Category Archive: Unhinged
Unhinged: Does It Feel Like Project Rush? It Does To Me!
From the jump, let’s be honest: given what I do for work, the pandemic and the lockdowns were going to affect me differently than if I had any other job. I write from home most of the time....
Unhinged: The Dark Side Of Being A Mopar Fan Is Limiting Yourself
Uncle Tony recently put out a video that calls out the problems with being a Mopar fan in modern times. You can watch the video below, I recommend that you do, but I’ll give you the Cliff Notes...
Unhinged: A Toast To The Good Ol’ Truck
The Spring of 2020 brought enough problems with it, but here at BangShift Mid-West, we’ve been on a roll a bit longer than that. The fun really kicked off late last year, when an uninsured...
Unhinged: The Story Of The PedoVan – The Strangest Vehicle I’ve Ever Dealt With
The list of stories I’ve got about vehicles I’ve messed with is long. I’ve bought cars that showed up with interiors that looked like bread left out on a plate for two weeks....
The First Project: This 1979 Chevrolet Caprice Was The First Car That I Helped Fix And Got To Drive
When it comes to photos of vehicles I have owned, the catalog starts properly in 2001. That’s not to say that photos of my cars from previous years didn’t exist or that I didn’t...
Unhinged Retrospective: We Put The “Competitive” Into “Fun and Competitive” At The BFGoodrich Pit Crew Challenge During SEMA 2015!
In all of this downtime, I couldn’t help but look back on some of the fun times I’ve had over the years, and this one was one of the best. BFGoodrich offered me a shot to have a little...
Unhinged: The “Bronco II Incident”, Or How I Managed To Not Land A Truck On A Friend
In the summer of 2000, I was living a teenage fantasy: I was living all but unsupervised, had a job at a carpet installation shop, a T-top Monte Carlo to bomb around in, a girlfriend, a couple of...
Unhinged: Did Bubba Wallace Really Deserve To Be Penalized For Rage-Quitting An iRacing Event?
With nobody needing to be near anybody during this pandemic, NASCAR took one of the more novel approaches we have seen and took their drivers to the sim racing game iRacing. NASCAR not only saved...
Unhinged: Anybody Talking Cash For Clunkers 2 Needs To Be Quarantined Indefinetly
Just hearing the words “cash for clunkers” sets my temper alight. The Car Allowance Rebate System, as it was properly known, was a scrappage deal that was all the rage in 2009. In simple...
Unhinged: The eBay Fairlane Trip – What All Was Involved In Getting A 1966 Ford Home!
How many years have I spent surfing eBay, dreaming of the day that I would be able to pull the trigger on a car and what would happen once I saw the magical screen that says, “You Won!”...
Unhinged: It’s My Toy And I’ll Play With It As I See Fit
When I finally got my Dodge Diplomat out of the paint booth, the 360 in fine tune and the four-speed shifting nice and slick, I couldn’t have been more proud of a machine. How did I celebrate?...
Unhinged: The Thankless Work That Goes On Behind The Scenes
It’s race day. It’s show time. The gates open, the staff take your money, you sign the waiver. More staff assist in parking, show field setup. Technicians are on hand to check over the...
Unhinged: Hunting For Beaters On Australian Marketplace Sites
So…I didn’t know that you could shop for Australian markets on Facebook Marketplace. Like I needed another way to dive down the rabbit hole of online car shopping, right? But I did, and...
Unhinged: The Electric Vehicle Outsold The Manual Transmission For The First Time In 2019
One of two things is going to cause me to ditch a manual transmission for an automatic: either my left leg will no longer be useable to work the clutch pedal or what’s left of me will be...