Category Archive: Bangshift Spotlight, Car Features, OTHER, TECH, Videos
Project Binky Gets An Engine Rebuild: Better Parts For More Boost!
Project Binky is at the bodyshop getting pretty, which is weird to say by the way, but while the bodyshop is slinging Bondo there is still plenty to do to get it ready to put back together. Before it...
Morning Symphony: Getting The Spirit With A Sleepy Turbo Dodge!
When the Dodge Spirit R/T hit the scene, it hit hard. Yeah, it had roots that dated back to the original K-cars, but it also had a gem of an engine, a turbocharged 2.2L Turbo III four that had seen a...
The Huracan Sterrato Is The Most Oddly Interesting Lamborghini Ever Built – 200 Car Production Run Already Sold Out
(Words by Tom Lohnes – Photos by the manufacturer) – You’d probably never think that the same company that made the record-setting Aventador SVJ, the car that shattered the Nurburgring...
Copart Cadavers: 1969 Hurst/Olds – It Doesn’t Belong Here
There’s no mistaking what you are looking at, layers of dust be damned. The twin mailbox scoops, the gold stripes from the fenders to the quarter windows, the rear spoiler you could use as a...
Dearborn Heavy Cruiser: Comparing Wagons And SUVs With A 1974 Ford Country Sedan
In many ways, I personally equate what is going on in the world of SUVs right now to what the world of station wagons went through in the 1960s and 1970s. They had their uses and their neat tricks...
Finned Drums FTW: 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix – Tasty Bubbletop!
It’s actually kind of difficult to see this 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix as a car the size of a Chevrolet Impala. It looks tauter, smaller, more nimble. But it’s true…the...
Archaeological Dig: Dragging A 1966 Shelby GT350H From It’s 40-Year Rest…In Ohio.
Excepting half a year in Pennsylvania when I was a very young child and a few scattered years in southern Illinois between birth and early grade school, most of my life has been spent well west of...
Random Car Review: 1994 Dodge Venom – The False Start Or Testing The Waters?
In 1994, Chrysler was really stepping out into some wildness. After Iacocca had been sent on his way, Bob Eaton had taken the top billing at the company and Bob Lutz was having a ball moving concept...
Handbuilt, You Say: The Real Story On That Blue Knockout Based On A 1984 Pontiac Firebird!
Last year’s top-pick Craigslist find for me was this…well, thing. All we knew was that it was based on a 1984 Pontiac Firebird and that it looked like something straight from a video game...
Built Ford Tough: This 1974 Ford Galaxie Has Seen Tornados and A Lot Of Downtime!
If there is one weather phenomenon that scares me more than anything else, it’s a tornado. You have time to run from a hurricane. You can prepare for a blizzard or flood conditions. What the...
Best of 2019: Take A Closer Look At The Larry Peternel Imperial Pro Stocker!
Robert Frost is one of America’s great poets, a man whose work with the written word became so much more than simple scribbles on paper. From the publishing of his first work, “My...
Best of 2019: Check Out This Isuzu Diesel-Swapped 1970 Plymouth Satellite!
When I first saw this 1970 Plymouth and realized what had happened to this car, initially my brain started screaming out, “WHY?!” as loudly as possible. Why is there a diesel in a 1970...
Best of 2019: Check Out This LS4-Swapped Pontiac Montana!
The GM U-vans came in three generations: Dustbuster, Dustbuster II, and “Crossover Sport Vans”. Yeah…that was GM’s own term for the revised third generation that were intended...
