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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Here Are All The American Powertrain Shifter Fitment Options On TREMEC 5 & 6 Speed Transmissions For Your Project

Wondering if there is a way to get your Tremec transmission’s shifter to line up in your application? Have a weird one and want to move the shifter forward or back to make it just right? In the...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: How To Build A Custom Roll Cage For An FJ40 Land Cruiser

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might...

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Unveiled: The 2016 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles! Which One Is Your Favorite?

It’s rare for a manufacturer to celebrate and thank the fans quite like Jeep does every year at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Easter Jeep Safari,...

Crazy Action Photos: 10th Annual Show and Go At The Lee County Mud Motorsports Complex

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – In most racing series winter warm-ups have started and Lee County Mud Motorsports Complex in Sanford, NC has followed the trend with their first race of...

Want To Stand Out On The Trails This Summer? This Chevrolet SSR 4×4 Ought To Do The Trick!

The poor Chevrolet SSR…it tried so hard to be loved. Chevy pulled a page out of Chrysler’s 1990s playbook…specifically the chapter on going from concept car to production in thirty...

The Max Grundy Designed Chevrolet Hauler Known As ODIN Is For Sale – Incredible

We’re big fans of well known hot rod artists and designer Max Grundy. The guy has a thing with big trucks that we love and he has a design style and vision that really suits our tastes. Case in...

Mud Bog Time Machine: 1980s Action From Arkansas City, Kansas – The Trucks Rule!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last stop in our mud bog time machine is Arkansas (pronounced as you see it – not like the state) City, KS.  Gearheads will note that Ark City (best...

That’s Gonna Hurt In The Morning: Watch As The “Black Out” Rock Bouncer Barrel-Rolls Down At The ARC Race!

The full-coverage overkill cages that you see on rock bouncers isn’t for show. When you combine lots of power, heavy right feet and incline angles that aren’t advisable for mountain...

Craigslist Weird Humor: Someone Has Listed A Mobile Brothel For Sale In The Form Of A Chrysler RV

  BangShifter Mike Lang gets all the credit for this gem of a Craigslist find. We’re going to assume that Mike did not type “mobile brothel” into the search line but somehow he...

Craigslist Hilarity: This Ad For A 1986 Jeep CJ7 Had Us Rolling – Priceless Stuff

We have to thank BangShifter Matt Boutilier for tipping us off to this hilarious Craigslist ad for a 1986 Jeep CJ7. The Jeep is for sale in Maine and it is a nice looking piece with a lift, some...

Random Car Review: The 1957-1962 Tucker Model 222 “Sno-Kitten”

I don’t care if the Spring Equinox is a little over a week away, it’s Spring at BangShift Mid-West HQ. The grass is growing, the saturated fields are finally drying out, the house finches...

Mental! This Truck To Truck Stadium Super Truck Crash Video Looks Straight From A Video Game!

(By Eric Rood) – Stadium Super Trucks might be the coolest road racing in the world when they end up on a road course billing.When everything is going well, Robby Gordon’s rip-snorting...

This Old Cab Over Dodge Wrecker Is A Hot Mess, But We’re In Love All The Same

This is one of those times when I’ve fallen so immediately in love with something that I am virtually blinded to the sheer horror of the situation until I take a second look and realize how...

Crazy Video: Watch This de Havilland Canada Dash 7 Perform Short Take Off and Landing Drills – 20-ton Plane Defies Physics

(By Eric Rood) – YouTube is flush with videos of supremely talented Alaskan bush pilots dropping their two-seat Piper Cubs and Super Cubs onto tiny patches of level ground, “rolling” to a...

This Mud-Running Ford Bronco Is A Beast! Wheels Up In The Mud From A Dead Launch!

Traction in the mud…yeah, this big Bronco has it in spades. It’s also got enough power to hang the front end in the air from a dead launch in the mud! This is the John Deere Bronco and...

Mud Bog and Monster Truck Time Machine: Here’s The Scene, The Rigs, and The Muck From Newkirk, Oklahoma Circa 1984

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here’s the latest installment of our mud bog and monster truck time machine stories. Heading further North on our wayback journey we turn to NewKirk,...