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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HOW TO READ A TURBO COMPRESSOR MAP. WHAT IS THE MAX EFFICIENCY ISLAND? HOW MUCH BOOST & POWER?

Richard Holdener is back at it with even more fun turbo tech. While turbo sizes are pretty simple, compressor maps are not necessarily as easy to understand. If you have an engine that can use a 76...

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Will This 40 Year Old RV That Derek Bought SIGHT UNSEEN, RUN, DRIVE And CAMP 850 Miles Home?

Derek from Vice Grip Garage has had some pretty interesting adventures on the road behind the wheel and underneath some pretty interesting rides. He is the king of taking the gamble, but he nearly...

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EFI Tech: Here’s How To Use Holley’s Built In Output Testing Feature For Terminator X, HP, Dominator ECUs

Unless you are a professional EFI tuner, you probably don’t know all the features that are included in one of the new ECUs that are available today. Hell, even if you are a professional you...

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This 1953 Chevy Budweiser Delivery Truck Could Be An Awesome Resto Project Or Hot Rod Rig

One of the interesting things about vintage medium and heavy duty trucks is that you don’t see a lot of them with original specialty bodies on them. Wreckers, big rigs, and dump trucks all...

Ebay Find: It’s a ’57 Chevy On A 1941 Military Weapons Carrier Chassis, Powered By A Small-Block Chevy – Is This The Most Epic Trar Yet?

If only one of us had the money…this thing would be good as sold. I promise you that. This 1957 Chevy four-door is sitting on the frame of a World War II weapons carrier, most likely a Dodge...

Do Want: This 1938 Chevy Hot Rod Pickup Was Built Right With Some Rough Around The Edges Flair

While it appears that the insane, over the top rat rod thing has lost some of the wind in its sales, there’s no shortage of hot rods that are being built to look weathered and old while...

Watch This Awesome Twin Turbo Rock Buggy Claw Up An Impossible Trail And Backflip At The Very Top!

If you are one of the guys who is still on the fence about turbos and their usefulness on literally every mechanical device that uses an internal combustion engine, maybe the proof of their sweetness...

Go Big AND Get Home With Kelderman – This Video Of Their 8-10″ Lift Working On A Dodge Ram Truck Is Awesome

We live in a world where everything is shrinking, where the materials used to build things are being made thinner, lighter, and less robust, where quality is becoming something that people are having...

Watching This Explorer Crawl Through Box Canyon In Arizona Is Awesome – Off-Road Family Wagons Rule!

First-generation Ford Explorers make killer trail rigs. They’re comfortable, they have room, and since they’re Ranger-based, they can take a ton of off-road parts to become whatever you...

This 1967 Tatra T138 Is The Only Truck For Sale On eBay Right Now With A Massive Air Cooled Diesel V8

In the “stuff that is weird and awesome” department, we have this 1967 Tatra T138 truck that was (and may still be in) built in Czechoslovakia and served in a military capacity over...

Video: This Guy Turned A 1940s Art Deco Style Gas Station Into A Really Awesome House! BangShift Approved Living Quarters

While most of us get by with having a neat piece of automobilia hanging from the wall or maybe a shelf of cool car stuff in our home to signify our love of things that make noise and go vroom-vroom,...

Watch These Professional Hollywood Prop Builders Construct A Batman Tumbler Stroller From Scratch – This Rules!

Creative people are the reason that the world is fun place to live in, right? Thanks to the miracle of the internet, the creativity of people who otherwise would work in the shadows is able to be...

Air Traffic Control Has Cleared You For Takeoff! Truck Jumping Gone Wild.

Extreme Mud Trucks are awesome. Part monster truck, part swamp buggy, all bad ass. These things haul ass, tear it up like none other, and in this case have been cleared for takeoff. We don’t...

This 1935 International Wrecker Is An Incredible Original Survivor Truck – A Working Rig That Has Lived The Good Life!

With more than 40 bids and a current bid (as this was being written) of $13,000, we’re not the only ones in absolute love with this 1935 International wrecker that is currently for sale on...

Craigslist Fun: This Ad For An Old Slide In Camper Will Have You Laughing Like We Are

While this ad isn’t as good as the all time greatest CL listing ever for an MGB, it is still pretty awesome. The item in question is a crusty, tough looking old slide in style camper and the...

This 1972 Chevy C10 Mad Max Truck Is Either Insane Or The Very Definition Of A Hot Rod – You Decide!

BangShifter David Brown saw this wild creation on Craigslist and decided to send us the link. We are glad that he did because we feel like this truck will be a very polarizing creation. In our eyes,...

Monster Truck History Lesson! Check Out These 1980s Monster Truck Photos From An Event You May Have Seen On Video!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is another installment of the series showcasing photos I took when my years were much less.  I am going to guess the year was either 1983 or 1984....