Category Archive: Monday Shopper, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Money No Object: HELLWAGON! This 1989 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Is Packing Ma Mopar’s Torque Monster!
On September 3, 2020, Jeep’s “Grand Wagoneer” nameplate will return as a full-sized luxury sports-utility vehicle, a body-on-frame unit that sits on Ram 1500 bones. We keep seeing...
Money No Object: 1977 International Scout II Half-Cab
While out and about the other day, Haley and I stopped in at a dealership’s used lot to check out a lifted Ram 1500 that had piqued her fancy. We did the usual song and dance with the salesman,...
Cool Vanilla: 1990 Dodge Ram D150 Muscle Truck, As It Should Have Been
Rewind back to 1990 for a minute. The truck of the moment, as it had been ever since it debuted, is the updated GM C/K pickup truck. Lifted, slammed, name it, GM trucks were killing it. They were the...
Show Some Class: 1970 Buick Skylark GS 455 In Black
For 1970, GM had an A-body road burner for whatever your personality type happened to be. Straight-up, no frills and ready to kick ass? LS6 454 Chevelle. As wild and flashy as you wanted to be? GTO...
Money No Object: 1963 Dodge 330 Two-Door Clone
There are two points about this car that need to be mentioned. One, this is a Chrysler B-body. Same as a Road Runner, same as a Charger, same as a Cordoba. Yeah, the styling couldn’t be any...
Money No Object: 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood – Fat Tire Family Ride!
The heyday of the station wagon has been gone for over 40 years now. Long four-door wagons, some with wood paneling, some with excess of chrome, most simply basic transportation for the family, some...
Money No Object: 1969 Ford Torino Cobra 428 SCJ
If it wasn’t bright red and it wasn’t wearing a couple of little badges and the giveaway hoodscoop, this would be a basic-model Ford Torino, complete with body-colored wheels and...
Money No Object: 1986 Chevrolet El Camino Choo-Choo Super Sport
The small truck. The sport truck. The muscle truck. The coupe utility. The Chevrolet El Camino might not have been the first… The owner goes to an Australian Ford… But it made an impact in the...
So Wrong It’s Right: 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7 In Period-Correct Attire
Lying somewhere between root beer brown and a dark wine red color lies this 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7. Don’t get excited, we know, we know…it’s a Ford lead sled from the bad old days...
Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly
1968-1970 Dodge Chargers are desirable in a way that few other cars have managed to become. They are brutally handsome, they came from the factory in trims ranging from the rare fuel sipper to...
Money No Object: The “Jet-X” 1971 Plymouth GTX
At the beginning of BangShift.com, one of the earliest stories I can remember reading involved this very car. In the Mopar world, Gary and Pam Beineke had made a name for themselves by building the...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1976 Ford F-100 Custom, With Oldsmobile 455 Heartbeat!
The Ford F-series has been America’s best selling full-size pickup for what feels like for-freaking-ever. Why is that? Because every generation of F-series brought enough to the table to be an...
American Ute Fixation: 2008 Ford Explorer Sport Trac Adrenalin, With Coyote and Six-Speed
It’s a bit of a toss-up to know where the American SUV craze started. Was it the XJ Cherokee, with it’s boxy shape and it’s proven four-wheel-drive system that was smaller and...
Hi-Ho, Land Yacht, Away: A 1973 Chrysler Newport For Old Time’s Sake
If you’ve read my past writings that involve a Chrysler Newport, you’ll know about the history of one 1973 model that is pretty much my indoctrination into the adrenaline high of...