like?

Full disclosure: I had no intention of driving this car when I was heading out to Campbell Chevrolet. None. At no point prior to arriving and parking at the dealership did I think, “You know...

This 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ Has Full Interior, Pontiac Power And Enough Grunt To Run Hard!

One thing that I like to do at the drag races I shoot is to find the car that nobody would have ever expected to end up in the staging lanes, because it’s usually one of the more interesting...

Random Car Review: The 1979 Ford Mustang Daytona

Automakers, on occasion, are known to preview an upcoming model with a semi-prototype teaser. Usually, 90% or so of the vehicle is ready to go, but there’s just enough show car or prototype...

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Jay Leno Checks Out Two Hertz Shelby GT350Hs, One New, One Old. We Don’t Know Which One We’d Take First…

It was the best worst idea anybody ever had. Take about a thousand Shelby Mustangs…you know, one of those really hopped-up ones some Texas chicken farmer whipped up and set loose on racetracks...

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Question Of The Day: What Late Model Car Do You Think Will Make The Next Great Hot Rod?

  Until I found this 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis on eBay, I wouldn’t have even bothered with this question. After all, late-model cars (for the sake of this discussion, anything newer than...

Rough Start: This 1983 Olds Cutlass Cruiser Is On It’s Way To Being Really Neat!

One of the strangest vehicles that ever came out of Oldsmobile, in my opinion anyways, was the 1979 Hurst/Olds Cutlass. Priced to the moon (it cost several thousand more than a more powerful and...