Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Rough Start: Will Your Spirit Feel Free In This 1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found the special editions that popped up around the 1976 American Bicentennial to be a little bit too over the top. Way too much red, white and blue...
The Coyote-Swapped Fusion: More Fabrication And The First Start!
We’ve been following Matt Soppa’s RWD-converted, Coyote-swapped 2016 Ford Fusion build since we first laid eyes on the subject. With looks that echo the dearly departed Australian-market...
Air-Cooled Awesome: Get The Dune Buggy And Enjoy The Sun!
Of all the positives that one can lay at the tires of the Volkswagen Type 1, there is one massive negative for most people: it looks like a Beetle. Some people dig the shape of VW’s iconic...
Rough Start: Find The Cleanest Car For Your Project…Like this 1979 Olds Cutlass!
I’m a beater addict. It’s true…I’ve got a perfectly normal, relatively late-model daily driver that has plenty of grunt and yet, I love the idea of daily-driving dirt-cheap...
Money No Object: One Bad 1987 Chrysler LeBaron – 224 MPH At The Silver State Classic!
If you were a Mopar fan in the 1980s, bless you…while Ford and GM were having a ball reawakening the horsepower challenges with Firebirds, Mustangs, Grand Nationals and the like, you had to...
Honesty In Review: Bob Mayer Takes On The 1980 Chrysler Cordoba!
For anyone who aspires to review new cars, there are certain people that you should aspire to be like. Csaba Csere, Bud Lindemann, John Davis, Brock Yates, and David E. Davis, Jr., a man once known...
VIN-Free Bird: A 2002 Pontiac Trans Am Track-Day Ready-To-Rock Special
Since the beginning of February, my inbox has been filled with messages about track-day events in the Southeast, mainly because I’ve occasionally been able to go play at NCM Motorsports Park...
Travel Well: This 1978 Ford F-150 Is Prepared To Be The Perfect Summer Travel Rig!
God’s honest truth, I didn’t look at this 1978 Ford F-150 Ranger Lariat as a potential BangShift feature when I first started looking at it. I didn’t see it that way. I saw this...
World-Traveled: This 1987 Jeep J-10 Needs A Stable Home After Years Of Roaming!
What caught my eye when I found this 1987 Jeep J-10 is how clean it is. Not many Jeep trucks look this good no matter what year they are, and this one being right at the end of production, born right...
Springtime Green: It’s Not Everyday A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Pops Up!
Let’s see here: the trees are budding out, the grass is starting to get tall enough to mow, the dandelions are bringing some kind of color to the yard, and I got my first bit of pulse-racing...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Brands Get Their Own Engines Again?
In 1977, General Motors experienced blowback when Oldsmobile owners noticed that their “Rocket 350” engines were, in fact, Chevrolet blocks. Buick V6s powered seemingly everything. The...
Crown Vic Drifting: Project Neighbor Hangs The Tail Out Like A Boss
Ford fought tooth-and-nail to fight downsizing in the late 1970s. GM had shrunk the Impala and Caprice and walked away smelling like a rose. The race was on…who would be the next to shrink...
RacingJunk Find: 1971 Mercury Comet With A 347…Street Car Material!
Junior supercars were the smartest move that the Big Four made at the turn of the 1970s. Insurance companies had targeted the popular and brash musclecars of lore and were bent on punishing the...
