By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

I just want to know when the photos were taken. See more on eBay Via Jalopnik

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

One of the coolest and most legendary stock cars to never run a race is for sale on eBay for the low, low price of $950,000. It is Smokey Yunick’s Chevelle that was entered at the 1968 Daytona 500, denied entrance and never saw a race track again. It’s packed with subtle enhancements and sly features that caused tech inspectors to throw the red flag in the pits. This is the car that people claim to be 15/16ths scale, which it is not.

So what were some of the things that made the tech inspectors see red? A front bumper cut and made taller by a couple inches to form an air dam, flushed out glass, a vortex interrupter formed by altering the rear of the roof, a custom frame, dropped floors to form a belly pan, and a host of other stuff that wasn’t specifically banned in the rule book, but was after they saw this car.

All those alterations eventually became standard equipment on any big level stock car, but like most things, Yunick was years ahead of the curve. It would be more than cool to get this thing in a wind tunnel and see how it actually does and see how the modifications made the car a better or worse performer.

If you swing a wrench, you should hold Yunick in high esteem. We say he was one of the best to ever ply the trade. Tech inspectors, pray that no one with his handle on rule book manipulation shows up at your track!

A big thanks to BangShift.com reader and forum member Spidergearsman for the tip!

Source: eBay Motors — Smokey Yunick’s legendary Chevelle!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Bid early and bid often!

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

We all know that GM never produced a factory convertible option for the second generation Camaro or Firebird, but every now and then you see one that’s been converted.  This 1981 Pontiac Firebird Formula was recently pulled from storage with only 22,000 miles on the odometer and in need of only minor attention.  Given its new rag-top, fresh tuneup and like-new exterior some lucky bidder is going to have a badass ride.  You can bet that no one else on your block will have one like it and the best part is there’s no reserve!  Check out more pictures after the jump and see the eBay auction here.

Continue reading "Convertible 2nd Gen Firebird on eBay" »

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I have witnessed some bizarre and ambitious De Lorean engine swaps attempted in my day, but this one is just looney-tunes. With its colossally mismatched powerplants front and back, this De Lorean is theoretically four-wheel drive–with a Honda 2.0L powering the front wheels and a monstrous 8.2L Cadillac V8 spinning the rears, and some kind of electronic govern-ator carrying out the delicate mediation between the two.  Curiously, the seller is offering this creation without the Cadillac motor, so what you’re really getting is a massively effed-with DeLorean with front wheel drive, a four-banger, and cosmetic and accessory issues numerous enough to make even the most dedicated tinkerer weep. Hmm–deal? Check out the auction, including baffling views of both engine compartments, here!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

When I was little, beating around every day in a 50′s car was considered a bit on the eccentric side, but not out of the question–hey, they were only 30-year-old cars back then, same as the 80′s rides I drive to work today. It’s true that you can make any car your daily driver as long as it’s inherently durable and you keep up on the maintenance, but it seems to me that to run something like this gorgeous ’57 Dodge Coronet, as its previous owner did, you’d have to be okay with some pretty burly risks. I admire people who are down with running their classic rides in all kinds of weather and traffic and parking them out between the beige road appliances in the employee lot–but would you do it? For me, 1975 would be the approximate cutoff vintage for my daily driver. Anything older than that, I’d mostly just want to pamper. How about you–what’s the oldest car you’d drive to work every day? Oh, and check out the auction for the ultra-clean Coronet on eBay.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Wow, this thing is gorgeous. It’s in absolutely immaculate condition following a two-year resto that left all the important bits in place–like the last set of tires that Arlen Vanke raced it on. In 1968, the Super Stock option was a race-only package put together by Mopar, with so-equipped vehicles being shipped to the Hurst plant for final assembly. This one’s got the 426 Hemi built by Vanke himself with the crossram intake and dual-quad Holleys along with an epic list of other performance goodies–it required a factory-relocated right-hand shock tower, master cylinder, and battery just to accommodate all the hugeness. It’s amazing to think that back in the day, if you had enough money you could walk into a dealership and order one of these. More incredible still is that Best of Show Automotive now wants $1.1M for this historic Barracuda. Will they get it? Check out the auction here!

Continue reading "Arlen Vanke’s ’68 Super Stock Barracuda For Sale on eBay" »

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I love NASCAR-branded 90′s GM’s. There’s just something so authentically redneck about them. Which makes it even more impressive when you find one that’s not totally thrashed. This Poncho seems to be the concept car for the Richard Petty 50th Anniversary Edition, and is being sold by Canepa, the boutique builder involved in the car’s design.  It claims to have only 1776 miles on the the 300hp supercharged 3.8. Check out the auction on eBay!

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

There are not too many cars you can name from the West Coast that are famous for street racing, but here is one of them. It is the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona that is one of three that were supposedly given by Chrysler to Big Willie Robinson and his wife Tomiko to help them promote the Brotherhood of Street Racers in Los Angeles, which was actually an organization designed to keep kids away from other crime. Big Willie also opened the legendary Terminal Island drag strip under the Brotherhood name.

We found this car listed on eBay with information that states it is a factory 440-powered car that was at one time raced with a Hemi and a Clutchflite. The hood scoop has ties to the movie Two Lane Blacktop that featured another Daytona with this same hood. Big Willie was famous for a magazine ad for American Racing Wheels, but the car in that ad photo is not the same one as this.

We also found a story from the guy who bought this Daytona directly from Big Willie’s back yard several years ago. Click here to see that story on the DodgeCharger.com site.

If you can afford $250,000 for some 1970s street racing history, go to the eBay link!

Source — eBay Motors – Big Willie’s Dodge Charger

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

It didn’t take long for the 2010 Cobra Jet Mustangs to start showing up on eBay. In fact, the first one hit just after the cars shipped. That one turned out to be shady and was quickly pulled down. We found this ad working off a tip from a BangShift.com reader and discovered one of the super rare (only 16 out of 50) automatic transmission cars is up for electronic grabs.

Personally, we’re more fond of the manual transmission cars but we’re not going to pretend that the manual valve-body automatic would be a disadvantage, in fact it will probably run quicker once it is all sorted out.

Adding to the fun of this car is the fact that it has the “good” motor. Meaning that it is equipped with the all aluminum, 4.0L blower equipped 5.4 engine that is an upgrade. It is rated at 475 hp and if you believe that, we have a bridge to sell you.

We’re guessing that Bill Talley Ford in Virginia is hoping to see a bidding war break out for this car on eBay. Most of the dealers we know that got these cars had them pre-sold or at least had a list of potential buyers. If you have $80,000 laying around, you can get in on the action and make a bid. Pay up sucka!

Thanks for the tip BangShift.com forum member OldRustyCars!

Source — eBay Motors — 2010 Mustang Super Cobra Jet