Category Archive: AMC, Videos
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...
BangShift Goes Racing! Transforming A Cheap Street Car Into A 24 Hours of Lemons Racer!
Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...
Track Time For Hot Rod Garage’s “Bonemaro” Budget Turbo LS Build! Will The Ragged F-body Run 10s?
Take a $10,000 budget, buy one royally clapped out $800 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, one junkyard 5.3L LS V8, an eBay turbo kit meant for a Chevrolet Silverado, and then proceed to hack, weld, bodge and...
Top 11: The Best “Decal GT” From The 1970s – When Looks Mattered More Than Performance!
It’s a new phrase in my lexicon: “Decal GT”, coined by Jim Wangers, the guy better known for Pontiac performance, but is responsible for some of the most well-known examples of...
This 1974 AMC Hornet Is Too Clean! It’s The Perfect Turbocharging Candidate!
American Motors pretty much ran on a shoestring and a prayer for their entire existence, relying on a combination of niche product marketing and the talents of designer Richard Teague. Except for a...
BangShift Project Files: Building The Mother Of All Lemons To Take On The Lemons Rally! This 1959 Edsel Is Being Built To Cruise The Southwest This Year!
The LeMons Rally, aka the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally ’16, looks to be an absolute riot. There isn’t so much a price limit, as there is on typical LeMons racing, but instead the idea is...