Category Archive: BangShift News, CHEVY, Project Cars
Buford T Justice Hits the Chassis Dyno Today…Guess the Rear Wheel HP!
So color us obsessed if you want, but after our 15-second stock drag romp with Buford a little more than a week ago, we were really interested in putting this car on a dyno to get a rear wheel hp...
Project Car: The Ridetech ’33 Ford Coupe…IT’S ALIVE. SEE VIDEO HERE…More to Come
Ridetech’s ’33 Ford Coupe, which started life as a Factory Five kit, is almost ready for it’s debut and we’ve got video of it’s first sounds of life! You’ve been...
Project Buford T Justice Hits the Strip with Some Pretty Shocking Results!
(Photos by Dave Nutting/Words by Brian Lohnes) – When we asked BangShift nation to guess the ET that our 1987 Caprice 9C1 called Buford T Justice would run in the quarter mile, the guesses were...
Project Update: Ridetech’s Factory Five ’33 is Looking Bad Ass!
We’ve been keeping tabs on Ridetech’s killer Factory Five ’33 build for some time now. The car is really coming along nicely and we think this one may be the ultimate example of...
Buford T Justice Hits the Strip Tomorrow – Guess the ET and Win a Shirt!
Tomorrow is a big day in the history of BangShift’s project Buford T Justice. Our 1987 Caprice 9C1 will be running down the quarter mile asphalt aisle at New England Dragway in Epping, NH for...
Driveway Tech: Bodywork on Buford T Justice – We Close Our Roof Hole For Fun and (NO) Profit!
Few jobs will give you the self-satisfaction of repairing the outside of your hot rod, project, or racer. Yes, screwing together a fire breathing engine will give you levels of joy that will make you...
Project Update Video: Jason Lewis’s Viper V10 Maverick Project Moves Closer to Completion
Jason Lewis is a crazy talented video guy and he’s also a hard core hot rodder. A while back, we showed you a unique and very cool project car he was building, which is an old Ford Maverick...
Project Buford T Justice: Our Cop Car Cruises Home and Then We Beat on It!
(Photos by Dave Nutting, Gene Stauffer, and Brian Lohnes) – Project Buford T Justice, BangShift’s 1987 9C1 Caprice cop car is back home in Massachusetts safe and sound and we have begun...
Introducing Project Buford T Justice – Our 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice – The Adventure Begins!
Just like the title says, this is the official introduction for the first real deal project car we have done here at BangShift. I am calling this 1987 9C1 Caprice, “Buford T Justice” in...
Project Update: The Hard Guys Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Gets Bathed in Epic Paint!
In the last update we ran about The Hard Guys nostalgia Nitro Funny Car, we told you that the body was done being prepped and paint was the next step. We also told you that the paint was guaranteed...
Project Update: The AMX/GTO Project is nearly complete!
The wild AMX/GTO project is on the home stretch! As a quick refresher, this car is a 1969 AMX body that was placed on the chassis of a wrecked 2007 Pontiac GTO. The GTO was cut and narrowed, the AMX...
Project Car Spotlight: An Abandoned 1940 Ford Gets New Life in a BangShifter’s Home Shop
When it comes to iconic body styles in the world of hot rodding, the 1940 Ford is one of the great examples. The cars can be made into killer gassers, street rods, Pro Street machines, moonshiner...
Project Update: The East Coast’s Newest Nostalgia Nitro Flopper Nears Completion!
It has been a while since we last checked in with our friends Dana Hard, Jon Wall, and the rest of the henchmen at Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Mass. The guys have been in the process of...
