Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Half The Budget Gets You A Rough Start Fox Mustang Find…It’s Even California Legal!
It baffles me how cheap Fox Mustangs are. It really does. Not that it’s anything to complain about, it’s just that when a car becomes iconic for performance, has the ability to become...
Rough Start: Give Your Inner Child What They Always Wanted: A Big Red Fire Truck!
Unless you are an absolute savant like the three of us were as kids, chances are pretty solid that the first vehicle you could name without any provocation whatsoever was “fire truck!”...
Would You Consider This 1983 Ford Escort Lowrider Historical Or Heresy?
I like lowriders, maybe more than I should probably admit here at BangShift. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to own anything with hydraulics, a trunk full of batteries or anything like...
How Would You Build It? This 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Is Near-Stock And Ready For A Build!
They might not have jumped in value the way they were expected to about ten years ago, but the 1973-77 GM A-bodies aren’t any worse off because of that. In fact, if anything, now is an even...
Rough Start: When Is A $5000 Lancia A Good Idea? When It Has Toyota Reliability
“Hold up, McTaggart. There’s no way you found a Lancia of any kind on Craigslist for five grand,” I can hear you say. And you are right to be skeptical, especially when said Lancia...
Money No Object: A Viper-Powered Ramcharger With Grand Cherokee SRT-8 AWD? Sign Us Up!
The Dodge Ramcharger, especially it’s 1981-93 variation with the fixed roof, doesn’t get a lot of respect compared to the full-size Chevrolet Blazer and the Ford Bronco. Maybe familiarity...
Rough Start: This Shortened 1993 Plymouth Voyager Is For The Minimalist!
You can’t knock Chrysler’s minivans for what they were. When they appeared in 1984, they proved to be the right kind of vehicle at the moment and undoubtedly pulled Chrysler from the...
There’s A Strange Bird: Anyone Interested In A Three-Wheeled Reliant Rialto?
Yes, readers, I’ve been buried in Craigslist today, and I’m completely unapologetic for it, because I’ve been finding weird, wonderful four-wheeled contraptions that should capture...
Rough Start: This 1971 Mercury Cyclone GT Is Rough, No Doubt, But Is It Good Enough To Fix Up?
Ever look at a car you really want, only to sigh and turn away because it was just a touch too rough for you? I’ve done that once. I had found a 1969 Dodge Charger that was pretty bad off, but...
Too Clean: This 1965 Dodge Coronet 440 Crew Cab Is A Killer Find!
I miss hunting for cars in Arizona. It was almost too easy to drive around and find something really neat that was in pretty good condition. Chances were good that it was probably even running and...
Rough Start: Rolling Nice And Comfortable In A Two-Door Ford LTD Crown Victoria
Due to my status among my friends as “the” car guy, I often get asked the same question over and over: “someone”, be it the person asking or the friend of a friend of the...
Yeah, That Seems Safe: Who Wants A 450 Horsepower Geo Metro?
Well, would you just look at it…what a cute little murderous gumdrop. It certainly isn’t what you’d expect from the lowly little Geo Metro, now, is it? Metros have a solid place in...
Genius Or Sketchy: This 1991 Honda Civic Has A Mitsubishi 3000GT Mill In The Back, Driving The Rear Wheels!
In the hurried excitement to create the next big kitbash project, some people tend to go too far. It’s not hard to understand why…when properly executed, what many people dismissed as the...
Rough Start: This AMC Eagle Promises All-Wheel-Drive For Dirt-Cheap Prices!
Yes, I know…I go a bit bonkers over the American Motors Eagle. It’s an interesting car…wagon…thing that has a unique story, an interesting design, a fairly tragic ending and...