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...
Oil Pan Build: Watch The Neat Transmission For a 1965 Mini Cooper Go Back Together
Learning stuff, whether in person or remotely is pretty awesome. For us, this video fit that bill perfectly because having never climbed under a classic Mini, we had no idea that the transmission was...
Hitch In The Giddy-Up: Mustang Sales Slump In 2021 and Challenger Takes Top Sports Car Sales Spot!
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Mustang has had some pretty rough years. There was the cool but heavy 1971-1973 ‘Stang, the downright gutless Mustang II, and more recently the 2005-2010 model...
This Bitchin Old Pratt And Whitney 10 Inch Engine Lathe Would Be A Great Addition To Anyone’s Shop
I don’t own a lathe, but I sure would love to have one. That and a mill would be awesome. Of course, when I think of a lathe I’d like to have I never thought about one this old. This is a...
2021 Holley Ford Festival: This Coyote-Swapped 1970 Ford Maverick Is Sexy And Cool
Okay, maybe sexy and cool aren’t the words normally used to describe a Ford Maverick, and we’re talking about the real one here, not the new truck thing they blasphemed the name with. As...
For Sale: Cheap Corvette Project For Sale! This C3 Corvette Is Cheap At $500!
If you are looking for a Corvette to restore, this is probably not the one for you, but if you want a Corvette you can build into a badass Pro Touring or track day ride then this might just be it. It...
DO INTERCOOLERS ADD POWER? JUNKYARD SUPERCHARGED 3800 L67 V6 INTERCOOLER TEST. ZZP AIR-TO-WATER TEST
Intercoolers are a common performance upgrade on boosted applications nowadays, with their installation on turbocharged and centrifugal supercharged combos pretty much the norm. And with factory...
Electrical Tech: How To Wire Up Your Kill Switch The Right Way – Alternator And Battery Wiring
One of the most common tech failures we see at race tracks is an improperly wired battery cutoff switch. We see it all the time, and most of the time the person whose car is failing has no idea why...
Metal Shaping: Harbor Freight & Klutch Brand English Wheel Comparison, Affordable English Wheel Shootout
If you are like me, you would love to have a giant old English Wheel in your shop. They look cool, work awesome when you know how to use them, and when you need one there is nothing better to use....
