Category Archive: Unhinged
Unhinged: And You Can Do It Too – YouTube Videos That Encourage You To Get Into The Garage!
YouTube is a strange medium. You can spend a lifetime watching cute cat videos. You can watch twenty-somethings play video games and make a living out of it. You can watch fail videos, cooking...
Unhinged: Ford’s Almost Total Abandonment Of The Car Market
Let this be the first thing I’ve written that comes with a prefaced warning: the opinions put here are mine and mine alone and might not completely jive with the overall view of BangShift....
Unhinged: Rekindling An Old Flame With A Six-Speed SRT Challenger
As you’ve seen recently, I’ve been lucky enough to make friends at some of the local dealerships. This allows me to get behind the wheel of some vehicles that ordinarily I’d never...
Unhinged: The Strangest Lawn And Garden Tool Ever Invented, The Hover-Mower
For the last couple of days, I’ve been working on the lawn and garden aspect of BangShift Mid-West. Lucky for me, that involves sitting down and turning a steering wheel, because that’s...
Unhinged: An Ode To The Funkiest Little Van I’ve Ever Had The Privilege Of Dealing With
What you are looking at is one of the best retaliatory pranks I’ve ever seen, one of the funnest things I’ve ever seen going to work anywhere, ever, and one of the most useful vehicles...
Rumor Mill: Volkswagen To Offer Up Over 300,000 Diesel-Powered Cars To U.S. Armed Forces As Targets
Volkswagen has a huge problem in America: vast fields of cars that fell under the “Dieselgate” scandal, returned to the company by angry consumers who felt that they had been duped by the...
Unhinged: When It Comes To Driver Assist Technologies, Say It Plain – “We Don’t Trust You To Actually Drive The Car.”
I wanted to be excited for the press release, I really did. There was a teaser image of the upcoming 2019 Shelby GT500, a monster waiting for a crack at the Hellcat and Demon in one shot. There was...
The Beginner’s Guide To: The Mint 400, The Great American Desert Race
I beat the alarm clock by about an hour and a half, waking up with the rising sun. Not that I was particularly enthused to: my mouth tasted like mescal and barbacoa-style lamb, my head was reminding...
Unhinged: Yelling “I Can’t Stop!” Won’t Slow The Runaway Car Down, You Genius.
Remember all of the drama that unfolded with the Toyota “unintended acceleration” controversy? It seemed that all of a sudden, Toyota vehicles were killing people left and right via...
Unhinged: There’s Always A First Time For Everything, And You’re About To See A Lot Of “Firsts”…
The tone of voice that came through the phone was absolutely incredulous. “You’re telling me you’ve never rebuilt a carb before?!” Chad couldn’t believe his ears, but...
Unhinged: The Beauty And Snark Of The Falcon Heavy Launch
It’s probably the biggest news story going: the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch was a complete and total success and among all of the things going on with the event, the one thing everybody seems...
Unhinged: Ode To A Fat Cat (The Honda TR200 FatCat, That Is)
With the exception of the day I tried to drive off in a Mustang II without anybody knowing it when I was about five years old and the occasional trip to the go-kart track in Colorado Springs, my...
Unhinged: Wait…Why Does My Car Need To Respond To My Emotions, Again?
At what point does adding technology to the automobile become stupid? I’m sure most of you will have the knee-jerk “it already has” response, and I don’t blame you for that,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is The 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 More Important Than The 1973 Pontiac Trans-Am?
There is no denying that out of the two, 95% of gearheads will choose the 1973 Pontiac Trans-Am over the 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. No doubt in my mind or yours, I’m sure. And if that Pontiac...