How To Prep And Paint An Old Rusty Chassis: Sure It’s Some Work, But The Results Can Be Cool
We’ve all come across a project that has got a chassis we just don’t look forward to cleaning and repainting. Often we’ll decide that taking it to the powder coater to have it...
What Do You Consider Low Miles In A Classic Car? Or Low Mileage On Any Car For That Matter?
Last week I posted up a 1972 Camaro that had 88,879 miles showing on the odometer that had been purchased from the original owner, cleaned and prepped for sale, and was referred to as low mileage in...
Urchfab Makes Use Of Their Hand Built Control Arm Jig. These Are Some Pretty Cool Custom Parts You Can Build At Home
It is the common thread of the Urchfab project called the Mongrel, a Miata chassis with a bitchin old Ford 100E body slid over the top of it with some huge fender flares, a cage, and lots of other...
This Tilting And Extending Welding Table Is A Pretty Cool Home Built Project That We’d Love To Have In The Shop
If you are regular here on BANGshift then you know that welding is one of the things I like most. And that means that welding projects and helping you guys learn how to weld is something I love being...
This Gas Monkey Built 1976 C10 Was Totaled And Then Bought By A Guy At Auction And Now He’s Going To See If It Can Be Fixed!
It seems like Gas Monkey Garage builds seem to get beat on a bit more than the norm and sometimes they end up crashed. We’ve seen several of their builds that have been crashed by staff or new...
You Came In That Thing? This Star Wars-Themed 1979 Dodge Van Is The Ultimate Fan Ride!
Sadly, my mother loves to remind me about how my birthdate is connected to the Star Wars franchise. May 25th, 1977, the original movie came out and May 25th, 1983, Return of the Jedi came...
Video: Nine Minutes Of 1950s, 1960, and 1970s, Gasser Footage From Tracks All Over The Country – Absolutely Awesome!
As much as nostalgia funny cars totally exploded on the drag racing scene over the last 10 years or so, gassers have been proliferating at a pretty impressive rate that only seems to be picking up...
Broken Front Sheetmetal, Broken K-Frame, Broken Head…Nothing Stopped This Mustang At LS Fest X!
Perseverance. The ability to push through just about anything that comes your way with a positive, through hell and brimstone attitude, is the difference between the normal person and the winner....
Holley LS Fest X: In The Pit With The Tuning School/Hoonigan’s Burnout Challenge!
After a long day of show cars, drag racing, autocrossing and living up the intoxication that comes with a gathering of tens of thousands of gearheads who are all appreciating the show, we came to the...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Cranking Four Gears In A Really Hot VW Bug!
The subject of this week’s American Powertrain Parting Shift is a hot rodded VW Bug that runs in the high 10s in the quarter and sub seven seconds in the eighth mile. In this video we’ll...
Watch This Twin Engine Opel Calibra From Poland Rip Off 8-second Quarter Mile Times
There’s nothing like the spirit and creativity of hot rodding, especially when that spirit an creativity is to only applied to make a car look good but it is also applied to make a car run...
Rough Start: Turning A 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Into A Cheap Beast
For future notice, letting me know that you might be looking for a new project vehicle is probably the worst thing you can do. I will happily become the devil on your shoulder, complete with the...
Horsepower Video: Watch An Aussie Small Block Chevy Get Run Naturally Aspirated And Turbo Charged — BIG Power On The Pump!
We don’t understand things like “math” and “time zones” so we’re figuring that is it already like Wednesday morning or something in Australia as we write this,...
Watch The Rite Earthquake 750 Tractor Drag The Pulling Sled Like A Kids Toy
The Rite Tractor Company of Montana was founded by the Curtis brothers back in the 1950s as a tractor dealer primarily selling equipment under the Wagner brand. They went into the tractor...
