Category Archive: Unhinged
Unhinged: The Woodward Dream Cruise Adventure
The direct trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Pontiac, Michigan should take approximately eight hours. That’s a long stretch of driving, but with just over five hundred miles to cover,...
Unhinged: Driving A 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT – Catching Up With A Former Flame
I had no intention of driving any car other than the Angry Grandpa Chrysler today, and the only reason I went into town today was to pay a bill and to wash the car…after the trip out to St....
Unhinged: I’m Supposed To Be Against This Disco Camaro. I Love it!
I heard it before I saw it…the whining that to my novice ear screamed “gear drive”. Being that we were across the road from Gateway Motorsports Park at the Pilot truck stop filling...
Unhinged: Rear Door Alarms – Your Car Now Has To Remind You That There’s A Kid In The Car.
I don’t care whether it was General Motors or Nissan who came up with it first, I’m just bothered that it exists at all: a reminder device that something is in the backseat. Or the signs...
Unhinged: Pretending To Be Brian Lohnes For A Couple Of Hours
I have the ultimate respect for the work that Brian and Chad do when they work announcing gigs. They have different styles between them, but they both are excellent and working a microphone and...
Unhinged: Welding Lessons For The Resident Delinquent
There are certain skill sets needed to be a moderately capable wrench. You need to know the basics of how to take things apart and put them back together in the right order, the correct way. You need...
Unhinged: Apparently Chrome Bumpers Equals Big Money Now?!
I remember being laughed at when I said that cars from the 1970s and 1980s would appreciate and become just like all of those muscle cars that people had been fawning over. I said it when I got my...
Unhinged: A Little Boy’s 1970 Mach 1 Is Destroyed Because Someone Is Garbage.
Here’s your language warning: I’m f***ing pissed off as I type this. What you are looking at is the charred remains of a 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that was the best thing in the world to...
Unhinged: I Went To A Car Show And All I Shot Was This V8 Go-Kart!
Forget poetry and prose…today, I’ve been in a pretty screwed-up mood. Everybody has one of those days where the sun is shining and all is right with the world and they’re looking...
Best of BS 2017: We Found A Stowaway On Board, Captain…
(Note: This happened TWICE this year. Twice. Both times, a tiny kitten in the passenger fender of the Angry Grandpa Chrysler. Both times, I had to rip the car apart to save the feline. This better...
Unhinged: FCA Trademarks “Cuda” and “Atlantic”…New Cars Or Vaporware?
From an outsider’s perspective, the FCA fleet is in some sort of doldrums. The Ram pickup line has been the same since 2009. The Dodge Charger and Challenger have more or less taken the...
Unhinged: Coming Full Circle At The Holley Hot Rod Reunion
The Holley Hot Rod Reunion is, far as I’m concerned anyways, my Genesis when it comes to BangShift. It was the first major photo assignment I had, the first time I worked with Brian and Chad,...
Unhinged: Smarter Cars Are Result Of Dumber People Holding Driver’s Licenses.
“Cars need devices to curb child heatstroke deaths, lawmakers say” “Some automakers slower to make standard technology that could avert 1M crashes a year” “When Will...
Unhinged: A Couple Of Random Finds From The Junkyard Run
One thing that I do not appreciate about the state of Kentucky is that every last scrapyard is hell-bent on making sure that you, the customer, are not allowed in the yard. As someone who will...