Category Archive: Craigslist Find
Rough Start: This 1987 Dodge Dakota Is Simply Meant To Go As Fast As You Can
I love the simplicity of this 1987 Dodge Dakota. For one of our budget-hunt finds, it’s as smooth and as simple as it gets: good stock paint, black aftermarket hood, stock interior augmented by...
Rough Start: The Proper Upgrade Plan – Buy This 1965 Ford Galaxie XL, And Upgrade To An Available FE Engine!
If you own a smartphone you’ve heard of plan upgrades. Unlimited data, long distance perks, free apps, and all of that mess. Upgrade this. Free that. I might be the youngest of the three of us,...
Rough Start: This Ford-Powered Triumph TR7 Is The Budget Hot-Rod Go Kart You Need
Sorry for the click-bait title, but it’s true: when would you have ever given a Triumph TR7 any thought other than, “Whoa, haven’t seen one of those in forever”? I’ve...
Snow-Roaming In Style: This 1964 Ford Falcon Club Wagon Mounted On A Snowcat Is Awesome!
It’s never a good sign when you check the weather reports to see what you’re in for and the weatherman simply shrugs. That’s kind of what’s going on in my neck of the woods at...
Rough Start: The Right Formula Involves This Very Budge-Friendly Pontiac!
While cheap car hunting for Rough Start candidates, the rules I use are simple: the car must be at least twenty years old, must be five grand or under (or I establish a good reason for breaking that...
Is This A Thing Now? We Found Another V8-Powered Subaru Legacy Wagon, This Time With A Turbo!
Here at BangShift, it’s no secret that some of us have a soft spot for turbocharged Subarus. If you live where it snows, they are an interesting option for daily driver duty, and are a blast to...
The Big Bomber: This 1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Deserves A Proper Final Tour
Rust is the moral enemy of just about every automobile we hold dear here at BangShift. From the surface burn of a desert car that’s going to need work in the paintbooth to the unbelievably...
Go Ahead, Call The Cops: This 1979 Buick Station Wagon Trar Is Ugly And Awesome!
It’s a rolling middle finger. That’s all this 1979 Buick Electra station wagon trar is, a rolling middle finger. It’s not like a nice wagon was turned into a trar…we’d...
Rough Start: Will This Minty Pinto Be The Cheap-Car Start Of Something Good?
Even by BangShift standards, a Doublemint-green Ford Pinto station wagon is pushing things just a little bit. We can give the Pinto all the crap in the world about exploding gas tanks and lawsuits...
Is This Thing A Hot Rod? The Seller Of This Isuzu Rodeo Certainly Thinks So, But Why?
The term “Hot Rod” has been used for over half a century now to describe basically any vehicle that has been modified in a manner that boosts its performance. Typically, the term is...
Rough Start: Style And Substance In A 1962 Chrysler 300
In 1962, Chrysler branched the 300 model line. In addition to the Letter Series, a “standard” 300 was available, taking the place of the Chrysler Windsor as the value model and the series...
Wanting Your Own Square-Body Crew Cab Dually Of Your Very Own? This 454-Powered 1986 Model Is For Sale For Reasonable Cash!
One of the bigger deals of last year was Chad’s hunt for a square-body GM crew cab dually pickup. The Bearded One had a very particular shopping list: must be two-wheel-drive, big block...
Rough Start: The Home-Built Dodge Dually To Compete With Brian And Chad’s Obsessions!
So we’ve been on a dually pickup kick around here for a bit. Part of that is due to Chad’s box Chevy that he picked up and has been enjoying, but the other part is that we love dually...
Ye Old Ripper: This 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada Is Ready To Rip Asphalt Up (And Your Face Off)
I can’t remember when the story ran, but around the late 1990s the name Jon Moss was the buzzword for “Fast GM Products”. The “Toy Box” cars, as they were referred to,...