Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
VIDEO: Prepare to be obsessed with Dave Roper, the first American to win at the Isle of Man TT
Oct 09, 2020Craig Fitzgerald1
Dave Roper is a motorcycle racer. Not one of those slick, Italian Valentino Rossi-types, surrounded by a bevy of umbrella-wielding hot chicks with a massive transporter to carry this 200-pound GP...
Cool Suspension Video: Ride UNDER A 1988 Thunderbird As It Attacks The Autocross
Oct 09, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Suspension Video: Ride UNDER A 1988 Thunderbird As It Attacks The Autocross
We have not run a good “under car” suspension video for a while now and frankly, we’re sorry. The goal is to make up for lost time with this one, though. We’ll be riding under...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Our Final Gallery From The Blue Oval Troupe
Oct 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Our Final Gallery From The Blue Oval Troupe
The leaves are tinging, and soon they will be falling. The morning dew on the windshield is starting to frost up. Normally, this time of year is where the racing and the car shows end and we settle...
Mad Mike Whiddett And His 4-Rotor Mazda Wants To Rip Your Face Off – Listen To The Racket This Thing Makes
Oct 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1
We have featured Mad Mike Whiddett’s antics here on BangShift before. The Aussie drifter has had a string of pretty angry rotary powered Mazdas and the car he brought to Goodwood in 2018 was no...
In 1950s Germany They Towed Skiers Behind Porsches At 100mph For Fun (Video)
Oct 08, 2020Brian Lohnes1
More than 60 years ago in Germany thrill seekers were hauling ass around road courses carved into snow with skiers hooked to the bumpers for bragging rights. We’re not talking about idling...
Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
If you have never treated yourself to the sound, speed, and fury of Supermodified racing on a circle track, you’re doing it wrong. These are the most beastly short track race cars in the world...
Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days
2016 was the year of the Ford GT and the Ford GT40 as the company and the motorsports world remembered and celebrated one of the great racing feats of all time in Ford’s conquering of Ferrari...
Someone’s Fired Video: Watch This Rally Car Plummet From A Cradle As It Is Being Lifted By A Crane
Oct 07, 2020Brian Lohnes4
Right now, somewhere across the globe, stuff is being loaded into a building. That stuff may be pushed in, driven in, or even craned in. We’re guessing it is if it is being craned in, the guys...
Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie
Oct 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie
YouTube and the days of everyone recording everything are a recent trend. There is a reason that you do not see a ton of “behind the scenes” footage of racing before at least the...
The Upcoming Tesla Model S Plaid Is A Maniac Sedan With 1,080hp and More Torque
Oct 06, 2020Brian Lohnes7
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want the quickest current production car with the most boring name on a current production car? Well, Tesla has you covered with the Model S Plaid. With a claimed...
Hot Parts: Mark Williams Enterprises upgrade for the C4 Corvette Rear Wheel Hub Shaft Solves The Problems Of Breakage
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Hot Parts: Mark Williams Enterprises upgrade for the C4 Corvette Rear Wheel Hub Shaft Solves The Problems Of Breakage
The C4 Corvette is one of the hottest platforms in hot rodding these days. Why? The cars can be had cheaply, there’s loads of hot parts available for the chassis, engine swaps are becoming more...
Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
The four-speed manual transmission transformed the mighty cars go the early 1960s from slip sliding automatic equipped beasts to the straight line missiles that we all still admire and love. They...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: The Weather Smiled Upon Us All
Oct 06, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Since I’m based about fifteen miles from Beech Bend, I’ll lay claim to being the most knowledgable over what the weather is like in western Kentucky during certain parts of the year. From...
Morning Symphony: Monza Historic 2020 – The Choir Of The Legendary
Oct 05, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: Monza Historic 2020 – The Choir Of The Legendary
If you are one of the few car freaks left in the world that has not seen Ford vs. Ferrari, then do yourself a favor. Watch it. Watch it as a movie, watch it as a rough reality of what took place...