Category Archive: BangShift XL, Craigslist Find, FORD, MOPAR, XL Online Find
The WTF? Files: Check Out This Beast – Part Dodge Magnum, Part Ford Ranger!
The Dodge Magnum station wagon did come with available all-wheel-drive from the factory, essentially Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC system. It was popular in places where snow is an actual concern, or...
Holy Overkill: This 1972 Ford Pinto Looks Ready To Take On Everybody!
Go on…mention the “humble” or “lowly” Ford Pinto. Go ahead…make you “ka-boom!” jokes, hide your lighters just in case, and “accidentally”...
Bangshift Project Files Update: If You Hurry, You Can Own This Ford Truck/Crown Vic Combination!
We’ve looked at Nathan Kershaw’s 1969 Ford F-250 frame swap build before. It’s a neat premise: everything that makes a Crown Vic go, stop and in general be a great sedan, stuffed...
Would You Rather, The Winter Workhorse Edition: Which Would You Take Out In The Cold, The Ford Or The Binder?
Yep, the leaves are finally down, the air has taken a turn for the crisper and colder, and it’s time to give up in the concept of fall and to start settling in for the winter months. While...
Random Car Review: The 1990 Ford F-150 “Street” Concept Truck
I am one of those individuals who has this strange habit: boredom leads to research. It made me pretty popular in school when it came time to dig through encyclopedias. (Yes, I outdate the Internet,...
Rough Start: Cool Can Be In The Last Place You Expect It, Like This 1979 Ford Courier!
The Ford Courier…wow. There’s a throwback. Growing up in Washington State, we had a neighbor lady that owned a white Courier, and I can’t be any more blunt about how much I despised...
Big Mover: This 1978 Ford LTD II Is Encouraging Us In Bad Ways…
It’s a strange phenomenon: Whenever I see slot mags on a mid-1970s Ford, the inner stunt driver starts going psychotic. And what’s even stranger is that voice of reason, the one that...
Begging To Be Romped On: This Five-Speed, 5.4-Swapped Ford Crown Victoria Is The Barge Of Our Dreams!
The Ford Panther platform has been dead for five years now, and most people only acknowledge it’s loss when they realized that they needed to start memorizing another set of headlights to...
This 1975 Ford Falcon XB Is Finished, In The States And Ready To Find A New Home!
Not going to make a Mad Max reference. Not going to re-hash the story of the pilot I knew who drove an XB Fairmont to work every day. Not even going to put out how important this car was to Ford...
Take A Closer Look At One Of The Wilder Cars At SEMA 2016: The “Durty 30” Model A Roadster!
I don’t know if it’s a bad thing or not that I have become a bit jaded to the vehicles that appear at SEMA shows. Not that they all aren’t cool or unique in their own individual...
Money No Object: This 1970.5 Ford Falcon 429 4-speed Was Ford’s Secret Monster!
As we are to understand it, for 1970, Ford was going to go through a large shift in their car department: the Falcon as it was known was going to be replaced by the Ford Maverick, and the Torino was...
Rough Start: This 1976 Ford Elite Is Nice And Is Just A Few Mods Away From Great!
How much longer are you going to be able to find a relatively cheap 1970s car that isn’t beyond hope? Every year I keep thinking that “this will be it”, and every year I find a...
SEMA 2016: Our First Look At The “Project Underdog” 1972 Ford Maverick!
If there was one car that many, many people have been waiting to see at SEMA 2016, this white 1972 Ford Maverick was it: Project Underdog, the car that three teenagers from Alhambra High School in...
