Category Archive: FORD, Project Cars
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...
Embrace The Strange: This 1992 Saturn Lowrider Is Creativity Done Well
I’m pretty sure that after this one, you will be ready for me to go back to mid-1970s Mopars. A Saturn on BangShift? “What the hell is wrong with McTaggart now?”…I can already...
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 Angry Grandpa: The Second Round Of Work At BFNY Performance And Milan
When we last left our in-house project Chrysler action-wise, I had finished up running at ChallengerFest 8 and was pretty content with the performance of the big gold brick. It wasn’t running...
Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals 2017 Gallery: There’s More To The Show Than Show Cars!
I mean it wholeheartedly when I say that the Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals is a huge show. Out of everything that I have attended at Beech Bend, the Tri-Five Nats genuinely feels almost equal to the...
Morning Symphony: Jeep SRT Running At WannaGoFast In Virginia
I’m starting to get amped up. Here in a couple of days, Angry Grandpa is going back to BFNY Performance for a bit of attention, then it will immediately head out to a track. It’s racing...
Introducing Project 2 Timer; BANGshift Resurrection Altered Wheelbase Chevy II!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Zak Hawthorne, Nick Licata & Darr Hawthorne) With recycling in so many parts of our lives, it surely extends into classic cars and repurposing hot rods...
BangShift Project Files: This 1964 Buick Skylark Wagon Was Picked Up For A Song!
One of BangShift’s more active wrenches in the forum is SuperBuickGuy. Aaron has had enough projects going on over the years that I honestly have a hard time keeping up with the...
Project Raven Imperial: We Have A Powertrain! Now, If It Will Just Quit Fighting Us…
Finally, after years of issues, our project 1983 Imperial has some good news: there is an engine and transmission waiting to be put into the engine bay! Given the luck the Imperial has had with...
BangShift Project Thread: Wrenching On Old Military Jeeps For A Museum Is A Pretty Sweet Deal!
Our buddy Walt Dumont has a pretty neat deal on his hands that honestly, we just might be a little bit jealous over. He’s getting to play with military trucks. “Big deal”, you...
Project Angry Grandpa: Helping Grandpa Get His Shift Back Together
No car is fallible. No matter how careful you are, no matter how much or how little you drive it, sooner or later the pile of parts that you cruise around in will have a fault that needs attending...
BangShift Project Files: The Project Tetanus 1966 Plymouth Fury Gets New (Non-Rusted) Sheetmetal!
Joe Haber’s 1966 Plymouth Fury, a project car that has, for better or worse, become a part of the family, has proven to be at times a royal bitch-kitty, has been undergoing major sheetmetal...
Project White Bread Hits The Dyno, Gets Flowmaster Exhaust, And Heads Back To The Dyno
Bimbo, aka Project White Bread, is our 2004 Suburban tow pig project. It’s as clean as it gets, and yet we couldn’t leave it stock. We are after all BANGshift.com. So the windows got...
