Category Archive: Unhinged
Unhinged: A New Yorker Revival Program (And A Possible Mental Health Commitment)
It was nice to see a broad spectrum of Mopar machines at Beech Bend. There were fin cars like a beautiful 1959 Dodge Royal, plenty of muscle-era machines, Wing Cars, trucks, and a horde of late-model...
On This Day: The Lindal Railway Incident, or How To Make A Locomotive Disappear Forever
“There’s a hole, there’s a hole…there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea…” It was one of my favorite cadences in the Army, about a hole that fit damn near...
Unhinged: The Story Of N601BN, Braniff International’s “Big Orange” Boeing 747
Come Tuesday, there will no longer be any U.S. based airliner service that utilizes what is arguably the most instantly recognizable airliner ever made, the Boeing 747. Since it’s rollout in...
Unhinged: The IIHS, Scare Tactics, And Automatic Emergency Braking
I will say it until either the law changes of the day the breath leaves my body: getting a driver’s license should not be as easy as going to a building, taking an awkward photo, and driving...
Unhinged: A “Knight Rider” Reboot? Somebody Needs To Be Rebooted.
In 2000, Nicolas Cage became Randal “Memphis” Raines for the reworking of the H.B. Halicki legend “Gone in 60 Seconds”. In 2004, “Starsky and Hutch” got reworked,...
On This Day In History: The Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima, Japan
On August 4, 2020, Beirut, Lebanon was rocked by an explosion equated to 1.1 kilotons of TNT. You can find the videos yourself, but understand the scale of what you will be watching: a crater...
Unhinged: The Noose Left In Bubba Wallace’s Garage (Warning: Language)
Many drivers in the early days of NASCAR had their start in moonshine running. Many had histories with families that had ties to racing or other high-adrenaline sports. Wendell Scott was no...
Unhinged: The Safety Brief That Ends With “And They Walked Away…”
Let’s play a game. It’s called “Identify That Wreck”. You are looking at the remains of a car that went off of the road during the Sandhills Open Road Challenge in Nebraska. I...
Unhinged: My First Automotive Sin, And It Involved A Mustang II
It’s no secret that I appreciate the Mustang nobody else seems to, the Ford Mustang II. The early cars through 1970 are nearly worshipped. The 1971-73 big-body cars have a lot going for them,...
Memorial Day Memories: A Tribute To The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, The Blood, Sweat And Years
On Friday, April 15th, 2016, 1-17 Cavary flew thirty OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopters in a formation flight around Fort Bragg, North Carolina in a public thank you and farewell. When the...
Unhinged: The Line Between The Bothered And The Botherer
I learned early on that it was best to get along with your neighbors instead of pissing them off. I wasn’t a little a-hole kid…the worst thing I did was usually raid the neighbor’s...
Unhinged: Does It Feel Like Project Rush? It Does To Me!
From the jump, let’s be honest: given what I do for work, the pandemic and the lockdowns were going to affect me differently than if I had any other job. I write from home most of the time....
Unhinged: The Dark Side Of Being A Mopar Fan Is Limiting Yourself
Uncle Tony recently put out a video that calls out the problems with being a Mopar fan in modern times. You can watch the video below, I recommend that you do, but I’ll give you the Cliff Notes...
Unhinged: A Toast To The Good Ol’ Truck
The Spring of 2020 brought enough problems with it, but here at BangShift Mid-West, we’ve been on a roll a bit longer than that. The fun really kicked off late last year, when an uninsured...