Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, ENGINE, ENGINES, Hack of the Week, Metal Fabrication, OTHER, Project Cars, RACING & ACTION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
5-Day Burnout Car Build: Kevin And The Gang From KSR Build A Burnout Car For This Weekend, In Just 5 Days!
Well, they are trying anyway! We’re going to share the videos with you this weekend as these guys decide to build a burnout car for Cleetus and Cars in Bristol at the last minute. This is going...
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Front Subframe Reinforcements And Other Custom Race Car Mods
This little Mini, no pun intended, is getting closer and closer to being a race car. The factory subframe and mounts are not strong enough or stiff enough to do the job under racing conditions, so in...
New Inventory In The Yard, Plus Old Cars In The New Wrecking Yard! Model A’s, A Chevy, A Ford, And An International IHC Travel-All!!
We’ve got a new video showing new inventory in the yard, plus a bonus video from the old yard next door! Chad is back from Nobody Else’s Auto, the ultra bad ass vintage car parts wrecking...
Building A Land Speed Race Car Part 6: Building A Custom Intake From Scratch
In this latest episode, Matt is designing and building a custom intake manifold, fuel rails, and more for his streamliner. It’s got to work with weird airflow, it has to work with high...
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Building A New Rear Subframe Mount Plus A Bonus Video!
Now that the cage and everything inside the Mini is where it is supposed to be, it is time to make sure the rear subframe will also be up to the task of holding on around corners. The factory...
Is A Classic Fiat 500 The Perfect In Town Car For An Electric Conversion?
There are a lot of little European cars from the 1950s through 1970s, and even into the 1980s that are super small and featured engines that made WAY less than 100 horsepower. So while they are cool,...
Fab Rats Barn Find Road Trip: 1000 Miles From Home! Will This 55 Year Old Barn Find Drive That Far?
The Fab Rats crew was going to pick up a truck that they were going to finish up for a family who had recently lost the builder. What they ended up finding is a surprise the wife of the fabricator...
Accidental Barn Find Of The Century? The Fab Rats Find Something Special While Picking Up Another Rig
There have been plenty of times that I’ve gone to look at a car or truck for sale only to end up finding something else cool that I’d love to have as well. Of course, I’m not...
Sheet Metal Fab How To: Simple Tools And Techniques Can Help You Recreate Some Pretty Complicated Body Panels
Replacing a piece of a rocker, lower fender, cab corner, or floor pan is pretty standard when you are talking about building old cars, but what about the other stuff that’s more complicated?...
Reader’s Project: This 1975 Jeep CJ5 Is All Hot Rod, And We Totally Approve!
When Kim Welch sent us some photos and history on his cool CJ5 build, we knew he was our people. As a regular visitor to BANGshift.com he knew that we love to take content submissions so he sent us...
Project Binky Update: lt’s Back And It’s Badass, But Has Had To Have Some Tweaks
Despite being the most well thought out car build I’ve ever seen online, and also being finished to a much more show car level than anyone ever expected at the beginning of this whole project....
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Urchfab’s Mini Project Is Getting A Tight Fitting Roll Cage!
Urchfab has built some fun and cool cars for both the street and the track, with our favorite being the Mongrel which is an old British Ford 100 on a Miata body. But that car is really nice and is...
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Urchfab Is Building A Mini For The Track And The Welding Starts Here
Urchfab has built some fun and cool cars for both the street and the track, with our favorite being the Mongrel which is an old British Ford 100 on a Miata body. But that car is really nice and is...
