Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question of the Day: What’s The Best Bolt On Upgrade You Have Ever Made To A Project?
Aug 03, 2012Brian Lohnes33
So I’ve been wrenching hard on ol’ Bufort T Justice this week installing the Hotchkis Sport Suspension parts and pieces. It has been a long process mainly because I am taking my time and...
BangShift Question of the Day: Who is the biggest Villain in Racing History?
Jul 26, 2012Brian Lohnes48
After following up on the Evan Knoll story yesterday and getting to thinking about”bad guys” in the world of racing, we started coming up with a pretty decent mental list. From devious...
Question of the Day: Now We’ve Seen It All! Rent An Excavator For Fun? Would You Do It?
Jul 23, 2012Chad Reynolds12
I’m pretty sure this counts as a “Now I’ve seen everything” moment. I know that a lot of cool stuff comes up as Groupons, but this one takes the cake on weird. I guess the...
Caption this Photo: How the Hell Does This Happen…Seriously…How in the Hell Does This Happen?
Jul 23, 2012Brian Lohnes27
Right off the bat we have to admit that we don’t know who shot this photo, where it was taken, or the scene that led up to this big rig having it’s front end torn off. We’ve never...
Question of the Day: Are LS Engines Chevrolet, General Motors, or Generic?
Jul 20, 2012Chad Reynolds25
The longstanding battle between Ford, Chevy, Mopar,, or any other manufacturer you are getting pissed at me for not including, will always be there. And people will always freak out when you put a...
Question of the Day: What is The Most Dangerous Thing You Have Ever Driven?
Jul 19, 2012Brian Lohnes20
With the pulsejet powered motorcycle earlier in the day and the multiple nitro Harley wrecks in the last blog item we’re thinking today is danger day. We’ve all nursed a new project home,...
Question of the Day: Are You Doing Anything BangShifty This Weekend?
Jul 13, 2012Brian Lohnes23
We’re smack dab in the middle of the summer and that means that we’re smack dab in the middle of “car season” for those of us not lucky enough to live in climes that are...
Question of the Day: What Cars Have Been Unfairly Labeled As Massive Piles Of Junk By History?
Jul 11, 2012Brian Lohnes15
Automotive history is dotted with lots of punching bags. Some of them seem fairly obvious. The German Trabant for example is a car that people openly mock around the world and for good reason. The...
Question of the Day: What Has Been Your Scariest First Ride In A New Project Vehicle?
Jul 10, 2012Brian Lohnes9
Recently, I was having a conversation via e-mail with a BangShifty pal that I’ll name only as Bob J. Bob mentioned that he had a good topic for the BS Question of the Day and I was interested...
Question of the Day: What’s the Best Handling Car You’ve Ever Owned or Driven?
Jul 06, 2012Brian Lohnes22
Being that Dave Nutting and I are currently at Lime Rock Park, among some of the most advanced and high performing road race cars in the world right now, this seems like a good question for the day....
Question of the Day: Are You A Well Rounded Gearhead or Do You Have Automotive Tunnel Vision?
Jul 03, 2012Brian Lohnes17
Being into lots of different types of stuff is kind of an occupational hazard when you write an automotive blog like BangShift. Most times, I get to do stuff in dribs and drabs but this current week...
Question of the Day: Is Originality Important to You In A Car?
Jun 29, 2012Brian Lohnes22
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – With that last blog item on the 1962 Chevy wagon that is pretty close to all original but isn’t, it made us consider how important originality is to us in...
Question of the Day: What’s the Most Grueling Automotive Event/Task/Adventure You Have Ever Been Involved In?
Jun 20, 2012Brian Lohnes10
In the deer smashing Corvette item earlier today I mentioned briefly that I had a reasonably awful experience at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia about 10 years ago. I happened to be down at...
Question of the Day: Given the Chance, What Historic Race Car Would You Drive?
Jun 08, 2012Brian Lohnes32
When writing about Cotton Owens’ passing yesterday, I of course thought of his cool “Cotton Picker” match bash wagon right off the bat. It got me to thinking about what single race...





