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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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...

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside: Another Weird Mopar Swap – These Guys Pulled A Big Block For WHAT?!

So yesterday we reran McTaggart’s wild story about the Durango that someone had swapped a slant six engine into. That thing was weird enough but it looks like a top fuel car when compared to...

Crank The Speakers! This 1,000hp Rock Bouncer Makes Some REALLY Good Noises While Attacking Mother Nature

Like all of the motorsports world, evolution is something that rock bouncing has been going through a rapid phase of in recent years. It wasn’t but a few years ago that decently built buggies...

Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015 Is Coming Next Week And We’ll Be There – Check Out This 2014 Highlight Reel

We’re literally going to get 2014 going with a bang around here at Nutting and I will be at Sunday River Ski Resort next week in Maine to cover Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015 in person. There will...

The Wildest S10 Ever Built Is For Sale – Eight Wheels, 12-Cylinders, 24-Spark Plugs, Unconfirmed Number Of Brain Cells

How do we know that the guys working over at MegaSquirt/DIYAutoTune.com are BangShifters? Not one but TWO of them sent us tips on this thing. That’s right, Matt and Jerry…you are both...

The Infamous Dakar Rally Rolls Royce Is Up For Sale – Yes, This Rolls Competed At And Finished Dakar – There’s LOTS Of Surprises With This Tank

Like many great accomplishments and creations the world has seen over the years, this one came to life because of a friendly bet. Racer Thierry de Montcorgé, who was an established in safari rally...

Best of 2014: How To Fail Towing Your Boat Out Of The Water In One Easy Step!

Summer is the perfect time to bring your buddies and your boat out to the lake for some on-the-water fun. Cruising out on the water, having a swim, maybe a beer or twelve…it’s a relaxing...

Santa Forget Your Stuff? Buy One Of The Nicest A100 Trucks We Have Ever Seen On eBay – Mopar Goodness

The reality is that Dodge A100 trucks and vans on eBay tend to be one of two things. They are either (a) pretty rough and in need of lots of work or (b) all hot rodded and kind of hacked up. This...

How Far Is Too Far? Watch This Bronco Jump And Find Out At The 2014 Mega Truck Finals

There is always such a thing as “too much”. When it comes to playing off-road, too much airtime usually results in broken suspension parts, a snapped axle or hub, and about fifty thousand...

This John Deere 317 Garden Tractor With A 2.8L GM V6 Is 100% BangShift Approved – Think It Sounds Good With Zoomies?

So as you have undoubtedly noticed, we have been running lots of “Best of 2014” blog items over the last week or so. We’re going to spice things up over the next few days before New...

Best Of 2014: The Oddest and Most Badder Asser Pickup In America Does a Burnout and Makes a Dyno Pull

This truck is one of those rare vehicles that when viewed one way is the coolest thing ever, but when viewed another way, is a little on the freakish side. In doing some digging around the internet,...

Best of 2014: Awesome Video: A GM Truck Folds In Half Like A Wet Cardboard Box

THIS VIDEO IS NOT WORK SAFE, THERE IS SWEARING A-PLENTY! Having told you that, we’ll move onto the true meat of this video. A GM truck ended up in a frozen lake, boobs up somehow. In order to...

The Redneck Video To End All Redneck Videos – Guy Gets Launched From Truck Bed While “Logging With A 350 Chevy”

The words you need to pay attention to in this video are, “Hold on, let’s let Zack…” because while the guy doesn’t complete the sentence, we’re virtually certain...