Category Archive: BangShift News, MOPAR
Friday’s Reason To Go Home And Drink: The End Of The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon
The serious legends of power from the 1960s and 1970s were lauded for being monstrous. Torque on demand. Horsepower for days. Enough tire-melting good times that even today big money trades over...
Arms Race, Pt. 2: Will The Viper Make A Comeback?
After a run that honestly was much longer than anybody could’ve predicted, the Dodge Viper came to an end, it’s V-10 snarl to be no more, it’s creation station to become a museum....
BangShift Top 11: McTag’s Selections From Gateway Classic Cars’ Nashville Shop!
One day a year I get to act like I’m something important and today is that day. Somehow, between teenage stupidity, the military, heroic amounts of alcohol over the years and many, MANY bad...
Unhinged: An SRT Jeep And Enough Leash To Hang Myself With
It’s no secret that I’d take just about any and every SRT-labeled product that FCA currently sells if I could swing the costs. Pick your poison, you can’t go wrong. Two door coupe,...
Moulin Rouge: This 1973 Plymouth ‘Cuda Is A Resto-Modded Beast With Stunning Beauty!
Buying into a project car that was someone else’s vision always brings about a re-working. It’s the curse of the hobby…someone had a plan, that plan left with a bill of sale to a...
Money No Object: This 1969 Dodge Charger 500 Is The Pinnacle B-Body Mopar!
Dodge and Ford were at each other’s throats over NASCAR supremacy in the 1960s, and it was a consistently escalating war. Engines were getting bigger and more powerful, to the point that...
Unhinged: Rekindling An Old Flame With A Six-Speed SRT Challenger
As you’ve seen recently, I’ve been lucky enough to make friends at some of the local dealerships. This allows me to get behind the wheel of some vehicles that ordinarily I’d never...
9.90s And Plated: SRTMush’s Challenger Demon Was Whipping Up At ChallengerFest 9!
With ChallengerFest in the books until next Spring, we have time to reflect a bit on what we saw. We didn’t see too many Jeeps out playing this time…we can only assume that some WKs were...
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4×4 – Was The Wait Worth It?
Call it a Ram, call it a Dodge, call it whatever you want…but know one fact above all others about Ma Mopar’s pickup truck design theory: you wait until you’ve bled out every last...
ChallengerFest 9: Chargers, Hellcats And Demons Descend Upon Bowling Green!
Springtime in Kentucky…and there is a lot to look forward to. Sunny days, warming temperatures, the occasional tornado, and the noise that is a pack of late-model Hemi freaks pouring into town...
ChallengerFest 9 Will Have A Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Up For Auction Courtesy Of Racing4Vets!
Friday, April 13th, 2017 kicks off ChallengerFest 9 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. If you have any kind of positive feeling for anything modern Mopar related and you haven’t checked out the...
All Show, And Even A Little Go: Take A Closer Look At The Dodge Aspen Kit Car
It’s The Other F-body…the one that doesn’t work well with connoisseurs. The Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volaré were supposed to take over the role of bread-and-butter sales leader...
BangShift Test Drive: 2016 Ram 1500 Tradesman Hemi – The Best Option For A Late-Model Build Or A Stripped Penalty Box?
I know what you are thinking and I’ll spare you asking it yourself: why in the hell would I bother testing a two-year-old stripper work truck? Well, it comes down to a couple of facts that are...
FCA Is Holding A Housecleaning Auction: Buy Items From Connor Avenue, Support United Way!
As FCA works on getting the Connor Avenue Assembly Plant prepped and ready to become the next museum for the company, part of the work that needs to be done is a housecleaning of sorts at the plant....