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Category Archive: ENGINES, FORD, MOPAR, Videos

Take Your Sides, It’s The Battle Of The 408 Cubic Inch Small Block Strokers! Ford Versus Mopar!

There’s nothing quite like a head-to-head comparison between two manufacturers to stir up the masses, is there? The fastest way to get sure-fire results in the comments section of a video that...

Massive Muscle: This Lemon Twist 1971 Chrysler New Yorker Could Be Seen From Space!

Anchors aweigh! If there’s one thing we dig here at BangShift, it’s the good old road trip, and while we have our individual choices, I don’t see any issues with offering up one of...

Rough Start: Yes, This Super-Clean 1979 Pontiac LeMans Needs An LS Swap.

We’ve heard just about every possible reason why nobody should ever swap an LS engine into another car ever again. And right now, we don’t care…this grandma-fresh, “Montego...

Old-School Bitchin’! This 8-Second Ford Coupe Is The Runner In The Night They Sang About!

This is the original recipe, right here: take one Ford coupe, stuff as much motor as you can in between the radiator and the firewall, figure out how to keep everything else together, and make sure...

Has The Chevrolet Camaro Become Too Much Of A Sports Car? We Drive A Camaro SS Convertible Back-To-Back Against A C7 Corvette To Find Out!

Something has been bothering me lately about the new Camaro, besides the fact that I barely fit inside of one comfortably: when did Chevrolet decide that being a muscular coupe just wasn’t...

This Monster Chevy Tahoe Is A Beast! ProChargers…They Aren’t Just For Drag Racers!

A tornado is one of Nature’s most fear-inducing phenomena, and for good reason: from beginning to end, there is no good news that comes out of the appearance of a funnel cloud. When the sky...

You Know What Grandpa Needs? That’s Right…Dual Exhaust For The Grand Marquis!

It’s difficult to look at your grandparents and see them as anything other than the kind, polite, old couple that spoil you senseless, isn’t it? I never saw my grandpa Ken as anything...

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Theoretical Build: This 1969 Dodge Charger Looks Like A Plucked Chicken, But It’s Got Every Body Panel And Parts In Boxes. How Would You Finish It?

Finding a 1969 Dodge Charger that is complete enough to make a running and driving car out of for under $10,000 in any condition is like finding the golden ticket in your chocolate bar…stupid...

Morning Symphony: Cutting A Hemi-Powered 1970 Dodge Challenger Loose In A Drift Pit!

The Dodge Challenger may have been seriously late to the pony car party, but as the years have gone on the strange pony car from Dodge has become a sincere icon of the automotive world. With such...

Rough Start: A Super-Clean 1982 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 That Needs A Second Lease On Life!

Matt Graves’ article about potential first car fodder in today’s market was spot-on. Face facts, folks: twenty years ago was 1996, and the cars you would rather see young guns getting...

Money No Object: This 1968 Holden Monaro GTS Bathurst Series 1 Is In The States And Up For Sale!

The one bad thing about being an American fan of Australian cars is that if you really want to enjoy one, you usually have to bring it over yourself. That means paperwork, the hassle of dealing with...

It’s Just Cylinder Six, Nothing More – Watch As This Malibu Wagon Kills ‘Em All Wounded!

There are many tired, hackneyed cliches about never giving up in the face of defeat. And they exist for a reason: You aren’t defeated until you either give up or can’t physically move...

Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Sonic RS Turbo – An Exercise In Masochism Or Is There Something To Like?

Full disclosure: I had no intention of driving this car when I was heading out to Campbell Chevrolet. None. At no point prior to arriving and parking at the dealership did I think, “You know...

This 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ Has Full Interior, Pontiac Power And Enough Grunt To Run Hard!

One thing that I like to do at the drag races I shoot is to find the car that nobody would have ever expected to end up in the staging lanes, because it’s usually one of the more interesting...