Category Archive: Craigslist Find
Rough Start, Kids Edition: Time To Teach The Kids About Kenny Bernstein’s Mercury LN7!
It’s easy to say that kids aren’t interested in cars, or that kids don’t care about cars. You know what else is easy? It’s easy to point out that dads working on the car at...
Rough Start: Feel Like Finishing Up A Swap? This 1979 Dodge Aspen’s 3G Hemi Swap Is Almost Done!
It isn’t everyday that a brown, four-door Dodge Aspen is going to catch my eye. In fact, it normally never would. I’m not a Dodge Aspen fan and the four-doors look so 1970s dowdy and...
Rust In Peace: The One-Of-Twelve Lincoln Coloma By Caribou, As It Sits
Old, abandoned, decrepit cars are a kind of macabre fascination of mine. From my days as a kid playing around in one of the stranger sections of western Washington, poking around on overgrown dirt...
This Garage Find 19,000 Mile 1987 IROC Z28 Camaro Was Pete Santini Painted And Is Still Perfect Today. $26,000 Seems Totally Fair.
Barn Finds, Garage Finds, whatever you want to call them, it is the story behind them that is usually as good or better than the vehicle themselves. And most often they are in some kind of cool, but...
This 1964 International Metro Mite Van Has An Almost Done LS Swap And Would Be A Rad Cruiser!
I have a weakness for step vans for some reason. I don’t know what it is, but they seem to fit into my love of station wagons, Suburbans, and custom vans, so why not. I’d LOVE to own this...
You Might Not Need A Thousand Ways To Die…Just This Turbo V8 Garden Tractor!
I first encountered a garden tractor when I was eight. Up until that point, everybody had the typical gas-powered push mower, except for the one time my dad borrowed a fancy powered push...
Rough Start: This 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT V8 Is A No-Brainer!
I love it when I find a Rough Start car that is so close to done that all I can do is to shout, “BUY IT NOW” as loud as I can. Let’s face facts…not every Rough Start find is a...
Rough Start: Will Your Spirit Feel Free In This 1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found the special editions that popped up around the 1976 American Bicentennial to be a little bit too over the top. Way too much red, white and blue...
Rough Start: Find The Cleanest Car For Your Project…Like this 1979 Olds Cutlass!
I’m a beater addict. It’s true…I’ve got a perfectly normal, relatively late-model daily driver that has plenty of grunt and yet, I love the idea of daily-driving dirt-cheap...
This Modified Jeep FC-170 Project Could Be The Coolest Off-Road Camping Rig Ever!
If you are a regular reader of BangShift, you know right away that we LOVE the old Jeep Forward Control trucks. Built by Willys and Kaiser between 1956-1965, the Forward Control’s many variants...
Travel Well: This 1978 Ford F-150 Is Prepared To Be The Perfect Summer Travel Rig!
God’s honest truth, I didn’t look at this 1978 Ford F-150 Ranger Lariat as a potential BangShift feature when I first started looking at it. I didn’t see it that way. I saw this...
This 1968 C10 Crew Cab Pickup Is Like A Wet Dream Come True! If Only Chevrolet Had Built Them This Way
There are a few companies around the country that build crew cab trucks from older GM and Fords that never actually came that way from the factory, and every time I see one I just drool. Even if the...
Rough Start: Could This 1978 Chevrolet Monza Spyder Live Up To The Race-Car Hype?
How do you take the Chevrolet Vega, a car universally panned for being one of GM’s best ideas, executed so poorly that it almost defies belief, and rebuild from the ashes? The Monza. More or...
