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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And For Your Saturday Morning Entertainment, A Flying Semi Truck

It’s Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s not even six in the morning and it’s gonna be dark for another hour. The leaves are everywhere and rain has become the norm. All told, it...

The 2014 Audi Q7 – Cruising The Beautiful Diesel Beast To And Around One Of America’s Great Tracks

(Words and photos by David Hakim) – With the low-speed grunt of a big-block muscle car and the fuel-sipping consumption of an eco-friendly four-cylinder ride, the 2014 Audi Q7 quattro...

This 1962 Corvair-Camino Is An Awesome Custom Piece That Shows General Motors May Have Missed A Golden Opportunity In The 1960s

It is rare to see someone actually build a customized version of a car and have said car actually raise questions that relate back to the original model. That’s the case here with this 1962...

Friday Excuse To Go Home Early And Drink, Part 1: Jeep Guys, You Might Wanna Sit Down…

If there is one vehicle in the 50-and-older club that has stuck to it’s roots the best, it is (arguably) the Jeep. Be it CJ, YJ, TJ, Wrangler, Scrambler, Jeepster, whatever, the basic idea...

Buy Eisenhower’s Personal Jeep! One Of The Wildest Historical eBay Finds Ever –

You know that we love history around here and when it revolves around something mechanical, it ratchets up the coolness factory but a HUGE amount. Well, this is one of the most mechanically awesome...

Ram Bumping Up Production Of Half-Ton Diesels Due To Demand

The Ram 1500 EcoDiesel has been selling better than expected. How much better? The first batch of trucks, all 8,000 of them, sold out in three days. Not too surprising since the idea of a...

Kelderman Air Ride Lift Kits Are Now Available For 2014 Rear Coil Dodge Ram Trucks

For years Dodge Ram trucks have come with a coil sprung front suspension on 4-wheel drive models, and in 2014 Dodge designed a similar suspension system for the rear of their 2500 series, 3/4 ton,...

Big Air Challenge Video From The SCORE Desert Challenge Is Right Here! Watch Trucks Fly!

This weekend’s SCORE Desert Challenge in Imperial California is THE place to be if you want to see the best in desert off road racing. But, if you couldn’t be there Thursday night for the...

This Wild Jeep Project Is Powered By Four Harley-Davidson Engines: It Runs And Drives!

After spending a great day land speed racing and surrounded by some of the wildest machines in the racing world, we naturally decided to hit the land of eBay to see what we could find that would...

Watch As This Truck Tug-Of-War Goes Bad: Flames And Parts Scattered!

This didn’t go to plan, I’m sure. In this clip from BustedKnuckleVideo, this blue Chevy 4×4 hooked up to a K5 Blazer in a “grudge pull” event and went absolutely for...

Want An Air Cooled Camper Van That Isn’t A VW? How About This Insanely Rare Dormobile Corvair Conversion?

We know that tons of you out there love old campers and motorhomes. We also know that lots of you like freaky stuff and this 1963 Corvair van fits the bill on both accounts. For starters it is a...

Ramp Truck Battle! Would You Buy This Sweet 1963 Ford Cab Over Or This Equally As Sweet 1966 GMC? State Your Case!

This will likely turn into the Hatfields and McCoys right quick. I went out and found two of the coolest ramp trucks I have ever put on BangShift and I am sticking them both in the same blog item and...

Watch Freiburger, Rick Pewe, and Fred Williams Bring A 1950 Jeep Back To Life In Pewe’s Driveway – Cool Thrash

We have highlighted several of the cool Dirt Every Day episodes from the MotorTrend Youtube channel over the years and they have all had Fred Williams in them doing various stuff. From converting...

Winter Is Coming! Be Prepared With This 1947 Oshkosh Snow Blower Truck That Could Eat A Town

As the shorter days, cooler temps, and changing leaves start to make their presence known to those of us in colder climates, that can mean only one thing. Winter is on the way! With that comes the...