Category Archive: MOPAR, Videos
Do Old Mopars Die? This 1973 Satellite Isn’t Dead, But It’s Pretty Close!
What is easily the happiest part of my experience working at BangShift is highlighting people who actively go out of their way to bring a dead car back to life. No special one-offs or rare things, no...
Rough Start: 1975 Chrysler Newport – Big-Block, Hardtop, And Low Miles…What’s Missing?
The timeline keeps moving along, doesn’t it? When I was getting into cars, anything from the mid-1970s was available, relatively cheap to acquire, had a likely chance of at least being useful,...
They’d Never See You Coming: This 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Ripe For The Building
Was it just me, or did everybody’s grandparents seem to own one of these big Oldsmobiles in the 1990s? They stood tall, stately, and a bit dour…kind of like any Transylvanian castle...
Mojito With A Kick: This 855-Horsepower Ford Thunderbird Needs To Go Fly!
Just before I actually left my Army service completely, I made a move that at the time seemed like a natural decision: I got licensed as a bartender in Washington State. Considering that for the...
Truly Cherry: This 1993 Ford Bronco Is A Five-Speed Throwback To Good Old Trucks
In order to explain why this truck screams out to me, I have to go back into my history, specifically January 20th, 1993. I’d been living in Washington State for days at this point, having...
A 572 Hemi-Powered Dodge Polara Coupe In All Green…There Is A Heaven! Watch This Big Barge Take A Run Down The Quarter
The note from Scott Liggett was simple and succinct: “I know you like the big cars.” And he isn’t kidding…properly powerful big coupes are a weakness of mine, but an...
2020 Mercedes GLC 300 4Matic: Options Galore But Is The Whole Better Than The Sum Of The Parts?
If we were to ask you to guess Mercedes’ best selling model, we’re guessing you’d go somewhere in the sedan range that the company has been so well known for over the course of...
Rough Start: 1985 Oldsmobile 442 – Clean Base, Now Get To Building!
With my strong Mopar base, my current Mustang projects, it tends to surprise people that my roots are strongest with GM G-bodies. I’ve had more G-cars than I’ve had FJM Mopars…three...
Rough Start: 1977 Ford Thunderbird – The Best-Selling Version?
Believe it or not, 1977 was the best year for the Ford Thunderbird. No other model…not the two-seaters, not the Bullet Birds, not the four-doors or the Turbo Coupes, none of them, sold as well...
Top 11: McTaggart’s 1990s Picks – The Cars From The Horsepower Re-Awakening!
So, I decided to revisit this list to see if my mind had changed in the five years since I first wrote it. Obviously, with only eleven spots, there were going to be some omissions and some contention...
Random Car Review: 1980-81 Dodge Omni 024 DeTomaso – The Benefits Of Friends?
The Dodge Omni might have been the most critical new car Chrysler Corporation could have brought to the market. After a decade of bungled leadership, sales banks filled with Yank Tanks nobody seemed...
Random Car Review: 1984-86 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta “Starship”
It started in 1973…that’s the year that the Super Sport went on a long hiatus, one that it would not return from until 1996. In it’s place was a new name, Type LT (luxury touring),...
Look Gang, A Mystery To Solve: Do You Know Anything About This Mid-Engined Ford Mustang Prototype?
One would think that a major car company would have an in-depth catalog of vehicles that explain everything, from the first sketches to the details of those who made it to production, but in reality...
