Category Archive: BangShift Projects, FORD, Pumpkin Mustang
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...
BangShift Project Files: Meet The Man Who Can’t Stop Frame-Swapping!
An automobile project doesn’t get much more involved than a frame swap, does it? Undoing that marriage of chassis and body that was made at the factory takes commitment, a near encyclopedic...
BangShift Project Follow-Up: The LeMons Rally Edsel – Finished, Driven and Now For Sale!
Whenever Jim Forbes takes on a project, we perk up and pay attention. It’s not because Jim has been a BangShifter since before BangShift actually existed or because the cars he’s most...
BangShift Project Files: Following Up On The 1959 Edsel That Will Be Going On The LeMons Rally!
It’s been a little bit since we checked in on our buddy Jim and the 1959 Edsel four-door sedan that he was preparing for the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally that will tour the American Southwest...
BangShift Project Files: Building The Mother Of All Lemons To Take On The Lemons Rally! This 1959 Edsel Is Being Built To Cruise The Southwest This Year!
The LeMons Rally, aka the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally ’16, looks to be an absolute riot. There isn’t so much a price limit, as there is on typical LeMons racing, but instead the idea is...
A Herd Of Horses: A Breakdown Of The Ford Mustang’s Many Different Models
You could consider the Ford Mustang the best platform re-skin ever performed by an auto manufacturer. Ford already had a compact car in the form of the Falcon, but executives knew that in order to...
Which Supercharger Is Best? Engine Masters Takes A Look At Two Budget-Minded Boost Possibilities On The Ford 363ci Yanked Out Of The Raunchero!
Boost…it is addictive, it is fun, and normally, it’s a bit expensive to do. Superchargers can provide enough pressurized air to make the drive a lot of fun, and blower whine is always so...
Bangshift Project Files: This 1979 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 Is Going To Become A Land Speed Car!
The leading edge of Ford’s Fox platform was the Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr twins. Replacing the Ford Maverick/Mercury Comet, they first appeared in two door sedan, four-door sedan and station...
Copart Cadaver: A New Shelby GT350 And It’s Flat-Plane Crank V8 Will Be For Sale Soon!
High performance car plus low performance driver always means that inevitably, a badass car is going to find it’s way onto Copart.com, the online search hub for everything dead and crunched in...
BangShift Project Files: This 1988 Ford Ranger Is Now Packing A Turbocharged Nissan RB20DET!
What use would you have with a 1988 Ford Ranger that was all but ready for the junkyard? That was the situation that faced BangShift member “neongreen”…his Ranger had dutifully...
