Category Archive: eBay Find, FORD
Random Car Review: The 1983-86 Ford Mustang Predator G.T. 302
If you wanted a hot Mustang in the early 1980s, the choice was simple: you ordered a Mustang GT with the 5.0 V8, a manual trans, and there you go. What you did with it after that was completely on...
Some Like It Mellow: 1976 Ford Elite, The Moderate’s Cruiser
Welcome to 1976. Muscle is out the door, personal luxury coupes are in, bumpers are now battering rams that will prove their worth at demolition derbies across the country for decades to come, and...
Past Life Goals: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country In Augusta Green Sunfire And Fake Woodd
The idea of what is considered the “desirable” vehicle of the time has shifted many times since I started paying attention in the late 1980s. Front wheel drive midsize sedans. Minivans....
Pre-Rocket Bunny: 1977 Chevrolet Monza Widebody – Can You Hear The Screaming Small-Block?
The Chevrolet Vega might have been tainted goods after the rust started to appear and the engines started to go boom, but that didn’t mean that the whole platform was bad. Chevrolet just needed...
Barely Breathing: Uncle Tony Gets To Work Diagnosing The Trouble With The Turbocharged Slant Six Dart!
Uncle Tony has his hands on a customer’s 1972 Dodge Dart that has a draw-through turbocharger setup raided from a Pontiac 301 hooked to a 225 Slant Six. Interesting combination, to put it...
Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good
I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...
Hemi Starion, Part Two: Making A Hole For The New Engine To Sit In!
One of the problems with cramming a large engine into a car that never came with one is that you have to re-engineer the whole car to make it fit. Think back to all of those rear-drive swapped...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Why Save One But Scrap Another?
I knew I wanted to use this 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass for some kind of post today, but I wasn’t sure what for. I could say it was one of my “Money No Object” cars, but at just under...
Bite-Sized Hauler: 1976 Ford Courier – The Little Stepside That Can
A Mazda B-series by any other name, the Ford Courier was a very appropriate answer that landed just in time for the first gas crisis and rode out through 1982 in the U.S. market just fine. A small,...
Classic YouTube: Putting The Big Hurt On ‘Em With A Big-Cube Olds-Powered Delta Ninety-Eight!
ProLuxury: the idea that just because it’s a pillow barge from the height of the Brougham era, that it doesn’t mean it can’t haul major ass and behave like a muscle car. It’s...
Money No Object: 1970 Plymouth Superbird In Quad Black
So we recently welcomed AllCollectorCars.com into the BangShift.com sponsor fold a few days ago, and Chad suggested that I poke my head in and have a look-see, since I do a lot of Craigslist and eBay...
Random Car Review: The 1977 Panther 6 – Everything About It Is Exclusive, From The Twin-Turbo Caddy Mill To The Standard Television In The Dash!
The British have always had a strangely keen eye on making cars as luxurious and as exclusive as they can, in an almost polar opposite to what Americans tend to do. We took the AC Ace roadster,...
Rough Start: Torino BOGO! Two 1972 Torinos Within The Budget!
If it wasn’t for the paint color, I’d swear that I’ve seen this car before. But the slot mag wearing formal roof Gran Torino from days gone by was bronze and didn’t have a...
