Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura – Light And Rowdy Street Beater
The Ford Fairmont Futura (and it’s twin, the Mercury Zephyr Z-7), are love-it or hate-it cars. From the doors forward, it’s Fairmont. But from the doors back, you are looking at what was...
MFP LSR: Charlie Richardson’s 1974 Ford Maverick Street Stock Racer
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I pulled into Blytheville. I wasn’t expecting to find the remains of an Air Force base that had been decommissioned in 1992. I wasn’t expecting to...
So Wrong It’s Right: 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7 In Period-Correct Attire
Lying somewhere between root beer brown and a dark wine red color lies this 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7. Don’t get excited, we know, we know…it’s a Ford lead sled from the bad old days...
Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly
1968-1970 Dodge Chargers are desirable in a way that few other cars have managed to become. They are brutally handsome, they came from the factory in trims ranging from the rare fuel sipper to...
Rough Start: A Pontiac Grand Am That’s Begging For A New Beginning
Between the Pontiac Grand Am CA and the Chevrolet Malibu Black Sterling that I recently found, I’ve been foaming at the mouth of a 1978-82 GM A-body build. Look, I like the G-body cars....
Money No Object: The “Jet-X” 1971 Plymouth GTX
At the beginning of BangShift.com, one of the earliest stories I can remember reading involved this very car. In the Mopar world, Gary and Pam Beineke had made a name for themselves by building the...
Unveiled: 2021 Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport
They’ve finally appeared, after years of the faithful praying and begging, after years of seeing the Jeep Wrangler do well, years after putting the original horse down in the name of a more...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Hope For The 2021 Ford Bronco?
Today’s the day that Ford is set to unveil everything that they have been working on that has the name “Bronco” attached to it. Which, last we checked, was three items: a two-door...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1976 Ford F-100 Custom, With Oldsmobile 455 Heartbeat!
The Ford F-series has been America’s best selling full-size pickup for what feels like for-freaking-ever. Why is that? Because every generation of F-series brought enough to the table to be an...
Classic YouTube: EVOC Training For The California Highway Patrol – 9C1 Caprices, B4C Camaro and SSP Mustangs!
The only way to become proficient at something is to do it until you master it. Doesn’t matter if it’s learning to play a musical instrument or shooting a machine gun, do it enough times...
Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept
Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...
American Ute Fixation: 2008 Ford Explorer Sport Trac Adrenalin, With Coyote and Six-Speed
It’s a bit of a toss-up to know where the American SUV craze started. Was it the XJ Cherokee, with it’s boxy shape and it’s proven four-wheel-drive system that was smaller and...
Hi-Ho, Land Yacht, Away: A 1973 Chrysler Newport For Old Time’s Sake
If you’ve read my past writings that involve a Chrysler Newport, you’ll know about the history of one 1973 model that is pretty much my indoctrination into the adrenaline high of...
