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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Ship Fail: The Cargo Ship Canadian Miner Was Supposed To Be Scrapped For Profit -Project Is $24-Million In The Hole – What A Mess! Photos and The Story Here

(By GREG ROURKE) – Most of us who regularly read BangShift don’t live in gated communities. As such, we all have someone in the neighborhood with junk in the back yard. Or maybe it’s you....

Check Out This Great Old Tractor Collection We Found At The Alameda County Fairgrounds In Pleasanton, California

So there I was, minding my own business looking at hot rods and muscle cars at the Goodguys show when I turned around and nearly swallowed my tongue. As it turns out the fairgrounds that the show was...

This Big Block Chevy Powered Astro Van Is The Coolest Sleeper Of 2014 – Complete Q-Ship!

We post lots of sleepers here on BangShift and that is mainly because we love them so much. The good news is that we know you love them because we get so many tips and emails about unsuspecting speed...

Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale

(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...

This 1950 Willys Jeepster Is Literally On Death’s Door – Junkyard Spotted And Crusher Ready

Having been away from the house for the previous week, I was looking to have some fun with the boys as they had the day off from school yesterday. Tom wanted to eat at his favorite diner so we hopped...

A Spacecraft Called Rosetta Will Be Landing On A Comet Today And You’ll Be Able To See Photos And Video – Incredible Stuff!

We live in incredible times and while this has nothing to do with blown hemi enignes, hot rodding, or lighting up the scoreboards with the lowest elapsed times, it does have to do with the highest...

The Guys With The Insane Dual Russian Tank Engine Pulling Tractor Have Added A Blown Hemi, Because Why Not?

Of the more amazing creations we have ever featured on BangShift is a European pulling tractor called Slaedehunden (sled dog) which uses a pair of massive 40-liter Russian tank diesel engines that...

SEMA 2014: One More Load Of Trucks To Check Out – Virtually Bro-Rig Free!

Yesterday we took you for the first of two trips into the truck hall at SEMA 2014. One of the things that was mentioned in the comments both on BangShift and on the Facebook post about the photos was...

If Fitzgerald Had Any Brains He Would Have Built His Blazer Like This Guy – Meet The 1978 MaliBlazer

So Fitzgerald finishes the Blazer and it looks all nice and stock and original. If you are into that kind of thing you probably really like it but let’s be honest here, he took the safe way...

Bottom Dollar Blazer: The Conclusion

While Lohnes and Reynolds were off devouring their 14th platter of free shrimp at SEMA, they forgot they never confiscated my keycard to BangShift HQ, giving me — the most hated man in...

Not A Lightning: This Turbocharged V10 Powered F-150 Is Odd, But Is It Fast? Craigslist Find!

I guess that I am in a V10 kind of mood today. Ok, well Drag Week veteran Mark Covey bears some responsibility for this because he’s the guy that sent me the link to this pretty interesting...

SEMA 2014: The Coolest Trucks On Display In The Truck Hall (Part 1)

One of the things that some people use to tell how “big” at SEMA show is entails checking out the truck and truck accessory hall. In leaner years, there would be a fair amount of space...

Gumbo Video: A Bobbed 5-Ton Truck On Tractor Tires Pull a Monster Ford Out of an Impossible Mud Pit

If you happen to own an old five ton Army truck, we’re jealous. If you own a 5-ton Army truck and decide to bob the chassis, add what look to be 50 inch tractor tires, and proceed to kick the...

Neat Video: A Scratch Built, 1932 Ford Themed Snow Blower – Amazing Fabrication

Take our word for it, this video is awesome. The nearly four minute piece shows the construction, by an amazingly skilled metal fabricator, of a kick ass snow blower themed after a 1932 Ford. It...