.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??

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...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Significant Automotive Performance Accomplishment?

This is one of those questions with a scope about as wide as the Pacific Ocean so it should spark some good debate. Yesterday we were watching the live feed of the Lights Out race from Georgia,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is The Coolest TV Car Guy Currently On The Air?

We in another period where automotive themed TV shows are all over the place and from what we have heard and seen, even more of them are slated to be coming out in the months ahead. Obviously these...

Super Sleuth Time! Help Joel Rosen Identify this Motion Corvette from an Early 1970s AC Plugs Ad

Legendary PR Guy and Cars Magazine editor Marty Schorr is looking for some help. He and Joel Rosen have been trying to determine the identity of the Motion Corvette that appeared in this print ad...

What Is The One Automotive Gauge That You Couldn’t Live Without?

Having just passed the six month mark of ownership with my ‘87 Monte Carlo LS, it’s safe to say that there is one thing that is driving me bonkers about the car, and it’s the lack of gauges in...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Big Or Small? Which Tires Do You Like Most On Drag Cars?

With South Georgia Motorsports Park’s “Lights Out V” race set to take place next weekend, everyone has Drag Radial on the brain right now. And with the advancements in Drag Radial...