Category Archive: BangShift XL, CHEVY, XL Videos
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...
Is Nothing Sacred? Check Out This Split-Window Corvette Mud Bogger From Texas!
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and vice versa. Just because I like weird old barges doesn’t mean you do. Just because you like lifted trucks doesn’t mean that I...
Strange Bird: Check Out This Super Rare John Fitch Firebird We Found On Ebay!
Years ago, I remember picking up an issue of High Performance Pontiac magazine and seeing a really strange looking 1967 Pontiac Firebird with crazy “flying buttress” wings attached to the...
BangShift Project Files: Ditching The Sports-Utility Vehicle For An Honest 1979 Chevrolet Pickup Truck
We aren’t completely against sports-utility vehicles, don’t get us wrong. Chad practically lives out of a Suburban during the summer months, it seems. But when you have multiple vehicles...
A Herd Of Horses: A Breakdown Of The Ford Mustang’s Many Different Models
You could consider the Ford Mustang the best platform re-skin ever performed by an auto manufacturer. Ford already had a compact car in the form of the Falcon, but executives knew that in order to...
