The Grappler Police Bumper Is Pretty Brilliant – Watch This Thing Literally Snag Cars and Trucks!
(By Greg Rourke) – We’ve all seen the PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) used to stop fleeing criminals on countless reality video TV shows. While it looks cool, it usually damages...
Our Photo Coverage From The Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo Continues! More Dirty Fun!
We’ve already told you all about the greatness that is the Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo, but we still have more photos to share so we’re going to make sure you get to see them all. Yesterday...
eBay Find: This Massive GMC Twin Six V12 Won’t Get You There Quickly But At Least It’s Thirsty
With the story we ran today about the V12 LS engine it seemed only fair that we give one of the more freakish engines that GM ever built its time in the sun. Thankfully there is one of these babies...
Classic YouTube: Watch This Twin-Engined Ford Play In The Mud!
Before LS swaps, monster Mopar mills and Coyotes, there was the LT-1, Magnum series and the 5.0. And before that? Well…you were either raiding musclecars of their heartbeat or you were managing...
We Worship All Things Dirty At The Off-Road Expo 2017 In Pomona – Photos Here
After attending the Speed Limit Racing autocross at Camarillo Airport on Saturday, Sunday was spent wandering around the faigrounds in Pomona for the Off-Road Expo. This is a must attend event each...
Just Like A Kid: Mr. Regular Gets A Shot Behind The Wheel Of A Real-Deal Fire Truck!
Before BangShift Mid-West came into being, I was working out of the back of a beauty parlor simply because it had free Internet available. Sometimes I was there when everybody was there, other times...
Abe Lincoln Was America’s First True Gearhead President And He Has The Patent To Prove It
When we think of Abe Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, we normally default to the major accomplishments of his presidency. He oversaw one of the darkest, if not the darkest time...
Pulling Carnage Video: When the Weight Sled Fails, Bad Things Happen
The weight sled at a pulling event is the great equalizer. Like an engine dyno or a drag strip it has humbled and conversely, made heroes of many pullers over the course of time. Funny thing is, you...
This Unstoppable Kiwi 4×4 Uses A Diesel Engine, Logs, Angle Iron, And A Truck Frame To Own The Swamp
The tired old adage, “less is more” has never been better applied than it is to the truck you will see driving completely submerged and slogging through the muck in this video. The video...
This Tractor Has The Most Complex “Wheels” Ever Made – Howard Rotopads Rule!
Many of you have likely seen old tractors with track conversions that used rubber or steel tracks that looped around the rear driving wheels and the front wheels to give farmers and other workers...
Runaway Anchors! Watch What Happens When Ships Lose The Handle On 100 Tons Of Iron
Mankind has made a habit of building machines to deal with things and forces which are too strong for our comparatively feeble bodies. Ships are one of the machines that we have crafted as a...
Insane Video: Operator Fells A Smoke Stack on Top Of His Excavator
The Avondale Mills smoke stack had been a pretty significant local landmark in Pell City, Alabama for a long, long time. The mill that it once was attached to had been there since the 1980s and in...
Classic YouTube: MotorWeek’s Unusual Test Of The 1991 Mack CH613
With Brian’s note of the new Mack Anthem semi-tractor hitting the market, I had to look back to an episode of MotorWeek I remembered watching as a little kid. How I remembered this particular...
Watch The Kenworth From Hades Pull Off High Speed Drifts, A Tire Smoldering Slalom, And More Wild Tricks At Sanair Speedway
Previously we have showed Sylvain Noel’s Kenworth W900 beating a BMW M5 into submission at the drags, beating up on other big rigs in a street race while fully loaded and empty, and generally...
