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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Watch An FIA Racing Big Rig Powerslide Its Way Through A European Hill Climb

It is Friday, hopefully the man is not keeping you down with work and you’re counting the seconds before you get to blow out of the office for the weekend. If you are being held down by the man...

Watch This 1980s Apache Off Shore Racing Boat Skip Across The Ocean Like A 2,000hp Stone

(Editor’s note: Sometimes massive power, massive stones, and massive amounts of skill all come together to create a situation that’s violently poetic and beautiful. Such is the case here...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The LeTourneau L-2350 – W/Video!

This week’s freak hasn’t been chosen because it was a failure, quite the opposite actually. This thing is a (literal) huge success. The LeTourneau L-2350 is the largest front end loader...

Money No Object: A 1987 Mercedes-Benz Unimog Doka Short Wheelbase Just For The Boss!

Both Brian and Chad are head-over-heels for Unimogs, the bulletproof, brutally stout workhorses that Mercedes-Benz built. I can’t knock the trucks at all, they are one of the most legendary...

Heavy Iron: Kenworth 963 Oil Field Trucks Come To Life – These Are The Kings Of The Desert!

(Photos credit: Kenworth Trucks) – When it comes to big, awesome trucks there are few bigger and more awesome than the mighty Kenworth 963 oil field truck. These massive off-highway trucks...

The Golden Ticket: Ridetech Gives Away A StreetGRIP System At Cars N Cones

And then they installed it free, let the dude run on their test track, and thanked him for coming! Yeah, it was that kind of week for John and Val Martin. Here is the story of how one of the cleanest...

Cool Video: Watch The Army Try Our Experimental Steel Airless Tires On A Jeep – They Worked Pretty Well

This interesting video shows the US Army trying out experimental steel airless tires on a Jeep in a bunch of different conditions. While we do not have the specific makeup of the “tires”...

Lavon Miller Claims Second Ultimate Call Out Challenge – Champion For Two Years Running

For the second straight year, Firepunk Diesel and Lavon Miller have claimed the championship at the Ultimate Call Out Challenge. This is a diesel event that is basically unlimited in the scope and...

Crazy Video: Watch The ME-163 Komet Rocket Fighter Fly In This Captured WWII Nazi Footage

While it seems crazy to say, there has been only one rocket power fighter plane actually used in combat. It is even crazier to say that it was used in WWII by the Nazis and it was called the ME-163...

This 44k Mile 1974 Dodge Club Cab Dually Is The Perfect Pick For Wide Wednesday

I love duallys. I always have. Standard cab, crew cab, extra cab, it doesn’t matter. I dig them all. So when I saw this cool 1974 Dodge Club Cab Dually, complete with a fresh 360, 727, and a...

Not A Frame Swap: This 1957 International-Harvester A120 Is A Factory 4×4 With The Original Binder Engine!

I promise you that I did not get my hopes up too high when I found this truck the other day. I was convinced that I would open the eBay listing only to find someone had swapped the chassis from a...

Those Old Display Tanks At War Memorials Don’t Run, Right? In Russia They Do!

Chances are, your town or local area has some sort of war memorial and that war memorial may have an old piece of iron at it. Maybe it is some sort of a gun, maybe it is even a tank or a personnel...

What’s Cooler Than A 1978 Datsun 620 With Tandem Rear Axles? Not Much!

Somebody needs this bulletside Datsun 620. Someone has to appreciate it’s custom looks, high levels of fabrication and sheer magnetism. It’s not for everybody…there is a segment of...

This Is The Simplest, Fastest, And Most Brilliant Way To Move An Excavator Around A Huge Mine – BangShift Approved

In any business, efficiency is king, no matter the scale. Think about a giant mining operation and how many trucks, people, and “moving parts” that it has. We’re assuming that...