Category Archive: Unhinged
Unhinged: Hey, MoParty Crybabies – Stay Home Next Year, OK?
(Lead photo: Justin “Corndog” Cornette) This past weekend was the fourth-annual Holley MoParty. In case you aren’t familiar with the program, Holley takes the show formula that they...
Unhinged: The Charger’s First Major Roadtrip And The Chryslers At Carlisle Experience
In between BangShift Mid-West to the Carlisle Fairgrounds sits 685 miles of open highway. In any modern car, that’s a cakewalk. If you were driving, say, a 1993 Dodge Daytona IROC, you’d...
Unhinged: An Unhealthy Fixation On An AMC Concord Sedan
In the world of automotive packaging, where style, performance, and utility are supposed to meet in the middle to create something consumers will buy, American Motors was an oddball. They started out...
Unhinged: Are There ANY New Cars Worth Looking At In 2023? Let’s Find Out!
Forget getting preachy or writing some kind of prose…this is a straightforward question that deserves a straightforward answer. What new 2023 model year vehicle would be worth actually buying...
Unhinged: The Impact That Ken Block Had
In the nine years that I’ve had here at BangShift, I’ve done my very best to not become too jaded to the car community at large. I’ve also put effort into removing the concept of...
Unhinged: Driving Dylan McCool’s Cobra II Around At Ford Fest 2022
The entire month of September has been a blur. Three major event weekends have come and gone and in hours, I’m heading out to a well-deserved vacation in a place that has a hot tub, no cell...
Unhinged: The 2023 Chrysler 300C Is Too Little, Too Late
In 1955, Chrysler made a move that could very well be considered the predecessor to the Musclecar Era: take the two-door Chrysler Windsor hardtop body, dump in a dual-carb 331ci Hemi into the engine...
Unhinged: Cheap-Ass Camping In The Infield At Kansas With Junkyard Digs!
It’s taken about a week to process all of the information you are about to see…and most of the alcohol that was consumed over a weekend that saw all sorts of debauchery, from hot tubs and...
Unhinged: Reviving A Fury Sport, Part 2 – Remove “Simple” From The Vocabulary
Ed. note: This is your language warning. I’m going to have fun with this series. Click here if you missed the first chapter in this series! We had the Plymouth dragged to my house. We had...
Unhinged: Reviving A Fury Sport, Part 1 – Acquiring Another Land Barge Mopar
Ed. note: this is your language warning. I’m going to have fun with this series. In 2009, Brian Lohnes dubbed me “The Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes” after he started...
Unhinged: The Twister And The Little Red Truck
I have had my fill of the word “tornado” for a lifetime. In December 2021, a tornado outbreak brought a total of 71 confirmed twisters across the Midwest, in a span as far west as the...
Unhinged: Arcade Manual Transmissions For EVs? Gee, Thanks, Toyota.
It’s 2022, and frankly, things are looking grim. There’s plenty of places to look, but let’s go with the manual transmission today. In the USDM market, the list of cars you can...
Unhinged: Airflow, The Very Faint Pulse From Chrysler
For years now, we’ve had Chrysler on Death Watch. No, not just me…in 2009, even Brian Lohnes, eternal optimist that he is, was wondering if the brand was done. It’s been difficult...
Unhinged: McTaggart’s 2021 Year In Review
After whatever the hell 2020 was supposed to be, 2021 was supposed to be better. Decide if that is the case for yourself, but as far as I’m concerned, 2021 was good. Not great, but good. Oh,...