Category Archive: BangShift XL, CHEVY, XL Online Find
Blog War: No Hard Work Required With This Caddy-Powered 1953 Chevrolet Flatbed
Brian took a safe swing today with the Ford wrecker. Does it tick all of the right check marks? Of course, and it’s in decent shape to boot. While I struggle to understand how someone who...
Blog War: This 1954 Ford F600 Wrecker Has Lived In A Body Shop For Three Decades And Is Minto
So the dually blog war is in full swing now. Both Bryan and I fired our opening shots yesterday and we’re back today. Since he started off with a heavy duty truck, I’m following up with...
Blog War: This 1972 Ford Country Squire Dually Station Wagon Is The Best Of About 50 Worlds
McTaggart was spittin’ mad after his public defeat during our station wagon blog war last week so he started yelling over the fence at me about duallies and how he was really going to take me...
Blog War: The First Strike Is Delivered By A B-1…This Restomodded 1949 Dodge B-1
Just because the Wagon War wound down doesn’t mean that I agreed to a ceasefire. Watching Lohnes slide the pocket ace that was that L72 Kingswood drag wagon was like pouring jet fuel on a tire...
Ebay Jaw Dropper: The World’s Only 33 Window VW Bus Is For Sale In Hawaii And The Price Is As Long As The Thing Itself
I am not a “VW person” per se. I like cool old VWs as much as the next guy but I don’t live and die by them. That being said, I was blown away by this cool VW bus which has been...
This 1962 Willys Station Wagon Is Cool, Needs Work, And In Stock Form Would Lose A Drag Race To A Steam Tractor
So McTaggart and I have essentially agreed to end the station wagon blog war that we have been engaged in over the last couple of weeks. Much like the Korean War, we have not declared a truce or...
The Camaro TRAR Or The Kids In The Photos? Which Is Cooler?
When BangShifter Tyler Garrett, who drives a 4000 horsepower Coast Guard Cutter by the way, sent us this Craigslist ad for a 4th Gen Camaro TRAR (Truck Car), the email just said “Welcome to...
A British Airways Boeing 777 Set A New Speed Record Across The Atlantic – Just Barely Under The Speed Of Sound!
A British Airways Boeing 777-200 just set a speed record on the New York-London route by using the jet stream to bring the wide body jet to within 16 mph of the speed of sound. BA114 completed the...
Blog War Secret Weapon: An Immaculate 1939 Ford Woody Wagon 4×4 – This Thing Is AMAZING
Look, we’ve both rolled out wagons with crappy fake woodgrain on the sides but I’m the first to actually drop the woody hammer in this blog war and I am dropping it HARD. My choice for...
Blog War: This 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Custom Cruiser Wagon Is Beyond Reproach (And Better Than Anything McTaggart Will Find)
You’ll have to excuse the fact that I took a couple days off of what has turned into a Soviet/US Cold War style situation here at BangShift regarding station wagons and how wrong Bryan...
Barrett-Jackson Preview: Forget The High-Dollar Stuff And Check Out This Knockout 1977 Ford!
All eyes are on the upcoming Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction, mainly due to the Ron Pratte collection going across the block. But if you take the time and dig through the docket on the B-J...
This 1974 Jeep CJ7 Brush Buggie Is One Heck Of An Off Road Fire Fighting Rig And It Could Be Yours!
I’ve got to thank old school BangShifter Stiney for the tip on this awesome little firefighting rig called a Jeep “Brush Buggie”. Built by the company of the same name, it is a Cj7...
Blog Fight: The Wagon Battle Escalates With This Sweet Ford Country Squire – FE Power, Patina, A Winner For Sure
Look, this station wagon fight that McTaggart started with me (as history will show, NOT the other way around) may rage on for days. This could turn into the station wagon equivalent of WWI with each...
Somebody Built A Honda Accord Dually And Now They Want You To Buy It
Every single person I know, plus relatives, and even a distant cousin we assumed had been eaten by cannibals sent me emails, texts, or carrier pigeon notes on the existence of this car and the fact...