Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, CHEVY, FORD, MOPAR
Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?
You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...
Caption This: Somehow, Some Way, This Has To Be Rebeldryver’s Fault.
Would you want to be a stretch limo driver? I would only do the job if it involved a route that went between Topeka, Kansas and Denver, because the only place that operating a real stretch limo...
Best Of 2015: Wickedness In Silver – The “Sudden Death” 1975 Ford Mustang II
Everybody knows the feeling of wanting to be on top. Many try, many fail, some succeed. What a lot of people fail to recognize is that failure is part of the program. If you don’t fail, you...
Best Of BS 2015: Happiness Is Running A Snotty F100 Through An Autocross Like You Own The Place
This is pretty much what a Craftsman Truck would look like circa 1971, and that’s awesome to us. This Ford F100 makes the right noises, dances properly, and rips through the cones of this Texas...
Best Of BS 2015: The Kibbetech-built Crown Victoria Prerunner Is Stirring Up Ideas In Our Heads
Soak in that visual for a second: a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria prerunner. Everything but four wheel drive is present and accounted for: ‘cage, flared out fenders, suspension with good travel,...
Best Of BS 2015: Here’s All The Fun You Could Be Having If You Jammed A Blown 5.4L V8 Into A Crown Victoria
“Quickcrownvic” took one look at his Ford Crown Victoria and sighed. The 4.6L V8 just wasn’t doing the trick anymore. At maybe 240 horsepower on a good day, there just wasn’t...
Daring To Be Different? How About Two Different Takes On The Ford Ranger?
All it takes to turn a regular, run of the mill, don’t think twice about it vehicle into something pretty special is talent and a vision. And if there is one vehicle that needs a vision,...
Best of BS 2015: Short Street Rod Shop Tour: This 1955 Ford Fairlane Street Freak Has A Street Racing Past And A Great Future Ahead Of It!
Karma is a beautiful thing. At last year’s Holley Hot Rod Reunion, I shot Jensen Masters’ altered-wheelbase 1964 Rambler American as one of my first feature shoots. I was happy to have...
Best Of BS 2015: This 1985 Mercury Grand Marquis Packs A Frame Swap, Modern Running Gear, And A Style All It’s Own – Meet The Mod Box
As the champion of both 1980s restomods and the “dare to be different” guy, you have no idea how taken I was to see a Mercury Grand Marquis coupe in black and chrome, dumped down on...
Rough Start: Stretching The Budget A Bit, But Where Else Are You Going To Find A Convertible Ford Crown Victoria?
If we ever stretch past the budget in one of our Rough Start features, it is because we feel that the car is close enough to the spirit of the budget to warrant a look, and that’s where we find...
Last Minute Christmas Shopping: A Rare Kenny Bernstein Mercury LN7 Flopper-Bodied Go Kart
Just a few days until Christmas and you’re just NOW shopping? Tsk, tsk. You should know that the best gifts are the ones purchased after you’ve battled maddening hoards of shoppers while...
Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!
I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...
Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?
If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...
