Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find
Best Of 2015: This 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Looks Innocent Enough, Doesn’t It? Don’t Trust The Quiet One…
(Editor’s Note: This 1980 Chevrolet has to be the best Craigslist find we saw this year…mostly for the Farmer John looks coupled with a sledgehammer under the hood, but because a reader...
You Want Weird But Are On A Budget? How About This 1964 Plymouth Valiant For $3500?
I have to say I’m impressed…after a vacation with the family, for Brian to come back and think of me when he is writing about a car he found online for nearly $70,000…well, I have...
Rough Start: Stretching The Budget A Bit, But Where Else Are You Going To Find A Convertible Ford Crown Victoria?
If we ever stretch past the budget in one of our Rough Start features, it is because we feel that the car is close enough to the spirit of the budget to warrant a look, and that’s where we find...
Another Wrecking Yard Full Of Cool Projects! Impalas, El Caminos, Comets, Caddys, And More!
We got a great tip from BangShifter Mark Brown out of Austin about this cool wrecking yard in nearby Marble Falls trying to get rid of complete cars. In fact, the ad says they don’t want to...
Rough Start: TWO Mazda RX-7s To Cover Just About Any Motorsport You Could Want To Try!
If you’re shopping for a car on a budget, you are probably shopping for everything on a budget. Using that logic, if there was a “buy two for the price of one” deal, you’d...
Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!
I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...
Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?
If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...
Rough Start, International Edition: A Clean Chevrolet Opala From Mexico That Is Almost Cheap Enough For A Rough Start!
I’ll admit right off of the bat that I was way off of the deep end when I found myself pawing through Mercado Libre for cars. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s essentially...
Craigslist Find: It’s One Part Ford, One Part Deuce And A Half, And Completely Awesome!
Yesterday’s “bug out” Chevrolet Express van didn’t quite go over as well as we’d thought it would, but the reasoning is pretty sound: van guys have been tricking out the...
This 1976 Chrysler Newport Is A Winter Beater Dream! Just Add Studded Snow Tires And Go Drift-Bashing!
Why the hell is a steel-gray Chrysler Newport four-door on the front page of BangShift today? Easy: it’s freaking winter. That means that the “toy” is put up, and it’s time to...
Rough Start: A Big-Block Cordoba That Looks Daily-Driver Ready – And It’s Under Budget!
One of the biggest problems with scraping the bottom of the budget barrel of Craigslist, as our Rough Start series does, is that every single vehicle we have shown tends to need something…it...
Rough Start: Could This 1972 Ford Maverick Be Your 1/2 Scale White Lightning Replica?
We all have a soft spot for the Ford Custom 500 in the movie “White Lightning”. That big brown bomber screaming around dirt roads with Burt Reynolds at the wheel makes us wish that we...
This Sinister Ford Galaxie Looks Ready For A Starring Role As An Evil Villain’s Ride!
Big, black, low and nasty…all words that come to mind seeing this 1972 Ford Galaxie two-door. There isn’t much that the ad does say about this nearly monochromatic coupe –...
What In The…?! We Weigh In With Our Opinions On This 1986 Ford Ranger That Has Been Converted Into A Lincoln Pickup!
What does it take to shock the guys behind the keyboard here at BangShift? Find something we have never seen before and would have never, ever thought of, even at our most intoxicated moments, and...