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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Somebody Built A Honda Accord Dually And Now They Want You To Buy It

Every single person I know, plus relatives, and even a distant cousin we assumed had been eaten by cannibals sent me emails, texts, or carrier pigeon notes on the existence of this car and the fact...

SCORE Launches 104 Episodes Of Online Off-Road Coverage For 2015. Check It Out Here!

You know how much we dig off-road racing around here, and nothing is cooler than desert racing like the SCORE Baja 1000. Well in 2015 you are going to get to see even more SCORE Desert Racing, both...

Historic Seattle Ferry Kalakala To Be Scrapped – The Story Comes To A Sad End

The MV Kalakala story began in 1933, when the ship that made up most of the hull, the Peralta, was torched in an arson fire. The superstructure of the ship was a total loss, but the hull was fine,...

Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015: This Trick Animation Shows The Track Layout, Jumps, Chicanes, And How The Trucks Will Battle Head To Head In The Snow

We’ve been beating the drum pretty hard on Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015 only because we’re losing sleep at how neat this whole thing will be. It is not often that us New Englanders get to...

BangShift Project Files: Not One, But Two Ford Truck Projects! A 427 In One, An EcoBoost Swap In The Other!

There are professional builders. There are skilled craftsmen. There are amateurs…like myself. And then there are guys like “EcoBoostedF100” in the forum, who make all of us look...

Off-Roading Fail: Watch This Dodge Front-Flip Into A Mud Pit – Everyone Is OK

We just can’t get enough of the “mega”-trucks around here lately, and this Dakota fits the bill with it’s heavy-duty axles, tractor tires and an engine that would be right at...

Blog Fight: You Want A Cadillac Wagon? I Got An Eldorado Shooting Brake Right Here!

Fifty-seven thousand dollars is a lot of money to spend on a station wagon, Cadillac or otherwise. And while Brian was busy writing up the Castillian thinking he was going to bury the New...

Fun Video: Playing in the Snow with an Old Linn Tractor Half-Track, a BangShifty Toy We Need!

There’s lots of gearhead stuff that we have no real practical use for, but just really want. Count an old Linn half-track as one of the latter. The machines were made in New York from 1916-1952...

Blog Fight: McTaggart’s Pontiac Wagon Is For CHUMPS! This 1976 Cadillac Castilian Wagon Is Where It’s At

Clearly McTaggart thought he was going to be the king of wagon mountain on the blog today but I have news for him. That Pontiac he found is pretty clean but let’s be honest, that thing is a...

“Uh-Oh” Video: Randal Key Launches His Rockcrawler, Camera Operator Requires New Pants

“Location, location, location.” If you are recording anything to do with a vehicle, knowing where to stand makes the difference between you being a hero and a grease spot that once was a...

Motorized Freak of the Week: Nutso Hungarian Oil-Well Firefighting Tank

Many of you may have seen this beast before, but for those of you who haven’t, know that it uses its power for good and not evil. What you’re looking at is the world’s most badass...

187-Ton Heavy Haul Load Stopped Dead In Its Tracks By Mother Nature, Broken Axles – Heavy Loads Is Hard

BangShifter Jake Salmonson shot us the link on this pretty neat story that came from the Duluth, Minnesota area and centers around the troubles that a heavy haul team was having with moving a 187-ton...

Guy Drives $75 Dollar Truck To Work For 38 Years, Right Up To The Day He Retires – BangShifty Hero!

As a 20 something year old kid, Minnesota resident Bob Sportel needed a truck to get to work but he had a pretty tight budget. After seeing an old farmer come to his place of employment in a rusty...

This Is The Weirdest 1985 Pontiac Sunbird Ever – S10 Frame, Flip Nose, 350, Rear Wheel Drive!

Todd Aldridge gets the tipster credit on this one but we’re not sure we should be giving it to him. After all, how did he find it? Was he searching for S10 (normal)? Or was he searching for...