Category Archive: Angry Grandpa Chrysler, BangShift Projects, Project Cars
Project Angry Grandpa: Our 300C Gets A New Fuel Tank – If You Have A Late-Model Hemi Mopar, You Might Want To Check This Out
At first I thought I managed to miss a shift with a manu-matic. Leaving a gas station a week ago, I had our project 300C in the “shift-it-youself” mode with the traction control off, ready to go...
BangShift Project Files: A 1978 Olds Cutlass With A 6.0L Swap On The Cheap
If you dig through the BangShift project car forums, you will find our $5,000 Challenge. The premise is simple: build the baddest mother you can for under five big bills. It doesn’t have to be...
Project Raven: Open-Heart Surgery, Part 1…We Open Up Our Imperial’s Engine
So the Imperial’s engine is out, separated from the without-a-doubt destroyed A904 automatic, and on the stand. With nothing to lose, I grabbed the tools and tore into the LA motor. There had...
This ’32 Ford Makes So Much Smoke At Brashernats That The Driver Has To Stop And Let The Air Clear!
We have seen tons of Aussie burnout footage…literally, tons. Plenty of Holdens, Falcons, and microcars that have ten times the power they left the factory with have laid waste to tires on the...
Project Raven: Pulling The Weak Engine And Dead Trans From Our Imperial
It’s been three months since the Project Raven Imperial unceremoniously blew the transmission at Beech Bend, and it’s been just a touch longer since the engine put up some seriously...
Christmas Caroling, BangShift-Style: Punching A Trail Through The Snow In An AWD 300C To “Carol of the Bells”
Regardless of whether or not a metric ton of snow fell overnight, sooner or later you’re gonna have to go out in it. A good snowblower will take care of your driveway and maybe the first couple...
BangShift Holiday Shopping Guide: For The Enthusiast, How About A Tiny Subaru Tow Truck?
Chad likes low riders and bagged cars. I like malaise-era sleds and rally cars. Brian…likes tow trucks. Sing it with me, kids: “One of these things just doesn’t belong...
Ebay Find: 36,000 mile One-Owner 440-powered 1977 Dodge D300
When I was fourteen, my stepdad drug home a 1978 Dodge 3/4 ton that had been the unfortunate victim of a winter accident. The truck was very low mile, and only needed a new radiator core support,...
Do You Miss The Early 1990’s? Then This Body-Kitted Chevy 1500 Is For You!
The 88-97 GM trucks might be best remembered for their role in the creation of the “sport truck” modification craze of the 1990s. You couldn’t get away from them…dropped low,...
Place Your Bets For A BangShift Shirt! Buford T Justice Is Hitting The Dyno With This Engine One Last Time – Guess The Power And Win
That’s right kids, we’re tempting fate one last time with this whale of a car known as Buford T Justice before the current mongrel engine comes out for a creation that we’re going...
Burt Reynolds’ Personal “Bandit” Trans-Am Is Headed To Auction!
There is an entire market section of vehicle restoration dedicated to black and gold late-1970s Pontiac Trans Ams. Year One even built a series of “Bandit Edition” Trans-Ams that came...
Roadkill! The Dynamic Duo Are Back With An Old Friend, The Vette-Hack!
About five years ago, Freiburger, Finnegan, and our own Chad Reynolds met at a racetrack in California with a derelict and abandoned C4 Corvette and about half of the Harbor Freight tool catalog....
Ebay Find: Four Never-Titled Shelby Mopars, Fresh Out Of Storage
A lot of people cringe at the thought of Carroll Shelby’s time with the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980’s. Unlike the screaming Mustangs he did for Ford, and certainly nowhere near the...
Rough Start: Since We’re Here In Scotland, Let’s Pick Up Some Wheels On The Cheap!
The last time I tried to find a Rough Start car in Europe I ended up frustrated, sorting through Renaults and Peugeots and deciding that I’d rather hunt for a car in the middle of Nebraska...