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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Ram Trucks Will Remain Steel Through 2020. Will This Help Or Hurt Them?

The truck wars are just as nasty as the power wars for the manufacturers right now. Either you can out-tow the other or you can be the most economical, either way you can win. Ford produced their...

Gauntlet Thrown: This 1938 Ford Bus Destroys Anything That McTaggart Suggested For A BS Mobile Command

  The other day McTaggart thought he’s be cute and take pot shots at my suggestion that we use a beat up 1960 Lloyd van as the new BS mobile command center. He then made some generalized...

Someone Actually Built A Hot Rod Manure Spreader – Fling Cow Dung As You Have Never Flung Before

When Tammy Thomas sent us a link to look at a 1949 Oliver manure spreader hot rod, we were a little leery to click it. Something like that sounded like a total spam situation and we didn’t want...

Foam Party! Just Don’t Mind The Helicopters On The Floor…

When there is something leaking from the hangar bay doors where your multi-million aircraft are stored, it’s always a bad thing. Always. In the case of the Oklahoma National Guard, their bad...

More Mini-Mod Wreckage – Watch This Tractor Get Plowed Over By The Sled It Is Pulling

Yesterday we showed you a video of a mini-rod tractor getting out of shape and the sled kind of taking over the action and steam rolling the poor machine (along with the driver in it) so that...

This 1960 Lloyd LT600 Would Be A Perfect Mini-BS Command Center – 19hp Of Factory Fury That You Can Own

There’s few things that give us as much joy as discovering some sort of weirdo vehicle that we never knew existed before. Such was the case when we found this really weird and really, really...

Bottom Dollar Blazer: Episode 8 – Rolling on the Rustoleum

  Hey, kids, it’s been a while since I’ve provided an update, but the Blazer project is coming along nicely. Using the techniques I picked up from Hot Rod, from the...

Toyota Releases Brand New Land Cruiser 70…Only In Japan. Who Knew Toyota Was Into Trolling Off-Road Enthusiasts?

We never got the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series in the United States, and it’s a damn shame. Instead we got the Land Cruiser 60 series, which for all intents and purposes, was squarely aimed at...

eBay Find: This 1964 GMC Suburban Is A BangShift Approved Diesel Powered Family Truckster

Does your wife think that you need a new vehicle to haul the kids and stuff around in? Getting some static that the current family truckster isn’t cutting it? Allow us to introduce you to the...

Aftermath: How They Cleaned Up The Blown Centless Pulling Tractor Disaster After It Puked Four Engines

We’ve covered virtually every angle of the Blown Centless pulling tractor nuclear-level disaster at the NTPA National Championship pulls in Bowling Green, Ohio…aside from one. That would...

Doing It Right Or Doing It Very Wrong? This 1964 Mercury Park Lane Camper Is For Sale

I was out of town with my family for the last few days and we got home really late last night. I was pretty sure that my exhausted state was causing my eyes to malfunction, sending images of a 1964...

This 1964 International Harvester Travelall Ambulance Is A Classic Meat Wagon That You Can Own

Consider this a new one on us. We’ve seen ambulances made out of Buicks, Cadillacs, Fords, and other large vehicles but we had never seen one made from an International Travelall before today....

Cheap Truck Challenge Video: Beater Trucks Go Head-To-Head Off Road For Fun

Every year, Fred Williams gathers up a group of his pals and challenges them to buy and modify a clapped out truck for the purposes of competing in a “competition” of sorts out in the...

You Could Have A Unimog, But Wouldn’t You Really Rather Have A 6×6 Power Wagon?

Anyone who has read BangShift knows that Lohnes does a transformation whenever he sees a big truck that has all of the speed of a farm tractor: His eyes go as wide as a Disney princess’s, he...