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Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??

BangShift Reader Brawl: What Is The Boldest Move A Racing Sanctioning Body Needs To Make And Who Needs To Make It?

As you know, we thoroughly love racing here at BangShift. We love it because we’re involved in it at a couple of levels, because we’re fans of the people who are racing and wrenching on...

Would You Rather, The Seventies Edition! Which Land Barge Would You Choose?

There’s a lot to not like about the Seventies as a car guy. Most of the performance cars got killed off entirely. The Camaro lost the Z28 option for “Rally Sport”, GM code for...

If You Could Pick Any One Of These Dream Tools To Put In Your Garage, Which Would You Choose?

This weekend, my machinist neighbor next door to my shop comes over to tell me he is closing his business and has some shelving and stuff for me if I want it. He also says that his son’s Camaro...

Would You Rather: Throw A Turbo LS Engine In This Blazer, Or A Turbo Hemi In The Cherokee?

Looking at cheap cars on Craigslist always gets our juices flowing around here as we come up with jillions of schemes and ideas on how to make them into the coolest things ever. One of our favorite...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Ever Done Anything Dumb At A Gas Pump Before?

We all make mistakes. The fun part is looking back on some of them and laughing after the fact. Such was the case last night as we were getting dinner with the ECTA peeps here in Wilmington, Ohio and...

Would You Rather: Drive A Baja Pacer Or Baja Bug In The Baja 1000?

We started to do our Would You Rather with a Baja Bug and James Garner’s Baja Olds Cutlass, but then we saw a picture of this AMC Pacer running Baja and it seemed more fitting to match it up...

BangShift “Would You Rather?”-Which One Could You Live With As A Daily Driver?

Even though I stopped hitting the bottle a few years ago like it was my last night on Earth, I can say that I enjoyed the drinking games. I’ve played pretty much all of them…A-hole, King’s Cup,...

Do You Like Seeing NASCAR Stock Cars Run Around The Road Course?

We’re at Road America this weekend for the USCA Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car Face Off at Road America, and this event is held during NASCAR Nation Wide Series Race weekend, which...

BangShift Question Of The Day: This Is My Most Questionable Automotive Decision Yet – What’s Yours?

Brian and Chad live the life, don’t they? Every time you visit the site, they’re off doing something that’s gearhead related and damn cool…but think about some things before you assume that...

Bitchin’ Or Bogus? Would You Drive This Mash Up Of A Firebird and A Superbird? Tell Us Your Thoughts On The Trans-Bird

(Words by Bryan McTaggart – Photo by interwebs) – The Plymouth Superbird is a car that flat-out cannot be ignored. The nosecone, wing,fender scoops and cartoon graphics, not to mention...

This Blown 1973 Chevy Nova Is Bitchin…Or Is It? You Decide.

Usually when someone refers to a car as all motor, they mean that it has no power adders. In this case, all motor means the rest of the car is pretty stock looking, and everything good about it is...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Favor Big Torque Or Big Horsepower?

The video we posted a little earlier today is a good illustration of brutal torque. Torque is the oft discounted and lesser admired brother of horsepower. As the old adage goes, “Horsepower is...

Does Seeing A Restorable Or Hot Rod Worthy Muscle Car Turned Into A Dirt Track Racer Piss You Off?

While perusing Craigslist yesterday we found this 1970 Chevelle for sale that had been turned into a hobby stock or street stock dirt track car. Unfortunately we’ve seen things like this...

Would You Rather…The BangShift Version: Third-Gen Pony Cars Edition

Remember that game called “Would You Rather?” It can be played multiple ways, including making you choose between two unbelievably good, or unbelievably horrible, choices. It’s all...