Category Archive: BangShift News
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News! This Week, A Crossover Z, A Lost Fan, and A Steering Wheel That Knows You Drank Too Much!
The week is gone already? Wow…time flies when the old inbox is flooded with press releases and junk mail. Most of it was sent to the circular filing system (or the little electronic symbol for...
Run 10 Seconds The Quick And Easy Way – Buy This 1979 Chevy Malibu!
Has Drag Week or any of the other racing really ramped up that itch of yours to finally find something to go hit the track with? Do you just want to get out there and get going, instead of piecing...
Police Have Made Arrests In The Woodward Dream Cruise Car Thefts, Still Looking For The Cars
Detroit Police have made a breakthrough on the car thefts that occurred shortly after this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise. Six people were arrested as a result of a chop shop raid in the...
The Recall To End All Recalls? Volkswagen Found To Have Installed A Defeat Device In Diesel Cars Sold In U.S., Could Be The Biggest Fine Ever Issued!
Many outlets, including Jalopnik, the New York Times and Car and Driver are reporting that Volkswagen could be facing a recall of 482,000 vehicles and a potential fine that could hit $18 billion...
BangShift Project Files: Death, Resurrection And Life For A 1955 Chevy Nomad
There is nothing sadder than seeing the decrepit shell of a car that is rotting to the ground. You often wonder about it, what misfortuned led what once was someone’s brand new pride and joy to...
Teach Them Well: This Robotics And Automation Professor’s 600+RWHP Camaro Is A Track Machine!
I should probably start this story out with an apology. I first encountered Brian Sparks’ Camaro early in the morning the day I took our project Chrysler to the NCM Motorsports Park back in...
Apex Feature: Barney, The Home-Built, Big Purple Corner-Carving G-body!
(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) While you BangShift readers may not realize it, our feature on Lance Hamilton’s 1985 Chevy Monte Carlo SS has been a long time in the making for me. I’ve...
Cheap Car Blog War! I Challenge Lohnes To Find A Better Craigslist Deal For Under $1500 Than This 1996 Firebird!
As we’ve shown in our “Rough Start” series, a five thousand dollar budget is plenty to get a decent set of wheels and have it running and driving in short order. Anyone who has...
If You’re Planning For Drag Week 2016, How About Bringing Along This Blown Jaguar XJ-S?
As I type this, Brian and Freiberger are out on the road with the rolling circus of horsepower known as Hot Rod’s Drag Week. To say I’m a little bit jealous would be a severe...
After Watching This Clip Of “World Figure-8”, We Think We Have Found The Next NASCAR Race Type!
Let’s be honest here: the only reason most people watch NASCAR anymore is for the crashes. That’s it. The racing…meh. The fights…yawn. But when a cookie-cutter racing machine...
Casey Woodside’s Fifth-Gen Camaro Is His First Car, His Race Car, And His Daily!
It’s a daily driver, it’s raced hard enough to place in the Optima Ultimate Street Car challenge and to hang with the serious builds during the LS Fest autocross and 3S Challenge, and if...
I Hate It When Collector Bolts Come Loose! Here Is The Fix!
Daphne’s wagon has great Hedman Hedders with ball and socket collectors on them that require no gasket and never ever leak. Except when the bolts come loose. Which they do about once every few...
Performance Figures And Prices Released For The Ford Focus RS:
It’s been a long time since a four-cylinder pocket rocket made us salivate with anticipation, and the Ford Focus RS is that car. Handed down from a lineage of hot-rod Focuses that were not...
