Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Settle This Debate: Was The 1964 Pontiac GTO The First Muscle Car? It Has Been Raging For 50 Years!
It sucks that Pontiac is dead and buried because if they were still alive this would have been a rocking year for the brand. Hell, you have seen how far Ford has taken the 50th anniversary of the...
Would You Tear Up This Perfect Car To Make A Hot Rod Out Of It?
Okay, so it’s a Pinto. I happen to dig Pintos. In fact, it’s kind of funny because I would prefer a Pinto, Maverick, or Comet over a Mustang in most cases. Anyway, back to the question at...
Look At All The Cheap Porsche’s We Found! What Would You Do With/To Them?
A couple of weekends ago, while walking the Pomona Swap Meet, we found a clean and straight 944 Porsche that was sitting on a trailer for sale. When I asked how much it was, just out of curiosity,...
Personality Test: Would You Pick A 2014 Chevy SS, A 2014 Ford Taurus SHO, Or A 2014 Charger SRT8?
This question was rattling around in my head after I saw a guy in a Taurus SHO and another guy in an SRT8 Charger leave a traffic light “in anger” last week. They were heading the other...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Answer and Today’s Challenge Revealed!
Yesterday’s gearhead challenge was a good one! We showed you a picture of a unique engine block and asked you to identify it and tell us what kind of racer it belonged in. While no one got the...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Answer And Today’s New Challenge
You guys are good! Yesterday we asked you to identify the mystery crankshaft that we saw at the machine shop the other day. While it took you a few guesses to get there, the masses eventually nailed...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Tell Us What Engine This Weird Crankshaft Is From!
One of the things that is great about having friends that are as whacked out about car stuff as we are is the fact that when they see stuff that’s BangShifty they alert us to it immediately....
We Saw This Awesome 1959 Buick Invicta In Front Of A Junkyard And Want To Know How You Would Build It
There I was, minding my own business driving down the road like the honest, upstanding citizen that I am when this evil son of a you know what started staring me down. I was forced to pull over and...
If You Could Replace One Racing Sanctioning Body Head TODAY, Who Would It Be?
It is Sunday and that means to most people they sleep in a little, wander through the day without much of a plan, and enjoy the fact that they don’t have to work, and maybe have an adult...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is Your Significant Other As Automotive Obsessed As You Are?
Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day came to me this morning at work after finishing a conversation via text message with my wife about modifications that she wants to make to her Jeep...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: The Answer To Yesterday’s Quiz!
So yesterday I showed you nothing but a short block and a couple of pistons and asked you to identify the engine, tell me who built it, and then tell me what it was installed in, and what the...
Test Your Gearhead Knowlegde: Tell Us What Engine This Is, What It Was In, And If You Are Really Good The Compression!
It has been a long while since we last had you Test Your Gearhead Knowledge but since we made a recent visit to Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth and ran into the big hunk of iron below we thought...
BangShift Question of the Day: Are You the Last Gearhead Standing In Your Social Circle?
A recent conversation with an old friend got me thinking about my own gearhead life and I quickly realized that most everyone I’ve wrenched with, bled with, raced with, and screwed around with...
