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Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Time For Coachbuilding To Make A Comeback?

If you dive back into the early days of the automobile, it was common to purchase a running chassis from one make and send it to a body manufacturer for the actual shape of the car. Names that you...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When Did You Buy A Lot Of Junk You Didn’t Need?

Justin from Fuel Injection Sucks might be the only person in the world I know who is excited about scoring a $600-ish Ford Festiva. The one, the only. This is a car that was manufactured between 1986...

We Offer You One For The Weekend: Which One Of These Boats Do You Choose For A Weekend On The Lake?

If someone told you that you could have one of these three boats, for the weekend on the lake, for free, which one do you choose? The hot rodder and racer in me, that totally wants to own a Big Block...

BangShift Question Of The Day: V8 Jeep? V8 Bronco? Can You Justify The V8 Anymore?

Hours before the Ford Bronco family was announced the other day, Jeep slipped a quiet little “I’m not ignoring you” bit out into the open: the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 concept....

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your First High-Performance Driving Experience Like?

My helmet was so new that the chemical smell was starting to make me nauseous. I had been messing with the seat controls and the steering wheel adjustment for at least ten minutes trying to find the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Were Remaking Two Lane Blacktop Today What Car Would You Have The Guys Drive?

This is a tough one that should spark some interesting answers. Let’s say you have been hired by a Hollywood studio to remake the cult classic movie Two Lane Blacktop. The only thing that the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Hope For The 2021 Ford Bronco?

Today’s the day that Ford is set to unveil everything that they have been working on that has the name “Bronco” attached to it. Which, last we checked, was three items: a two-door...

Caption This: Risk Assessment? Never Heard Of Him.

DD Form 2977, “Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet”. What is it? In Army lingo, it’s a form that is used to identify, analyze and mitigate risks for everything from something as...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s “That One Car” From The Neighborhood?

(Photos: Albert J. Di Zenzo, via Malaise Motors) How many of you can identify this Oldsmobile Cutlass on sight? The Chicago Cutlass. The kind-of green, some blue, mostly rust early G-body Oldsmobile...

Caption This: Failure To Properly Secure Load, Driving With Head Up Rectum…

Truckers and railroad workers, tow truck operators and the like will tell you like I will tell you: there is a right way and a wrong way to secure your load. Cross-strapping, anchored down and away...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Worth Trying To Make A Living Racing Anymore?

I remember it clear as a bell: I’m on my hands and knees in the hallway of my grandfather’s house, pushing a large plastic toy that’s vaguely in the shape of a G-body NASCAR racer,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Happens When You’ve Reached The End Of Your Talent?

Let’s get the basic questions out of the way now. That is a three-foot-long steel spike that is bashed through the piston of a Chrysler 400. If you go back to the Raven Imperial build, around...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Why Save One But Scrap Another?

I knew I wanted to use this 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass for some kind of post today, but I wasn’t sure what for. I could say it was one of my “Money No Object” cars, but at just under...

What Vehicle Have You Wanted To Get, But Know There Is No Good Reason For You To Own?

Why is it that as hot rodders and racers we are constantly seeing someone we want, and go so far as to build it completely in our heads, even though there is zero reason that we should actually own...