Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: This 1979 Ford Mustang Turbo Indy Pace Car Will Make For A Great Project Start!
I’m breaking one of the Rough Start rules for this 1979 Mustang Indy Pace Car: bring a trailer, son, because this Mustang isn’t running anytime soon. Surprised? You shouldn’t be....
Rough Start: This Primer-Gray 1973 Mustang Looks Like A Lot Of Fun Ready To Go!
What is it about a car in primer, with the right wheels and stance, that somehow works? Normally, I have a strong aversion to gray primer anything…too many cars from my past were hastily...
How Would You Build It: This 1972 Mercury Cougar Droptop Can Be Saved From Itself!
“This a ’72 Cougar that I bought. Was not what I was looking for, my loss is your gain.” Wow…kind of harsh words for an otherwise fairly straight droptop Mercury. The Cougar...
Random Car Review: The 1990 Kelly Python – Part Fox, Part Bird, All Mystery
If you’re opening act was the absolute bombshell, the second act is kind of screwed over in a way. They will never be as good as what came first, no matter what, and they will always linger in...
Throwback Videos: Corner-Carving With A Late-Model Mustang
With my focus set on a Ford Mustang of some kind recently, I couldn’t resist going back and looking at old footage of a car I dubbed “Project Mock One” about a month after I traded...
Half The Budget Gets You A Rough Start Fox Mustang Find…It’s Even California Legal!
It baffles me how cheap Fox Mustangs are. It really does. Not that it’s anything to complain about, it’s just that when a car becomes iconic for performance, has the ability to become...
This 1982 Ford Mustang GT Isn’t Grandpa-Fresh…It’s Grandpa-Built, And The Old Man Went Insane!
1982 was the year that Ford’s Mustang finally shook off the funk of the Malaise Era and started getting it’s act into gear. It was a long time coming. The Mustang II Cobra started working...
Would You Consider This 1983 Ford Escort Lowrider Historical Or Heresy?
I like lowriders, maybe more than I should probably admit here at BangShift. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to own anything with hydraulics, a trunk full of batteries or anything like...
Massive Flop Or Misunderstood Massive Flop? Check Out The Story Of The Edsel Here!
The Edsel brand stands in history as one of the most spectacular and legendary failures in the automotive age. It’s not difficult to see why: it was overhyped, it was another chrome-laden land...
Just Like They Used To Be: Would You Leave This 1975 Ford Maverick Grabber Stock?
They were everywhere when I was a little kid. Blue, yellow, green, red, white, and every shade of brown under the sun…you couldn’t turn a street corner in Colorado Springs in the late...
You Thought The Lil’ Red Express Was The Hot Ticket Truck In The Seventies? How About A Ford Indy Pace Truck – Half Ton And 460 Power!
The story of how the Dodge managed to turn the D-series pickup into some of the most exciting performance products of the late 1970s is well known: the company found a loophole that allowed trucks...
Wasn’t Expecting Nines: This Twin-Turbocharged Late-Model Mustang Runs Hard!
Straight off of the showroom floor, the new Mustang GTs are runners: they will easy sit right on the 13.0 quarter mile line all day long in stock form, and if you optioned gears deeper than 3.73,...
BangShift Adoption Services: This 1961 Ford Falcon Is In Need Of A Loving Home!
Whenever I get a text from Jensen Masters at Short Street Rod Shop, I know I’m gonna see some good stuff. From the moment I met the guy three years ago, he has had nothing but some of the most...
