Category Archive: eBay Find, OTHER
Sticker Price Shock: You Can Buy New Heads For A Ferrari Lampredi V-12 Engine…At $60,000 A Set!
Ferrari has always been synonymous with expensive maintenance. Even if you get lucky and find a decently priced 308 GTS or a 4ooi, you will still pay out of just about every orifice you possess to...
Last Minute Christmas Shopping: A Rare Kenny Bernstein Mercury LN7 Flopper-Bodied Go Kart
Just a few days until Christmas and you’re just NOW shopping? Tsk, tsk. You should know that the best gifts are the ones purchased after you’ve battled maddening hoards of shoppers while...
Question Of The Day: This Dodge Viper Needs An Engine! What Would You Stuff In Here?
Ever since Dodge showed off the Viper concept car that was completed around 1989, the car has always had this unique air about it. You knew without question that the AC Shelby Cobra and the Cobra...
Wile E. Coyote Has Quit Screwing Around: The ACME Twin-Turbo Camaro From Australia, Good For 7-sec Quarters!
Poor Wile E. He fought tooth, nail and every scrap of fur he ever had trying to catch that damned Road Runner. He ran miles, just barely out of reach of the bird’s tail feathers. He landed on...
Rough Start: TWO Mazda RX-7s To Cover Just About Any Motorsport You Could Want To Try!
If you’re shopping for a car on a budget, you are probably shopping for everything on a budget. Using that logic, if there was a “buy two for the price of one” deal, you’d...
Early Christmas Shopping Ideas: Going For That One Big Gift For The Gearhead? How About A Ready-To-Go 1964 Plymouth Drag Car?
We had to do a double take and make sure that this Plymouth wasn’t already sitting at Jensen Masters’ Short Street Rod Shop, because it would not look out of place. We aren’t going...
Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!
I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...
This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!
Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...
Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?
If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...
Rough Start, International Edition: A Clean Chevrolet Opala From Mexico That Is Almost Cheap Enough For A Rough Start!
I’ll admit right off of the bat that I was way off of the deep end when I found myself pawing through Mercado Libre for cars. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s essentially...
Digging In To China: This Dodge Tow Truck Literally Sank To The Axles In A Muddy Pasture
It’s one thing to go off-roading and get stuck. It’s part of the fun…you and your buddies work to free your four-by-four from whatever impeded forward progress and you move on, no...
Craigslist Find: It’s One Part Ford, One Part Deuce And A Half, And Completely Awesome!
Yesterday’s “bug out” Chevrolet Express van didn’t quite go over as well as we’d thought it would, but the reasoning is pretty sound: van guys have been tricking out the...
Carnage Video: Doug Garrison’s Drag Week Pontiac GTO Hits The Barrier At Cecil County
Long-time readers of BangShift and Drag Week fans will know this Pontiac GTO. It belongs to Doug Garrison, and a couple of days ago it broke an axle while at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland, sending...
This 1976 Chrysler Newport Is A Winter Beater Dream! Just Add Studded Snow Tires And Go Drift-Bashing!
Why the hell is a steel-gray Chrysler Newport four-door on the front page of BangShift today? Easy: it’s freaking winter. That means that the “toy” is put up, and it’s time to...