Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
Was The Late-Model GTO The Car That Killed Pontiac? These Guys Seem To Think So, We Disagree
The 2004-06 Pontiac GTO was, depending on your view, either a great modern musclecar that suffered from a bad exchange rate with the Australian Dollar or was a bland attempt at reviving a storied...
Ebay Find: This MR2 Is Packing An Audi 4.2 V8 And A Serious Anger Issue
Don’t look at this first-gen Toyota MR2 and just see a wide body kit. You’d be doing this car a disservice. Instead, you should know about it’s running gear and why this little...
Is This 2JZ-swapped Aston Martin DB7 A Great Idea Or An Evil Chimera? You Decide!
The Aston Martin DB7 is one of the most pretty cars to come out of Europe in recent memory. It’s 3.2L supercharged straight-six was a de-stroked Jaguar unit with an Eaton M90 blower...
Best of 2014: Left For Dead In A Ditch: The Newfoundland Ravine Daytona
The photos look like a crime scene. The remnants of a T5 Copper 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona lay scattered, crushed, picked apart by parts looters among the trees and brush of a ravine in Newfoundland,...
Best of 2014: Car Feature: The 196mph LSR 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Kill – Caddy Powered And Homebuilt!
(Just about a month ago we ran this feature on Sean Mote’s wild turbocharged Caddy. Well, it went viral and was viewed by seemingly half of the gearhead world. It quickly jumped into our top 10...
Auction Stunner: Big Willie Robinson’s Daytona Going To Barrett-Jackson
This year’s Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction is shaping up to be a jaw-dropper. In addition to the Ron Pratte Collection going across the block, the surviving “Duke and Duchess”...
Rough Start: Making A Statement With A 1942 Chrysler New Yorker 4×4
Is it just strange enough to be cool, or just weird enough to avoid? I’ve been wrestling with that question ever since I laid eyes on this 1942 Chrysler New Yorker. Part of me really likes the...
Ebay Find: A Clean Colonnade Buick Century Up For Auction…The Engine Options Are Limitless!
As with any era of GM cars, there are the ones people remember, and the ones that they don’t, and the ’73-’77 Colonnade-era A-bodies are no exception. Chevelle, Laguna, Cutlass/442...
Craigslist Find: Hey, Fat Man In The Red Coat! This 1974 Cummins-Swapped Dodge Needs To Be In My Driveway Now.
Listen, Kringle. We haven’t seen eye-to-eye since I was fourteen and got a PlayStation and Gran Turismo for Christmas. I spent the last decade not asking for much, so humor me and leave this...
Craigslist Find: Is The Price On This 1970 Torino A Simple Typo, Or Is This The Most Optimistic Seller Ever?
Have you ever had the moment where you see someone’s pride and joy and the first thing you want to do is to crush their soul by telling them about the twenty thousand things that are wrong...
Ebay Find: Just In Time For Christmas, A Rusty Chevrolet!
Anyone reading this site should be familiar with the Christmas spoof “Rusty Chevrolet” by Da Yoopers. (If you aren’t, CLICK HERE to listen to it!) It’s always inspiring to...
Going Out With A Bang: Walkinshaw W507, A Modded HSV GTS For The Final Run
Killing off an American nameplate is simple: starve the brand for money, new designs and in short time, make a case for justifying the killing of the underperformer. Australians, on the other hand,...
Ebay Find: This Duramax-Powered 1970 Chevelle Can Give You Speed And Fuel Economy, At A Price
Not everybody is cut out to build their own car, and that’s alright. The engineering and mechanical ability required to put together a high-quality car takes years, sometimes decades, to...
