Category Archive: MOPAR
The Path Less Traveled: Check Out This Dodge Omni GLH That Has Been Done To The Nines!
The wrong car to build…I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard that a thousand times. Funny, though…every time I see someone who has built the “wrong” car, the finished...
Take A Walk Through The Hoonigan Shop And Check Out What’s Just Sitting Around!
Sometimes, you have to stop and take stock of what’s going on in the garage. In my garage, there’s three engines, two transmissions, an engine hoist that is eating up a metric ton of...
Rough Start: Will This Minty Pinto Be The Cheap-Car Start Of Something Good?
Even by BangShift standards, a Doublemint-green Ford Pinto station wagon is pushing things just a little bit. We can give the Pinto all the crap in the world about exploding gas tanks and lawsuits...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Ready For Chinese Cars?
For a few years now, the question of whether or not Chinese cars would ever be sold in America was nearly laughable…there was no way. No manufacturer had the inroads, and nobody would want to...
The LA Run: Listen To This 416ci Small Block Mopar Work Over The Dyno!
The small-block Chevrolet is so commonplace that even though it makes great power and can be built dirt-cheap, people are just about sick of seeing them. Small-block Fords can absolutely romp, as...
Is This Thing A Hot Rod? The Seller Of This Isuzu Rodeo Certainly Thinks So, But Why?
The term “Hot Rod” has been used for over half a century now to describe basically any vehicle that has been modified in a manner that boosts its performance. Typically, the term is...
Morning Symphony: The Sights And Sounds Of The 2018 Monte Carlo Rally
Since 1911, the Monte Carlo Rally has been one of the top-tier premier rally races on the WRC calendar. It’s also the first, bringing the WRC teams through the unpredictable hills and dales of...
Be Ready For Anything With This 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air Trar – Just Fix The Brakes First!
Trars…we are fascinated by them here. Some versions more than others, admittedly, but on the grand scheme of things, we tend to appreciate a car that has been repurposed into a four-wheel-drive...
Unhinged: Wait…Why Does My Car Need To Respond To My Emotions, Again?
At what point does adding technology to the automobile become stupid? I’m sure most of you will have the knee-jerk “it already has” response, and I don’t blame you for that,...
Wait, That Worked?! The CEO Of Lotus Just Got Lucky Over A Big Speeding Ticket Because He “Needed To Test Drive New Models”
Nothing, but nothing, beats that moment when you get the flashing reds and blues in your rearview mirror and you know, deep in your heart, that the uniforms have you dead to rights. You sit in the...
That’s No Aircraft Carrier: Take A Closer Look At The 1980 Cadillac Limo That We Drug Home!
We drove through a Halloween scene set in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky to get it, we drove it nearly a hundred miles back home, and we lived to tell the tale. If you missed the story on how I...
These New Mallory Products Are Cool, Functional, and Perform As Good As They look
Great news from the folks at Holley as they have released a load of new products under the Mallory banner that both bring back the great looks of an iconic brand but also have the power to make your...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Mean Machine” by Sugar Ray (1995)
I want you to think for a moment about everything you know about the band Sugar Ray, the late 1990s pop wonder machine that spit out such memorable radio fodder as “Fly”,...
Did The Big Auction Numbers Turn You Off? Check Out This Small-Block Swapped Jaguar Going Under The Hammer Next Month!
It’s safe, you can come back out now. The big auction throwdown that happens in Arizona is over. Millions upon millions of dollars were traded for some of the most lust-worthy machines ever...