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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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Heavy D Tears Up His New HET Wrecker On This Insane Recovery In The Great Salt Lake

If you’ve never been to the Great Salt Lake, the namesake of Salt Lake City Utah, or any of the surrounding salt flats like Bonneville, you can’t fathom just how foreign the landscape is...

March Meet Photos From Famoso: Funny Cars, Funny Cars, Funny Cars! Our March Meet Photos Start Here!

(Photos by Wes Allison) The 2022 March Meet is in the books and boy was it rad! Okay, so it started out a bit moist, but it turned out okay with bitchin hot rods, race cars, and more on the property...

Casey Buys A Car He’s Never Seen: I GOT A BIG SURPRISE FROM A CAR I BOUGHT WITHOUT SEEING IT FIRST! SIGHT UNSEEN RAT ROD! NEXT BUILD?

Have you ever bought a car without actually looking at it? I don’t mean online with just pictures, I mean have you ever bought a car that you have never even seen a photo of? I think I could do...

Tony Stewart’s Indiana Ranch Is For Sale: $30,000,000 Log Home On 415 Acres Is Insane. Check It Out!

When Scott Payton from Ridetech sent me the listing for Tony Stewart’s 415 acre ranch in Indiana last week I meant to post it up right away and forgot until yesterday. This place is insane,...

FREE Livestream: 2022 NHRA Division 2 “Baby Gators” – Sunday

The Baby Gators are LIVE right here. NHRA Sportsman drag racing at its finest. The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series is full of great classes that we love watching like Top Alcohol Funny Car and Dragster,...

Complete Guide To Painting Your Own Car Part 1 – Disassembly: How Much Do You Really Have To Take Apart?

Anyone who has owned a car or truck with crap paint has felt the pain of knowing just how much it costs to have a car painted and not being able to spend it. At that point the ideas of painting it...

This Squarebody Swapped Sherman Tank Project Keeps Knocking Down Trees And Then Needs Some Work

Tracked vehicles are cool, and tanks are the ultimate tracked vehicle. Unfortunately, or should I say fortunately,  it isn’t the kind of vehicle that everyone has access to. But if you like...

NHRA Revises Roll Cage Rules: Huge News For Fast Street Cars

NHRA recently revised their late model ET and MPH rules so that the current crop of fast from the factory hot rods can still be NHRA legal on the race track and also leave some room for performance...

Iron Trap Shop Truck Build Part 3: A Few Bits Of Metal Work And This Thing Is Almost Ready to Start Bolting The Body Together!

Here is the third installment of the shop truck build, and as rough as this thing looks the sheet metal work needed is really pretty minor. In this video you’ll see a couple panels get made,...

Punching Louvers In An Aluminum Hood! Louvers Rule, And Technically You Can Do Them Yourself!

In this video from This Old Hotrod you’ll see what really goes into louvering a panel. In this case it is an aluminum hood, but the process is the same regardless of what you are building. I...

FIRE!!!! How To Build Flame Thrower Exhaust!!! (Stand Alone Ignition System)

I’ve never owned a vehicle with flame throwers, and never really cared to, but they sure are fun to watch! The principle behind them is actually pretty simple, but the ways they have been done...

More Pinstriping Inspiration: Practice Pinstriping Panels With HotRod Jen

We’ve featured some of Hot Rod Jen’s work here on BANGshift lately and appreciate her cool videos that show how to pinstripe, her work flow, and her process for practicing and perfecting designs....

Pro Touring Triumph GT6 Build: This Sucker Is Going To Be LS Swapped Greatness

So this project here has been going on for several years, and we kind of dig it, mostly because it is going from restomod to pro-touring machine and we dig the direction. To bring everyone up to...

Fox Body Mustang Hydraulic Clutch Swap: Get Rid Of The Cable Clutch With The New Hydramax System

This new Hydramax kit from American Powertrain is a huge upgrade for all you Fox Body Mustang owners out there who have a stick shift car, or who want to convert your automatic car to a stick shift....