Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, CRASH & BURN, Videos
BangShift Question Of The Day: Pick A Car That Deserves To Die And Pick Your Method!
I don’t know all of Brian Lohnes’ vehicle-based past but if there is one thing I know, it’s that if he was to ever get a free pass to a demolition derby event and only had to pick...
What’s The Strangest Broken Thing You’ve Ever Found On A Good Running Car?
So a Facebook friend of mine sent me a couple photos last night of the damaged rotor inside his distributor with the following message. “Dude, WTF kinda s#!t is this?” I laughed when I...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Make A Modern Version Of An Older Model!
I want you to soak in for a moment at what you are seeing. It may have started life as a 2008 Ford Crown Victoria, but it is now one of reportedly two Panther-platform cars that have been converted...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Should Be Done About Sideshows?
The San Franscisco-Oakland Bay bridge is the last place on Earth I’d want to be ripping donuts in a twenty-year-old Mustang. Nevermind that nice drop to the water below, nevermind the hoards of...
This Chevrolet R3500 Is Missing It’s Engine…What Would You Stuff Into The Engine Bay?
The other day I posted up a square-body GMC that had no bed that I had dreams of turning into a big-block flatbed howler. That didn’t seem to go too well, so I’m gonna send up another...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Part Or Parts Are You Currently Lusting After But Cannot Afford?
Like virtually all hot rodders, we have champagne tastes and a beer budget. Ok, let’s be honest here. We have box wine tastes and a prison toilet hooch budget, but you get the idea. Every day...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Much Farther Does NASCAR Need To Go To Make A Believable Car?
(Photos: Ford Motor Company) While there might be a little bit of disagreement, I’m calling the first-generation Chevrolet Lumina stock car the moment when NASCAR moved away from...
How Would You Build It? This 1963 Chrysler Newport Is A Big-Block, Manual Trans Four-Door That Could Be Bitchin’!
Oh, how we all lament the dying off of passenger cars and manual transmissions in this day and age. How we look at plastic covered bumpers on silver lumps rolling down the Interstate and think back...
Question of the Day: What’s the One Restored Race Car You Would Want to Own?
We were talking with an old drag racer about a week ago and the guy kind of lamented that he’d never see his favorite car again and there was no real way to track it down. It is interesting in...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine In History Has Had The Best Factory Name?
One of the things that manufacturers have lost the plot on in recent years is naming their engines. Hell, we told you about one example coming from GM today as they are calling a new turbocharged...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best “Yard Car” Memory?
We called it the “War Car”. It was a 1975-ish Dodge Coronet two-door that somehow had earned a target for elimination, a sentence of death by torture. The big brown barge of a Mopar...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is There Any Kind Of Racing You Won’t Do?
By and large, I’m more than willing to take on a challenge if it involves racing. I’ve drag raced, road raced, autocrossed, canyon-carved on roads with Wile E. Coyote drops on the side,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Did You Race Your Parents’ Car When You Were A Teen?
I was on cloud nine when the DMV lady looked at me and said, “I’ve never given anyone a 100% score on their first driving test and I’ll be damned if I give you one. I’m going...
