Category Archive: Craigslist Find
Squarebody Heaven: This 1988 Chevrolet V30 Dually Is Completely Texan!
If you haven’t heard, our bearded leader Chad is in the process of making the move from California to Texas and as such, will be in the area of the country where the pickup truck isn’t...
Mopar Mashup: Someone Mated An 80’s Dodge Dakota Convertible To A 1955 Plymouth, And We Can’t Look Away!
First and foremost, the fine folks here at BangShift would like to apologize to you, the reader, for any maladies and/or trauma the following photos may cause to your optic functionality. We looked...
Perplexing Plymouth: There’s Something Off About This 1933 Plymouth Street Rod, But What Is It?
Do you ever get sick of seeing certain cars? While I may not speak for the majority of the BangShift crew, I’ve grown apathetic to cookie cutter 30’s Street Rods as of late. I know that...
Rough Start: The Summer Cruising Sled! This 1973 Mercury Montego Needs To Be Out Roaming!
I wish I could explain why this 1973 Mercury Montego grabbed my attention like it did easily, but I don’t know if it’ll translate through right. But here goes anyways…it’s not...
Rough Start: Please Let The Ad For This Sleeper 1978 Ford Thunderbird Be Truthful…
Considering just how gargantuan they really were for a two-door car, the late 1970s Ford Thunderbird somehow nailed the buying public just right. Ford managed to move 352,000 Thunderbirds for 1978...
Rough Start: A 1969 Ford Fairlane You Can’t Go Wrong With
$4,500 is a very respectable starting point for a Craigslist vehicle. You can go straight into a 2009 Lincoln Town Car or a 2008 Toyota Corolla…either one of those will get you where you need...
Old-School Cool: 1968 Chevelle Big Block 4 Speed For Sale
While muscle cars may have started in the early 60’s, there are few cars immediately recognized as muscle cars like the ’68-69 Chevelle. They have big hips, often a “Come at me bro!” rake and...
The “WTF?” Files: This Five-Speed 1990 Ford Crown Victoria Convertible Is Ready To Party!
A four-door convertible with roll hoop, harnesses, a five-speed swap that’s prepped for abuse, a hopped up V8 and more. I’ll be honest, readers…the seller says “sleeper drag...
Rough Start: A Very Clean G-Body Malibu With One Teeny, Tiny, Six-Pot Hitch…
You had to hand it to GM for doing one thing right in the late 1970s: even though it was now the Malibu and not the Chevelle, the mid-size offering stayed true to the right old-school GM principals...
Is This Camaro Too Far Gone? Or Is A Hot Rod Always Worth Saving?
How many times have you, or one of your buddies, brought a project home that you just KNEW could be saved but everyone else that looked at it thought it was junk? Or how about those cars you see...
Rough Start: Get Over Your Anti-Sedan Stance And Pick Up This 1981 Pontiac LeMans!
I want to point something out to those who openly bash anything with more than two doors on it: the Chevrolet Impala SS, the big LT-1 powered B-body variety, is twenty-two years old at the newest....
Rough Start: Here’s A Neat Commuter Build, A 1983 Mercury Marquis Longroof With A Turbo 2.3 And A Five-Speed Swap!
You say “Marquis”, I say “Zephyr wagon with a nose job”. Neither one of us is really wrong…the station wagon form of the Fox Body didn’t really do much from...
Rough Start: This 1982 Dodge D-50 6×4 Is The Real Hardworking Truck
When I reviewed a stripper Ram Tradesman earlier this year, a comment was posted up that made a very interesting point by Aussie 351: “Why are your pickups so big? It’s only rated at...
Rough Start: An Unmolested Chevrolet Monza? Where Would You Start?
Chevrolet Monzas come in three flavors: drag car, road race car, and pretty much dead car. On the street, they might as well be extinct. Between a short five-year run, it’s place as a duplicate...