Category Archive: BangShift XL, MOPAR, TRUCKS, XL Truck News
Unveiled: Ram’s New Multifunction Tailgate For Half-Tons – Swing However You’d Like To!
Not to be outdone with press releases from both Ford and GM, Ram has announced a new feature for their half-ton pickup trucks. It’s called the multifunction tailgate and it works like this: in...
Rough Start: A V8 AMC Eagle, Just Like Kenosha Should Have Made!
We have nothing against the American Motors 258ci inline-six. It is a damn durable engine, one that can be built to make healthy power, and is based on an engine platform that stuck around for...
Sport Truck Meets Pro Street: This 1989 Chevrolet C-1500 Is Two Eras In One
Welcome to pretty much every magazine I read as a young child. Outside of the copies of 4Wheel and Off-Road that my stepdad read and all of the Dirt Wheels that I was thumbing through during my...
Two Oldsmobiles, One Decision: Which One Would You Pick?
So here’s the deal: I was intending to find yet another Rough Start budget find while searching through the Yakima, Washington Craigslist page. I entered my usual inputs: owner only, must have...
Into The Nines! The Auction Mistake Corvette Comes Out Of The Gate Swinging With It’s Powerglide Swap!
Cleetus might be a love or hate kind of personality, but you have to remember one thing: it’s a character. Don’t act all surprised. But a character is what is needed sometimes…and...
Unveiled: The 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD Line – 35,500 Pounds Towing, 910 Foot-Pounds Of Torque
The timing seems just too coincidental for this announcement. In the same time that Ford announces the return of the large-cube gasoline V8, GM has unveiled the 2020 Silverado HD lineup that will...
Rough Start: Reliving Past Sins In A 1977 Chevrolet Impala Coupe
I got my first car when I was twelve, a mid-1970s Camaro that had more rot than potential. I went through a few rollers afterwards, mostly early G-body Cutlasses. Then came the Impala, the first car...
Money No Object: The 1955 Chrysler Ghia ST Special – The Banker’s Got Taste!
Chrysler’s Letter Cars got a reputation as the “banker’s hot rod” due to their impressive speed combined with their size and luxurious outfitting. Starting with the C-300,...
44 Years Lost, This Mustang Is Being Woken Up To Make Up For Lost Time!
How does a car just fall off of the map for decades at a time? How do you just park a car somewhere, forget about it and decide to just move along, especially when said car is one that from the...
Challenge Accepted: We’d Love To Let This 1989 Chevy Corvette Challenge Racer Rip!
When you’re so good that you get banned from the series which you were racing in, that’s a good day. That’s what happened to the Corvette team who had absolutely spanked anything...
Rough Start: Alternative Studies With A 1968 Mercury Montego MX
From the moment I started to understand platform sharing, I couldn’t understand why one version was more expensive than the other. A Fox Mustang versus a Fox Thunderbird, or a Chevrolet Caprice...
Boss Move: Yanking The Wheels On Your Licensing Pass In Your Turbo LS Chevy LUV
“Dude, don’t worry. If you wind up in prison, you just establish dominance. Find the biggest dude in the place and whoop his ass. Nobody will mess with you then.” Oh, to be young...
Big Comfy Beast: Who Wants A Four-Speed 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix?
“Personal Luxury Coupe”. See also: big, slower than it should be, overstuffed, pretentious, baroque, disco barge…do I need to continue? It is difficult to equate the change from the...
