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Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, Craigslist Find, FORD, TRUCKS

Would You Rather, The Rough Start Edition: Which Sub-$5000 Craigslist Find Would You Choose?

February is so close that you can taste it, and you know what that means? It’s crunch time for that winter project. Soon March will be here and with it, racing, shows, and decent cruising...

Craigslist Find: Truck For Sale Cheap, Recently Washed. Free Plow Attached!

Sometimes, a picture isn’t worth a thousand words…it’s worth a thousand questions. Like “How in the hell did the truck wind up on the bottom of a lake?”, “Is this...

Craigslist Find: This Beautiful Cadillac Seville Is Packing A Huge Surprise Under The Hood…And It Isn’t A GM Piece.

Some people aren’t bothered by cross-breed engine swaps. Others take a strong personal offense to seeing a Hemi in a Ford, or a Chevy engine jammed into any and everything possible. The GM...

Craigslist Find: This LS-Swapped 2002 Jeep Liberty Has An Exemption From The Crusher It Deserved To Meet!

We’ve heard you, the lot of you, who automatically go into full-on rage mode each and every time the phrase “LS Swap” is published by us. “It’s unoriginal! It’s...

Question Of The Day: We All Want The Top-Of-The-Line, But Where Is The Love For The Base-Model Car?

How many Super Sport-equipped Camaros exist? Probably three times as many as Chevrolet made. How many Mustang Cobras, or 5.0 GT cars, are out there? Do a quick Craigslist search. And don’t get...

Wanna Play Army? This 1977 Dodge M886 Ambulance Is A Good Selection!

It’s difficult to call the Dodge M-truck program a success or failure. The best way to view what happened was to think of it as a stacked deck. In the mid-1970s, the military wanted to start...

El Vega-Mino? Check Out This Strange Little Mini Trar From Craigslist!

Here at Bangshift, you know we love weird car/truck creations, so when a reader forwards us a mysterious Craigslist link labeled “Check this weird Vega truck/car thing out!” you know...

Rough Start: This Oldsmobile Omega Is Nice Enough That You Won’t Mind Repeating “It’s Not A Nova” Over And Over

When it comes to GM’s platform-sharing and badge-engineering, the normal way things work is that one car shines and the rest are kind of “there”. There are few exceptions. The...

Rough Start: Want A Cop Car For Under $5,000 That Isn’t A Crown Vic? How About A Plymouth Volare A38?

Cop cars have a special allure all to themselves. They are part family sedan, part muscle car, have to be ready to be a demolition derby car and be able to take the kinds of abuse that design...

A Jacksonville, Florida Mustang-Only Junkyard Is Selling Off Their Collection – 38 Fox And Newer Mustangs For $3500! Who Needs Parts?

Thirty-eight Ford Mustangs are being sold off in one shot from a Florida junkyard that is shutting down operations. The cars range from early Foxes to at least a couple of New Edge cars, and are in...

Question Of The Day: Will The Crapboxes Of Yesterday Become The Collectables Of Today?

GM J-cars, Ford Escorts, K-cars…hell, even the AMC/Renault Medallion. All cars from the early 1980s that have a reputation for being cracker boxes, none of which really have a following past...

NOS 1970 LT1 Cylinder Heads That Have Never Been Out Of The Box Until Now!

Every once in a while you see a part online or at the swap meet and think, “How in the hell did that stay in the box for this many years?”. Well, this is one of those times. While looking...

Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!

Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...

Best Of 2015: This “1969 Charger” Can Easily Become Yours, If You Have A Howitzer To Trade

First things first…I hate to be the one to correct the owner of this Mopar, but you aren’t looking at a Dodge Charger of any vintage. Though, with that being said, it really doesn’t...