Category Archive: Car Features, CHEVY, Project Cars
BangShift Project Files: Tubbed And Tube-Framed Makes For One Seriously Interesting Chevette
The lesson we all learn about cars is that there are two ways to make them faster: you either add horsepower or you remove weight. Most of what we cover involves adding horsepower. Removing weight is...
This Big-Block AMC Ambassador Coupe Is The Last Of It’s Kind And Up For Grabs
This 1973 Ambassador Coupe represents one of the most forgotten last gasps of the musclecar era before it’s advancement into malaise. Sure, it’s a large by huge car, but if the shape...
Unhinged: The Fastest Dealership Vehicle Purchase We’ve Ever Seen (That Didn’t Require A Suitcase Full Of Cash)
My in-laws have been hem-hawing around the issue of a new vehicle for a few years now. It’s not like they don’t need one…between the two of them, there is a 1997 Tahoe that...
Rough Start: Finding A Drivable 1970 Chevelle For The Budget? It Is, But Expect Some Compromises…
It is well beyond the time to start looking at four-door versions of cars as something more than a parts donor. That might be a hard pill to swallow, especially for the “four-dorks” crowd...
This 1964 Rambler 770 Is Dead-On Perfect! Take Out Home Equity, Smash The Piggybank, Someone Bring This One Home!
It takes a tremendous amount of talent to make a car look plane-Jane, absolutely menacing, period correct, and show-quality in one package, and usually an attempt results in a car that might do one...
Streetside Find: A 304-Powered AMC Hornet X Sportabout That Is Unbelievably Nice
The AMC Hornet for the most part bucked the trend of “damn, that’s weird” styling that AMC had become known for. It was a decent little car, and with the factory V8 it could move...
Unhinged: How R&R Can Get You Back Into Gear In Ways You’d Never Expect
Have you ever gotten to a point with your project that it seems that you’re running around in circles? You want to work on something, so you walk out to the car. Let’s see…I could...
Like The Idea Of An SUV, But Can’t Stand The Thought Of Actually Owning One? How About This 1959 Ford Station Wagon?
Sport utility vehicles are everywhere, and long gone is the memory of the family station wagon complete with wood paneling being the trusty do-it-all vehicle. It’s kind of nice to see wagons...
BangShift Project Files: A BMW, A V-12, And The Biggest Shoehorn You’ve Ever Seen…
BMWs normally don’t appear on our radar here at BangShift. They can be fast, they can handle, and some of them can look good, but when it comes to something we’re interested in…not...
This E-85 Guzzling, 850+ Horsepower AMC Spirit Kammback Is Looking For A Fight…And A New Home!
853 horsepower in any AMC is more than enough power, but placing that kind of bullet between the fenders of a 1981 Spirit Kammback (essentially, a renamed Gremlin) is pretty ballsy move. They are...
Regular Car Reviews Get To Drive A 1974 Plymouth Scamp And He Refers To It As Chrysler’s Low-Water Mark…What?
I’m not a Mopar fanboy. Let’s get that straight now. And I’m certainly not a big fan of A-bodies. I’ve always thought that they were nothing more than basic transportation...
Project Angry Grandpa: How Did Our Billet Technology Catch Can Do?
It’s been about a month since we installed the Billet Technology catch can onto our 2006 Chrysler 300C, and in that matter of time we’ve driven the car well over 3,000 miles in varying...
Billet Technology’s Oil Catch Cans For Mopar 5.7 and 6.1 Hemi Engines Are Easy-To-Install Insurance
Would you pour a capful of oil down the carburetor of your hot rod? Of course you wouldn’t. So why would you let the same thing happen to your daily driver? Oil vapor, along with other...
