The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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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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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...

Punjabi Tractor Pulling Is Quite Literally The Craziest Motorsport In The Entire World

No, this is not the video you are expecting. You are thinking one of these tractors goes completely over backwards and bedlam ensues. That would actually be LESS scary than what you are about to...

Man In Australia Arrested For Driving Wingless Plane To Bar – This Could Be Our Favorite News Story Ever

As we have all learned over the last 6 years (our birthday is tomorrow!) at BangShift, fact is truly stranger than fiction. This news story from Australia certainly keeps that line of thought alive...

Craigslist Find: A Prerunner Ford F150 That May Satisfy Your Trophy Truck Itch

Lets face it, as much as we all like Trophy Trucks, the chance of owning one is pretty slim. These beasts are stupid money. But the cool thing is that we just found this 2005 Prerunner Ford F150 on...

Trophy Truck Video: Robby Gordon Qualifies Number 1 For The SCORE Baja 1000

When Robby Gordon straps into a Trophy Truck, everyone on the planet knows he’s going to be fast. In fact, there are quite a few off road pros who say that he’s ALWAYS the fastest guy in...

SEMA 2014: The Mercury Marine Dual Overhead Cam Four Valve LS Engine Was The Coolest Motor We Saw At SEMA

Ok, here’s wrinkle in the LS world that we had no idea was coming and it is a BIG one. Mercury Racing, the people that make all the awesome boat engines pulled the wraps off of a new engine...

SEMA 2014: Here’s A Collection Of Photos Featuring Trucks And Nothing BUT Trucks

Trucks are a massive part of the SEMA show because trucks are a massive part of the automotive aftermarket and they come in all shapes and sizes. In this group of photos you’ll see trucks of...

Watch a Street Legal Zamboni Drive Down the Highway – This is Insane!

Well this seriously beats all! In the video below you will see a Zamboni hauling down the highway and keeping up with traffic. The dude driving the thing is hanging out in the breeze like a normal...

SEMA 2014: This Chuck Mallet Built Silverado Is Retro Done Right – Sometimes Just Enough Really Is Just Enough (There’s Lots Of Horsepower, Though)

I guess I was in a truckin’ mood yesterday because after seeing the tracked FC170 Jeep at Daystar, the next thing that froze me was this awesome Silverado which is living in the Kooks Headers...

SEMA 2014: Daystar Products’ Jeep FC 170 Truck With Hemi Power And Tracks Is 100% BangShift Approved

There’s love a first site and then there are the emotions that I felt when I rounded a corner at the 2014 SEMA show and saw the amazing creation that lies before you on these electronic pages....

SEMA 2013: Mini-Feature – Quik Silver The Custom 1957 Chevy Truck To Rule Them All

While the nooks and crannies of SEMA 2013 are filled with the cars and trucks that bear checking out, some of them stand above the rest. This 1957 Chevy truck called Quik Silver is one of those...

Watch This Rock Buggy Suffer A Horrendous Free Fall Crash Off The Infamous Cable Hill

The world of rock bouncing is quickly becoming a huge part of the off roading scene. Think of it like the small tire classes of drag racing. These are wild creations that use all kinds of suspension...