Category Archive: Apex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift APEX, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Car Shows, Gallery, Sponsor News
Buicks Show Off At The Original Parts Group Spring Summer Series Opener!
It’s springtime in Southern California and our awesome BANGshift.com sponsor; Original Parts Group officially kicked off their Spring Summer Car Show Series over the weekend at the OPGI...
BangShift Project Files: The DisAstre Is Fresh Out Of The Paint Booth!
Forum member “Hoffbug” has been busy on his project car, a 1977 Vega that is using the nose and tailpan from a 1976 Pontiac Astre and parts from a Cosworth Vega. The idea is to run an...
The Limousine: We Get The U.S.S. D’Elegance Back To A Roadworthy State And Assess What’s Next!
Back in January I went in with a couple of people on the mother of all bad ideas, a 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood Formal limousine that had a three-digit price tag and looked like a five-digit trip to the...
BangShift Project Files: A Barn-Find 1979 Pontiac Trans Am That Is Being Brought Back To Life
Sitting in a barn, covered in dust…yeah, the barn find dream is nice, isn’t it? We’ve seen the pictures of the GTO left in the barn, the Superbird parked out back, or the Mach 1...
BangShift Project Files: TheSilverBuick’s Pontiac OHC Six – Can You Say “Turbocharger”?
One of our more prolific residents of the BangShift Forums is Randall Burns, better known as TheSilverBuick. How to best describe Randal…hmm. Well, he’s got a level of genius that my...
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...
Unhinged: It’s All About The Journey And Not The Destination When Picking Up A Cheap Car, Right?
It’s been about ten years since the last time I traded a couple hundred dollars for a rolling picture of bad decisions. That car was a 1981 Dodge Mirada CMX, a car I bought for two reasons:...
Dude, Perfect: Someone Is Stuffing A C6 Corvette Chassis Into A Buick Roadmaster Wagon To Make A Time Attack Car
WHOA. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Ok, I’m sure there are still plenty of you that are upset about the Duster-meets-Corvette creature I featured in this year’s LS Fest coverage. (If you want a...
BangShift Project Files: This 1964 Buick Skylark Wagon Was Picked Up For A Song!
One of BangShift’s more active wrenches in the forum is SuperBuickGuy. Aaron has had enough projects going on over the years that I honestly have a hard time keeping up with the...
BangShift Project Files: Kit-Bashing Together A Pontiac Grand Prix Using Scrap And Whatever Was In The Trunk!
Forum member “Mater” and I go way back, to my early days at a Dodge Diplomat forum. That means that for at least a decade and probably more, we’ve shared a common bond for the...
Strange Bird: Check Out This Super Rare John Fitch Firebird We Found On Ebay!
Years ago, I remember picking up an issue of High Performance Pontiac magazine and seeing a really strange looking 1967 Pontiac Firebird with crazy “flying buttress” wings attached to the...
BangShift Project Files: It’s Rough Now, But This 1975 Pontiac Grand Am Is In Good Hands…He Told Us So!
I flaunt my strange vehicle addiction regularly, but there is one forum member on BangShift that has even more questionable tastes in cars than I do, and I know this for a solid fact, because...
Stupid Gearhead Stories: What’s The Biggest “What The!?” Moment You’ve Had With Your Car?
Like many of you I’m sure, part of my morning routine is getting up, having a cup of coffee, and hitting the Interwebs to find out what’s going on in the world. One of my stops on the...
