Mike at Cornfield Customs Is Doing A Step-by-Step Video On Bending Tubing For Frame Rails As He Bends Up A Custom Back Half

Bending tubing is a fairly simple principle, but there are a lot of little things going on that have to be taken into consideration. Whether you are compression bending tubing, like at a muffler...

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FREE BACON IS BACK, And $300 Discounts, Just In Time For Christmas! It’s The BACONSHIFT Sale At American Powertrain!

One of the most exciting times of year is when the BACONSHIFT SALE starts at American Powertrain! With $300 in savings on your favorite 5 and 6-speed kits, there is no doubt this is the perfect...

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RAM Fans Rejoice, And Truck Shoppers Pay Attention: VIDEO – The Ram 1500 is MotorTrend’s 2025 Truck of the Year!

For decades, car and truck shoppers have relied on the testing that MotorTrend does for their Car and Truck of the Year competitions. The cars and trucks that are included have a pretty substantial...

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Cleaning Up A Dirty Rear! – Resto How To: Repainting a Rusty Rear Axle on a 1980 Trans Am

Sometimes technique is everything, and using the right products can be a game changer. When combined, the right methods and techniques, along with the right chemicals and coatings, can make all the...

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Grinding Disc Testing: The Ultimate Grinding Disc Shootout Requires A Pretty Trick Grinding Disc Testing Rig

Jason at Fireball Tools is doing the ultimate grinding and flap disc shootout, and because he only does stuff as scientifically as is reasonable, it means that a very special testing rig is required...

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Happy Holley Days Is On, Big Deals On The Brands You Love! Intakes, Exhaust, EFI, Ignition, Brakes, Resto Parts, And More.

Happy Holley Days are on, and their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have been great. But Happy Holley Days continues now through December 25th with their biggest deals of the year! If you want to...

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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for...

Drag Gallery: The 2013 Keystone Diesel Truck Nationals – Big Smoke, Big Trucks, Big Chrome!

(Photos by Don Carrick/Studio 413) – Ace photographer Don Carrick sent us a note the other day to alert us that both he and his lens were on hand at Maple Grove Raceway for the 2013 Keystone...

Vintage Baja Chevy Truck Formerly Owned By Steve McQueen And Raced By Mickey Thompson Heading For Auction

Well if this isn’t the coolest Chevy 4×4 of all time, I’m not quite sure what is. This 1969 Chevy truck was the first ever factory built Baja competition truck that the company...

Swamp Buggy Saturday Video: Vintage Swamp Buggy Racing Action

We’re unabashed fan boys of Steve Evans and we’ve made that point well known. The man rocked, and outside of the NHRA coverage, his best work was done covering the unique vehicles and,...

Roadside Find: A 2003 Unimog That Is Set Up As The Ultimate Blizzard Fighter!

While cruising home from a feature car shoot with Dave Nutting yesterday morning, my dad called to let me know that he stumbled upon an auction site that listed a 2003 Unimog U500 for sale. I thought...

SEMA 2012 Featurette: A 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Crew Cab Built by Legacy Power Wagon of Wyoming

There’s literally dozens of vehicles here at the 2012 SEMA show that deserve coverage on the pages of BangShift and we’re planning on getting to many of them in the coming days and weeks,...

Mini-Feature Replay: The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks From SEMA 2011!

(Editor’s Note: Our SEMA 2012 coverage will begin later today. Here’s my favorite piece of iron from SEMA 2011!) –  Of all the vehicles I saw and crawled over at the 2011 SEMA...

Watch An Ultra High Horsepower Mud Truck Get Absolutely Destroyed In A High Speed Crash

Jason Linden is the driver of an infamous mud bog and hill-‘n-hole truck named Nitroglycerin. He’s also a dude that is luck to be alive as you’ll see in this video. Linden suffered...

Big Stupid Fun: The Coolest Ford Pulling Truck Ever

There are those out there in the motorsports world that consider truck pulling to be a form of motorsports beneath them. While certainly a pretty simple concept, there is some neat technology...

Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell

It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe...

Project Goliath Update: The One Cylinder Rebuild, Part One

The great thing about having a couple of project vehicles beating around here at BangShift.com is that our pain and suffering gets to become your entertainment! This is the first of a two-part story...

Muscle Tractor: This John Deere 5020 Got A Detroit Diesel V8 Swap And Became A Plow Pulling Bruiser

Back in the middle 1960s, John Deere released the 5020 tractor. It was a mighty beast and at the time the big fellah about as tough a customer as farmer with lots of land could get his hands on. When...