Category Archive: BangShift Projects, FORD
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Floor Patching, Subframe Connectors, And More!
It’s been six months since we put up any kind of word on the Great Pumpkin, our 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia, and that’s actually a good thing for the most part. The car didn’t die and...
BangShift Project Files: The LSR-Prepared Mercury Zephyr Got It’s First Record At Bonneville!
When we first saw the 1979 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 that forum member “bukshysteve” said he was planning on taking to Bonneville to run a record in, he was at the early stages of the...
Ken Block’s “Terrakhana” Video Brings Toy Cars In The Dirt To Life!
I call it “Roadrunner country”. The open, arid areas of Utah where the peaks are high, the floor is desolate, and you’d swear that you were the only living thing around for miles....
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Slow Progress Is Still Progress!
The 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia that is BangShift’s in-house Fox Body project has been progressing. Admittedly, much slower than we were anticipating work to move, but we aren’t a reality...
BangShift Project Files: The Ballad Of The Little Red Mustang, Now With More Blower Noise
One of the most colorful characters in the BangShift Forums is “pdub”, who was formerly known as Peewee. We don’t mean colorful as yours truly (meaning that every fifth word usually...
Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step Two Is Making A Sacrifice To The Pony Car Gods
We are a couple of weeks into work on the Great Pumpkin, our 1980 Mustang Ghia, and it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, to be honest. We’ve had good days where we make progress and...
BangShift Project Files: This 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Was Loaded With Mud When Found!
Scott Liggett is no stranger to the pages of BangShift. His black 1965 Impala is pretty much his calling card, his 1967 GMC has been his latest project, and in-between he’s worked on some neat...
BangShift Project Files: Following Along As A 1968 Mercury Cougar Gets Put Back Together
Langleylad’s 1968 Cougar has been one of the more intricate builds featured on the project car forums. He’s been working on it for years now, and it’s a sincere, in-depth build that...
Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step One Is Getting Our Forlorn Fox Back On The Road
Our 1980 Mustang hasn’t had the most comfortable life in the last few years. It’s lived in a shed (the sketchy, wasp-filled number that was the home of our Imperial when I yanked out the...
Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: We Introduce Our Daily-Driver Build 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia
What better way to kick off the new year than by bringing a new project car on board? Well…let’s be honest, it’s not exactly a “new” project car. If you’ve been...
Bangshift Project Files Update: If You Hurry, You Can Own This Ford Truck/Crown Vic Combination!
We’ve looked at Nathan Kershaw’s 1969 Ford F-250 frame swap build before. It’s a neat premise: everything that makes a Crown Vic go, stop and in general be a great sedan, stuffed...
SEMA 2016: Checking Out The New Products At Ford Performance!
Earlier this week we showed you what the Bowtie Brigade has been up to, and if you think that Ford is going to rest on their laurels, you are sorely mistaken. Ford has been on a big performance push...
Question Of The Day: How Would You Build This Dirt-Cheap Mercury Mountaineer?
Hot rodding is all about taking what is old and unloved, the throwaways of the automotive world, and turning them into something that is awesome, performs better than even the factory could have...
