Category Archive: BangShift Projects, DRIVETRAIN, ENGINE, FORD, Hack of the Week, Metal Fabrication, SUSPENSION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos, XL Project Trucks, XL Spotlight
Brent at Halfass Kustoms Is Building a 1951 Ford Rat Rod. And He’s Doing It With A Zero Dollar Budget! Can He Pull It Off?
We love Brent’s drive and determination, but it may be his resourcefulness and creativity with used parts that impresses me most. I remember when I first started watching his channel, and he...
The Charger, Part 10: Power Tour Killed The 360. But Fate Stepped In…
June 11th, 2024. That’s the day that the 360 in the ’76 Charger failed. You could’ve boiled an egg on my head, I was so pissed off. I had been thrashing on the car for half a year...
Unhinged: Power Tour 2024, From The Eyes Of A First-Timer
I remember seeing the call-out in Hot Rod magazine: how would you like to take your street machine, 4×4, whatever you’ve got that’s cool, and join the magazine staff on a trip from...
The Charger, Part 9: Shoving A Tremec TKX Where It Truly Belongs
Every six months, it seems, it’s time to provide an update to you, the BangShift reader, on the status of my ’76 Dodge Charger. Let’s be honest: in the entire duration of my...
The Charger, Part 8: Fixing Gauges Once And For All With Classic Instruments
In our last update on my Charger, I had just dragged my heat-soaked hind end from a 1,500-plus mile roadtrip to the Chrysler Carlisle Nats and back home again, with not one hint of trouble from our...
Unhinged: The Charger’s First Major Roadtrip And The Chryslers At Carlisle Experience
In between BangShift Mid-West to the Carlisle Fairgrounds sits 685 miles of open highway. In any modern car, that’s a cakewalk. If you were driving, say, a 1993 Dodge Daytona IROC, you’d...
The Charger, Part 7: The Carlisle Crunch And Death By A Thousand Bushings
It’s been one year since the last update on my ’76 Dodge Charger. And I couldn’t be happier about that, because it means one thing: it lives. Compared to the fun I had with the...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Entering Our OId Rig Into A Car Show? That’s Right!
(Cover Photo Credit: Wayne Deslauriers) Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Swapping A Magnum 360 Into Our Old Rig!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
The Charger: Lock And Load The Parts Cannon For Maximum Effect
I made the conscious decision to not treat this 1976 Charger the same as every other project car that I’ve owned over the past three decades. Any change from the way the car was when I first...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Prepping Our Junkyard Magnum 360 For Swap Day!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
The Charger: New Shoes, New Attitude, And The First Trip Onto The Strip
It’s pushing close to the one-year anniversary of the day I decided that a 1976 Dodge Charger was going to become my long-term project car, and judging by the relative lack of posts about the...
Unhinged: Reviving A Fury Sport, Part 1 – Acquiring Another Land Barge Mopar
Ed. note: this is your language warning. I’m going to have fun with this series. In 2009, Brian Lohnes dubbed me “The Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes” after he started...
