Category Archive: BangShift News, Project Cars
Sneak Peek: Ironworks Speed and Kustom Has Some Bitchin Projects in the Works!
Roger and the guys at Ironworks Speed and Kustom in Bakersfield California have been building bitchin chassis and complete cars and trucks for several years now including the 2011 Goodguys Giveaway...
Project Buford T Justice Update: The Trans Thrash is ON!
If you remember, we put Project Buford T Justice on the dyno a couple weeks ago and fragged the trans and driveshaft in violent fashion. Since then, we recalled a transmission that has been living in...
BangShift Project: Introducing the $200 Hauler…A Tow Rig on a BangShift Budget!
Although the economy is looking up, regular Joes like us are still hurting, and there are plenty of folks, like us, who just can’t afford a new tow rig. So, when the opportunity came for us to...
Project Buford T Justice Will Be Saved For About A 100 Bucks With a 15 Year Old Transmission
By now you know that I blew up my Project Buford T Justice Caprice on the dyno at Performance Auto and Dyno in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Monday. After the car spit the driveshaft at us, broke the...
Project Buford T Justice Hits the Dyno and Goes KABLOOEY! CARNAGE VIDEO INSIDE!
After we ran Buford T Justice at the strip and the 4,000lb tank shocked us with elapsed times in the 15-second range, we were immediately intrigued as to the actual power output of the 185,000 mile...
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...