Category Archive: BangShift News, Craigslist Find
The Tale Of The Datsun 280Z ZAP: The First Car/Video Game Cross Promotion!
Picture this: It’s the mid-1970’s, and you work for an up-and-coming Japanese car company making serious inroads in the market. You have a successful sports car that you’ve been selling for a...
Rough Start: Do Slot Mags And A Four-Speed Make A Plymouth Volaré A Hot Ticket?
One of my better tricks to hunting cars is to find an area close to a military base. There are two reasons for that: there are young military members with decent pay, and there are usually deals that...
Redneck RZR? This 1996 Suzuki X-90’s Owner Makes A Great Case For A Forgotten Toy SUV!
The entry level Polaris RZR starts off just north of ten thousand dollars and can go as high as nearly thirty grand. Yamaha side-by-sides hang around twenty thousand dollars, and Can-Am isn’t...
This Suzuki Katana-Powered Go Kart Is 100% Nuts, And We Want It!
Go Karts are cool, and you know we love them. Many gearheads and BangShifters got their start wrenching on these small four wheeled vehicles, including yours truly. I remember scrounging $200...
Money No Object: This Viper-Powered Dodge Dakota Is Like Standing In The Open With A Sledgehammer!
General Motors had the 454SS, the Syclone/Typhoon twins, and the C-series Sport trim pickups. Ford had the first-generation Lightning. And the folks at Chrysler had…well, in the 1990s, it was...
Rough Start: Who Doesn’t Want A Lifted Ford Cop Car?
A 1980s Ford LTD Crown Victoria isn’t the first vehicle that comes to mind when you think about a lift kit, is it? Most people picture a cop car from a bad 1980s cop flick, and the only one...
Rough Start: This 1981 Chevrolet Camaro Is Perfect If You Don’t Want To Do Any Work!
If you’ve got champagne taste, a beer budget and a thing for fast cars, then you probably know the drill when it comes to hunting down cars on Craigslist: imagine the best and wind up with the...
Blank Canvas: How Would You Build This Minty 1975 AMC Hornet?
Here at BangShift, we are not shy about our love for AMC’s. These quirky cars from Kenosha always stand out in the crowd, and better yet, they can be built into serious speed machines. But...
Rough Start: This 1974 Oldsmobile 98 Could Double As Your First Apartment, Too!
When looking at what $5,000 can get you on Craigslist, you have to create a three way Venn diagram of what you want: Cheap, good, and cool/fast. You can find quite a bit of each one easily, but to...
You Don’t Need To Ask Santa To Bring You This 1972 Ford Torino ex-NASCAR Racer – You Just Need $35,000!
Ford’s mid-size segment car, the Torino, has a strange relationship with gearheads. Some love it because of it’s star power, though the showings in question are “Starsky and...
Combine A 1970s Dodge Van With A VIP Lounge, And You Get A 1974 Winnebago Winnie Wagon!
As soon as I saw this 1974 Dodge/Winnebago RV, I couldn’t help but think of Chad. The Bearded One has an RV fetish that might actually be more unexplainable than my kink for unloved Mopars, and...
The Dream Winter Wagon: A 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer That Has Been Cummins-Swapped!
Jeep Grand Wagoneers (and other nice FSJ Jeeps) command coin, but the Grand Wagoneer is easily the most valuable at the moment. It was what the Range Rover became: a luxury sports-utility vehicle...
Money No Object: Imagine All Of The Fun That Could Be Had With This 1991 Pontiac Tojan Knightmare!
Hello, pastel suits, nose candy, New Wave and slurring British-like accents. It’s good to see you again…we think. Meet the Pontiac Tojan, one of a few hundred made. If you see a...
