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Project Car Spotlight: The Tale of a BangShifter and the 25 Years He’s Had His Malibu
BangShift.com forum member Bamfster (Dan) is one of the true BangShift originals. He’s been around since the CarJunkieTV days, participated in the epic Red Ball Express run that saw David...
Red Ball Express: Update on the Cross-Country Bucket Brigade of Our ’68 Javelin
The great gearhead bucket brigade known as the Red Ball Express is well underway with our now infamous ‘68 Javelin being relayed trailer-to-trailer to deliver it from California to Boston. This...
The Top 11 Reasons I’ll Use to Convince My Wife That I Need Freiburger’s Javelin
With the Red Ball Express adventure looming closer every day, I need to get cracking about breaking the news to my loving (currently) wife that the red, white and blue, former dirt-track racing...
Classic YouTube: The Rambler That Rallied Through A Third Of The World
While AMC was sorting out their overall image in the 1960s, moving away from the leader of American compact cars and into areas like full-size cars and muscle cars, truth be told they always did...
50 Years Ago This Weekend The SoCal Drag Scene Was Hitting Its Zenith – The Story Of July 4th Weekend 1971
(By Bret Kepner) – (Editor’s note: This is the amazing story of the SoCal drag racing scene on July 4th weekend 1971. There’s incredible detail and information here. There is also...
Video: This Owner Restored 1970 AAR ‘Cuda Is Awesome – 340 Six-Pack, Pistol Grip, More!
Despite all that happened in 2020, Holley crushed it at their triumvirate of events. LS Fest, the Intergalactic Ford Festival, and the Holley MoParty were all smashing successes in the rolling hills...
The Top 11 Worst Ever Special-Edition Vehicles
Oh the dreaded “special edition” car. In many ways it represents the worst part of the car-making business. These are packages born completely from the heads of people who count beans, sell ads,...
How Smokey Yunick (Almost) Beat ‘Em All At Talladega With This Boss 302
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – While Smokey Yunick often gets recognized most for the work he did with General Motors products, it is important to remember his time spent wrenching on and improving...
Morning Symphony: 1970 Trans-Am Soundtrack From The Track
The ponycars have a lasting legacy, but why? Mustang appealed to the up-and-coming Boomers who had the cash to spend, but that wouldn’t be enough. The bright colors and the spats and spoilers...
New-Man: 1985 Nissan Skyline Paul Newman Edition – When You Get Your Own Model, You’ve Won
Off the top of my head, I can only think of two vehicles named after people associated with them with certainty: the Mark Donohue-edition AMC Javelin and the Nissan Skyline Paul Newman edition....
Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?
In 2009, one of the earliest exploits of the fledgling BangShift.com involved a 1968 AMC Javelin that had been built into some kind of dirt-track race machine of some kind that had changed hands a...
Best of 2019: SCCA Trans Am Racing At Road America In 1977!
Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s is often remembered as the scene where pony cars battled it out for supremacy on road courses. Cougar GTs, Javelins, Cuda AARs and Challenger T/As,...
Rare Air: This Enderle Mechanical Stack Injection Unit For An AMC Is Supposedly 1 of 35 Ever Made
(By Greg Rourke) – If one wants to see rare and unusual intake systems, BangShift.com is the place to go. Here’s another one for the collection, an Enderle mechanical stack injection...
AMC Power! Watch This Worked AMC Small Block Make 400+ Horsepower With Factory Stuff
We’re a little confused about the intentions of this engine but not confused at all about how much we like it! This is a 357ci AMC V8 on the dyno being run in and tested out for what the title...