Category Archive: BangShift XL, eBay Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS, XL Online Find

Camp Wagon: This 1979 Plymouth TrailDuster Is The Camping Rig Your Dad Wished He Had

“Camping” in my family meant one of two things: either we rolled out the old Coleman pop-up trailer out into the middle of the field and me and my brother lived semi-independently for the...

Maybe Too Demonic: FCA Recalling Certain Hemi-Powered Cars For “Unpredictable Acceleration”

Remember back a few years ago, when Toyota had the whole “unintended acceleration” issue that resulted in lawsuits, fines, government interference and a field day for wanna-be comedians?...

Epic Trolling: We’d Put This 1978 Dodge Challenger On The Street In Seconds!

Chad actually rolls his eyes far enough into the back of his head that he can inspect his brain whenever I start talking about any Chrysler product made after 1974. They’re the wrong years,...

Rough Start: Classic Jeeping In A 1984 Jeep CJ-7 – Can You Patch A Panel?

The Jeep CJ is the variation that many still picture in their heads when the word is uttered. Two round headlights, two round marker lights, one big speedometer in the center of the dash. My dad had...

Rumor Mill: Courier Reborn? Ford Is Looking At A New, Unibody Pickup For The Future

So Ford has quit the car game, minus the Mustang and whatever the Focus Active is supposed to be. Purists weep, gearheads point fingers and make arguments and the public continues to eat up anything...

Rough Start: A Neat Little Toyota Truck Hiding A Secret Under That Hood!

Surely you can have some fun for five grand with a bit of Craigslist hunting, right? Of course you can! You might not get the LS6 Chevelle of your dreams, but you can get something that you can drive...

Money No Object: It Might Not Be The Street Racer Special, But This 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne Is Still A Hot Ticket!

Last year I found footage of what I believe to be this very car running…and the noise alone it makes is worth it. Could it be a cop car? Who knows. For all anyone knows, there was just a hot...

The Swan Song: The Corvette ZR1 Is The Final Form Of The C7 Platform

The ZR1 is the final form of the C7 Corvette. GM admits this freely, though they won’t say squat about what’s coming down the pike. (The tours through Bowling Green Assembly are still a...

Again, Really? A Chrysler Lot In Detroit Has Seven Cars Swiped Off Of It With Security Present!

In the third time in half a year, an FCA vehicle lot has been hit by a gang of vehicle thieves, who this time were targeting Dodge Chargers. In the early hours of Sunday morning, the group broke...

Just Drive It! Nothing Is Better Than Putting A Dodge Viper GTS To Work!

The Dodge Viper GTS…when the original RT/10 roadster showed it’s face in production form, it was simply a great nod to the AC/Shelby Cobra and Carroll Shelby’s legacy. It was also a...

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Rough Start: This 1974 Mercury Comet Is A Need-Nothing Starting Point For Something Fun!

Even as a fan of the Mustang II, I can say that Ford really screwed up by not making the second-gen Mustang more like the Ford Maverick and it’s twin, the Mercury Comet. The Falcon platform...

Classic YouTube: Meeting The 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo…It Was A Solid Effort!

The Dodge Daytona of the 1980s was proof of a couple of things. One was that Chrysler had zero trouble recycling names…”Daytona” had last been seen on a late-B body Charger as a...

Shelby Meets Crown Vic: Cleetus’s “Project Neighbor” Crown Victoria Is A Monster!

Cleetus has been working on “Project Neighbor”, a hybrid of a Ford Police Interceptor and what was left of a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 that had been balled up pretty badly....

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Another One Returns To The Road: This Bullnose Ford Gets A Second Lease On Life!

Heritage vehicles don’t exist in my family. They don’t stick around long enough. Looking back over thirty-plus years of vehicles, and not one lasted longer than ten years. The ’82...