Category Archive: Angry Grandpa Chrysler, BangShift Projects, Project Cars
Project Angry Grandpa: Will Coils And A Tuner Finally Shove Grandpa Into The 13-Second Range?
If you’ll recall from the last time Angry Grandpa (our 2006 Chrysler 300C) was on the quarter-mile at Beech Bend Raceway Park, we had been fighting throughout all of ChallengerFest 7 trying to...
Rough Start: Build Your Own Hero Car With This 1969 AMC Rebel SST
For today’s Rough Start, I want to put a visual into your mind. Picture every “badass in black” on-screen muscle car you’ve ever known. Think of the GTO from The Punisher, the...
BangShift Project Files: The Ultimate Restoration Project? This 1928 Chevrolet Is Going Under The Knife!
If you roam around the more deserted areas of the American Southwest, there’s a chance that you’ll see a car like this somewhere: pre-war, well-roasted, and mostly just the bones of what...
Phantom Build: This 1977 AMC Hornet Is As Good Of A Start As You’ll Find, So Tell Us How You Would Build It!
Anyone who has ever built a project car will always have one piece of advice for you: start with the best possible builder of a car that you can. Starting with the cleanest and most complete car you...
Leave It To A Comedian To Collect Gremmies – Jeff Dunham Brings Two Clean AMC Gremlins To Jay Leno’s Garage!
They are the butt of jokes and have been for years, but honestly, if you look at what American Motors was facing down in the early 1970s, the cars that they cranked out were actually genius. The...
BangShift Project Files: Following Up On The 1959 Edsel That Will Be Going On The LeMons Rally!
It’s been a little bit since we checked in on our buddy Jim and the 1959 Edsel four-door sedan that he was preparing for the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally that will tour the American Southwest...
Morning Symphony: “Bloky”, The NASCAR-Powered Valiant, Performing Yet Another Ear-Splitting Show!
I don’t care how many times I see footage of this green Valiant Regal in action…I love it. I love the fact that it doesn’t have a massive, honkin’ blower sticking up out of...
An Alternative AMC: This 1970 Ambassador SST Is The Muscle Car Most People Wouldn’t Remember
The American Motors Ambassador was never meant to be a muscle car. In AMC’s lineup, that job fell to the ever-so-slightly smaller Rebel/Matador. But with the only real noteworthy difference...
Watch As This Duramax Chevy Puts All Of That Torque To Good Use: Punishing Tires!
From the start: this Duramax Chevrolet is a bad, bad sumbitch. The burnouts are epic, the driver unrelenting, and the fog bank created by just the tires alone was probably visible on weather radar...
This Duramax-Powered Chevy Mega Truck Cuts Loose On A Motocross Track!
We’ve been featuring Mega Trucks here for a while now, and to be rather honest…there is something about them that has kind of bothered me. It’s not the lift, not the skinny tires,...
Top 11: Shopping At Mecum’s Portland Auction – Two Days Of Difficult Decisions!
Portland, Oregon isn’t exactly automotive Mecca, but it isn’t the desert, either. There is plenty of gorgeous iron hiding among the redwoods and Douglas Firs, and if you cross the...
Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back
I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...
Not Every Aussie Hot Rod Has A Blower! Check Out This Sleepy Holden Commodore Ute!
Well, there goes the Outback. The 1320Video gang have taken the long plane ride around the back of the planet to Australia and have been checking out the offerings that we here in the states tend to...
