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Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, eBay Find, FORD, OTHER, TRUCKS

Would You Rather, The Winter Workhorse Edition: Which Would You Take Out In The Cold, The Ford Or The Binder?

Yep, the leaves are finally down, the air has taken a turn for the crisper and colder, and it’s time to give up in the concept of fall and to start settling in for the winter months. While...

Random Car Review: The 1990 Ford F-150 “Street” Concept Truck

I am one of those individuals who has this strange habit: boredom leads to research. It made me pretty popular in school when it came time to dig through encyclopedias. (Yes, I outdate the Internet,...

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Rough Start: Cool Can Be In The Last Place You Expect It, Like This 1979 Ford Courier!

The Ford Courier…wow. There’s a throwback. Growing up in Washington State, we had a neighbor lady that owned a white Courier, and I can’t be any more blunt about how much I despised...

Stuck The Landing: This Monster Chevy Goes For A Jump And Breaks A Few Things!

It’s tall, it’s got presence, it’s got a Duramax that sounds the business, and it looks virtually new. This Chevy Silverado is somebody’s life-long project…or current...

Money No Object: This 2004 Chevrolet Express Just Might Be The Ultimate People-Mover – Turbocharged LS For Twelve, Anyone?

This isn’t the 1970s, folks. The days of looking at a full-size van and going, “Hmm…you know what…that would make a bitchin’ hot rod” are long, long gone. Right?...

SEMA 2016: Check Out What Omix-ADA Brought To The Show (Besides The Crackdown On Parts Fakers!)

Omix-ADA just might have stolen the show at SEMA 2016 this year, all due to the crackdown on Chinese parts counterfeiters. It’s kind of hard to get past the fact that the U.S. Marshals came in...

STAMPEDE! Hundreds Of Dodge Rams Take Over The Nurburgring For A World Record!

When I was traveling through Ireland and the UK a couple of years ago, I noticed one thing among all others in regards to cars: American cars of any kind are such a rarity that it actually catches...

SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)

If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...

Hold Lohnes Back: This Coyote-Swapped 1979 Ford F-100 Pro Streeter Is Shop Truck Sweetness!

Everybody jokes about how there is always a Camaro-related story for everybody. It’s not too farfetched, but my money says that for every one Camaro story, there’s two out there that...

Just What Brian Needs: A 1954 Dodge Job-Rated Truck With A 331 Hemi!

You know what we haven’t seen a lot of in a while? Big, lumbering trucks that are right up Lohnes’s alley. You know the kind: Classic styling, a torque-monster mill that is hooked to a...

Cute-utes, Meet Your Monster: This 1977 Jeep Cherokee Chief Is Excellent!

Cute-utility vehicles (I’m sorry, I mean “crossovers”) are a plague on the roadways of America. It is a vehicle composed completely of compromise: I want utility, but I want...

eBay Find: A 1976 Dodge StreetVan…Anybody Have A Use For A Disco Van With A Furry Roof?

“Disco Van”. What do you picture when you read those words? If it’s anything other than a Dodge B-van from the 1970s, I’ll be shocked. Dodge vans were so attached to the van...

Clean And Cared For: This 1978 Dodge D300 Car Hauler Is Gorgeous!

Oooh, this speaks to us in all of the right tones. A Dodge D-series one-ton ramp truck? Sign us right up…we love the 1970s era Dodges, we love big-block Mopars, we love purposeful trucks and we...

Rough Start: Don’t Want To Work On Your Project? This 1977 Ford Ranchero Is For You!

Remember your first car and how you couldn’t afford to have it down for anything longer than an weekend at most? Sure, you had dreams of swapping engines and all sorts of stuff, but in reality...