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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Featured Product: KBS Coatings Top Coater Is A Beautiful, Durable, And UV Stable Paint That Will Work On So Many Projects!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check them out....

Outlaw Truck Pull Video: Run What Ya Brung 4×4 Trucks Pulling at the 2024 Diesel Days in Butler, PA – Dirt Flying Action!

Truck and Tractor pulling has always been something we cover here on BANGshift, and I’m especially fond of the truck pullers. So when I saw this video that is nothing but legit outlaw truck...

Peak 80s Goodness: This United States Hot Rod Association Promotional Video Is A Gearhead Highlight Reel That We Love

The United States Hot Rod Association was at its peak in the 1980s. Putting on the indoor monster truck shows, pulling events, mud bogs, and more they were drawing massive crowds in cities big and...

24 Years Gone: This Video From 2000 Showing Off The Then New Suburban Shows How Little Has Changed

They are the big bruisers that have donated their engines to many, many hot rod projects over the years. They are the rigs that you may have been driven to school in or you drove others to school in....

This Drag-N-Drive 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS 396 Was Stolen & Stripped! This Original Paint & Interior Car Has Been Recovered!

It seems like we hear about cars and trucks being stolen at more and more events nowadays. Whether it is from the hotel parking lot or a local restaurant, thieves target hot rods, customs, classics,...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Making Headway On The Custom One Off Front And Rear Bumpers

Custom bumpers baby! The custom bumpers on this truck are something special and although Brent has gone back and forth on them, we know they are going to be something special. I love the idea of...

Amazing Video: This 1960 United States Air Force Review Has Footage Of The X-15, Kittinger’s Jump, and So Much More

  This 1960 film made by the US Air Force is a review of all the stuff that they had going on that year. It is astonishing and incredible to see everything that was happening. From the X-15...

Oops! This Collection Of Old School Wild Rides, Carnage, and Funny Moments In Pulling Is Great

Back in the day, kids, there were these things called magazines and one of them, “Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off Road” always had a back page called, “Whoops!” and there...

Neat Video: This 1930s Footage Of A Ruth Dredging and Trenching Machine In Action Is A Cool Look Into The Gearhead Past

There are few neater things than being able to look back into the history of machines through old video. For instance, in this case we get to watch a Ruth Dredging and Trenching Machine in action...

Meet The Completely Insane City Slicker Pulling Tractor – Triple Turbo Allison (W/Video)

(Photos from Sascha Mecking collection) – Stuck in no one’s rut – That’s what it says on the side of the amazing, weird, interesting, and completely unique City Slicker that...

TAKE ON THE NIGHT: RetroBright LED Headlights For Classic Rides Make Seeing While Driving A Whole New Experience!

We’ve talked about Holley’s RetroBright headlights here before, and I can tell you that no amount of praise is too much for these things. I know that sounds like a stretch, but the truth...

Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: Welding Starts On The Bed For The 1971 GMC Cabover Ramp Truck!

It’s time for more welding! A big stack of tubing and plate are going to be used to build the bed and make this thing the ultimate hot rod hauler. It’s got a special payload planned for...

Polishing Turds Season 2: Part 8 – Head Porting Cody’s ProCharged 360 Cubic Inch Small Block, And How A Port Job Really Effects Flow

In the eighth episode of this new Polishing Turds engine project, Pete is going to be performing some cylinder head porting on this little supercharged small-block so it will be able to make big...

Our National Tractor Pullers Association Tractor Pulling Photos From The Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park Continue

Here’s our final gallery from the recent NTPA Grand National season opener at Galot. These photos are awesome, and we can’t thank David Whealon enough for sending them our way. If you...