Category Archive: eBay Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
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...
Troublemakers: 1972 Ford Falcon (XA) GT-HO Phase IV, The Car That Started A Panic
The Ford Pinto left people scared that if the guy in the van behind them so much as brushed their rear bumper, that their end would be a fiery one. The Bricklin SV-1 would lock you inside, the Suzuki...
Get Your 1966-72 Chrysler B-body Moving With Modern Power! Holley Now Has Gen III Hemi Swap Kits!
From a Mopar fan’s perspective, it’s about time that someone started encouraging third-gen Hemi swaps. With nearly twenty years of 3G Hemi production (2003, folks) there’s a ton of...
More In-Depth 3rd Gen Hemi Details From Uncle Tony, With A Focus On The Camshaft
If you remember back a few years, we made it to 126,xxx miles on our 2006 Chrysler 300C’s stock 5.7 Hemi before we pulled it out and did an upper-end build on the engine. I was very intrigued...
Woosh Right Along: 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe – The Other Turbocharged American Coupe!
Is a Fox body the same across the board? I don’t think so. There’s “Mustang”, and then there’s “everything else”, it seems. Don’t get me wrong,...
The “WTF?” Files: The Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet Fire Truck Conversion
“Form follows function” simply means that the aesthetic shape of something (normally a building) should be dictated by the function or purpose of the design. Ergo, that’s why a fire...
