Category Archive: Car Features, OTHER
Roadside Find: A Greyhound Escorter From The 1964 World’s Fair Somehow Made It All The Way To The Maine Coast!
So first, an admission. On Friday morning when Chad, Bob, and Greg were busting hump at Cordova to bring you the finest World Series of Drag Racing coverage ever, I played a little hooky. Ok, I did...
This Is Bonneville: Another Awesome “Half A Motor” – This Time It Is A Windsor Ford!
Yesterday we showed you a bitchin’ “half a hemi” that was making a Bonneville lakester fly down the salt with aplomb. We reveled in the fact that the team was using a full V8 hemi...
Bonneville Speed Week 2013: The Streamliner War (That Wasn’t?) – A Look At Speed Demon And Turbinator
Coming in to Bonneville Speed Week 2013, we were hoping that a real barn burning streamliner war was going to break out among some of the machines rumored to be showing up. The two...
Car Feature: Lee Sicilio’s 283 MPH 1969 Dodge. Can He Run 300 In 2013? We Think So!
(Editor’s note: We ran this feature after Speed Week last year. Since the car will be back and the boys have an excellent shot at making a 300mph pull down the salt, we wanted to re-familiarize...
Roadside Find: A 1929 Chevy That Came Out Of A Barn And Is Begging For Traditional Hot Rodding Love!
So a friend of mine has put me on the job of hunting down a traditional hot rod for him. He’s not looking for a cartoon rat rod, some sort of weirdo mish-mash, or anything along those lines....
Mini-Feature: An 1960s Ford “Uni-Body” Truck With Bad Ass Paint, Perfect Stance, and Ford Power!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – From 1961-1963 Ford produced a truck that is commonly referred to by hot rodders today as a “uni-body” truck. While this isn’t entirely accurate...
Project Mini-Max Is Complete! Check Out This Scratch Built, Amazingly Detailed RV Model Big Enough For Dogs To Hang Out In!
Pal O’ BangShift Mike Casella has been featured on these pages many times. He’s the guy who literally makes and saves unobtanium parts every day at his job in the machine shop at Then...
Luxury Liner: We Drive The 2013 GMC Sierra Denali 2500HD Crew Cab – A Velvet Brute!
(Words by Brian Lohnes Photos by Dave Nutting) – As the resident lover of all things truck related here at BangShift, I was more than happy to get my grubby mitts on this 2013 GMC Sierra Denali...
Build Gallery: A 1965 Mustang That Combines New And Old School Elements With Great Parts From Rick’s Tanks, FAST, And More!
One of the toughest things to do when building a car is to combine old school elements and current technology/styling together. This Mustang that’s going together at Tube Chassis Designz...
New England’s Newest Pro Mod Is Going To Be A Tim McAmis Lightweight Bad Ass!
Very few classes in drag racing have had the kind of incredible groundswell of development and performance gains as Pro Mod has had over the last 10 years. From the technology in the suspension and...
Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad...
Mini-Feature: The Wildest Paint Job We’ve Ever Seen On A Car That Actually Gets Driven
While walking through the grove at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield last Friday during the rain, BangShifter Randal Burns and I spotted the most amazingly painted 1954 Chevy I have ever seen…and...
Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?
Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some...
Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!
I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following....