Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, FORD, HISTORIC, MOPAR, Videos
Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?
The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...
Question Of The Day: Will The Crapboxes Of Yesterday Become The Collectables Of Today?
GM J-cars, Ford Escorts, K-cars…hell, even the AMC/Renault Medallion. All cars from the early 1980s that have a reputation for being cracker boxes, none of which really have a following past...
Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?
You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?
“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has...
Caption This: Somehow, Some Way, This Has To Be Rebeldryver’s Fault.
Would you want to be a stretch limo driver? I would only do the job if it involved a route that went between Topeka, Kansas and Denver, because the only place that operating a real stretch limo...
Question Of The Day: What Do You Want To See For 2016?
It’s that time again, where we straddle the twilight of one year and the dawn of another. 2015 has been a good year to be a gearhead: Hellcats, GT350s, Z06s, turbocharged Cadillacs, and plenty...
Question of the Day: Would You Care If The Automakers United Their Engine Building Divisions Into One Shared Unit?
For quite a large portion of 2015, FCA’s Sergio Marchionne had spent his time trying to court several automotive manufacturers – namely General Motors, who he fawned about a union with so...
Question Of The Day: This Dodge Viper Needs An Engine! What Would You Stuff In Here?
Ever since Dodge showed off the Viper concept car that was completed around 1989, the car has always had this unique air about it. You knew without question that the AC Shelby Cobra and the Cobra...
Here Is The Answer, And Winner, Of Our “Guess What This Ridetech Shockwave Is Bolted To” Contest
ANSWER: A Pulling Tractor, specifically the TS Performance Pro Stock John Deere Pulling Tractor called “Young Buck”. It’s Brad Moss’s rig and it is one bad piece of machinery that...
Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?
If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...
Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!
One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...
Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Plans For Winter Fun?
December 22nd is the date that officially marks winter…which only means that you are now officially freezing your tail off according to a calendar. Truth be told, the cold swing is in full...
Caption This: “First Sergeant Can’t Play Candy Crush Because You Idiots Killed The Internet!”
(Lead photo: Angelo Rickert) It really is a simple formula: the bigger the vehicle, the less likely it is that the operator can do their job alone without causing damage. This was drilled into me...
2015 Year In Review: We Take A Look At Our Two In-House Mopar Projects And The Progress…And Lack Thereof…We Have Made!
The sun is setting on 2015, and what a year it has been. From the moment the weather hinted at warming up…and the second Lohnes finally dug himself out of ass-deep snow…we have been...