Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
What’s The Biggest, Or Strangest, Vehicle You Have Ever Done Donuts In?
Spinning donuts, blowing donuts, doing donuts, or whatever it is you call spinning a vehicle around over and over in the dirt or a parking lot in the pursuit of laughter and fun is, well, FUN! If you...
Whatever Happened To That Ford GAA-Powered Mustang?
Picture, if you will: an all-aluminum 32-valve DOHC V8 producing 500 horsepower, coming from the factory built to kill and meant to take an absolute beating at the hands of the operator. Ford did...
Would You Rather, The Dirt-Cheap Thrasher Edition: Under A Grand, But You Have To Race It!
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 starts NCM Motorsports Park’s King Of The Heap winter racing series. I will be there, one way or another, at some unholy hour of the morning. If I have no luck at...
Would You Rather, The “Not-A-Pontiac” Imported Edition: 1969 Beaumont Droptop Or 2009 Holden Commodore SS Ute?
It’s time for another round of “Would You Rather”, and today the choices are a bit…well, they need some explanation. First off, both of these things are huge projects. The...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best Magazine Article You Can Think Of?
(Photo: Car and Driver) Ooof, that had to hurt. What you are looking at is the nose of a 1983 Dodge 600ES that went dead-on into a suicidal cow somewhere in Baja California, Mexico while Car and...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Yard Equipment Would You Repurpose With A Bigger Engine?
November in Kentucky is a time to wind down the yard care season. The leaves have fallen and have been raked up and burned, for the most part, the garden has been allowed to go fallow for the winter,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Grossest Substance You’ve Encountered While Wrenching?
In the last Great Pumpkin Mustang update, one of my future quick fixes for the 1980 Mustang was to flush the coolant system of the nasty-ass pond water that the car was utilizing as coolant. It was...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Can You State EVERY 1960s Manufacturer’s Name For A Limited Slip Differential?
The 1960s were an amazing time for domestic auto manufacturers. Virtually everyone that was in the business was working at full speed to fill orders and meet demand levels from a country that was...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Has Been Your Best Junkyard Find Or Buy?
Junkyards are the best. Hell, we get almost as excited going to the junkyard as we do going to the race track. Why? Because the treasure hunter/hoarder in us always believes that we find some cool...
BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Could Own ONE Famous Car Or Truck, Which One Would It Be?
This BangShift Question of the day should be good! I happened to be having a chat with my sons the other day and the topic of favorite cars/trucks came up (like it does every day). They asked me what...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Young Is Too Young To Race?
The little girl you see in the picture is eight-year-old Anita Board. She raced a Junior Dragster, and on November 12th, 2017, was involved in an incident on-track at Perth Motorplex that claimed her...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Ideal, Purpose-Built Winter Beater?
(Photos: Craig VanBuskirk) If you haven’t already seen the cold, white fluffy stuff falling from the skies, don’t worry…it’s on the way (except for you wise-asses in...
Question of the Day: What is the Coolest Obsolete Engine?
The march of progress means that things do not stay the same for very long, especially in the automotive realm. Something that is the hot ticket one day is relegated to the scrap heap the next....
