Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question of the Day: What is Your Ultimate or Dream Land Speed Racing Car?
Aug 08, 2013Brian Lohnes35
Full swing Bonneville action is just days away. Cars and trucks will be hauling ass by the buckload and they’ll be doing it in all shape and sizes. From the usual production bodied suspects, to...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Makes A Car A Street Car? What Defines It As Such?
Aug 07, 2013Chad Reynolds21
Yesterday I put up an eBay listing for a 1969 Camaro Funny Car that is street legal. I’m not talking a lift up body like Dobbertin’s J2000, I’m talking about a legit 1969 Funny Car...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Dangerous Form Of Racing In History? Bonus: The Most Dangerous Race?
Aug 05, 2013Brian Lohnes10
I was recently watching a show about board track motorcycle and car racing. About three minutes into this show, a historian mentioned that when riders crashed on the boards, they’d often get...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Annoying Quirk Of Your Favorite Brand?
Aug 02, 2013Brian Lohnes19
We all have our favorite…and they’re all flawed on some level. Ever tried to loosen the infamous left hand thread Chrysler lug nuts until you were nearly in tears? Perhaps you have tried...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Had The Best Drag Racing Rivalry?
Aug 01, 2013Chad Reynolds11
After watching the video of Warren Johnson and Scott Geoffrion’s epic burndown, along with Garlits and Carbone, it got us thinking about racing rivalries and specifically those on the drag...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Funniest Thing You Have Ever Seen Someone Do While Driving?
Jul 30, 2013Chad Reynolds10
We know that this can get way out of hand, and we’re pretty okay with that. We have done some crazy and funny and cool stuff while driving, and we assume all you cool BangShifters have as well,...
BangShift Question of the Day: Screaming Small Blocks or Bellowing Big Big Blocks?
Jul 29, 2013Brian Lohnes25
Here’s a debate that will rage for the eternity of BangShiftin’, the epic struggle between high revving small blocks and large big block engines. We love hearing V8 engines touching RPM...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Craziest Thing You Have Fixed Or Stored In Your Yard?
Jul 26, 2013Chad Reynolds13
Today’s BangShift Daily Tune Up is a Colt Ford song that talks about a motor hanging from a tree for his ’68 red Chevelle which made us laugh and think about the stupid stuff we have done...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Vintage Drag Car?
Jul 25, 2013Brian Lohnes31
Looking at Joe’s photos from Beaver Springs yesterday had us totally cranked up on nostalgia drag racing. That’s led to more than a couple conversations regarding our favorite old drag...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Car Or Truck Model Name Ever?
Jul 24, 2013Chad Reynolds26
On Monday we asked you what the coolest, or best, car or truck model name ever was and you gave some really interesting answers. Mercury’s Comet and Marauder were both mentioned, as was the...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Like Trailers Made From Cars Or To Look Like The Car?
Jul 23, 2013Chad Reynolds6
While recently looking for a small utility trailer for cheap, which does not exist by the way, we found a few of them made from pickup beds. That got us thinking about the ones that guys have that...
Would You Change A Thing? Perhaps The Cleanest Pro Touring Nova We’ve Ever Seen
Jul 23, 2013Chad Reynolds10
By now most of you have seen this Nova, aka ResurreXion, which was built by the guys over at Speed Tech. We ran across this photo of the car on AutoMeter’s Facebook page and decided it was...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest Car Or Truck Model Name Ever?
Jul 22, 2013Chad Reynolds34
With cool names like Rocket, Spitfire, Mustang, Super Chief, El Camino, Cheetah, and Stingray, along with many many more, the ’50s and ’60’s car model names were all about image,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Biggest Setback Hot Rodding Has Ever Endured?
Jul 19, 2013Brian Lohnes37
In many ways the world of hot rodding is kind of like the “thing that wouldn’t die”. Since the earliest days of what we would consider the hot rod hobby it has survived a multitude...





