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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Unveiled: 2019 Chevrolet Silverado – GM Drops An Early Christmas Present

Anybody who was at the Texas Motor Speedway today got a surprise nobody was really expecting: the first un-camouflaged look at the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado. With Ford refreshing the F-150 for 2018,...

Are Big Rig Wheels, Or Any Big Wheel, Cool On A Dually?

Today’s BANGshift Question of the Day is all about wheels. Big wheels to be precise. Now we’ll be the first to say that we are not about the giant wheels on cars, or even giant wheels on...

The Bandag Bullet Has 1500 Cubic Inches And Is A Tire Smoking Machine!

Bandag is a tire retreading company, that is now a part of the Bridgestone Firestone brand, and they’ve been doing retreads for a very long time and having been touting their durability in the...

The After-Party: Rockbouncers and Side-By-Sides Go Play On The Hills In Tennessee!

The racers that run the Southern Rock Racing Series are an interesting bunch. They spend all year taking their monster tube frame buggies, modified RZRs and every now and then, a secondhand Power...

Shop Truck Perfection: This 1979 Chevrolet P10 Is A No-Compromise Garage’s Dream Rig!

For most people, a pickup truck or SUV is enough to handle their day-to-day gearhead adventures. You just need enough tie-down straps in the back to keep your cargo safe and you are good to go. But...

PRI 2017 Coverage: New Blocks For Ford, Chrysler, and GM – Something For Everyone In Here

Much like a house, an engine is only as good as its foundation and that foundation is the block. There has been a pretty interesting surge in new blocks hitting the market or at least debuting over...

More Craigslist Win: This Ad For A 1989 Bronco Is As Irreverent As It Is Beautiful

Man, two in one week! BangShifter Ry Crash sent us this link after seeing our post about the Silverado “King Of The Meth Lab Edition” we ran earlier in the week. While the Bronco here is...

Tesla vs. Land Cruiser Tug Of War: Who Wins, Toyota’s Tank Or Elon’s Wonder Wagon?

The battle of the SUV heavyweights goes on and on, it seems, but here in Norway, a battle between the old way of thinking and the newest available option is about to meet up head-to-head to see who...

Your Winter Moment Of Zen: Whipping A HEMTT Around In The Snow

Far and above, the largest vehicle I’ve ever operated that didn’t fly was an Oshkosh HEMTT. These mothers are huge…Over twenty tons unladen at the lighter end of the scale,...

BangShift Truck Tech: We Install A Ridetech Level Tow System On A 2015 F250 Super Duty

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – When I took delivery of my 2015 F250 Super Duty a few years ago and immediately put it into service as a tow vehicle for my race car, the first thing I...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Holley’s Show Of Force Was On Full Display!

Consider this partially a shameless plug for Holley’s “Happy Holley Days” sale that’s going on through the end of the year, and a visual walk-through of the good stuff that...

This 1955 Chris Craft Cobra Is An Absolute Beauty, Absolutely Rare, and 100% BangShift Approved

There are certain things in this world that will be cool until the sun explodes and swallows the Earth. Steve McQueen, Bigfoot 1, Ed Iskendarian, and Chris Craft boats. Even among that group of...

Craigslist Hilarity: Meet The $800 2001 Silverado “King Of The Meth Lab Edition” – This Is All Time

So it has been a hot minute since we last found some truly hilarious stuff on Craigslist but thanks to a tip from reader Barry Joseph we have what may be our favorite ad of the year. This is an ad...

Performance Racing Industry 2017: Moroso Brought A Whole String Of New Products!

Moroso is one of those legendary names in the automotive aftermarket. Even if you have no idea what they make or what they do, there is no doubt that you’ve seen the “moroso”...