Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Classic YouTube: Pride of Pay ‘n Pak Versus Miss Budweiser On Lake Washington In 1974
Seattle is linked with hydroplane racing via the summertime Seafair festival events that take place over July and August. In addition to the Torchlight Parade and Torchlight Run, and the screaming of...
Something’s Afoot: This Ferrari F40 Looks The Part And Sounds Completely Wrong!
The Ferrari F40 is a supercar before it even turns a wheel in anger. It’s the last car that Enzo himself green-lit for production. It had roots that stretched back through the 288 GTO, itself a...
Flying Start Video: Ride Along In A 1974 IROC Porsche At Sebring – This Thing Dominates The Start!
The IROC (international race of champions) series had some incredibly long legs in the world of motorsports. While it is no longer contested, the series ran from the early 1970s right up until 2005....
Ride Shotgun In A Thundering Daytona Prototype At Sebring – Jim Pace In-Car Action Supreme
This killer in-car video with BangShift’s adopted road racing hero Jim Pace is great and you are going to love it. This footage is from the 2014 12-Hours of Sebring which is run as part of the...
Crown Vic Drifting: Project Neighbor Hangs The Tail Out Like A Boss
Ford fought tooth-and-nail to fight downsizing in the late 1970s. GM had shrunk the Impala and Caprice and walked away smelling like a rose. The race was on…who would be the next to shrink...
Ride With Mike Hawthorn As He Laps Le Mans In A D-Type Jag Circa 1956! With Commentary
This could be the single coolest video we have ever posted here at BangShift and we have posted literally thousands. Shot in 1956, this is 1955 Le Mans champion Mike Hawthorn, then a factory Jaguar...
Video: Ride With And Watch Mike Ryan Attack The 2013 Pikes Peak Hill Climb In A Freightliner – Insanity!
Mike Ryan and his brutal Freightliner truck are no strangers to the electronic pages of BangShift. We have showed this thing in videos, Chad has written about riding in it, and we’ve...
Build Update: The RideTech Sharon’s Chevelle Build Is Coming Along Nicely – Check Out This ’67!
If there are things that we can hold as ultimate truths in this life, they center around, taxes, weather, and the fact that RideTech literally will always have an awesome car in the build process....
From The Ashes: Ken Block Tries Out His New Escort Cosworth RS
Ken Block has a thing for Ford Escort Cosworth RS rally cars. That’s not difficult to see why…the Cosworth RS was a monster of a little machine, a Group A rally hero, and in street car...
Ride With Paul Dallenbach As He Roars Up Pikes Peak In A Nutso Open Wheel, V8 Powered Unlimited Entry
Many people know the name Wally Dallenbach from his years as a successful professional racing driver in a couple of disciplines. While his brother Paul may not be quite as familiar a name, he should...
This 1977 Dodge Aspen vs Chevy Nova Promotional Film Is A Sad Window Into Cars Of That Era
As much as we joke and shake our heads at the cars of the late 1970s, there’s still some real entertainment value in watching videos like this which manufacturers made to showcase their cars...
Awesome Video: This Big Wreck At The 1984 Talladega IROC Race Had Derek Bell Fuming!
Old school IROC racing was awesome. Sure, by the time the thing had petered out the series was a shell of its former self, but if you want to argue with the 1984 Talladega IROC race field you have...
The Mongrel Gets Paint Color And Rad New Wheels!
The Mongrel is getting close! So close in fact that colors are being chosen and wheels have been delivered! This little Ford 100E and Miata mashup is becoming cooler and cooler by the day and I love...
Ride Along On The Fastest Sidecar Motorcycle Lap Ever Run At The Isle Of Man TT
Anyone who competes at the Isle of Man TT falls into the thinly separated categories of brave and clinically insane but perhaps none more so than the guys running the sidecar motorcycle class. Take...