Category Archive: BangShift News, FORD
Shakeup At Ford: Mark Fields “Retired”, Jim Hackett Now The CEO
May 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart5
(Photo: Ford Motor Company) Mark Fields, the man who took the reins of Ford Motor Company, produced the aluminum F-150 pickup truck, expanded the hot-rod side of the house that is known now as Ford...
Money No Object: Is This 1972 Continental Mark IV The Perfect Lincoln?
May 22, 2017Bryan McTaggart6
“The Perfect Lincoln”…is there really such a thing as “The Perfect _____”? What does that mean? Well, there are two good ways to measure a vehicle in judging whether or...
Turbocharged Barra FTW! This Little Ford Cortina Gets Moving With Six Buzzing!
May 17, 2017Bryan McTaggart3
I’m still working on the culture shock I experienced when it comes to a turbocharged inline-six cylinder engine that can run. For an engine design that I’ve always figured was the...
Classic YouTube: Can A Fox-Body Mustang Survive A Tough-Truck Course?
May 16, 2017Bryan McTaggart4
Where do you draw the line between rally racing and just simply beating the hell out of a car in the dirt for the hell of it? Tough Truck racing. That’s right, Tough Truck ain’t just for...
Classic YouTube: A 1970s Pro Stock Matchup Between Bunny Burnett’s Pinto vs. Jungle George’s Arrow
May 15, 2017Bryan McTaggart5
Towards the mid and late 1970s, Pro Stock cars morphed. What had been filled with cars like Camaros and Mustangs were now filled with small cars. Pintos, Vegas, Mavericks, Monzas, Darts, Mustang IIs...
Money No Object: We’d Use This 1965 Mercury Comet To Run Errands With…Just To Freak People Out!
May 15, 2017Bryan McTaggart8
The further you step out of the normal, the more uncomfortable society, on the whole, becomes about your presence. For example: the other day I had to run a few cars down to get fueled up while we...
The After Hours Hobby: Check Out This Guy’s Garage Creations!
May 08, 2017Bryan McTaggart6
(Photos courtesy of Vince VanDyke) The notification we got in our inbox was simple enough. Gilbert Labonté had a friend he knew that built a couple of badass trucks that we needed to get our eyes...
Rough Start: 1977 Ford LTD – A Mob Sled For Minimal Money!
May 08, 2017Bryan McTaggart7
She’s long and low, black and chrome. A steady rhythm thumps out from the engine, the steam escaping into the night air. They don’t make them like this anymore…haven’t for...
Classic YouTube: All You Need For A Ken Block Parody Is A Ford Painted Right!
May 05, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
Make no mistake, Ken Block’s Gymkhana series of videos set a pretty high bar when they first came out. That was back when Block was still beating the living hell out of prepared Subarus and not...
That’s Just Evil: Someone Finish Building This 1982 Ford Granada!
May 02, 2017Bryan McTaggart7
Yes, there is a reason why you are looking at a dirty, dingy, craptacular 1982 Ford Granada. Probably the most unloved of the Fox platform cars, and one of the shortest-lived (1981-82), the Granada...
The World Has Spoken: The Ford Mustang Is The Best-Selling Sports Car On The Planet!
May 02, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
(Photo: Ford Motor Company) After fifty years of being a mostly American-only piece of forbidden fruit for the rest of the world…gray market exports and the Ford T-5 nonwithstanding…in...
This 1977 Pinto Trar Is A Swiss Army Knife Car – Do Everything At Once!
Apr 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart3
This, folks, is a case of just how many vehicle types you can jam onto one set of wheels. Let’s break this down: you have a 1977 Ford Pinto Cruising wagon, which checks off station wagon,...
Road Trip? This 1978 Mercury Marquis Is Ready To Roll Anywhere!
Apr 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart5
There is a lot of travel going on here at BangShift this week! Chad and Daphne are road-tripping around my neck of the woods on the FM3 Road Trip Cars and Cones deal, and in a couple of days we both...
Money No Object: This 1971 Mercury Cougar XR7 429 Ram Air Is Good As Gold
Apr 25, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
The 1971 restyle for the Mercury Cougar did the model no real favors. The sexiness of the 1969-1970 models got lost in translation as the Cougar, like it’s cousin, the Ford Mustang, got even...