Category Archive: BangShift XL, Craigslist Find, XL Online Find
Wanting Your Own Square-Body Crew Cab Dually Of Your Very Own? This 454-Powered 1986 Model Is For Sale For Reasonable Cash!
Jan 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
One of the bigger deals of last year was Chad’s hunt for a square-body GM crew cab dually pickup. The Bearded One had a very particular shopping list: must be two-wheel-drive, big block...
Troll Level: Expert! This Snow DeLorean Was So Good That Montreal Cops Left A Ticket!
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
(Photos: Simon Laprise) We take the police too seriously sometimes. They’re always trying to catch you speeding, or they are always trying to harass you for one reason or another. You can...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Worst “Best Idea Ever!” You’ve Ever Had?
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
Oh, the stories I’ve got that involve cars and the situations I wish I had never been a part of. I’ve got a laundry list that rolls out like red carpet for a celebrity…let’s...
Donut Media Put Out Their Top 10 Jet Car List – Do You Agree With Their Choices?
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
You want to get the attention of a human being? Introduce fire. Humans have been fascinated with fire as long as we’ve been walking upright. Fire keeps us warm and hurts us horribly. It is...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” by Butthole Surfers (1993)
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
As a kid, I wasn’t exactly sheltered. I was allowed to roam pretty much untethered 95% of the time, I was allowed to go and see and do more or less as I pleased. But there were two things that...
Unhinged: The Styling Evolution Of The Pickup Truck, From Workhorse To Well-Heeled
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
I’ve been paying attention to the backlash that has come from the new truck announcements over the past couple of weeks. We’ve gotten a refreshed pair of twins from GM, the F-series got...
Rough Start: The Home-Built Dodge Dually To Compete With Brian And Chad’s Obsessions!
Jan 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
So we’ve been on a dually pickup kick around here for a bit. Part of that is due to Chad’s box Chevy that he picked up and has been enjoying, but the other part is that we love dually...
Here Is Today’s Photo Update From Barrett-Jackson In Scottsdale. Cars Galore!
Jan 19, 2018Chad Reynolds6
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) It is Friday at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale and we are enjoying the hell out of this place. I have been to a lot of races, shows, conventions, and car events of all kinds,...
Ultra4 Rigs Meet Hillclimbing! Who Wins? We All Do! (Just Kidding…The Hill Wins!)
Jan 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Ultra4 racers are the kind of rigs that you see at King Of The Hammers. They are brutal units that have to survive the worst that California can throw at them, and range from UTV runners to the...
Are We Seriously Rooting For A Hot-Rodded Suzuki Swift? Yes We Are! Watch This Little Beast Go!
Jan 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
You probably would recognize it better if it was called a Geo Metro, but it’s a Suzuki Swift. Or a Suzuki Cultus. Or whatever…you know what kind of car it is, they were sold all over the...
Ye Old Ripper: This 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada Is Ready To Rip Asphalt Up (And Your Face Off)
Jan 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
I can’t remember when the story ran, but around the late 1990s the name Jon Moss was the buzzword for “Fast GM Products”. The “Toy Box” cars, as they were referred to,...
Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!
Jan 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
One of the best ways to get all three of us laughing and cheering on the underdog: find the biggest car you can and make it do things it was never ever designed to do. You don’t get much bigger...
More Barrett-Jackson Photos From The Premier Collector Car Auction In Scottsdale
Jan 18, 2018Chad ReynoldsComments Off on More Barrett-Jackson Photos From The Premier Collector Car Auction In Scottsdale
Here we go again! If you think we’ve posted a lot of photos from Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale so far, then you’ll really love the fact that we have hundreds and hundreds more coming. The...
This 1984 Ford Sierra XR8 Gives Us An Idea: Merkur 5.0!
Jan 18, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
The Ford Sierra was the world car that just didn’t quite make the cut in the United States. It might have had more to do with it’s name change than anything else…while “Ford...






