The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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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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This 1970 International Harvester Travelall TV Ad Makes Us Want To Buy One Right Now

Like today’s truck ads, those made in the 1960s and 1970s were all about preaching toughness, strength, and the veritable indestructibility of the vehicle being promoted. In this case we are...

Work Truck Greatness! This 1973 Ford F350 Is The Parts Hauler Dream!

Brutal, basic and useful…that’s how I like my trucks. Give me a vinyl bench seat that isn’t going to kill my spine, an engine that has mountains of torque, a manual trans, and a...

This Little Airplane Tug Is Weird, Cool, and It’s For Sale! 100% BangShift Approved!

Ever go onto your local Craigslist and type in the word “Project” into the Vehicles for Sale section? If you haven’t done that, try it. It can lead you on an adventure into the...

Project Hay Hauler: A 1967 GMC C1500 That Oozes Cool, With A Junkyard Twist

When friend, and longtime BangShifter, Scott Liggett told us he had found a bitchin almost original 1967 GMC C1500 truck and that he was going to fix it up and drive it daily, we were thrilled. When...

A Trar Like None Other: This 1951 Henry J Has Been Crossed With A Bronco II – Interesting or Horrible?

When regular BangShift tipster ElkyGuy sent me the link to this mashup of a 1951 Henry J and a Bronco II I wasn’t sure what to think and here’s why. I LOVE Henry Js. I think they are some...

Craigslist Find: Is This The Ultimate Do-Everything Truck? Chevy Frame, Kubota Front End Loader, And Lots Of Homemade Ingenuity!

Ok, BangShifters, help me out here. I’m torn over what to think about this…uh…thing. At first glance this is one of the most cobbled-together creations I’ve laid eyes on in...

It’s The Van Man: And This 1964 Falcon Club Van Hauls A Motorcycle. We Dig It!

Vans rule. I don’t know why it is, but anything with a long roof on it is cool in my book. Crew Cab Duallys, wagons, vans, Suburbans, they all are just too damn cool. And this 1964 Falcon Club...

This 1945 Flxible Bus Has Navy History And Is Beat Enough To Do ANYTHING You Want To It

I’m a huge fan of Flxible buses, RV’s, campers, and trailers. So when when longtime BangShifter Loren Krussow saw this sucker on Craigslist there was no doubt it was getting forwarded to...

The Tale Of Two Trars: Both Of These Are Blazer Based And You Can Only Have One – Which Is It?

Brady Basner of XS Power Batteries it us with a nearly unanswerable question the other day. See, he sent us the two Craigslist ads that we have below and tried to force us to make a decision about...

Watch The Congressional Hearing About The Proposed EPA Regulations And The RPM Bill That Fights Them

This is certainly the first time and we’re kind of hoping it will be the last when we post a video link to a congressional hearing around here but it is also the first time we have been engaged...

Sinking Like The Titanic: Watch As This Bounty Hole Swallows Up Huge Trucks For Fun!

It’s amazing just how far people will go for money and bragging rights…often, there is no stopping them until they hit the bottom. For a bounty mud hole, that is meant both literally and...

Craigslist Find: This 1950s Sand Rail For Sale In Texas Is The Grand Daddy Of Today’s 1,000hp Missiles

We have run a bunch of videos featuring modern “sand cars” that have massively powerful engines, can run across the dunes at like 150mph, and pull wheelies at an annoyingly frequent clip....

Sweptline Goodness: This 1967 Dodge D200 Camper Special Has California Patina And A Heart Transplant

I was looking for old trucks on eBay the other day because I had 10 minutes and I didn’t want to do something actually productive. I saw lots of awesome stuff. Trucks with great paint, cool...

Now THIS Is A Big Block: 12,444ci of Fairbanks Morse Diesel Is For Sale – Want It?

Thereare big engines and then there are BIG engines and this one qualifies as the latter. Behold the awesome Fairbanks Morse 38TD D8 1/8 which is 40,000lbs, 4,244hp, and likely 20,000 lb-ft of torque...