Category Archive: BangShift XL, eBay Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
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...
Rough Start: This 1973 Datsun 620 Can Be Your Starter Shop Truck!
I have a strange fascination with 1972-79 Datsun 620 trucks. Actually, I actually kind of like all Nissan/Datsun trucks made after 1972 for one reason or another, but if I’ve gotta pick just...
Rough Start: This 1972 Ford F-100 Needs…Nothing More Than A New Home!
Ok, the Rough Start schtick is pretty much set in stone: find something on Craigslist that might be BangShift-worthy…sometimes not…and proceed to explain in so many words just how far you...
Money No Object: This 1983 Ford Ranger Prerunner Only Exists To Have A Blast In!
A prerunner truck…a true pre runner, not some hacked-up truck with fiberglass panels…only serves two purposes: it’s a riot of a four-wheeled toy and, as far as I’m concerned...
Rough Start: This 1977 Dodge Power Wagon Has The Look And Is Ready To Roll!
The Dodge D-series truck…other than minor bits here and a facelift there, between 1972 and 1993, it’s pretty much all the same. Same frames, mostly the same bodies, and generally the same...
Farmhand Favorite: This 1973 International 1110 Is Too Clean For Words!
I’ve lived in Pennsylvania once. I was very young, and my family stayed there maybe six months, but one thing always stood out: everybody had a work truck. Everyone. My dad used his...
eBay Find: The “Rollsmokey” 1973 Dodge D200 Is Up For Grabs! Do You Need Over 700 Foot-Pounds Of Torque In Your Life?
This 1973 Dodge D200 has the luck of a typical cat. When initially purchased by David Freiburger, it was going to be an engine donor for some multi-colored shell of a project that he was digging out...
Classic Workhorse: This 1965 Dodge D600 Flatbed Truck Is The Perfect Foundation For A Salt Cruiser!
Are any of you shocked that Brian and Chad both are going nuts over the rigs that are out at Bonneville right now? No, not the race cars…the big trucks and RVs that are serving as homes on the...
Help Wanted: Does Anybody Know The History Of This Right-Hand Drive Dodge D-100?
Nestled in the “judged” lot at Mopar Nats was this clean driver Dodge D-100 pickup truck. I didn’t think much of it at first when I walked past it…nothing against the truck,...
