Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, CHEVY
Question Of The Day: Are You For Or Against This Rat Rod Camaro? Would You Want To See More Of This?
May 06, 2015Bryan McTaggart36
“Ratty Muscle Cars” on Facebook is normally a safe haven for gearheads. With all of the pretty showcars and high-dollar builds we are normally inundated with, it’s a nice change....
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Can You Name The Make Of This Head And What Year It Was Used?
May 05, 2015Brian Lohnes12
We’re back with another challenge of your gearhead knowledge thanks to our friends at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts who let us snoop through their seemingly unending...
Name This Engine And Win $150 Worth Of Racepak, Lakewood, Or Quicktime Parts!
Apr 20, 2015Chad Reynolds45
Tim Anderson, the Grand Poobah of Racepak, sent me this one last week and said ” Ok dudes, I have an engine that I just shot in the back of a pickup in Iowa that you can use for a guess the...
Would You Rather: The $500 Disposable Car Edition. Carnage Required.
Apr 20, 2015Chad Reynolds13
If we gave you $500 and told you that you were only allowed to spend it on a car or truck on Craigslist. that you would then be expected to “abuse” for a weekend, what would you choose?...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Common Automotive Cockroach Where You Live?
Apr 19, 2015Bryan McTaggart17
After they have been on the road for about twenty years, most cars tend to wind up in that great big used car lot in the sky. It’s a sad truth, but it’s a truth nonetheless. Yet, it...
Question Of The Day: How Many Versions Of The Dodge Challenger Are There?
Apr 16, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
The name of a car can make or break it, and Dodge struck gold when they thought up “Challenger”. The name is tough…you picture the up-and-coming, ready to knock the current champion...
Caption This: A V6-powered Chrysler Against A Charger Hellcat? How Is That A Fair Fight?
Apr 14, 2015Bryan McTaggart18
David, meet Goliath. In the right lane is a Chrysler 300. It’s a silver beauty with a V6 and the new eight-speed TorqueFlite transmission, and is dead stock. The air conditioning is cold, there...
Question Of The Day: How Many “Stig’s Cousins” Can You Come Up With?
Apr 04, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
The Stig, the “tamed racing driver” from Top Gear, is iconic. He doesn’t talk, it’s not known what he eats (or with what orifice it eats with), and that he can open a bottle...
Question Of The Day: Is It Worth Upgrading Older Iron To Match Today’s Performance?
Apr 01, 2015Bryan McTaggart21
I know the allure of an older muscle car well: the purely mechanical nature of the car. The vibration of a V8 with a good cam thumping, shaking the car ever so slightly. The torque delivery, the lack...
Question Of The Day: What’s The Strangest Way To Cheat In A Race That You’ve Ever Heard Of?
Mar 30, 2015Bryan McTaggart43
When the Wayne County Dodge Pro Stock team was accused of using nitrous, was anybody surprised? Not one bit. Seeing nitrous used at a drag race, legally or otherwise, seems natural. But seeing A.J....
Question Of The Day: Which Three People Would You Have Host Top Gear?
Mar 29, 2015Bryan McTaggart32
The Top Gear studio is being dismantled and boxed up, Clarkson’s certainly gone, and it appears that Hammond and May are going with him. It’s a sad and quite frankly sorry end to one of,...
Question Of The Day: What Automotive “Bigfoot” Rumor Would You Like To Actually See In Real Life?
Mar 26, 2015Bryan McTaggart40
A “Bigfoot” rumor works like this: it seems that everybody knows about it, except nobody knows details, has no proof, and the ones who have claimed to have seen it are the most likely to...
Question Of The Day: WHY? Will Someone Please Explain What Happened To This Poor Mid-1960’s Mopar?
Mar 24, 2015Bryan McTaggart35
Let me start by apologizing for ruining your breakfast, and quite possibly your lunch too. About this time last year I stumbled across a 1980s Chrysler Cordoba that had been treated to the Superbird...
Question Of The Day: What One New Car On The Market Needs To Go Away Now?
Mar 19, 2015Bryan McTaggart32
I’ve long prided myself on being able to find a reason to like most any car. Even the cars I absolutely loathe, I can make a practical justification for why it should be produced. The Ford...





