Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Gets The Off-Road Treatment?
Lately, I’ve had a desire to drag something old-school, overpowered, and slung fairly low into a dirt field so that I could raise hell. Why? “Why not?” is an appropriate enough...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Person In The Gearhead Realm Inspires You?
By now if you have been reading BangShift for any length of time you know that I am a certified history nerd. I revel in learning about cool races, upsets, maverick innovators, crazed racers, single...
BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Exciting Motorsport to Watch?
In the grand scheme of things, lots more people watch auto racing than actually race cars. On any given weekend, there will be hundreds of thousands of people at NASCAR races, tens of thousands at...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst American Car Of The Last 50 Years?
So this one should bring the carving knives out. I was in a conversation with a guy the other day and this question kind of came up. There are a million ways to approach it because there have been...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Best Movie Chase Featuring Late-Model Cars?
How many second-generation Dodge Chargers will be sacrificed on the altar that is Hollywood? For that matter, how many 1970s Chrysler Corporation products, pre-1971 Ford Mustangs, 1969 Chevrolet...
Question Of The Day: What Car Will Stop You Dead In Your Tracks, Every Time?
As much as I hate to admit it, I’ve become a bit jaded to seeing cool cars just parked. It’s one of the bad things about this line of work…when you’ve seen one, you’ve...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Was Your Favorite Automotive Toy As a Kiddo?
Combining the video of the Crazy cart and the fact that I recently stumbled upon this photo of a young me, proudly perched in my Power Wheels truck back in the early 1980s got me thinking. Of all the...
Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest Dead Car You’ve Ever Found?
There is a difference between just finding a car, and finding a dead car. A dead car is one that is only coming back to life with a totally stupid amount of cash, a spare parts car, years to dedicate...
Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Swap A Sport Bike Engine Into?
Jamming the engine from a crotch-rocket into a car the size of a postage stamp would almost be a no-brainer, wouldn’t it? If for no other reason than having a redline that would make a rotary...
Question Of The Day: What Are Your Opinions On Hybrid Work Vehicles?
Meet the Workhorse W-15. Made by the same company that underpins box vans you probably see on a daily basis (the likes of which include fleet vehicles for FedEx, UPS and Frito-Lay, among others),...
Question Of The Day: We Want To Hear Your “That’s Too Much Car For Them!” Stories!
I never thought that I would make it to the point in life where I would see someone with a badass car and instead of being impressed or jealous, I’d think, almost immediately, that I was seeing...
Question Of The Day: Have You Ever Seen A Car That Looks Right And Wrong At The Same Time?
One of my project car dreams is to take a Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, the funky NASCAR homologation special G-body, and to build it into the machine that Pontiac simply failed to deliver on. Manual...
Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best Car Vs. Nature Story?
Today’s Question Of The Day aims directly at the contentious and often problematic issues that crop up between our hobby and the world we live in. Ever since the first motorized carriages...
