Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
BC Video: The 1982 Toyota Cressida Shows Us Life Before The Camry – It Was Another Hit For Toyota
When the “foreign invasion” of cars really kicked off in earnest, we all know what Detroit did. They ignored it. Eventually they simply gave up the ground of economy and compact cars...
Boosts Of Burden: This Video Profiles 10 Of The Coolest, Weirdest, and Most Interesting Boosted Race Engines Ever
This is an interesting collection of boosted engines. Before you drag racers out there get your dander up about not seeing a fuel engine in this collection, just know it’s mostly road racing...
Goofy Fun: Check Out The Destruction Of The Easy Evans Used Car Lot At The Houston Astrodome
Sometimes it’s about having fun, right? When you flip on the tube or click on a YouTube link, you want to be entertained. This is one of the best examples of the magic of Brock Yates and Steve...
American Bad Ass: This Video About The Life and Career Of Curtis Turner Is Fantastic
When we talk about NASCAR history, the name Curtis Turner looms large. One of the first true superstars of the sport, Turner was fast and loose in all aspects of his life. He made and lost millions....
Incredible Skills: See Allen Millyard Build A V8 Engine From Two Kawasaki Four Bangers – The Z1 1600 V8 Is Astonishing
England’s Allen Millyard may not be a household name in America at the moment but we’re telling you that by the end of the year, basically everyone in the gearhead world will totally know...
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...
It Could Be You: This 1949 Chevrolet Film Explained The National Car Shortage And How They Were Fixing It
This is a pretty amazing thing to watch and something that seems incomprehensible to put into the modern context. As we have talked about before, by the late 1940s car companies were in a really bad...
Incredible Video: The Construction Of Camp Century – The US Army’s Secret Nuclear Powered Based Located Entirely Under Snow And Ice In Greenland During the 1950s-1960s
Allow us to show you one of the coolest and most amazing things you will ever see and something you probably never knew about. We’re not going conspiracy theory here, we’re not going...
Multi-Engine Throwdown: This 1989 TNT Series Pulling Broadcast Is A Legit War Between Legendary Pulling Families
There’s something about a vintage pulling broadcast that gets me ever time. Maybe the fact that I work with Army Armstrong’s son week in and week out with NHRA, the fact that the...
Influence and Impact E1 – C-10 Truck History 1960-1966, Did Dino n Delmo Save the Truck Industry?
This new series from the guys at Auto Revolution is pretty darn cool! If you ever wondered about the history of the C10 truck, and how the builders you know and love got to be who they are, and how...
Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!
Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...
Mind Blown: There Were Helicopter Airlines In The 1960s And They Were Going To Be The Future (They Weren’t)
This is the type of stuff we truly love to find. When you run into something that happened or some weird trend that was being pushed as the future which died out and you never knew it existed, the...
Lap Le Mans In A Porsche 936 Circa 1977 – Watch This 200+ Mph Monster Swallow Carreras Like Skittles
One of my top “must do” motorsport items is to attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race is unequivocally historic, it is fast as hell, it is one of the great traditions in racing and it...
