The Latest Project From Urchfab Has Only Two Wheels. Can This One Be As Much Fun As A 4-Wheeled Monster?
I’ve been wanting to put together an old small to medium sized motorcycle for some time. Something like a Honday CB350 or CB550, would be fun as hell to cruise around town on, and I have...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: E-Scooters Are Dangerous? No…
Welcome to 2020! Another year of mayhem lies before us, but before we get to the fun of cars, fuel, racing, and wrenching, we have to get through the sloppy mess that is early January weather....
The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle
I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...
The Mongrel Project Is Getting Some Paint! Watch How To Paint The Engine Compartment, How Not To Paint A Cage, And Then How To Pain The Cage!
Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go right on a project car build. It’s just one of those things when you are talking about building something from scratch and with mostly one off and custom...
The Challenger Revival, Part 8: The Crispy Frame Rail And More Sheetmetal Rot Removal
Seeing that the floorboards had rotted out of the Dodge Challenger that Dylan McCool has been grinding on for a while now isn’t a shock. Not that Chrysler products aren’t known for...
Unhinged: Supporting Selfless Service And Saving A Dodge Truck
If you’ve seen any of the Summernats 33 coverage, you probably have a pretty solid idea on just how hellish Australia is right now. If not, here’s a basic layout: on the eastern side of...
4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.
The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...
Want To Become A Carburetor Guru? Learn From The Guys That Build Them! Holley Announces New Holley Carburetor 101 Classes
Everyone seems to have EFI the brain in recent years, and we understand and love them for it, but carburetors are still way more plentiful in the hot rod and racing world and we still get asked about...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Red Barchetta” by Rush (Live In Montreal, 1980)
Automobiles and music, they go oddly hand-in-hand with each other. Pick a car, understand the feeling that it gives you when you drive it, and the music will eventually line up to what you listen to,...
Roadtrippin: Exploring Our Favorite Closed Up Junkyard And Drooling Over A 1965 409 Impala SS
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Whenever our buddy Liggett has a free moment he’s either working on his hot rods or exploring something cool and historical and car related. He has more...
Best 1990s Sleeper Ever: The 1996 Volvo 850R Sportswagon – Prove Us Wrong
Yeah, 20 years on and I still want one of these things. I remember chewing up every car magazine that came to my house when I was 16 years old and every single one of them lost their mind over this...
Not Too Forward: 1958 Chrysler New Yorker – Almost Sedate For The Fifties
1958, in the automotive world, was the year where fins and chrome seemed to jump the shark. Every car suddenly sprouted four headlights. Buick sprouted a nightmare for those who hated polishing...
Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?
I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...
