Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, eBay Find
Here’s Your Chance To Buy The Most Unmolested 2009 Challenger Drag Pak On Earth! Wild!
May 13, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Now this is pretty wild. We often times see people selling Mustang Cobra Jets or COPO Camaros on eBay but we very infrequently see the Challenger Drag Pak cars coming up for sale, especially in their...
Plain White Wrapper: This Little 1965 Ford Falcon Wagon Looks Like A Bundle Of Cruising Fun!
May 09, 2019Brian Lohnes9
I always gravitate toward simple things when it comes to cars. Not sure why, but I’m a complete sucker for a car with a basic single color paint job and matching steel wheels. Nothing wrong...
Any Takers: This BTR-60 Is 20,000lbs Of Neat And You Only Have To Ship It Home From Belarus
May 08, 2019Brian Lohnes5
So there are times when we see things on eBay and we can only just kind of stare at them and almost admire the ridiculous nature of what they are. Do we want them? Hell yes we want them. Does anyone...
Tempt Me Not: Quit Sending Me This Ready-To-Build 1980 Dodge Mirada!
May 08, 2019Bryan McTaggart5
In acting, it’s known as typecasting: someone is so perfect for a typical type of role that they are always chosen for that kind of gig and not chosen for others. For example, John Wayne would...
Droptop Dreaming: This 1961 Plymouth Fury Is The Sled You Never Saw Coming
May 01, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Droptop Dreaming: This 1961 Plymouth Fury Is The Sled You Never Saw Coming
It’s convertible season around BangShift Mid-West! Not that I’d know…the last open-air vehicle I owned was a T-top Monte Carlo and I’ve only driven one convertible ever, a...
Money No Object: Look Twice At This Pro Street 1973 Chevrolet Camaro!
Apr 25, 2019Bryan McTaggart6
One of my favorite ways to search through eBay is to skip searching by make and model and instead, search by kind of build. “SCCA racer”, “Drag Car”, and so on. You cast a...
The Original US Air Force Cushman 53A Paratrooper Scooter Is For Sale – 100% Intact!
Apr 22, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Who knew that Cushman provided scooters for the military during WWII for the specific job of getting paratroopers some wheels behind enemy lines? They did and this is one of the famed Cushman 53A...
Money No Object: 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV – Bring Me Back To Vegas
Apr 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart5
Whenever I’m in Las Vegas, I always feel like I’m in the wrong car. I bring a Monte Carlo SS, but I should be in a 1970 Monte Carlo SS454. I drive in a Mustang, but I should be in a black...
Money No Object: 1993 TVR Chimaera 400 – That Other Gran Turismo-Based Dream Machine
Apr 13, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
The 1997 Playstation racing game Gran Turismo is often credited with the explosion of knowledge and desire for Japanese Domestic Market vehicles in the United States. It’s true…the...
Proper Title: This 1980 Chevrolet Nomad Van Can Be Your Road Trip Roaming Home
Apr 05, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
In the overall scheme of things, I have to pass on vans for one reason only: they suck to drive. The good, classic van styles, the ones that would otherwise make for a killer build, a great road...
Money No Object: 1970 Chrysler 300H – The Last Real Banker’s Hot Rod, Courtesy Of Hurst
Apr 03, 2019Bryan McTaggart6
If you look at the musclecar era’s offerings relative to full-size cars, you can find that most of them offered up a little something that provided full-size space with the temperament of their...
Rare and Weird: These Former Marine M-677 Forward Control Kaiser Trucks Are Awesome Oddities
Apr 03, 2019Brian Lohnes3
Don’t feel bad, we didn’t know that these things existed either! You are looking at two of the most weird and interesting trucks ever spec’d out and ordered by the US Military. By...
The Automotive Gremlin: This 1999 Mazda Miata Looks Cute, Is Actually Ferocious!
Mar 31, 2019Bryan McTaggart7
Carroll Shelby did not invent the “smaller car with bigger engine” plan with the Shelby Cobra. Neither did Ian Garrad when he dreamed up the Sunbeam Tiger. Honestly, you have to go way...
For The Sporting Sir: The 1962 Ford Thunderbird Phantom Station Wagon
Mar 25, 2019Bryan McTaggart6
According to Lohnes, Ford screwed the pooch with the 1958 Thunderbird and from that moment forward, the model as a whole is dead to him outside of certain individual cars that earned their keep...