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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Goodguys Del Mar, California – A Look At The Coolest Trucks At The Huge Show

The California wing of the BangShift enterprise was really busy last weekend as you have seen. We were bouncing around to multiple shows and events, trying to bring you all the stuff that you want to...

OMG – There Is A Crazy Kamaz 4911 Dakar Rally Truck For Sale On eBay Right Now

Because trucks are largely built for specific purposes be the race trucks, working trucks, or show trucks, it is hard to pick one specific style or model of rig that reigns supreme over all others,...

The Ripsaw EV-2 Is A Hot Rod Tank From Hell – Watch It Drift, Plow Through Trees, And Jump!

They guys from Howe and Howe Technologies up in Maine have outdone themselves again. The company is in the business if building specialty vehicles for use in all different arenas. They have built...

The Face Of Freight To Come? Freightliner’s Supertruck Is A 5 Year Project That Delivers 12-MPG

Improving the efficiency of over the road trucks has long been a pursuit of not just the truck makers themselves but also of the government, who have shoveled out grants and money for engineering...

Got A RZR? RacePak Is Brining Cool New Stuff To Market Just For You!

There was literally no way to predict the explosive development of the side by side/UTV market when these things started popping up 15 years ago. Initially intended for work around the farm or on...

The 2015 Houston Performance Trucks Shootout – Here’s Our Last Blast Of Action From The Race

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Well, we’re finally at the end of our run of great Wickam photos from the 2015 Houston Performance Trucks shootout at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas....

A Finnish Tire Company Just Set A Speed Record For A Tractor In The Snow

81 miles an hour might not sound all that impressive for a lot of vehicles, but for a tractor, that’s seriously hauling the mail. Pulling that stunt in the snow sounds exceptionally dangerous,...

Behemoth: Watch This Full Sized Chevy Truck Run 7.70s At 170mph Plus With A Twin Turbo LS Engine – World’s Quickest?

Charles Wickam was at the Houston Performance Trucks Shootout last weekend at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. He reported back that there was some crazy stuff there and mentioned a truck that...

Check Out This Footage FCA Released Of The 2015 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Playing At Moab!

For years now, Jeep puts together some excellent concept vehicles, hauls them out to Moab, and in the spirit of marketing and having fun, takes them out onto the trail during the Easter Jeep Safari....

This Foreign Towing Operation Doesn’t Know The Meaning Of The Word Quit….Or The Words Impending Doom

(By Greg Rourke) – Towing and recovery is a dangerous job. You have weather, other drivers doing their taxes while driving, and vehicles in all sorts of predicaments that you have to get picked...

This 3,000 Horsepower Hummer Sand Dragger Can Move…Both It’s Two-Ton Weight And A Ton Of Dirt!

Hummers aren’t as great as a lot of people think they are. Yeah, I said it. It’s a heavy brick of a vehicle that in most forms was underpowered, seriously over-geared, with an interior...

The 2015 Ford F150: All New, All Aluminum, A Refined Version Of Your Granddad’s Hammer – We Drive It

(Photos by Dave Nutting)  – I was pretty excited to get my mitts on a 2015 Ford F150 for obvious reasons. The thing is one of the world’s best selling vehicles and a keystone part of...

This Incredibly Rare 1937 Checker Y8 Was Made Into A Wrecker In The 1940s And Has Been Restored To Its Glory

When we think of the Checker car company, lots of times we default to thoughts of the square, tank-like machines that populated New York City streets and the streets of many other cities for decades...

Someone Mated The Front Of A 1939 Studebaker To A 1961 Chevy Bus And Now They Want You To Buy It

There’s good weird, there’s bad weird, and then there’s just plain old weird. This 1961 Chevy bus with a 1939 Studebaker nose pretty much fits all three categories in one way or...