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Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS

Rough Start: This 1990 Dodge Dakota Droptop Is Right On The Money And Offers Up Tons Of Potential!

Five thousand dollars isn’t pocket change, especially if you’ve spent months or even a year or two scraping it together so you can have a little fun or if it’s the only five grand...

Stop What You Are Doing And Check Out This Crazy Cadillac Prerunner… You’ll Thank Us Later!

Here at BangShift, you know we love vehicles that are built to do crazy things the manufacturers never intended them to do. One of these categories is the American Full-Size Sedan Prerunner. Now,...

Underrated G-body: It’s No Grand National, But This 1985 Buick Regal Is An Excellent Project Starting Point!

It’s funny how picky people can be when it comes to cars. You can almost hear the conversation now: “Dude, I think it’s a Grand National! No, wait, it’s white…is it a...

Rough Start: This 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Is A Weekend’s Worth Of Work Away From Driver-Quality!

If you’re heart is set on a classic ride and you’re on a budget, then you have to accept the fact that the older of a car you choose, the more likely it is that you will have to bust out...

Craigslist Find: Want To Make Your Very Own Cheetah Funny Car Bodies? Now You Can!

For those who were busy worshipping at the altar of Carroll Shelby and the AC Cobra in the 1960s, life was good and Shelby was doing just fine. For fans of General Motors, however, things...

You Won’t Do Better For The Price: This 1980 Chevrolet Malibu Is Too Good To Pass Up!

This was the car I dreamt about in high school, and still lust after. Right here…it’s all here. An A/G-body Malibu coupe, clean body, with a dark-colored exterior any an interior that...

Wanna Roll Like The Colonel? This 1979 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Former Property Of The Face Behind KFC!

Does anybody outside of The Brougham Society look at a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado and think, “Oh, man, I’ve gotta have that! I don’t care what the price is, I’ll pay it, just sell...

Rough Start: Someone Had Big Plans For This 1978 Chevrolet Malibu At One Point!

Clean, isn’t it? You’d suspect we found a bone-stock, 69,000 mile 1978 Chevrolet Malibu with the F41 suspension and ran with it, and normally, you’d be right: finding one of the...

Rough Start: This 1978 Dodge D-100 Was The Hot Ticket In 1978, And Would Make A Great First Build!

The scene was bleak for performance cars in 1978. Cars were choked out with smog laws, low compression and catalytic converters. Former heavy hitters, like the Pontiac Trans Am, Chevrolet Camaro Z28...

This 1954 Dodge C-Series Is Classic In All Of The Right Senses – Fat Fenders, Wood Bed, And A Warmed-Up DeSoto Hemi!

You don’t see a lot of 1950s Dodge trucks, do you? You can find Ford F-1s, you can find Chevrolets and GMCs all day long, but finding a Dodge is difficult…even if all you’re...

Rough Start: This 1987 Chrysler Conquest Is Too Clean To Pass Up! Wide Body, Clean And Ready To Build!

Chrysler and Mitsubishi had a deal going for a long time that saw Mitsubishi-built cars brought into the United States and rebadged as Chrysler, Plymouth and Dodge products. In a move that the...

With This V8-Swapped Geo Metro, You Can Get To Know Your Self-Preservation Instinct!

“Get To Know Geo.” That was the tagline, wasn’t it? One of two new nameplates added on to General Motors’ long list of brands, Geo was basically a front for GM to bring in...

Pro Commuter Perfection: This Supercharged 3.8L Swapped 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 Is Ready To Rock!

Here’s a phrase I swore years ago I’d never say: “Wow, I really want that 1987 Cavalier!” I don’t hate GM’s best-known J-car like I do Ford Granadas, but in my...

eBay Find: This 1965 Chrysler 300L Is The Last Of The Letter Cars – 413 Power And Slab Sides!

It most certainly was a departure from Virgil Exner’s styling traits, and after the disaster that was the 1962 model year, Chrysler Corporation couldn’t put enough distance between...