Category Archive: AMC, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question Of The Day: Was The AMC Pacer Best Used As A Truck?
American Motors’ reputation pretty much is consigned into history by their…well, quirky 1970s designs. We know that they made some awesome muscle cars, like the Javelin, AMX and...
Unhinged: The Wrongness Of Censoring Chevrolet’s Super Sport Models In The Forza Video Games
I caved. I recently retired my trusty Xbox 360 and the only two games I played on it, Grand Theft Auto Five and Forza 4 for a newcomer, an Xbox One and…drumroll, please…Grand Theft Auto...
Sleeper Alert: This Jeep Cherokee Project Is Hiding A Turbocharged Secret!
(Photos courtesy of Dustin Foust and Ryan Hogan) –A few days ago, I was having a conversation with one of my buddies, and he told me about a crazy Turbo Jeep Cherokee 4.7 stroker I6 project he...
Ebay Find: Beauty And The Beast For An AMC Fan – Two 1972 AMC Matador Coupes, One Perfect, The Other…Well…
Taking the different path can have some excellent benefits. AMC Matadors aren’t on most anyone’s radar, unless they have AMC leanings, but a two-door large-displacement coupe from the...
BangShift Project Files: A Unicorn And One Of The Most Popular Trucks Of All Time, Rolled Into One In This 1985 Chevrolet C-10!
Between 1973 and 1987 (1991 if heavy-duty trucks are your thing), General Motors cranked out millions of pickup trucks. Whether you like them or not, you have to hand it to GM for finding a winning...
Ebay Find: A 1974 AMC Javelin That Has Survived The Decades As A Clean Cruiser
Too often we tend to get hung up on high performance, top speed, ultimate handling, the pinnacle of perfection. We strive for the ultimate thing on four wheels. Is that a good thing? Unless you have...
The 1941 Tatra T87, A Car Way Ahead Of It’s Time – Rear-Engined, Air Cooled V8 And Aerodynamic!
If you get a chance to go to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, you will find that among the numerous interesting cars that fill the building are a collection of Tatra...
BangShift Project Files: It Started As A $500 Disco Vette, Now It’s A Rat-Powered Stomper…All Under $5,000!
Our $5,000 Project Challenge has provided us with some bad-ass low-buck pieces that we envy, but this late-C3 Corvette owned by Forum member “fatguyzinc” is one that we’d love to be...
Top 11: Battle Of The Heavyweights – We Pick Our Favorite Full-Sizers!
After seeing that absolutely bitchin’ 1969 Impala SS that Mike Musto got to drive for Big Muscle, our gears started to turn. We haven’t seen big cars…really big cars…as muscle...
Ebay Find: A 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 That Looks Rough, But Has That One Major Fault Corrected
We’ve covered before how the 1980s Pontiac 2+2 was a half-hearted attempt by GM’s Excitement Division to hang off of the coattails of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo Aerocoupe. The...
Rough Start: This Chevrolet El Camino Would Beat Driving A Cute-Ute Any Day Of The Week
The vehicle of choice for a lot of people lately seems to be crossovers, cute-utilities, whatever you want to call them…basically, they are the modern interpretation of the 1980s Honda Civic...
Rough Start: All You Have To Do With This 1966 Rambler American 440 Is Learn How To Run A Three-On-The-Tree
Like the idea of owning a classic but dread the thought of any kind of work that takes much more effort than changing motor oil? Well…we won’t make any rash judgements, because some days...
This 1976 AMC Matador 9-Passenger Wagon Is Long, Low And Absolutely Bitchin’!
Nine-passenger wagons are an awesome alternative to having a large SUV or four-door pickup truck. Since they have full frames, they can tow, they can pack around people, and the stigma against wagons...
