Week One Highlights From The DAKAR Classic Class: Pre-2000 Only Rally Racers Conquering DAKAR
If you aren’t familiar with the Dakar Classic, you are not alone. It was added to bring back pre-2000 race cars, trucks, and more to compete at Dakar just like the old days. In truth, some of...
Weird, Cool, Or Both? WORLD’s TOUGHEST LAWN MOWER RACE – King of the Trimmers 2021
Anyone who has been around here for long knows that I love off-road racing and that King of the Hammers in California is one of our favorite races of the year. There are a lot of King Of events that...
Which Rust Converter Actually Works, And Works Well? Full Rust Converter Testing
I’ve just started a steel project and am using a combination of new and older materials. While all my steel is unused, some of it has been stored outside and has some surface rust that will...
Best Of 2021: Tuff Truck Carnage At A Whole Other Level. SEND IT!!!
Tuff Truck racing is an absolute riot to watch because, in many cases, it is the perfect storm of a track meant to destroy trucks, POS trucks put together with duct tape and baling wire, and folks...
Engineering Marvel, And Example Of Just How Awesome Physics Really Is: The Falkirk Wheel, A Marvel In Boat Moving
Locks are an amazingly simple and yet impressive method for moving boats up and down when a river’s path experiences elevation changes that are too severe for boats to travel, or where...
Dakar 2022: Stage 5 And 6 Highlights From The Most Demanding Rally On Earth!
Stage 5 and 6 aren’t giving any of the competitors at Dakar a break, and you’ll see what we’re talking about in the latest two highlight videos! Dakar 2022 is on and man is it...
Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Workshop Hardware Storage Solution. Easy To Access Nut And Bolt Storage.
As I’m designing and building the mezzanine for our new shop, I’ve been thinking about how I want to store hardware. I have some of those nice drawers now, but they hold approximately...
Grippo’s Best Of 2021: Joe Grippo Gives Us His Year In Review After Sharing Great Photos In 2021
As you read this, Joe Grippo is at a show shooting photos for us this weekend. He’s been doing this for us here at BANGshift for 10 years and that makes him part of an elite group of guys and...
Will It Run After 35 Years | RARE 1965 Datsun 320 | First Start For Abandoned Mini Truck | RESTORED
Will it run?! These will it run videos are some of the hottest things going now and while some of them make me laugh I do like the fact that folks are trying to make things run without always having...
Iron Trap Garage: This 1939 Ford Has Lived In A Wrecking Yard For 60 Years! Watch It Come Back To Life
If you are like me then every time you walk through the wrecking yard you are seeing cars or trucks that you think would be cool to bring back to life. In this case the 1939 Ford here was last on the...
Tape Measures Suck: Since We Need Them, Whose Is Best? Tape Measure Shootout
I don’t know why, but I have a love hate relationship with tape measures. I seem to have some that I love and then most that I hate, but I can never seem to find the same model as the ones I...
FJ45 Rock Crawler Project Update: Oops… Making Cool Parts And Then Having To Fix Them.
Anyone who has built a car, truck, motorcycle, or whatever has at some point or another built a part for their ride only to find that their perfectly designed part had a flaw that kept the next part...
Gearhead Book Corner: Hemi Under Glass by Mark Fletcher and Richard Truesdell
There’s not much better during the cold winter months than settling up with a good book and letting your eyes do the walking. In this case, I recently rip-sawed my way though the new book Hemi...
