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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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Larry Chen Feature Video: This VW Frankenstein Lupo Drag Car From Hell Has TWO, YES TWO!!! VR6 Engines In It!

This thing is nuts! In the world of import drag racing, VW isn’t the first name you think of, but it might be the last because this is about one of the most insane race machines we’ve...

Check Out Even More Of Our Long Lost Chicago Auto Show Photos From Earlier This Year! Jim Hrody Got The Goods!

Here’s our second gallery of Jim’s photos from the Chicago Auto Show. If you missed the previous gallery, use the link below to check them out too. (Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) After...

Check Out This Great Video Of Test Running The 1980 Miss Budweiser Offshore Race Boat During The 2024 Apollo Columbia Cup!

Regardless of the era, Miss Budweiser has always been an impressive boat, and arguably one of the most famous off-shore race boats ever. So when I saw this video of the 1980 version of Miss...

We Don’t Know Why But We Like It: This 7-Cylinder Briggs and Stratton Sounds Good!

Thank God for people who just do stuff to entertain themselves or at least do stuff to prove to themselves that they are capable of actually doing it. In this case we’re talking about someone...

A Study In Balance: The 1998 Kenny Brown 289 RS Mustang Coba Wasn’t Cheap But It Sure Was Good

There’s the old adage that you can have cheap or you can have good, but you cannot have both. That’s been true forever with cars (for the most part) and this video from 1998 shows that...

Here’s Two Minutes Of Unimogs Doing The Kinds Of Things That Only Unimogs Can Do – Fun Stuff

Over the duration that BangShift has been around we’ve showed dozens, maybe hundreds of videos that highlight the incredible capabilities of the Mercedes Unimog. From their military uses to...

Check Out This Awesome Old 4×4 GMC Army Truck In Brazil – Diesel Power And Big Capability

In the never-ending quest to prove that gearheads are pretty much the same in every corner of the world, we have found a group of guys who restore and beat on vintage military trucks in Brazil. These...

1969 Road Runner Walkaround with Steve Magnante: Another One Of Plymouth’s Coolest Muscle Cars Could Be Yours

As many of you know, our friend Steve Magnante nearly died from a brain infection he got last year, but has been making big improvements over the past few months. We would have loved seeing Steve...

Broader Performance Shows Us How To Check An Automatic Transmission Dip Stick For Accuracy. You’d Be Surprised How Off They Can Be!

Most of you have probably never found your engine or transmission dipstick to be off, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t. When you mix aftermarket dipsticks, tubes, and oil or transmission...

Tri Five Nationals 2024 Video: Drag Racing Action That Features Everything From Nostalgia Super Stocks To Swoopie Pro Mods.

The Tri-Five Nationals, at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green Kentucky, is a huge show and race that has been going on for many years. I was planning to go this year, but had a race that popped...

Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: The 1971 GMC Cabover Ramp Truck Is Getting Torn Down For A Weekend Thrash And Welding!

It’s time for even more welding, but this time it’s on the bed and chassis of this beast. This bad boy is being treated to an awesome weekend thrash with friends, all of whom are jumping in to...

Do The Jeep Brand Proud, And Improve Your Jeep Wrangler JL or Gladiator JT’s Off-Road Performance With ADS Direct Fit Shocks.

Jeeps have been capable off-road machines since their inception and that prowess has led to a reputation in the off-road world that is second to none. And with an insane following, aftermarket...

American Powertrain Wednesday Shift: Pulling Twin Sticks In A V8 Powered 1980 Kenworth

The automatic transmission has started making inroads in the trucking industry and there’s likely two fold reasoning for that. The first is that the technology has gotten better and the second...

Beast Mode: Watch This 1,900lb Mercedes 190 Packing A 10,000 RPM Judd V8 Go HillClimbing For Fun!

If you had asked us who Reto Meisel was an hour ago we’d not have had an answer. Now? Now we know that this guy is a total boss who has a 1,900lb, tube chassis Mercedes that uses a 10,000 RPM...