Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CHEVY
Quick Gallery: The Re-Opened Skydome At The National Corvette Museum
Re-opening the Skydome exhibit at the National Corvette Museum is the closing of a strange and sad chapter for the curators: the sinkhole that opened up in the karst formation underneath the display...
The Yamaha YXZ1000R UTV Might Be The Closest Thing To A Rally Car You Can Buy: Four-Wheel Drive, A High-Winding Engine And A Sequential Five-Speed!
Let’s say, for a moment, that you were offered the chance to buy a high-performance off-road vehicle. It will come fully ‘caged with seating for two. It will be extremely light compared...
Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of The Restoration Of The 1 Millionth Corvette – From Sinkhole To Stunner!
Once the team from the National Corvette Museum had extracted all of the Corvettes that were swallowed up by the sinkhole, the task began of determining what cars would and would not be restored. The...
This 1951 Ford Truck Might Look Like A Budget Beater, But With A Tunnel-Rammed 5.4 And All-Wheel Drive, It Is A Daily Driver That Pegs Out The Awesome Meter!
Many people talk about daily-driving a hot rod, but how many people really do it? A very tiny margin, that’s how many. There are a decent number of fair-weather drivers, and you have the...
Rough Start: A Ford Granada Set Up So Well That Even McTaggart Doesn’t Hate It
Stop the presses, call a press conference, a f***ing miracle just took place: A Ford Granada has been located that I not only don’t mind, but might actually consider driving in real life....
Caption This: How Would You Sell This Lincoln-Ish Super Brougham?
Zimmer Golden Spirit. 1970s Stutz. Both of these cars represent the same thing: a harkening back to the days of Dusenbergs and Bugattis, though the execution might be…well…a little...
BangShift Project Files: Tubbed And Tube-Framed Makes For One Seriously Interesting Chevette
The lesson we all learn about cars is that there are two ways to make them faster: you either add horsepower or you remove weight. Most of what we cover involves adding horsepower. Removing weight is...
Corvair War: Sitting Pretty Is One Thing, But This Crown-Converted Monza Racer Stomping Corvettes And Porsches Is Another!
I can’t knock Lohnes for picking the Yenko Stinger…it’s a given that if you aren’t going for a V8-converted ‘Vair, that the Yenko is the way to go. Looking at for sale...
A Hint Of Truth In The Rumors: Is FCA Actually Going Through With The Jeep Pickup?!
FCA’s money maker is Jeep. This is a fact…while Ram trucks sell and Dodge has been gaining ground with speed, Jeep is the cash cow. It is why Chrysler bought out AMC in the first place in...
Corvair War! Nice Try, Lohnes, But This 1964 Greenbriar Van Is Up Your Alley And We All Know It!
The only reason that Brian got the Crown-converted Monza coupe instead of me is because the man sleeps ten minutes a night, and he’s right about one thing…that it is absolutely badass....
This Wagoneer…Shouldn’t…Do…That! This 1100 Horsepower Turbo Sleeper Is Brutal!
Do you all remember, a few months ago, a story we ran on a guy who was swapping a nasty 3rd gen Hemi engine into a Jeep Cherokee…the full-sized version…using a Chevy C-10 frame as a base?...
Top 11: Late-Model Concept Cars – Vehicles That The Manufacturers Used To Toy With Us
I love concept cars. I love the idea that one of the major manufacturers is so willing to test a future thought, or an unconventional layout, is even just nice enough to unchain the designers that...
In Memoriam: Jack “Doc” Watson, Hurst’s “Shifty Doctor” And Helping Hand With The Hurst Hairy Olds Program
In the rush of the summer season, we were remiss about noting the passing of one of the biggest names to fall under Hurst’s umbrella of important figures; a man who influenced a generation of...
Joe Rogan Tosses The Keys To His Pure Vision-built 1965 Corvette Restomod To Jay Leno – Supercharger Whine For Days!
Joe Rogan…host of Fear Factor, UFC commentator, comic, martial artist, and apparently a car nut. Who knew? Rogan is the owner of this beautiful 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray roadster, and...