Category Archive: Craigslist Find
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...
But “Safety Vehicle”! This 1975 Bricklin SV-1 Is One Angry Canadian Import!
By all accounts, Malcom Bricklin’s self-named car company was an abysmal failure. He pissed off Canadians…do you know just how bad you have to screw up before the Canadians are done with...
Rough Start: Whose Bright Idea Was It To Mate A Bronco II With A Porsche 944?!
Trars have always had a place here at BangShift, mainly because we’re strange enough to like most combinations that people have come up with over the years. From the mid-1970s Camaro with the...
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Give The Neighborhood Something To Think About With Your Very Own Mini-Dozer!
Now that the weather has started to make the transition through the nearly non-existant Spring and straight towards Summer-levels of warm in the Midwest, it’s time for home, lawn and garden...
The “WTF?” Files: This 1970 GMC Suburban Triple-Axle Custom Truck Is Back For Sale!
I’m pretty sure that 1970 GMC Suburban triple-axle custom truck haunts Lohnes’ dreams at night. It’s been enough that he’s written about it twice (first in 2013, and then...
Rough Start: The Kid Doesn’t Like This 1985 Pontiac Grand Prix…Her Loss, Your Gain!
I call it like I see it: teenage girls are picky little things, aren’t they? The 1981 Mirada I owned a few years back? Was a car the parents were going to give to their teenage daughter. She...
Rough Start: A 1996 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1, A Big Beautiful Beater!
It was the police cruiser that finally caught up to the legend of the 440-powered Mopars of the musclecar era, one that rode on a legacy of boxy Chevrolets that came beforehand. The 1990s Chevrolet...
Rough Start: There Has To Be A Story About This 396-Powered 1975 Buick Skylark!
There is no way I’m buying that this 1975 Buick Skylark is being sold for $900 as you will see it in the pictures. It’s too together, too ready to go, and there isn’t one mention of...
Rough Start: A Two-For-One Deal – A 429-Powered 1972 Ford LTD And A Parts 1972 Country Squire!
The idea behind the Rough Start budget is to get the most for your dollar, right? Ok, then, we have located a deal for you Blue Oval types who can look past Mustangs and see potential in the big...
Bring Your Geiger Counter: This 1965 Chevrolet Suburban 4×4 Has Patina That Shouldn’t Be Erased!
Eighty-three years, the Chevrolet Suburban nameplate has been in use. From it’s humble beginnings as a wagon body on a truck frame to the top-of-the-line Chevrolet SUV that’s sold today,...
Rough Start: This 1974 Ford Torino Needs To Be Turned Into A Hooper Clone!
For 1974, the final body of the Torino, the one best known for being the Starsky and Hutch car, appeared. Gone was the body-hugging rear bumper and in it’s place was the massive rear chromed...
Rough Start: A 1983 Ford Mustang GT Turbo – Do Not Underestimate The 2.3!
A Ford Mustang must have a V8? No…not the case. Look, we get it, V8s make everything that much better, but there are alternative engine options that can make as much power as eight pots and can...
Rough Start: Just Your Everyday, Super-Clean V8-Swapped GMC Jimmy
From the outside, the only tell that this GMC Jimmy has even been messed with is the absence of the model nameplate off of the front fender. Otherwise, this little SUV is like the millions of others...
