Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
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...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is Your Project Ready To Go For Cruising Season?
Tomorrow I will get you back up to speed on Project Buford T Justice and his long winter nap as we got repeatedly smashed in the face by mother nature to the point that the car was under a frozen...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Best Road Trip You Have Ever Been On?
I think I am still trying to figure out where I am and what the smell is. Last week we were trying to goad you into guessing where we were headed on the BangShift Road Trip Of Doom 2014 edition and a...
Question Of The Day: If You Were Creating A Nostalgia Pro Stock Class, What Era Would You Lock Into?
So Chad and I have long been proponents of nostalgia pro stock as the next “big thing” in nostalgia drag racing. It has started to take root and there are a handful of cars out there. One...
What The Hell Is This Thing, And What Was The Builder Thinking? At Least It’s Way Better Than The Vega!
I’m not 100%, but I think this car may have started out as an LTD or Galaxy. Regardless of what it started out as, there is a TON of work in this thing and some of it is done really well. The...
BangShift Question Of The Day: The DeLorean DMC 12, BangShift Approved?
It’s a well-known fact around these parts that Brian Lohnes hates DeLoreans with the passion of a thousand burning suns, although for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Alright, the...
Were Dealers Promoting Street Racing In The ’60s? You Be The Judge.
Check out this great ad for a 1968 SS 427 Chevy Biscayne. The dealer actually calls it a street racer special! I have to say, if I was street racing it I would want one with the column shifter and a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Evil Movie/TV Car Of Them All?
(By Bryan McTaggart) – In movies and television, the cars can become as much of a character than the humans, sometimes even more so. This we know well. And we know of numerous hero cars:...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Dangerous Production Car Ever Built?
We realize that this kind of an odd question because like guns, a car in itself is not inherently dangerous. It is when said car is placed in the hands of a human being that all bets are officially...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Ever Had Your Day Made By Seeing “That Guy” Get What He Deserves?
Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day is inspired by an old video that I found while rummaging through the hard drive of one of the computers that I have lying in various states of disrepair...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Historical Automotive Figure Would You Pluck From the Past Into the Present?
Every time we post a cool video, document a racing accomplishment, or revel in the pure awesome of a video we found on the interwebs we end up thinking that Mickey Thompson should have been there to...