Category Archive: BangShift XL, Craigslist Find, OTHER, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
Blank Slate: This 1976 Crown Supercoach Needs To Be RV Converted!
You can blame all of my bus fixation on living in the Pacific Northwest as a kid. When I lived in Illinois, I rode around in conventional Chevrolet C-60 buses and later, International conventionals,...
The Field Of Skeletons: Take A Walk Through A Muscle Mopar Graveyard
Buying brand-new sheetmetal to fix the holes in your classic car wasn’t always an option on the table. Those companies that sprouted up to fill the need did so because there was such a demand...
Sheltered And Safe: This 1989 Volvo 240DL Is Crying Out For Some Tuning!
My first two experiences with Volvo products couldn’t be any more bi-polar if I tried to write it into the story. The first time I encountered a Swedish Safety Brick™ was when my aunt...
New Product: Mr. Gasket’s 35 GPM Electric Water Pump For Big Block Mopar
There is nothing like a stout big-block Mopar. That exhaust thump, that stump-pulling torque, the twist tearing through the chassis. It’s been a solid recipe for decades and whether...
Unveiled: Ram’s New Multifunction Tailgate For Half-Tons – Swing However You’d Like To!
Not to be outdone with press releases from both Ford and GM, Ram has announced a new feature for their half-ton pickup trucks. It’s called the multifunction tailgate and it works like this: in...
Rough Start: A V8 AMC Eagle, Just Like Kenosha Should Have Made!
We have nothing against the American Motors 258ci inline-six. It is a damn durable engine, one that can be built to make healthy power, and is based on an engine platform that stuck around for...
Sport Truck Meets Pro Street: This 1989 Chevrolet C-1500 Is Two Eras In One
Welcome to pretty much every magazine I read as a young child. Outside of the copies of 4Wheel and Off-Road that my stepdad read and all of the Dirt Wheels that I was thumbing through during my...
Two Oldsmobiles, One Decision: Which One Would You Pick?
So here’s the deal: I was intending to find yet another Rough Start budget find while searching through the Yakima, Washington Craigslist page. I entered my usual inputs: owner only, must have...
Into The Nines! The Auction Mistake Corvette Comes Out Of The Gate Swinging With It’s Powerglide Swap!
Cleetus might be a love or hate kind of personality, but you have to remember one thing: it’s a character. Don’t act all surprised. But a character is what is needed sometimes…and...
Unveiled: The 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD Line – 35,500 Pounds Towing, 910 Foot-Pounds Of Torque
The timing seems just too coincidental for this announcement. In the same time that Ford announces the return of the large-cube gasoline V8, GM has unveiled the 2020 Silverado HD lineup that will...
Rough Start: Reliving Past Sins In A 1977 Chevrolet Impala Coupe
I got my first car when I was twelve, a mid-1970s Camaro that had more rot than potential. I went through a few rollers afterwards, mostly early G-body Cutlasses. Then came the Impala, the first car...
Money No Object: The 1955 Chrysler Ghia ST Special – The Banker’s Got Taste!
Chrysler’s Letter Cars got a reputation as the “banker’s hot rod” due to their impressive speed combined with their size and luxurious outfitting. Starting with the C-300,...
44 Years Lost, This Mustang Is Being Woken Up To Make Up For Lost Time!
How does a car just fall off of the map for decades at a time? How do you just park a car somewhere, forget about it and decide to just move along, especially when said car is one that from the...
