Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find, MOPAR
Would You Rather, The Two Grand Edition: Would You Go For The Firebird Or The Charger R/T?
Let’s scale the Rough Start budget down to around two thousand dollars for a minute. What can that buy you? 1980s beater nobody cares about…a ragged-out Fox Mustang…beat-up...
Question Of The Day: Do You Believe That There Will Be An Entire Generation Of Cars That Will Never Become “Collectable”?
Behold, the 1986 American Motors Eagle wagon. The run-down is pretty typical for a late-build Eagle: 4.2L inline-six, automatic transmission, just about every possible option that AMC could hurl at...
Question Of The Day: Weigh In And Tell Us If This Barn Find 1973 Plymouth Barracuda Worth The Asking Price Or Not?
If there is one car that truly defines “overvalued” in my book, it’s the E-body Plymouth Barracuda. Not the Hemi cars, or the 440-6 cars, or even the big-block cars are what...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Least Amount Of Power You Have Ever Picked Up From An Engine Swap?
During tech at the Ohio Mile yesterday, racer Brandon Malone of Connecticut said, “Hey I have a good BangShift Question of the Day for you!” Often those words are followed by ideas so...
Question Of The Day: How Would You Build This Dirt-Cheap Mercury Mountaineer?
Hot rodding is all about taking what is old and unloved, the throwaways of the automotive world, and turning them into something that is awesome, performs better than even the factory could have...
Caption This: This 1975 Plymouth Road Runner Should’ve Stayed In The Southwest!
Every time I surf eBay, whether it be for work or self-torment to kill time looking for a car I don’t need, I look for one body style of car in particular: the 1975-1978 “Coronet”...
Question Of The Day: When Did You Figure Out You Were The Neighborhood Gearhead?
I like where I live: I have one neighbor to the right of me, one neighbor to the left of me, an acre’s walk to the field that is currently filled with soybeans, and in front of my house, a slab...
Would You Plasti Dip Your Own Project, Instead Of Painting It?
For those not familiar with doing dipped, or Plasti Dipped automotive finishes, it is all the rage lately due to a relatively low cost and the ability to change your mind at any time and peel it...
Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Consider To Be The Ultimate Classic?
The dreaded question: what is the best of the best? The “one”? We can’t make our minds up on our own personal favorite car, let alone to pick one automobile that would be the...
Question Of The Day: What Kind Of School Bus Did You Ride As A Kid?
Now that school is in session, Bowling Green is filled to the brim with school busses ferrying kids across town and cops monitoring school zones. Since I live far enough away from the city that...
Question Of The Day: Have You Started To Plan Out Your Winter Projects Yet?
Can someone please explain to me when, exactly, September 1st became Pumpkin Spice Everything Day? The wife and I just did our grocery shopping and we weren’t just assaulted with everything...
If You Were Granted One Pro Street Wish… Do You Go Weird, Or Traditional? Chevette Or Camaro?
And we’re just using the Chevette and Camaro for examples, mostly because I love both of them and someday hope to own one of each in my Pro Street garage of horrors. Just sayin’. But if...
Question Of The Day: Where’s The Other Third Of This 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis?
Confession: I’ve always wanted a two-door 1988-1991 Mercury Grand Marquis. Compared to the 1987 and older Marquis coupes that Mercury did sell, the lines look smoother and aged better in my...
