Category Archive: Car Features, MOPAR
BangShift Project Files: A 1971 Dodge D100 For A First Truck
I remember my first car. I remember bragging my ass off about a rotted-out ’76 Camaro that looked like Old Bumblebee on meth. I remember pulling the carpet out of the car and seeing the grass I...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: The New Mitsubishi SUV, The New Big Caddy, And Your New Mustache Ride!
Another week, another weak set of stories that came down the pipes in the vain hopes that someone would take the time to read them. Do they appeal to somebody? Maybe, but as far as we’re...
Gratuitous Burnout: This 660HP 1969 Super Bee Is Just The Thing For Your Thursday
We don’t know what is powering this 1969 Dodge Super Bee, and frankly, we really don’t care. Whatever lives underneath that hood has more than enough entertainment potential to satisfy...
Some Deals From The 2015 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction – At Least A Few Cars Weren’t Priced Through The Stratosphere!
Barrett-Jackson equals stupid money. We’ve known this combination for years, yet somehow we still pay attention to the train wreck of “more money than brains” in the desert as cars...
Blog War: The First Strike Is Delivered By A B-1…This Restomodded 1949 Dodge B-1
Just because the Wagon War wound down doesn’t mean that I agreed to a ceasefire. Watching Lohnes slide the pocket ace that was that L72 Kingswood drag wagon was like pouring jet fuel on a tire...
BangShift Tune Up: “The Best Things” By Filter (1999)
It’s a Monday morning and it’s time to get motivated. Yours truly is either running around the garage trying to get things accomplished on the car while the weather is tolerable, or is...
This Aussie Charger Is Packing A Turbocharged Hemi-6 That’s Good For Low Nines In The Quarter
Some cars just can’t be a sleeper anymore, and the Australian Valiant Charger is one of them. Chrysler Australia’s main Mopar muscle car, the Charger and it’s 265ci Hemi-6 was a...
Ebay Find: This Turbocharged Big-Block Dodge A100 Is The Fine Line Between Sleeper And Insanity
Seeing a Dodge A100 isn’t a common event outside of a car show. If you do, you might see a dead stocker puttering along somewhere in the Southwest, or maybe someone held onto their ’70s...
Would You Rather, The Military Pickup Truck Edition! Will It Be CUCV or M880?
When the restrictions were lifted late last year on the sale of ex-military HMMWVs, we were excited for a moment, only to have our excitement dashed at learning that there was absolutely no possible...
NAIAS 2015: Cadillac CTS-V, Ram Rebel, And More Ford GT News
Day two of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit is still rife with new vehicles and other interesting bits. Here’s some of the more interesting pieces from Tuesday’s...
Craigslist Find: Is This The Bullitt Charger? For The Money, It Had Better Be
Bullitt‘s place as an iconic film is sealed. Steve McQueen, a green Ford Mustang chasing a black Dodge Charger, San Francisco, and all of those flying hubcaps as the cars race on. It’s...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Buick Goes Topless, Viper Goes Custom, And Corvette Goes DIY
New year, same old ingredients: take press releases hyping new products we could care less about, cars that don’t come close to our radar, and some of the worst quotes and diatribe from the...
Rough Start: This 1970 Plymouth Duster Trar Is Rough, Alright, But It’s Set Up For A Big-Block – What Do You Think?
Tucson, Arizona…land of dead airplanes, scalding temperatures, and BangShifter Joe Haber, who spends his free moments of the day hunting through the pristine metal around his area. Joe also...
Best of 2014: Left For Dead In A Ditch: The Newfoundland Ravine Daytona
The photos look like a crime scene. The remnants of a T5 Copper 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona lay scattered, crushed, picked apart by parts looters among the trees and brush of a ravine in Newfoundland,...