Category Archive: BangShift XL, Craigslist Find, OTHER, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
Big Ugly! This 1964 International Loadstar Crew Cab Needs To Be Built Up Right!
How many four-door medium duty trucks have you ever seen? Not many, I’d wager, and the further back you go, the less likely you are to see them. You might be able to find a late-model Chevy...
Rough Start: This Effing Jeep Has The Best Argument For It Ever!
We here at BangShift do our best to keep our site family friendly…at least, we stay within a PG-13 area for sure. But catch us in person sometime…we all are human, and we all can easily...
Rough Start: This 1992 Ford F-150 Flareside Is The Perfect First Car
The ideal first car for a brand new driver is a twenty-five year old Ford truck? Yes, it is. In this era of safety first, driving third, this Ford strikes a great balance of what a kid could want and...
Rough Start: It’s The Cadillac Of Ramp Trucks! This 1980 Seville Car Hauler Only Knows Work!
“Necessity is the mother of invention”. You need something and it doesn’t exist, you make something that will address your need. Simple, right? From the simple bed to shipyard...
When The Seller Is Too Honest: This Ad For A 2004 Maserati Coupe GT Is The Greatest Ever
When perusing the bowels of the interwebs looking for interesting vehicles for sale, you are usually met with very brief, somewhat descriptive ads that might tell you some info about what you could...
Rough Start: This Shortbed Squarebody Chevy Is Your Dream Muscle Truck, If You Have The Cash!
The basic formula for fun really hasn’t changed much since about the late 1940s: V8, rear drive. After that, it’s details, right? Well, for an up-and-coming gearhead or someone balling on...
Rough Start: This 1981 Pontiac Firebird Formula Has The Kind Of Patina You Can’t Fake
What happened to the days of finding some run-down, beaten up old hot rod on mags for a few bucks? Sometime around the late 1990s, that well just seemed to dry right up, and nowadays we have people...
Rough Start: Want Funky? How About A 1985 Trabant Wagon?
Sometimes the strangest cars can be the most rewarding to own, especially if one of your biggest kicks is to have someone come up to you at a gas station just to ask you what kind of car it is you...
Rough Start: Does A Three-Pedal Plymouth Volaré Sound Like A Neat Parts Hauler?
Let’s be clear off of the bat: this not one of MY weird Mopar finds. How can you tell? It’s a Plymouth Volaré. Oddly enough, even though it’s the genesis for the Imperial and most...
Rough Start: How About A Two-For-One Special On Mercury Cougars For A Winter Project?
Wake up and smell the burning leaves and pumpkin spice: autumn is closing in fast, and especially for those gearheads who live in climates that are due for some snow sooner than later, now is the...
Too Clean: This 1976 Jeep Cherokee Is Pure SUV – Four-Wheel-Drive And Three Pedals!
If you could use a time machine to show the designers at Kaiser-Jeep, GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC and International just what the sport-utility vehicles of the 1960s and early 1970s would become, would...
Rough Start: This Suicide-Door Thunderbird Could Be Your Ratty Muscle Car! It’s Even Got Fuel Injection!
The fifth-generation Ford Thunderbird isn’t a loved car. Ok, let’s not sugarcoat this: it’s probably the most ignored version of the T-bird. Even the big-bumper twin to the Lincoln...
This 1983 Dodge Ram D150 Pickup Project Is Packing A Sleeper Secret: 512ci Of Mopar V8 Heat!
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, it’s no secret that vintage trucks are in right now. Cool old trucks that are built for speed are all over the place these days, and ones like...
It Is Wagon Wednesday And This Ultra Rare 2-Door 1965 Chevelle Station Wagon Has Earned Its Spot
Only 653 of these 2-Door Chevelle Station Wagons were built in 1965 according to the seller. That makes this sucker even rarer than hens teeth. And because it is so nicely built, we are actually a...