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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Grandpa Time Capsule Barn Find: A 1978 GMC High Sierra Crew Cab Dually We Lust For

Take a look at this! Everyone of you out there reading this had an old man neighbor who had the perfect truck that only got driven occasionally and who primped and prepped it non stop. That dude...

It’s Over: Aviation Industry Dead In California With Close Of Boeing C-17 Production

There was a time when it was weird a plane someone was flying on wasn’t built in California, such is no longer the case. After being a massive producer of airplanes and massive driver of the...

The Coolest Crew Cab In America Is For Sale: This 1966 C60 Truck Is Amazing

It has haunted my email in-box, my Facebook feed, and my dreams for years. This incredible 1966 C60 Chevy crew cab is for sale and I am gently weeping over my keyboard for the simple fact that...

eBay Find: This 1970 Chevy Tuck Wears A C60 Nose And Rules Beyond All Measure

The guys at RTech Fabricatons specialize in customizing late 1960s and early 1970s Chevy trucks. They convert them to crew cabs and can basically build them to whatever spec you want, including a...

This Strange Mystery Jeep Is Anything But Stock! Check Out All The Weirdness!

(Photos courtesy of the Canadian Government)   I’ve been on a Jeep kick lately, so when I saw this weirdo creation posted over at the Grassroots Motorsports Forum recently, my jaw dropped to...

The Blitz Fogger Was The Most Well Intentioned But Horrendous Idea Ever Created For Garden Tractors – How’s That DDT Taste?

There’s an old saying that goes something like, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. Consider the story of the Blitz Fogger as one of those “good...

This 1956 Film Shows How Ford Tractors Built Levittown, PA and Virtually Every Attachment Possible

If you have been reading BangShift for any time you know that I love nothing more when modern history and mechanical stuff collide and that is exactly what we have here in a pretty extraordinary...

We Are Trying To Talk Ourselves Out Of Buying This Dually. What Would You Do With It?

I want a crew cab dually. Preferably a square body, but I would do a round body as well. I’ve got no money, so it really just matters on what the deal is. Which is why this ugly beast caught my...

This 1973 Cadillac Has Been Made Into The Caddy El-Mino: Get Your Boss Hogg On With This Sucker!

When we saw this posted up on Craigslist here locally we figured it had to be some movie prop, and wondered which one it was for. It turns out that is not the case, although it would make the perfect...

Truckin’ Perfection! This 1958 Chevy Apache Has NAPCO Four Wheel Drive And The Perfect Look

If you take all of the elements we love in old Chevy trucks and stick them together you’d get something that looks eerily similar to this 1958 Apache that is equipped with NAPCO four wheel...

Mud Bog Action Photos: Fastest of the Fast Challenge At The Lee County Mud Motorsports Park

(Words by David Whealon/ Photos by David Whealon and Laini Pound)   In recent years the mud racing world’s spotlight has been shined on the tricked out awesomeness of Mega trucks which are purpose...

Restrained Anger: Watch As The “Rum Runner” Rock Bouncer Does A Chained-Down Four-Wheeled Burnout – This Thing Is Pissed!

The concoction for a successful rock bouncer is pretty much the same: a stout suspension setup hooked up to a roll cage that can take punishment by the ton, with the appropriate large rubber bolted...

Jay Leno Gets To Roll Around In A Lamborghini LM002 – Italy’s Rambo Lambo That Catered To The Stars Instead Of The Military

Lamborghini’s LM002 was born out of several failed attempts to bring a vehicle to the military to replace the venerable Jeep-based vehicles. Think about that for a moment: Not GM. Not Ford....

Top 11: Trail Rigs For Winter Wheeling! The Weather Outside Sucks, But The Fun Doesn’t Have To Stop!

Unless you’re in the South, Texas or the Southwest, you are quickly getting to the point where the fast street toy is just about done for the year. Northern guys are putting away their prized...