Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, OTHER
Question Of The Day: What Was The Last Automotive Unicorn You Saw?
It’s one thing to spot a nice car in traffic. Maybe you caught a quick flash of colorful paint or heard some good noises a couple of cars ahead and tried to find out what it was. But it’s...
Craigslist Find: A VW Beetle With A GM 3800 V6 Hanging Off Of The Back
It takes some serious stones to think up an engine swap like this. This 1973 Volkswagen Beetle has been subjected to one of the strangest engine swaps I’ve seen in quite some time, where a GM...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: A Wrangler Competitor From GMC, Playboy’s Cars Of The Year, And More!
Belly up to the table, shut your eyes, hold your nose and take a bite: It’s this week’s Scrapple, the cluster-F of news that has all the attractiveness of the fry cook. Hot sauce by the...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: The New Mitsubishi SUV, The New Big Caddy, And Your New Mustache Ride!
Another week, another weak set of stories that came down the pipes in the vain hopes that someone would take the time to read them. Do they appeal to somebody? Maybe, but as far as we’re...
NAIAS 2015: Cadillac CTS-V, Ram Rebel, And More Ford GT News
Day two of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit is still rife with new vehicles and other interesting bits. Here’s some of the more interesting pieces from Tuesday’s...
Radial-Engined Baja Bug? Don’t Mind If We Do! Check Out Video Of This Freak Starting And Running!
What is going on in somebody’s head when they take a look at a perfectly good Baja Bug and they suddenly remember that they have a good Continental R-670 engine just sitting out in the shed...
This S2000-powered 1966 Sunbeam Minx Project Is Awesome And Homebuilt!
When Dennis Rannebeck warned us that digging into this project thread from 67-72ChevyTrucks.com would potentially be a late-night read, he knew what he he was saying. I, however, shrugged off his...
Unhinged: Mitsubishi’s Sad Fate Summed Up In One Purple And Green Mirage
Twenty years ago, Mitsubishi was making excellent cars. No, really…leave the Fast and the Furious jokes out of it and look at what was available in the showrooms in 1995: You had turbocharged...
Honda Fined $70 Million For Failing To Report Fatal Accidents
Honda Motor Company was fined $70 million dollars by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) on January 8th, 2015 for failing to report fatalities in their vehicles, the latest...
Ebay Find: This MR2 Is Packing An Audi 4.2 V8 And A Serious Anger Issue
Don’t look at this first-gen Toyota MR2 and just see a wide body kit. You’d be doing this car a disservice. Instead, you should know about it’s running gear and why this little...
Is This 2JZ-swapped Aston Martin DB7 A Great Idea Or An Evil Chimera? You Decide!
The Aston Martin DB7 is one of the most pretty cars to come out of Europe in recent memory. It’s 3.2L supercharged straight-six was a de-stroked Jaguar unit with an Eaton M90 blower...
Best of 2014: Car Feature: The 196mph LSR 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Kill – Caddy Powered And Homebuilt!
(Just about a month ago we ran this feature on Sean Mote’s wild turbocharged Caddy. Well, it went viral and was viewed by seemingly half of the gearhead world. It quickly jumped into our top 10...
Going Out With A Bang: Walkinshaw W507, A Modded HSV GTS For The Final Run
Killing off an American nameplate is simple: starve the brand for money, new designs and in short time, make a case for justifying the killing of the underperformer. Australians, on the other hand,...
