Category Archive: MISC, OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Pinstriping Inspiration: Design Ideas Practice With Hot Rod Jen
We’ve featured some of Hot Rod Jen’s work here on BANGshift lately and appreciate her cool videos that show how to pinstripe, her work flow, and her process for practicing and perfecting...
New Headlights & Bubble Skirts DRASTICALLY Improved Iron Trap’s 1939 Mercury “The Jersey Devil”
The 1939 Mercury project is really coming along now. It’s a proper car that runs and drives and looks awesome. I’m not a big fender skirts guy, but man it’s a slick looking ride. If...
How To Tune Up Your Body Hammers At Home. Must Have Hammer Adjustments!
Body hammers are super handy for a lot of work around the garage, not just fine-tuning bodywork. Any metal shaping and working can be done using one and will be smoother and cleaner than using...
Paint How To: Paint A Lace Roof On Your Ride For Cheap!
Casey’s Customs is building another budget build, this time a $3,500 budget Chevy rat rod style custom. It’s got a complete chassis swap, turbo charger add, and more. But this video here...
Cheap Z28 Project: F-Body Drift Car Build Part One – Dual Rear Calipers. Plus, Other Brake Upgrades!
It’s time for more progress on the Cheap Z28 Project. In the first video you saw a few upgrades and a sneak peak into what was going to happen to this thing and what its new life would be. Well...
Paint Tech: How To Build A Removable Paint Booth In Your Garage At Home!
Years ago the guys at Car Craft built a temporary spray booth in their garage at home so they could paint a car and I always loved the idea. If you have a big enough shop then there are several...
Shop Tech: Restoring A Vintage Vise AND Making A Killer Swiveling Wall Bracket For It.
I like old vises and anvils and such. Hell, any old tools are cool really. So when I saw that Matt from Urchfab was restoring a cool old vise for his shop I was immediately interested…and then...
Iron Trap’s 1939 Mercury Project: Dual Exhaust For The Jersey Devil Baby!
This ’39 Mercury has fought Matt and the gang every step of the way, but it finally got a new to it engine. After saving it from an old garage, where it had been all but forgotten for decades,...
Reviving A 1950 Ford That’s Been Sitting In A Quonset Hut For Years! Will It Run And Drive?
This family-owned truck has been left to sit for decades in a Quonset hut in Canada and is now getting its chance at life again. There is no restoration happening here, and no big money spend, just...
Pit Trike Build: Building A Custom Pit Trike To Take On Sick Week!
Having a pit vehicle at a race is a must-have nowadays. Sometimes that is the way you are required to get the car to and from the racetrack, but other times it is just so that you can get around...
How To Pinstripe: Pinstriping For Beginners With HotRod Jen!
A couple of days ago we featured a video from Hot Rod Jen that showed her striping and lettering the door on an old Chevy truck. It was cool to see all the techniques she used, so when we saw this...
Mopar Alternator Comparison: Stock vs Powermaster Original Look vs Powermaster 220amp Upgraded Alternator
When it comes to the charging system of your classic car, you have a few options. The first is to just hope and pray that the 50-year old alternator that’s on the engine continues to work even...
Hand Painted Hot Rod Truck Doors: Pinstriping, Lettering & Silver Leaf
Hand lettering and pinstriping is a true art and the folks that do it well are really fun to watch. I’ve got a few friends who are incredibly talented, and have been lucky enough to watch them...
