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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Burnout Monday: Start Your Day Off With A Drifting General Lee From Italy!

If you’ve seen even one episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, you’d believe that the only way to drive a 1969 Dodge Charger on Vector wheels was sideways on dirt. Well…that and the...

2015 BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Taylor And Doug Gregory’s Best Snaps

(Words by Doug Gregory – Photos by Taylor and Doug Gregory) – So 2015 is done and its time for a highlight reel from our busy year.  We attended at least 22 events for a total of 34...

How To Build Your Own Chassis Table With The Guys From Eastwood

With my son Cole’s Project First LUV in the grinding phase, we’re looking forward to the next phase after frame cleanup which is suspension design. Following that we’ll be doing our...

Birdman Defeats Kye Kelly For $15k In Texas Some No-Prep Wreckage Along The Way At Redemption 4.0 (Videos)

Lest you thought that there was no big money left to win in the no-prep world at this time of the year, the crew at Texas Raceway proved you wrong. The eighth-mile track in Kennedale, Texas had their...

Best Of 2015: Watch As Marc Marquez Ditches His MotoGP Bike For His Backup During Qualifying For The Grand Prix of the Americas Race In Texas

Og Mandino said, “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity”, and if you want a visual representation of the truth of his words, then you can thank Repsol Honda rider Marc...

Best Of 2015: Woman Claims This Tennessee Bus’s Taillight Is A Pentagram

(Editor’s Note: Anyone have any ideas as to what could possibly top this gem from 2015? -McTaggart) I’m simply going to state the facts of this particular case: Robyn Wilkins spotted...

This Is What A Top End Interview Should Look Like – John Force Raw, Intense, Semi-Threatening, And On The Chip

This isn’t goofy, this isn’t corny, this isn’t scripted. This is what top end interviews in drag racing should look like. Lots of you may not agree with me here because of some...

Best Of 2015: That’s Not A Tool, That’s A Brick: The Best Video Of Karma Paying Back A Car Prowler You’ll Ever See

(Editor’s Note: And the “Dumbass Of The Year” award goes to…this guy. -McTaggart) You have to be pretty low to find yourself using rocks to break into cars to steal...

Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!

Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...

Best Of 2015: Plowing Snow Like A Boss Using An Old Honda Three-Wheeler!

A fairly hidden fact is that before I got deep into cars I was deeper into bikes and trikes. I loved my dirt bikes, but without question the one ride that I adored above all others were early 1980s...

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Best of 2015: Man Had Thunderbird’s Turn Signal Stalk Surgically Removed 51 Years After The Wreck That Lodged It Into His Arm

Arthur Lampett’s 1963 Thunderbird suffered a catastrophic collision with a truck fifty-one years ago. Lampett survived the collision, the Ford did not. While his broken hip was the main focus...

Best of 2015: XJ Cherokee Versus A Swimming Pool: Which One Will Win?

Okay…we have a homemade ramp made mostly of old pallets. We have one well-used and abused Jeep Cherokee, and we have a backyard swimming pool. We also have a bunch of Canadians who are looking...

This 1976 Greenwood GT Corvette Was My Favorite Car At The Lingenfelter Collection (Seriously, It Was)

Call me names, throw rocks at me, judge me, but in front of God and everybody I’ll admit that this 1976 Greenwood GT Corvette was my favorite car out of all the incredible iron at the...

Best Of BS: Footage From The 2012 Pig N Ford Races In Tillamook, Oregon

I’ve seen rally cars take flight like a stone from a sling. I’ve seen drag cars go barrel-rolling down the strip after attempting to put the nose of the car into orbit. I’ve seen a...