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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eBay Find: This 1979 International Scout Stagecoach Was Used To Marry Burt Reynolds And Loni Anderson

Hollywood history, dashing looks, solid underpinnings, no rust, a nice interior, and even an opportunity for profit? Have we made the ultimate eBay find? You bet your boots that we have in the form...

The SCORE San Felipe 250 Is Coming To CBS! We’ve Got The Teaser Video

1000 horsepower trucks hauling ass across the desert is bitchin. Throw in everything else from stock VW Beetles to classic trucks and buggies, and you’ve got SCORE desert off road racing that...

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Craigslist Find: This 1965 Ford F600 Wrecker Got Me In Big Trouble At Home

I have to both thank and admonish BangShift Chris Cabe for sending me the tip on this sweet, sweet 1965 Ford F600 wrecker that is currently for sale in Iowa. A well established fact around here is...

This Video Feature Detailing A 1929 Mack AK Chain Drive Truck Rules – See It Cruise And Learn The History Behind It

Chad may break my chops over loving old trucks so much but I’m certainly not the only one out there who has an unnatural level of affection towards the lumbering machines that helped build our...

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Diesel – BangShift Review

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Last week, I had an epic road trip with Lohnes and Nutting to visit Trick Flow and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering. It was my first time on the road with these...

This Trailer For The Upcoming 2014 King Of The Hammers Movie “Element Of Survival” Is Amazing

Sometimes even we get surprised by stuff despite the fact that we largely live our lives trolling the internet for cool content to show you. There are times when we click a link or play a video and...

Gallery: The 2014 Air Combat Command Heritage Flight Training Conference – Warbirds Up Close!

(Photos by Joe Haber) – BangShifter Joe Haber serves in the United States Air Force as a Unit Deployment Manager and he is stationed at the Davis-Monthan base in Arizona. Luckily for us, Haber...

eBay Find: The Nicest 1951 Jeep CJ-3A In The World (That We Know Of)

Oh baby is this thing a show stopper. When you think of a flat fender Jeep, the image you probably have is of an old Army Jeep or maybe one modified to mud bog, scale rocks, or otherwise dominate the...

Painfully Stupid Video: Watch An Amazing Towing Failure From (We Think) Russia

Cue the music and bring in the clowns because this video is as close to a circus as anything you’ll see today. We think it was filmed in Russia but perhaps we are wrong and if we are, by all...

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series – Crazy Photos And Full Results From Wild Horse Pass!

(Photos credit: Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series) – The second race of the early Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series season was held at Wild Horse Pass Raceway in Arizona last weekend and we have...

BOOM VIDEO: Watch This Very Fast Pickup Literally Launch Its Driveshaft – No Loop Here!

There are certain rules that lots of racers like to scoff at. Replacing belts every couple years is one of many that annoy people and make them believe that there’s some sort of conspiracy out...

This 1967 Ford Truck Commercial, Featuring A Pickup Playing Football Is Campy And Cool

Today’s ads for pickup trucks are designed to make everyone that owns one feel like a bad ass or a cowboy or the most manly dude in the ‘burbs. Back in the 1960s that wasn’t really...

Size Matters II – Mike Ryan’s sophomore effort makes Size Matters I that much better

This is not to take anything away from the super-sized effort in the driving in Size Matters II — the followup to the bitchin’, tire-smoldering video from 2011 — but there’s a...

Bitchin’ Van? This Mr. Norm’s Custom Van Is 1970s Awesome And All Original

Grand Spaulding Dodge in Michigan, better known as Mr Norm’s in the hot rodding world, gained fame for their muscle car programs and tuning ability in the 1960s and early 1970s. When the EPA...