Category Archive: MOPAR, Project Cars
The Challenger Revival Part 24: MoParty And The First Drive
Looking back to the first images of this 1973 Dodge Challenger as it was found, would you have attempted to bring it back to life? Crusted in algae, sinking into the earth, bashed in the...
Polishing Up The Gold Nugget: Buffing Out The Storage-Shed 1972 Cutlass
The more I see this car get cleaned up, the more I have to hand it to Kevin. Okay, kudos, for sure, but money for a lottery ticket as well, because he scored when he got his hands on this absolute...
Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...
Historical Footage: The 1970 American Motors Model Lineup Commercial – “What Would You Do?”
This wasn’t a swipe at the famous speech from the movie “Patton”, now was it? You can’t blame American Motors for reaching to whatever length they felt they needed in order to...
The Chop Top Dodge Crusader Gets A Cheap DIY Interior. Watch And See Just How You Can Do Your Own Interior At Home.
Building cars can be done on the cheap if you know how to do it all yourself, but that means some skills need to be learned. It always seems that painting a car and doing the interior on the car are...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Head Against The Wall” by Anew Revolution (2010)
Oh, readers…let me tell you about the fun that the last few days at BangShift Mid-West have been. You see, after weeks of heat and humidity, and a few days of outright hellish rain storms that...
The Challenger Revival, Part 23: Engine In, Transmission In, And Electrical Going In!
Dylan McCool has a date with destiny in a couple weeks. That’s his self-imposed mark to have the 1973 Dodge Challenger project build/revival that he’s been working on running and driving,...
BangShift Project Files: Meet The Wedge, A Rolling…(psst…what is it again?!)
Six years ago, this car first hit the BangShift forums as a curiousity, a freak show that Joe Haber had seen roaming around Arizona, a car that nobody knew the backstory to, a car that nobody knew...
Stacey’s Mom’s SUV: 1999 Saleen Explorer XP8 – Who Drove The Hot-Rodded Brat Hauler?
At the risk of exposing a bit of my deviant behavior from my first day of junior high through my high-school graduation era, was it just me or did you scout out some of the parents dropping their...
The Challenger Revival, Part 22: I Now (Attempt To) Pronounce You Car And Engine
Ah, finally…the engine is hanging from the hoist, dangling above the chasm of an engine bay, ready to be placed in for the final time. There’s a great deal of satisfaction in that moment....
Rough Start Fox Body: Tearing The Transmission Down To The Bone
In the last update of our $600 1989 Ford Mustang LX project beater, we had dropped in the engine and the radiator assembly. It’s been a couple of weeks…you would think that you...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: The PITA Front Suspension Drama
It’s been three months since I’ve put wrenches to the 1980 Mustang Ghia that we call the Great Pumpkin, and it’s simply because I’ve been pissed-off at the car. Other than...
Historical Footage: Richard Petty’s Charger Vs. Bobby Allison’s AMC Matador At The 1975 Southern 500
When AMC redesigned the Matador line for 1974, they essentially made two different cars out of the same name: the sedan and wagon were basically face lifted versions of the car that replaced the...
BangShift Project Files: MAX II 6×6 Amphibious ATV….EV?!
You saw these things advertised in the backs of magazines like Popular Science: the Max ATV, a six-wheeled amphibious device that looked like a bathtub with ambition. Argo, Recreative...