Category Archive: BangShift News, eBay Find
Killer eBay Find: A One Off Late 1970s AMC Road Racer With Trans-Am History
Naturally when BangShifters think about the AMC brand and road racing, thoughts of Mark Donohue and company wheeling Javelins around in the late 1960s and early 70s jump to the front of their minds....
eBay Find: A Totally Cool 1966 Chevy II Stock Car
Chevy II restorers be warned, the larger photos of this car will have your stomach flopping. The wheel wells were clearly opened with a Sawz-All, the car rides on a 1955 Chevy chassis, and the only...
eBay Find: A BangShifty 1978 Corvette Rear Engine Funny Car
Rear engine floppers have a unique place in drag racing history. The only guy who really did much with one in terms of success was “Big” Jim Dunn and his Dunn and Reath ‘Cuda which...
eBay Find: An Obnoxious (and 100-percent BangShift Approved) Straight Axle 1964 GTO
A 1964 GTO with a mile high stance, first converted to a straight axle in 1970, this car is all kinds of hairy. According to the seller the car used to pack a blown alky burning big block Chevy and...
eBay Find: One Awesome and Humongous Chevy C4500 Truck
Any truck that wears “super singles” for tires on all four corners is something we need to take a closer look at. This crazy 2005 Chevy 4500 truck pushes all of our buttons because it is...
eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt
One of the most infamous car and engine combinations in the history of drag racing was the deadly match of a Chrysler Hemi and the tiny Dodge Colt in the early 1970s. Prompted by the ass kicking laid...
eBay Find: A Mechanically Pornographic 1966 Econoline Truck
Oh this 1966 Ford Econoline is 100% BangShift approved! It has a bruised up nose, a spartan interior, and a rear mounted 302 V8 that spins an automatic transmission which is hooked to a chain drive...
eBay Find: Seven Corvairs in a Barn
Seven project cars for $3500 bucks? Holy smokes, that’s an offer nearly too good to refuse. When we stumbled upon this eBay listing for seven Chevy Corvair project cars resting peacefully in a...
eBay Find: A Ford Monster Truck Built From a Huge Massey Ferguson Tractor
Tractors? We love them. Old school monster trucks? Yep, love ’em too. Making an old school looking monster truck out of a huge tractor? You’ve basically described mechanical porno. A man...
Ebay Find: Buy the World’s First Funny Car……… Cheap!
Which car truly inspired the term Funny Car, and ultimately the creation of the most popular class in Drag Racing, is a topic of much debate. We don’t really care which one gets the credit. But...
eBay Find: An S-10 Hot Rod Creation Thing
There’s an expression car guys use, “You can’t put lipstick on a pig.” There will soon be another expression that they’ll use. It will be something along the line of,...
eBay Find: A Very Old, Very Cool, Scotty Fenn Built Slingshot Dragster
There are lots of old dragsters out there for sale, but few have the cool factor this one has. Based around an original Chassis Research K-88 chassis, the car was built in 1958 and has a worked over...
eBay Find: An Awesome Tracked Slow Plow We’re Not Getting for Christmas
With tonight being the “big night” with respect to visits from Santa Claus, we’re too late to edit our wish list. In the event we had another week or two, this kick ass little...
Epic eBay Find: A Modern DUKW Made From Either an H1, H2, or Mercedes G55!
Greatest….body kit….ever! This is an H20 ASPT Ocean Rover, not a vintage military DUKW amphibious vehicle. According to the eBay ad, these can be made from a Hummer H1, H2, or Mercedes...