Category Archive: BangShift APEX, Nut Driver
Nut Driver: Evolution Driving School And Flying Parts!
[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s attempts to daily drive his 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Massachusetts 365 days a year] Before continuing on, if you want to catch up on the...
Ebay Find: Testing The Limits Of Celebrity And The “Low Mileage” Mark With A Clean K-car LeBaron. How Much Will It Sell For?
“Low Miles” and “Celebrity Owned”. As a general rule, your eyes roll when you see those two phrases as you troll eBay looking at stuff you can’t possibly afford. But...
Caption This: No, It’s Ok…I Can Get A New Car.
Bees are good for many things: beeswax has many uses, honey is very delicious, they pollinate flowers and assist in the creation of food. Bees have two downsides: they swarm and they sting. The...
Hot Wheels Commissioned A Real-Life Darth Vader Car, Star Wars Fans Start Breathing Heavily
“Lord Vader, Your Car Is Ready”. It’s a tagline that originally appeared for the 1987 Buick GNX, and has since applied to anything black, sinister and fast. But for the 2014 Comic...
Cruise Gallery: The 27th Annual Kearney Cruise Friday Night Kick Off Party
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The 27th Annual Kearney Cruise Nite’s Friday Night Kick-Off Party was the official start of the weekend festivities put on Central Nebraska Auto...
BangShift Reader Brawl: What Is The Boldest Move A Racing Sanctioning Body Needs To Make And Who Needs To Make It?
As you know, we thoroughly love racing here at BangShift. We love it because we’re involved in it at a couple of levels, because we’re fans of the people who are racing and wrenching on...
Project Raven: It’s The Little Things That Will Kill You
Summertime brings storms to the Midwest, the kind of storms that dump inches of water at a moment’s notice. Ever since I got the Imperial running, I had functioning wipers. In Arizona, they...
Rough Start: Does This GTA Spark Your Interest, Or Should You Run?
Hunting down a car in Maryland, a state I only think about when I picture it’s Rorschach-test state flag, is daunting for the Rough Start budget. Wading through the typical LeSabres and Luminas...
The Zingers inspired a generation of car geeks, and we talked to the guy who built them
There was a time when custom car culture was as mainstream as professional sports. Back in the 1960s, custom car shows were huge events that hundreds of thousands of people saw over the course...
You Missed A Turn! Van Crashes Into An Apartment Building
The Abbotsford, British Columbia RCMP had an interesting call in the early morning hours of July 18th. A Ford Windstar had missed a turn at an intersection and plowed straight through two apartments...
eBay Find: 1974 AMC Matador X – So Weird It Is Cool Or So Weird That It Can’t Be Cool? You Tell Us!
The AMC Matador was never exactly a styling tour de force, although in the context of its era the car was pretty bold. Hell, magazines declared the very car you are looking at below the best styled...
Kustom King Car Auction Next Month Features 500+ Cool Resto Candidates And Parts Cars In Savable Shape – This Is Nuts!
BangShifter Corey Stainbrook gets the gold star today for tipping us off to one massive, no-reserve auction that’ll be happening up in Alberta, Canada next month where more than 500 vintage...
2015 Chevrolet SS Gets Six-Speed Manual And The Good Suspension Bits From Corvette-Now If They Could Just Call It “Impala”!
The Chevrolet SS is a great sedan, but it’s been missing a few things. The lack of a manual transmission was the most obvious item, with a lack of a proper name coming up in second place. It...
Ebay Find: The 1988 Buick Reatta PPG Pace Car
The Buick Reatta was an Eighties oddball, even by GM’s standards. Essentially it is a shrunken version of the Buick Riviera that was built by hand between 1989 and 1991. Originally planned to...