Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

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This Rat Freak Bike Has A Mercedes Diesel Drivetrain And Was Built On A Bet In 90 Days – Love It? Hate It?

This is one that will polarize people right down to the core today and we’re OK with that. All we ask is that in the comments you keep your statements from being profanity filled rants aimed at...

Racepak Just Released One Of The Coolest Tractor Pull Videos We Have Seen In A While – The Grant County Tractor Pull

We spend more time than most mainstream automotive media websites talking about, championing, and highlighting the sport of tractor pulling around here. Why? Well firstly is because we dig it,...

This 1980 International Scout Traveler Is Long On Wheelbase, Looks, and Cool – Just Short On Power

There’s no denying the coolness of International Scouts. These tough as nails machines were made for decades and while they morphed and changed over the years, they were all rooted in...

When Brothers Fight With Excavators And Front End Loaders Nobody Wins (The Crane Guys Win)

Since the dawn of time brothers have fought. Most times the guys get it worked out of their system as kids and as adults it isn’t much of an issue. The Emanuel brothers of New Hampshire do not...

These Two Camelot Cruiser Custom Trailer Homes Had To Have Been The Most Opulent Rigs Of The 1970s

This is some Evel Knievel levels of 1970s awesome right here. These two rigs have been burning up social media over the last day or so and for good reason. Built by the Camelot Cruiser company you...

Epic Video: Utah’s Widowmaker Dirt Bike Hill Climb As Featured In The Great Documentary On Any Sunday

1971’s On Any Sunday is largely considered the greatest motorcycling film ever made. Steve McQueen is effectively the star of the picture but for our money the real magic is watching Malcolm...

The Driver Walked Away (After He Woke Up) From This Terrible Formula Off-Road Crash – Worst We Have Seen

We have seen some stuff when it comes to the Formula Off-Road over the years here at BangShift. From incredible highlights to wreckage that makes the hair on the back of your next stand up. In the...

This 1935 Maytag Engine Represents A Time In America When Even Your Appliances Were Gasoline Powered

There was a time when gasoline was so plentiful and cheap, it was almost a nuisance. This 1935 Maytag hit and miss engine is proof of that fact because yes, it formerly powered a clothes washing...

Roadkill! The Boys Bring In Help to Swap A Cummins In A Caddy, Run An Abandoned Strip, Jump It!

The latest episode of Roadkill is hot and this is an interesting mashup of weird engine swap, craziness, and thrashing. Joining Freiburger and Finnegan on this episode are Tony and Lucky from Hot Rod...

Don’t Miss Out On Our Photos From The Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo In Pomona

Here is our third gallery from the Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo in Pomona. But if you missed any of our previous galleries, don’t worry we’ve got links to them below. UTV, Jeep, Desert,...

More Off-Road Expo Coverage: Jeeps, Trucks, Pre-Runners, And More

Be prepared to drool. There were a lot of cool trucks, Jeeps, and more at the Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo, and we drooled over all of them already. But we didn’t want to leave you out, so we made...

Off-Road Expo 2016 Had All The Big Tire Goodness You Expect!

I’m a big fan of off-road trucks, Jeeps, and anything that plays in the dirt. I have a hard core soft spot for desert and short course style rigs, but you just can’t help but love...

Someone Created A Mid-70’s El Camino Limo… It’s Big, Brown, And It’s For Sale!

You all know that we here at BangShift love the Chevrolet El Camino, one of the original factory built Trars. And you know we love homemade insanity, like weird 4×4 El Caminos, badge swapped...

Cheap Truck Challenge 2016: A Sad Liberty Versus A Tired (But Nitrous Injected) Blazer

One of the fun videos that has become a yearly tradition for the Dirt Every Day series is the Cheap Truck Challenge. This is where Fred Williams and some buddies get together to take a couple of...