Category Archive: Car Features, FORD
A Family Affair: This 1966 Ford Fairlane 500XL Is A Well-Built Beauty With That One Sin Under The Hood…
Every car build needs a spark. Something has to speak to the buyer of a forlorn car left in the weeds, and for Brian Allen, that spark came in the form of a car from his father’s past, a 1966...
Mental Note: Use Less Boost! Watch This LSx Mustang Get All Four Wheels Off Of The Ground At LS Fest!
One good thing about LS Fest: if it hit the strip, it was set to kill. Nobody wants to be the guy holding back during the three-day love letter to GM’s late-model blocks during racing. We saw...
Gymkhana Nine! Ken Block Tears Up Buffalo After Australia Has A Panic Attack Over His Take On “Hooning”!
By all rights, the latest and greatest Gymkhana film from Ken Block and the Hoonigan crew is lock-step with the last eight: Block, this time in one of the two Ford Focus RS RX vehicles on the planet,...
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...
Unhinged: A Tribute To The Ultimate Beater, Courtesy Of This 1973 Ford Torino
Not every car deserves to be saved. Some deserve to just be used, abused and fixed up to be abused again, because not every car ever sold was a museum-quality, ultra-rare, whatever the hell model...
Rough Start: Buy A 1978 Ford Granada And Get Two Engines As Well!
My opinion of the Ford Granada is well-known here: nope. They are an over-dressed Maverick, which means that really, they are nothing more than a gussied-up 1960 Ford Falcon, from the “that...
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...
Act Perfectly Normal: This 1978 Mercury Zephyr Station Wagon Is A Sleeper Fan’s Sleeper!
Okay, so it’s lowered just a bit. It still looks like Grandma Anne’s Mercury wagon has just seen the light of day after sitting in the garage ever since she stopped driving in 1991. Cream...
BangShift Project Follow-Up: The LeMons Rally Edsel – Finished, Driven and Now For Sale!
Whenever Jim Forbes takes on a project, we perk up and pay attention. It’s not because Jim has been a BangShifter since before BangShift actually existed or because the cars he’s most...
Question Of The Day: Where’s The Other Third Of This 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis?
Confession: I’ve always wanted a two-door 1988-1991 Mercury Grand Marquis. Compared to the 1987 and older Marquis coupes that Mercury did sell, the lines look smoother and aged better in my...
Rough Start: This 1984 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe Five-Speed Needs Nothing!
Fox hunting is almost too easy on Craigslist. It’s simple: pick your body, pick your tolerance for condition, plug in a number and mile range and go. If you aren’t stuck on Mustangs,...
Are Ford GTs Really Worth $400,000? Doug DeMuro Checks One Out To See Why
We aren’t supercar guys around here, it’s just a fact. It has something to do with real-world incomes and that we could scare most of them off with a Dodge sedan if the need truly arose...
Rough Start: A 1972 Thunderbird In Detroit – Paint It Red, Add A Blower…
As you read this, I’m rolling north and will soon set eyes on the Detroit Metro area for the first time. Like most places I’ve traveled, it’s hard to go in without a preconceived...