Category Archive: CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, MOPAR, TRUCKS
SEMA 2016: Check Out What Omix-ADA Brought To The Show (Besides The Crackdown On Parts Fakers!)
Omix-ADA just might have stolen the show at SEMA 2016 this year, all due to the crackdown on Chinese parts counterfeiters. It’s kind of hard to get past the fact that the U.S. Marshals came in...
STAMPEDE! Hundreds Of Dodge Rams Take Over The Nurburgring For A World Record!
When I was traveling through Ireland and the UK a couple of years ago, I noticed one thing among all others in regards to cars: American cars of any kind are such a rarity that it actually catches...
SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)
If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...
Hold Lohnes Back: This Coyote-Swapped 1979 Ford F-100 Pro Streeter Is Shop Truck Sweetness!
Everybody jokes about how there is always a Camaro-related story for everybody. It’s not too farfetched, but my money says that for every one Camaro story, there’s two out there that...
Just What Brian Needs: A 1954 Dodge Job-Rated Truck With A 331 Hemi!
You know what we haven’t seen a lot of in a while? Big, lumbering trucks that are right up Lohnes’s alley. You know the kind: Classic styling, a torque-monster mill that is hooked to a...
Cute-utes, Meet Your Monster: This 1977 Jeep Cherokee Chief Is Excellent!
Cute-utility vehicles (I’m sorry, I mean “crossovers”) are a plague on the roadways of America. It is a vehicle composed completely of compromise: I want utility, but I want...
eBay Find: A 1976 Dodge StreetVan…Anybody Have A Use For A Disco Van With A Furry Roof?
“Disco Van”. What do you picture when you read those words? If it’s anything other than a Dodge B-van from the 1970s, I’ll be shocked. Dodge vans were so attached to the van...
Clean And Cared For: This 1978 Dodge D300 Car Hauler Is Gorgeous!
Oooh, this speaks to us in all of the right tones. A Dodge D-series one-ton ramp truck? Sign us right up…we love the 1970s era Dodges, we love big-block Mopars, we love purposeful trucks and we...
Rough Start: Don’t Want To Work On Your Project? This 1977 Ford Ranchero Is For You!
Remember your first car and how you couldn’t afford to have it down for anything longer than an weekend at most? Sure, you had dreams of swapping engines and all sorts of stuff, but in reality...
Rough Start: This 1973 Datsun 620 Can Be Your Starter Shop Truck!
I have a strange fascination with 1972-79 Datsun 620 trucks. Actually, I actually kind of like all Nissan/Datsun trucks made after 1972 for one reason or another, but if I’ve gotta pick just...
Rough Start: This 1972 Ford F-100 Needs…Nothing More Than A New Home!
Ok, the Rough Start schtick is pretty much set in stone: find something on Craigslist that might be BangShift-worthy…sometimes not…and proceed to explain in so many words just how far you...
Money No Object: This 1983 Ford Ranger Prerunner Only Exists To Have A Blast In!
A prerunner truck…a true pre runner, not some hacked-up truck with fiberglass panels…only serves two purposes: it’s a riot of a four-wheeled toy and, as far as I’m concerned...
