Category Archive: BangShift News, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Rumor Mill: FCA Has Green-Lighted A Wrangler Pickup. Don’t Rejoice Just Yet, But Get Ready…
Want a Jeep pickup truck? Have been thinking of nothing but a Jeep pickup truck since the Gladiator concept came out a few years ago? Well, we have some news. We will warn that there is still a grain...
Hot Rod Garage’s 12-Valve Swapped Dodge Gets Some Suspension Rehab And Gets Rid Of The Peg Leg!
Just dumping in an engine powerful enough to stall the Earth’s rotation is not the final answer to a project car…in fact, on it’s own, just adding power without addressing such...
Not A Bad Day At Work: Pitting The Corvette ZO6 Against The Dodge Viper ACR
The Dodge Viper has always made a strange competitor against the Corvette. On paper, it seemed to make sense: two American high-performance rear-drive two seaters that had aspirations of taking on...
Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?
The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...
eBay Find: This 1957 Chrysler New Yorker Wagon Comes Up A Bit Short In Our Eyes
Chrysler’s “Forward Look” lineup for 1957 were gorgeous to look at and were a far cry from just a few years prior. With Elwood Engel on board whipping up designs sharp enough to...
Burnout Monday: Start Your Day Off With A Drifting General Lee From Italy!
If you’ve seen even one episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, you’d believe that the only way to drive a 1969 Dodge Charger on Vector wheels was sideways on dirt. Well…that and the...
Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!
Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...
Best Of 2015: This “1969 Charger” Can Easily Become Yours, If You Have A Howitzer To Trade
First things first…I hate to be the one to correct the owner of this Mopar, but you aren’t looking at a Dodge Charger of any vintage. Though, with that being said, it really doesn’t...
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...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?
“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has...
Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T
Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....
Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!
We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...
You Want Weird But Are On A Budget? How About This 1964 Plymouth Valiant For $3500?
I have to say I’m impressed…after a vacation with the family, for Brian to come back and think of me when he is writing about a car he found online for nearly $70,000…well, I have...
