Category Archive: BangShift News, Event Coverage, MOPAR, OTHER
SEMA 2017: FCA/Mopar Will Livestream Their Press Conference Straight From The Show!
Oct 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on SEMA 2017: FCA/Mopar Will Livestream Their Press Conference Straight From The Show!
If you aren’t lucky enough to be on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center on Halloween, don’t worry: FCA has a treat for you anyways! This year the Mopar Press Conference will be...
Rough Start: We Hunt The Vegas Craigslist For A Low-Buck Project, One For Each! Which One Would You Take Home?
Oct 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart7
The three of us are within days of making our yearly migration to Las Vegas, Nevada, to perform our duties at the 2017 SEMA show. There will be photo galleries by the ton as we analyze what’s...
The White-Out: This 1979 Chrysler Three Hundred Is A Tempting Offer On The Table
Oct 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart5
The Chrysler Cordoba was the one bright spot during the second half of the Seventies for Chrysler Corporation. While Monacos, New Yorkers and Newports stacked up in lots, while the Aspen and Volaré...
The Brick House: This Australian Chrysler 300C Is A Ten-Second Street Sweeper!
Oct 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Brick House: This Australian Chrysler 300C Is A Ten-Second Street Sweeper!
Here in the States, the Chrysler 300 has gone from an iconic rebirth sedan to rental-car fodder in three facelifts. The 300 SRT model was axed in 2015 for the U.S. market since some genius within FCA...
The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!
Oct 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...
Rough Start: This Effing Jeep Has The Best Argument For It Ever!
Oct 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart3
We here at BangShift do our best to keep our site family friendly…at least, we stay within a PG-13 area for sure. But catch us in person sometime…we all are human, and we all can easily...
Like Finding Bigfoot Hair: This Dodge Daytona Wing Is Purported To Be The 1970 Daytona Prototype’s Unit!
Oct 17, 2017Bryan McTaggart4
Chrysler legend and lore when it comes to the Musclecar Era is a strange thing. There is no mystery to where all eleven 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles wound up, but there are many...
Walk Softly: This 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury Looks Gorgeous. Look Underhood If You Want Your Excuse To Buy It.
Sep 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart8
Elwood Engel’s slab-sided design theme was the dominant feature of the mid to late 1960s Chrysler lineup. Engel, who had been instrumental in keeping Lincoln alive during his tenure at Ford,...
Meet The Hellcat Durango. Because Your Kids Don’t Scream Loud Enough As It Is…
Sep 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Meet The Hellcat Durango. Because Your Kids Don’t Scream Loud Enough As It Is…
“Hellcat all the things!” That meme-tastic quote might be a bit of a punchline, but it’s not too far from the truth at Dodge, either. Charger, Challenger, and a Jeep are all sold...
Boost, Baby, Boost: Watch The Quickest Five-Speed SRT-4 Do It’s Thing In Charlotte!
Sep 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Boost, Baby, Boost: Watch The Quickest Five-Speed SRT-4 Do It’s Thing In Charlotte!
The Dodge Neon SRT-4. If there is one car that doesn’t deserve half the ration of grief that it gets, I’ve got to hand it to Mopar’s solid attempt at kicking Honda fanboys right in...
Shield Your Eyes, Lohnes: This 1968 Dodge D200 Stakebed Is A Big-Block Workhorse!
Sep 20, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
Lohnes and I don’t quite see eye-to-eye when it comes to trucks. We’re close in the fact that we want our trucks to be useful and practical for work above creature comforts, but from...
A Hand-Me-Down Plymouth Duster And A Recycled C6 Corvette Combine Into This Track Monster!
Sep 14, 2017Bryan McTaggart8
A Mopar running around at LS Fest is like seeing a clown run by on fire: you are going to notice, even if you weren’t looking. In the sea of GM products and swapped Fords and Nissans, a...
Two Men Dead After Their Hellcat Challenger Overshot The End Of The Runway Where They Were Test-Driving
Sep 12, 2017Bryan McTaggart10
In a bizarre story that is coming out of Buena Vista, Colorado, we are learning that two men in their seventies have died after what has been claimed as a “test drive” at Central Colorado...
This 1978 Dodge Power Wagon Is MINT! Rubber Floors, Four-Speed, And Desert Kept!
Sep 06, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on This 1978 Dodge Power Wagon Is MINT! Rubber Floors, Four-Speed, And Desert Kept!
Once again, my mind has wandered to a purposeful old truck that is everything you need and nothing more. Maybe it was driving a rented Hyundai that pushed me over the edge, or maybe it was finding...





