Category Archive: BangShift News, FORD
Minnesota State Trooper Pulls Over Deathtrap Pinto, Takes Pictures. Roadkill, Eat Your Heart Out.
(Editor’s note: As we continue to creep towards New Year’s Day, it is fun to look back over 2014 and see the blog items that really got people’s attention. This was one of them, a...
Ford Confirms Formation of “Ford Performance” and Upcoming Focus RS
Details of Ford’s plans have started to appear a good month early of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and even the tiny confirmations are certainly hinting towards an...
Rough Start: A 4.6 Thunderbird Begging For The Rude-And-Crude Treatment
Fresh off of my quick trip to Kansas this last weekend, I figured I’d troll through the Craigslist to see what is out there for sale. There are all sorts of cars and trucks for sale along I-70,...
Question Of The Day: What Hot Ford Would You Like To See From The 2015 North American International Auto Show?
When it comes to playing poker, Ford sucks at keeping a straight face, and if you were at the table playing with them, right now is about the time you might want to make very sure your cards are...
Another Barris Bomb on Ebay: The 1972 “Bugazzi”, The Lincoln Mark IV That Found Huggy Bear’s Wardrobe
Oh, my dear sweet lord. For the last couple of days it seems that my luck has been in finding some of George Barris’s most frightening creations. First it was the “Travolta Fever”...
The Revival, Part 2: Our Super Duty Gets Straightened Out And Cleaned Up
The last time we checked in on the nearly-totalled 2001 Ford F-250, it had just rolled off the trailer and into the yard for an assessment of the damage, and there was plenty of it. The rear end had...
A Stalled Experiment: The Ford GN34 Program
It was first seen as a wild-ass one-off test mule…at one point in time been a first-gen Ford EXP that had gotten the IMSA bodykit treatment. There were box fender flares all around, the quarter...
Ebay Find: 1969 Ford LTD Country Squire 429…Who Needs An SUV When You Can Have This?
This one is so sweet it hurts my teeth. The lime-gold paint, the perfect wood paneling, the clean interior..the 429 under the hood…yes, this rules all. Keep your Navigator, your MKC or...
Would You Rather, The Big 1980’s Coupe Edition!
While there are many who would disagree, the mainstay of hot rods, street machines, muscle cars and projects in the United States are two-doors. The four door body style puts off an air of...
Success Story: Dude Who Spoofed Lincoln Ad To Sell His Car To See Slayer Got Free Tickets. Here’s The Story…
Jake is a Slayer fan to the core. And Jake is like the rest of us, plugging away at a job to pay the bills. When he heard that Slayer was going to play The Forum in Inglewood, California, he reviewed...
Automotive Insanity Defined: Ken Block’s AWD, 845hp Mustang Gymkhana Car
Ken Block’s entire career has pretty much ran non-stop on the result of taking the established concept of car control and launching that book into a woodchipper. Ever since the original...
Rough Start: This 1979 Thunderbird Is Far From Rough, And The Price Is Nice
Life on a budget does not have to suck. You are not relegated to some early 1990’s FWD turd that not only can’t get out of it’s own way but was so neglected over the years that it...
Meet the EcoSport Storm: This Is What Happens When Ford Combines Their Smallest SUV With Their Most Insane Truck
From the Sao Paulo Auto Show in Brazil, we bring you another tasty little tiny 4×4. This time it’s Ford that has something that might bridge the gap between go-anywhere ability and decent...
Lincoln Infusing $5 Billion Into New Platforms In A Move That Screams “Give Me One More Chance, Baby!”
Two facts must be stated when it comes to Lincoln Motor Company: 1. Ford has been giving Lincoln the shaft since at least the late 1990’s, if not earlier. 2. Lincoln really hasn’t done...