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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Can A Beater, $500 Ford Explorer Be A Fun Toy? Check Out This Dirt-Cheap Drift Build!

This time last year I was convincing my wife that buying a $400 rollover wreck of a 1998 Ford Explorer really was a good idea. If she’d just tolerate being cold, riding along in a truck towing...

Funny Racing Fails! Check Out This Collection Of Some Of The More Laugh-Worthy Moments From 2017!

Sometimes, all you can do is find the humor in a situation, no matter how messed up it may be. Did I slip and fall on some ice? The pratfall is one of the oldest and easiest laughs in the book. Did...

It’s Better This Way: Watch As This Chrysler LeBaron Droptop Gets Buried For Being A POS!

Yes, the Chrysler K-car was the right car at the right time for a company that had just very narrowly escaped the jaws of death. Yes, most were simple, frugal little commuter cars that moved forwards...

Winter Weather Have You Stuck? Sit Back And Watch Some SLMRA Lawnmower Ice Racing!

As I type this, I’m looking out the window of the office and I’m watching Mother Nature coat everything around BangShift Mid-West in a fine mist that is going to freeze up and make all...

Best of BS 2017: Man Vs. Wild: Stump Removal Done Right And Wrong!

Mow around it all you want, ignore it as long as you can…sooner or later, the ugly stump of what was once a tree in your yard is going to have to be extracted sooner or later, and it’s...

Best Of BS 2017: These British Tank Mechanics Found Five Bullion Bars In The Fuel Tank Of …Well, A Tank!

Here’s a strange question: what do you do with a tank that you got in trade? Very few of us will even come close to needing to know, but a group of tank freaks in Britain will be recommending a...

Insert “Do Not Try This At Home” Clause Here: Airbag, Meet Donut Spare!

Look…we all know that there is plenty of stupid ideas out there that can get you hurt or worse. We also know that a lot of those ideas tend to be some of the most enjoyable things out there....

A Brit In Baja: Watch As Carfection Gets A Trial Run At Baja – Just A Taste Of The Off-Road Masterpiece!

The British and Mexico haven’t had the best of relationships. There have been trade disagreements, expropriation of properties, and of course that one time that Richard Hammond from TopGear...

When Changing The Engine In Your Odyssey, Keep Your Honda All Honda! (Don’t Mind The Pull-Starter…)

I’m not the most adherent to the idea of brand loyalty here. In some cases, it makes sense…you aren’t going to stick a Ford 351 into a Plymouth ‘Cuda and you aren’t...

Hitting The Trails Of Nova Scotia With A Murray Lawn Mower Prepped For The Rough Stuff

As a kid, I envied any friend of mine whose parents owned a riding mower. It seemed like the perfect trade-off: I get to learn how to control a motorized, four-wheeled device and be helpful around...

Hot Wheels Dream Race: A-Team vs Mystery Machine vs Night Rider vs Back to the Future vs Ghost Busters

As a kid the hot wheels racetracks were some of my favorite things to play with. I didn’t have a ton of track, but when the loops and jumps and all that came out I had enough to make sure it...

Watch The Rollcage For Roll Golf 2.0 Go Together. This Is How You Flip A Car The Right Way

If you don’t know what Roll Golf is then you need to watch this video, and then watch the others on YouTube, because Roll Golf is a riot. After all, who doesn’t want to flip a car, over...

Halloween TIG Welding Fun! A Pumpkin Gets TIG Welded!

We’ve shown you plenty of TIG welding videos where the welder is putting beautiful beads on practice pieces, intake manifolds, elbows, exhaust, roll cages, and everything in between, but this...

The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!

There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...