Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question Of The Day: No Engine Swaps, No Modifications, No Matter What – What Is Your Automotive Sacred Cow?
We are still pawing through all of the hate mail and comments regarding LS swaps. Good lord, that can bring out some of the evil in you folks! Many people fired off on what was completely and...
Caption This: “Just Some Good Old Boys, Color Blind As Can Be…”
Have you ever wandered around a car show, enjoying the sights when something just stops you in your tracks? Something so out-of-place that your brain cannot figure out a proper reaction to? Picture...
Question Of The Day: What Car Project Will You Never, Ever Lend A Helping Hand With?
“It’ll be cool. I’ll get pizza and beer, and we will be done in an hour or so.” Ever get suckered by that line? Sometimes it’s a buddy, you know he’s full of it...
Caption This: “Custom, One Of A Kind, Act Now Before It’s Too Late…”
The poor Chrysler PT Cruiser. It started off so well…a tiny Plymouth Truck (yep, that’s what the PT stood for) to match the Plymouth Prowler in that weird 1930’s renaissance retro...
Question Of The Day: With A GM Chassis And Running Gear, How Would You Modify This 1987 Avanti?
Without a doubt, the original 1962-63 Studebaker Avanti was a polarizing car that was well ahead of it’s time. It had power (especially in supercharged trim), a bit of safety and quite a bit of...
Caption This: How Would You Sell This Lincoln-Ish Super Brougham?
Zimmer Golden Spirit. 1970s Stutz. Both of these cars represent the same thing: a harkening back to the days of Dusenbergs and Bugattis, though the execution might be…well…a little...
Question Of The Day: What Do You Look For On A Roadtrip? From Tourist Stops To Hidden Treasures, We Want To Hear Them!
(Lead photo: via The Brougham Society) There are twenty-something days left until the September equinox and the end of summer for the year. Unless you live in the Desert Southwest, soon all of the...
“Would You Rather?”, The Sun-Bleached Edition: Take Your Pick Of Two Desert-Parched Big Coupes!
Welcome to another round of “Would You Rather?” Today, we decided to take the high road and instead of forcing you to pick between bad and evil, we found a couple of cars that could...
Question Of The Day: How Far Would You Go To Bring A Totalled Car Back To Life?
The Local Motors Rally Fighter. A car (truck? Baja racer for the street?) that I would sell body parts to science for in order to acquire one. They sell in the neighborhood of $90,000 new, sound like...
Caption This: “Yep, Just Like I Thought. Still Leaking! I’m Coming In, Guys.”
Maintaining a racing superbike is a labor of love, emphasis on labor. As the rider, you and your team together have to be responsible for keeping the temperamental two-wheeler in tip-top shape for...
Question Of The Day: What Car Is The Biggest American-Made Pile Ever?
Car Throttle, an automotive blog from the U.K., had a rather interesting post up yesterday: 3 Cars That Epitomise Crappy American Car Stereotypes. Their list was interesting: 1992-2005 Pontiac Grand...
Caption This: Tesla Has A New Snake-Like Charger That Finds The Car’s Charging Port Like A…Uh, Well…
Count this as the first time I’ve seen an automotive video, backed away from the computer, and went for a walk to come to terms with what I just saw. Was it the future? Was it real? Was...
Question Of The Day: Street Bikes – Where Do You Stand With Them? Good Commuter, Long-Distance Summer Toy, Or Fastest Trip To Hospital Ever?
For someone who spent his formative years riding dirt bikes, quads and three-wheelers, you would think that I would have naturally transitioned to a motorcycle first chance I would have gotten. The...
Would You Rather?, The Evil Chevrolet Edition: Take Your Pick Between Cooter’s Chevelle And Sean’s Monte Carlo From Tokyo Drift!
Chevrolets were never meant to be full-on luxobarges. That job belongs to Cadillac, Buick, and in the past Oldsmobile. Chevy products are meant to be the workhorse, the journeyman’s car, the...