Category Archive: BangShift Projects, FORD
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: The Second Sacrifice Has Arrived At The Shop!
Jun 24, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
No, that is not the Great Pumpkin Mustang. That is not the replacement for the Great Pumpkin Mustang. What you’re looking at is the latest thing to be dragged to BangShift Mid-West’s...
Project Raven Imperial: Engine, Wiring, And The First Bath In A Year!
Jun 16, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
When I got to work on the new engine for the Imperial at the beginning of the year, I had been hoping that I would be cruising around in the car by now. As you can plainly see, that hasn’t...
BangShift Project Files: An Update On The Former CarJunkieTV 1972 Nova
Jun 08, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on BangShift Project Files: An Update On The Former CarJunkieTV 1972 Nova
It’s been a couple of years since we checked in on forum member “Proven Guilty” and the 1972 Chevrolet Nova that used to be a part of the CarJunkieTV.com fleet, back before...
Rescue Update: The “Wild Cherry” Chevy Van Has Come A Long Way In Half A Year!
Jun 08, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Right at the tail end of 2017 we learned about a 1975 Chevrolet G10 van known as “Wild Cherry” that had lived one hell of a life. A true 1970s custom build, the Chevy had been built by...
Money No Object: This Lingenfelter-Modified 1999 Chevrolet Suburban Packs 9.9L Of Eff-You Power!
May 31, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Nine-point-nine liters of engine, normally sourced for a marine application, plopped into the most typically 1990s Chevrolet Suburban you’ve ever seen in your life. You know how there are...
Project Angry Grandpa: The Hemi Shootout At The NMCA Bluegrass Nationals
May 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
At the end of last year, I made a decision: Project Angry Grandpa, our in-house 2006 Chrysler 300C, was going to take an off year after three solid years of use and abuse. With over 50,000...
Buicks Show Off At The Original Parts Group Spring Summer Series Opener!
May 20, 2018Darr HawthorneComments Off on Buicks Show Off At The Original Parts Group Spring Summer Series Opener!
It’s springtime in Southern California and our awesome BANGshift.com sponsor; Original Parts Group officially kicked off their Spring Summer Car Show Series over the weekend at the OPGI...
Project Raven Imperial: WHY WON’T YOU WORK?! Fighting The Fuel Gauge Again…
May 09, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
Remember my first day on the job nearly four years ago, when I said that joining the BangShift crew might be the most questionable automotive decision I’ve ever made? Scratch that. I’ve...
Project Teaser: LSX Ferrari – This 1997 550 Maranello Is Currently Under The Knife For Reliability’s Sake!
May 03, 2018Bryan McTaggart13
It isn’t everyday that I get worked up over a Ferrari. I’ll be honest: if I know that a 288 GTO is somewhere nearby, I’ll drop everything and go seek it out. A 288 GTO is in my top...
BangShift Project Files: The DisAstre Is Fresh Out Of The Paint Booth!
Apr 08, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
Forum member “Hoffbug” has been busy on his project car, a 1977 Vega that is using the nose and tailpan from a 1976 Pontiac Astre and parts from a Cosworth Vega. The idea is to run an...
The Limousine: We Get The U.S.S. D’Elegance Back To A Roadworthy State And Assess What’s Next!
Mar 30, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
Back in January I went in with a couple of people on the mother of all bad ideas, a 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood Formal limousine that had a three-digit price tag and looked like a five-digit trip to the...
Counting Pennies: This $500 Chevy Monte Carlo Will Be Built For $5,000!
Mar 29, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
By now you should be pretty familiar with the Rough Start finds that I put up each week. The premise behind these Craigslist hunts is simple: for $5,000 you should be able to have a running, driving...
BangShift Project Files: We Check In On A 1966 Ford F-100 Packing A 427 Side-Oiler!
Mar 27, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
When we say we have all manner of builds in the BangShift forums, we mean it. From my low-buck junk to Hemi Joel’s seriously high-end Duesenberg straight-eight rebuild and everything in...
Project Raven Imperial: The 360 Rebuild, Part Two – Work Progresses, Grinds To A Halt, Progresses Again…
Mar 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
When I last left the build on Raven’s 360ci LA Mopar, I had gotten the ugly truth about the piston rings I had on hand: they were junk. Piston #1’s top ring had broken in half and just...