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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IMPACT FACE OFF: The Worlds Largest Cordless Impact vs jOne Bad Ass Air Impact Wrench. All The Torques!

Cordless tools have come so far, but air has still been able to reign supreme when it comes to power and speed, but it will cost you. Don’t get me wrong, good tools can be had for a lot cheaper...

Featured Product: KBS Coatings Xtreme Temperature Coating Exhaust Paint. A DIY Coating That Actually Works!

There is no doubt that stainless or ceramic coated headers are awesome, but cheap they ain’t. And we’ve all got headers on one of our hot rods that fit good and work great, but look like...

Saving A Real Truck From The Scrap Pile! Will It Run?!? Squarebody Revival – 1975 Chevrolet C20 Scottsdale Destined for the Scrap!

You gotta love a scrap yard that doesn’t want to crush a car or truck they think might be worth saving, and especially when that scrap yard knows someone like Mortske who will in fact save it....

John Jackson From Not Stock Photography Is Cruising New Braunfels with Cruzers Customs – Shop Tour and C10 Photoshoot

If you have never been around a professional photo shoot, it probably doesn’t go the way most people think. There is a lot of shuffling cars, a lot of waiting, a lot of clicking. One of the...

Mighty Car Mods Shows Us How They Would Build the ULTIMATE CAR TRAILER. See If They Have Done It Right!

People that don’t use trailers very often often times take years to figure out what they do and don’t like in a trailer. And quite frankly, trailer manufacturers count on that. They add...

The NEW Gen2 FLEX 1/2″ High Torque vs Milwaukee’s 2967 Gen 3 M18 1/2″ Impact: Largest Upgrade Yet, But Who Reigns Supreme?

The Torque Test Channel is back at it, with another tool test. This one is a cordless impact gun test that is pitting two high torque monsters against each other. The first is the Milwaukee 2967 Gen...

Chugga Chugga Tug Of Wars: These Videos Of Steam Tractors Applying Their Grunt Are Awesome

What’s heavy, slow, and makes a chuffing noise when worked hard? No, not me you jerks! I am talking about steam tractors. I went around and assembled a bunch of videos of these machines hooking...

Game Changer: This Look Back At The Game Changing 1989 Cummins Powered Dodge Ram Is Awesome

So much of automotive history is evolutionary that is can be difficult to place a pinpoint on when a certain trend or shift happened in the business. The argument about the “first muscle...

Dare To Be Different: Check Out This Caterpillar 3208 V8 Converted To Run On Methanol With A Massive Turbo!

When it comes to getting different with power plants there is not a motorsports on Earth that holds a candle to tractor pulling and that is doubly true in Europe where everything from radial engines...

Eight Tires And Two Stacks Make For A VERY, VERY Smokey Burnout – Watch This Western Star Smolder The Tires, Drift, and Spin Donuts

The name of the guy driving this very powerful Wester Star rig is Jacques Lafleur and as you’d probably guess, ol’ Jacques is one of the many French-Canadian hot rod big rig enthusiasts...

Build A Pretty Cool Welding Fixture Table At Home For About $100! It Is Cheap, And Doesn’t Require Any Specialty Tools!

I know, I know, it’s another welding fixture table. But this one is ultra cheap, portable, and easy to store! So you don’t need a bunch of room to store it, you can move it to wherever is...

Check Out Even More Of Our Long Lost Chicago Auto Show Photos From Earlier This Year! Jim Hrody Got The Goods!

Here’s our second gallery of Jim’s photos from the Chicago Auto Show. If you missed the previous gallery, use the link below to check them out too. (Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) After...

We Don’t Know Why But We Like It: This 7-Cylinder Briggs and Stratton Sounds Good!

Thank God for people who just do stuff to entertain themselves or at least do stuff to prove to themselves that they are capable of actually doing it. In this case we’re talking about someone...

Here’s Two Minutes Of Unimogs Doing The Kinds Of Things That Only Unimogs Can Do – Fun Stuff

Over the duration that BangShift has been around we’ve showed dozens, maybe hundreds of videos that highlight the incredible capabilities of the Mercedes Unimog. From their military uses to...