Category Archive: BangShift XL, CHEVY, XL Online Find
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...
Introducing Wicked’s Wagon: BangShift’s BMW Slaying Hot Rod 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon Project
Think Pro-Touring meets old-school Custom, think Cruiser meets Drag Car, think “Holy crap, that 1966 Bel Air Station Wagon just kicked that 5-series BMW Wagon’s ass!”, and...
How Successful Is The Hellcat? First Numbers Have Been Announced…
When the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was announced this year, it went without saying that there would be some kind of demand for a car with over 700hp that looked as good as the Challenger, and...
Project Raven: The Prelude To The Stage 2 Build
The last time the Project Raven Imperial was seen, it was limping home from Beech Bend with a transmission that was making a lot of odd and angry noises. Since then there has been a lot of...
Project Violent Valiant Update: The Final Systems Are Coming Together – Axle, Brakes, Dash, Exhaust, Interior
Right now as you read this, Project Violent Valiant’s body shell is in a paint booth getting the final bits of color applied before being returned to Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle next week for...
Introducing Project Scamp: Kaleb Kelley’s 1973 Plymouth Scamp
(Text and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) I was already excited to become a contributor to BangShift, but when Chad told me that my car could be added to the BangShift project cars I was ecstatic. In April...
Two Cars, One Strip: Projects Raven And Angry Grandpa Hit Beech Bend!
Summer is winding down and so is the action. As the air gets cooler and the first few leaves start to change color, I found myself restless: Brian and Chad are fresh off of the crazy train that was...
Ebay Find: Will This Super-Clean Ford Granada Win McTaggart Over?
Lots of automotive biases are known here on these pages. Lohnes hates four-seater Thunderbirds of any year and DeLoreans and I hate Ford Granadas and their corporate cousins, the Mercury Monarch and...
Project Violent Valiant Update: Safety Equipment, Pre-Assembly, And The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Project Violent Valiant sure is coming along. We recently caught up with builder Kevin Tully at his shop, Ho Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois and he told us about the recently progress on the car,...