Category Archive: Car Features, FORD
Coyote Den: This Harmless Looking T-Bird Is One Of The Coolest Sleepers We Have Ever Seen
(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tube Chassis Designz) – We all love sleepers. Whether it is the idea of smashing someone with a flashy ride in the mouth (figuratively speaking) with something that...
PRI 2012 Featurette: The Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified Pulling Tractor – Four Blown Elephants!
Of all the booth vehicles that were on display at the 2012 PRI Show in Orlando, none drew a larger crowd than the Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified pulling tractor that’s campaigned by Rick and...
Nitro Resto – The Story of the Famed Country Girl Funny Car and How It Was Restored By The Family That Raced It
(Words and Photos by Mike Bradford) – In the racing world, if you don’t have deep pockets and want to go faster, one car is sold to fund the new toy. More often than not, the old car is...
Project Car Introduction: El Monte Carvo – A 1987 G-Body With A Literal and Figurative Twist
(Editor’s note: You’ve seen Dave Nutting’s byline many times on the electronic pages of BangShift. He our ace lensmen at BS Eastern World HQ. Outside of his handiness with a camera,...
SEMA Show 2012 Featurette: The Thunder Taker 1960 Cadillac Custom Hearse by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods
It is 8,000lbs of subtle metal work, flawless paint, a passenger compartment that’ll seat a football team with room to set up a train set inside, one of the largest sun roofs installed on any...
UPDATE: Lee Sicilio’s 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Runs 283 MPH, Gets The Record, But No 300 YET
Update Friday: Well it’s all over for Speed Week 2012, and Team Sicilio should be ultra proud of themselves. They came out with a brand new car and in less than a half dozen runs set a record...
Car Feature: Bitchin’ Blue Custom 1965 Acadian Wagon
When we saw Dave Show’s 1965 Acadian Wagon, sitting in The Grove at Famoso Raceway during DragFest, we fell in love with the killer stance, insane paint, and cool cruiser vibe. The fact that...
BangShift Garage Spotlight: A Bitchin Blue Big Block 1969 Nova Super Sport We Wish We Had
It’s BangShift Garage Spotlight time, and this week we chose my69rat and his amazing big-block, 4-speed, 1969 Nova SS. He’s kind of a lurker on the BangShift.com forums, but that...
BangShift New Car Review: The 2012 Buick Regal GS [w/video]
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buick fans, it’s time to tell your friends that “Going Fast with Class” is back! After seven days and seven hundred-plus miles behind the wheel of a 2012 Buick...
Win the Lottery and Buy the Friggin’ A-Team Van!
We remember Mike Meyers for his funny TV characters, being the voice of Shrek, starring in such cinematic hits as, So I Married an Ax Murderer, and generally being as funny as a Canadian can be....
Project Buford T Justice: Our Cop Car Cruises Home and Then We Beat on It!
(Photos by Dave Nutting, Gene Stauffer, and Brian Lohnes) – Project Buford T Justice, BangShift’s 1987 9C1 Caprice cop car is back home in Massachusetts safe and sound and we have begun...
Progress Continues on Ridetech’s Killer Factory Five ’33 Build
As you know, the guys and girls at Ridetech are always up to something awesome. Whether it is buying or selling cars at auction, thrashing their stuff on road courses and autocrosses across the...
Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]
When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this...
Cool or Not: A Chrysler Cordoba Made to Look Like a Superbird!
After seeing these photos posted on the BangShift forums by member Remy-Z we had to get them in front of the BangShift readership and get your collective opinion. In the interest of full disclosure,...