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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Truckin’ In The Desert: More Unique, Cool, Well Used, and Interesting Trucks From Viva Las Vegas 2015

As we have been doing all through the weekend, we’re bringing you cool photos from the huge and fun Viva Las Vegas 2015 show. This is another collection of classic, hot rodded, patina ridden,...

Easter Egg Video: A MASSIVE RUSSIAN KIROVEC TRACTOR SAVES ITSELF FROM CERTAIN DEATH!

My tractor dorkness is international, so when I ran across this video that shows a massive yellow tractor sticking half way out of a river like a sub breaching the surface, I knew right away that it...

Drifting Coal! Watch This Cummins Ram Do It’s Best Nissan Silvia Impersonation!

Some automotive worlds don’t seem to be able to go together. Drifting and lifted diesel trucks seem to be as comparable as oil and water, with the ability to spin the rear tires the only common...

Watch The Dually From Hell Make Over 1,000 HP To The Tires On The Dyno – WOW

If there is a more aptly named vehicle than the “Dually From Hell” shown in this video we’ve never seen it. This truck is just flat nasty with a 555ci big block Chevy and an F2...

Viva Las Vegas 2015: Sweet Trucks From One Of The Coolest Shows In The Nation

It is Viva Las Vegas weekend baby and we’re in Vegas blasting photos like it is the end of the world. We’re going to cover this thing wall to wall and we need to because the show...

Need A V16? This Mammoth Marmon V16 Could Be Yours!

As the country was plunging into the Great Depression, automakers were still clinging to the idea that there was plenty of money floating around to buy ever bigger and more powerful cars. The fact...

The Story Of U-1206, The German U-Boat With The Worst Story In The Fleet – It’s The Toilet’s Fault

The German U-boat occupies a very dark chapter in history. Between World War I and World War II they were feared, a legitimate danger to practically any vessel plying through the Atlantic Ocean. Less...

Neat Video Bonanza: How Dudes in Bolivia Float Trucks Across the River with Two Canoes

BangShifty solutions to problems are born different ways. Creativity can be used to work around a limited budget, lack of proper tools, and in this case, lack of a bridge to cross a large river in...

Trucks, Trucks, and ONLY Trucks From The 2015 Carl Casper Show – Big Ones, Small Ones, Short Ones, Tall Ones

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I would consider this the utility group, but I’m not sure many of these could handle much of a load these days or be pressed into hard service.  The...

Nowhere To Go But Down During This Rockcrawling Event In Congress, Arizona

Congress, Arizona is situated between Prescott and Wickenberg, west of Phoenix and is right at the base of Arizona’s biggest geological feature: the Mogollon Rim, the 2000′ separation...

Buy Your Own Gamma Goat! A Rare Shot At Owning This Military Glorious Semi-Failure

If you like to own big, cool, noisy things than boy do we have a deal for you! This 1971 built Gamma Goat is for sale on eBay and since there are not many of them left around, you better act know and...

This Is A Thing? Speed Plowing In Sweden…”Let’s Get Ready To Cultivate!”

Early spring at BangShift Mid-West means many things…the trees are finally starting to leaf out, daffodils are blooming, my allergies are raging, and fields across the region are being torn up...

Truck Feature: This Hot Rodded Cummins Powered Lil’ Red Express Rips Low 10-Second Quarter Mile Times With 100psi Of Boost!

(Words and photos be Jacob Marshall) – When I first saw Max Kirtley’s Little Red Express truck it was buried in the staging lanes of Royal Purple Raceway surrounded by numerous Nissan...

Freak For Sale: Cummins 4BT Powered 1970 Nova Dually – Eight Lug Wheels And The Soul Of A Big Rig?

For the pure freak factory, this could be the weirdest single car I have ever posted on BangShift. Not weird in the sense that it is horribly ugly or looks like it was victimized by a bad plastic...