Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question Of The Day: How Many Car Brands Have Died In Your Lifetime?
With the news the other day that Holden was no longer building cars in Australia, it got me to thinking about how many car brands have gone by the wayside since I was born. That year was 1980 so I...
The Ultimate Torture Test? This Plymouth Minivan Dies Defending It’s Honor!
Chrysler products from around the year 2000 have a bad rap for being unreliable. And some of it is deserved, especially where transmissions and electronics are concerned. But not everything that...
The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!
There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...
Rough Start: This Effing Jeep Has The Best Argument For It Ever!
We here at BangShift do our best to keep our site family friendly…at least, we stay within a PG-13 area for sure. But catch us in person sometime…we all are human, and we all can easily...
Watch the Most Spectacular Motorcycle Save We Have Ever Seen – Rider Thrown But Clings to Bike!
This is bar none, the craziest and most spectacular motorcycle save we have ever seen. The rider is Genki Hagata and the place is Infineon Raceway in California during a recent AMA race. Hagata was...
BANGshift’s Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Lays Out Odds For The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion!
As nitro funny car racing matures, the task of picking the final rounds and a top ten in the class is getting tougher and tougher with each event. The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion at Auto Club...
Grandpa’s Sleeper: This 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis Coupe Combines Comfort And Muscle Into A Discreet Package!
I’m becoming quite fine with a new adjustment in my way of thinking about a car: comfort first, with performance a very, very close second for daily or highway use. As much as I want a...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Been The Dumbest Automotive Idea Of The Last 25 Years?
While driving yesterday I saw a Nissan Murano convertible drive by. I had seen photos of this contraption in magazines and online and yes, I had seen a scant few over the years but it had been a good...
Rough Start: This 1992 Ford F-150 Flareside Is The Perfect First Car
The ideal first car for a brand new driver is a twenty-five year old Ford truck? Yes, it is. In this era of safety first, driving third, this Ford strikes a great balance of what a kid could want and...
Classic YouTube: The 1974 Bathurst Run Of John Goss And Kevin Bartlett
We may wax nostalgic about how NASCAR used to be in the 1970s, but compared to most other racing series, the circle track guys still have one major downfall compared to everybody else: they will not...
Morning Symphony: The Sound Of Tortured Slicks Under A Stomping Chevy C-10
It’s the sound that we know so well here at BangShift, given the amount of time we spend working the 1320. The noise when a highly strung drag machine goes from sitting perfectly still to when...
BangShift Project Files: A 1955 Plymouth And A Vision…And A Thin Budget
1955 was a breakout year for the Chrysler Corporation. After living with the stodgy, upright shape that had been around since 1950 (and the reputation as a boring, milquetoast bit of kit to drive...
Copart Cadavers: The Flood Cars Are Coming After The Hurricanes, Like This Poor 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge
It’s amazing to think that there are numerous lots throughout America holding thousands, if not tens of thousands…or even more maybe, who knows…of vehicles that are just sitting....
Compact, Roomy And Sporting…No, It’s Not The Newest Crossover, It’s This 1976 Pontiac Astre!
A couple of weeks ago, as I was cruising car lots, I got to talking with a salesman. He was bent on making a sale, and was the type that wasn’t going to take “no” for an answer. He...