Category Archive: Apex Car Feature, BangShift APEX
Do You Know The Twisted Tale Of The Chevy Iraqi Taxi Malibus? No Options, Three Pedals, Three On The Floor!
(By Greg Rourke) – There has been some discussion about manual transmissions in G body GM cars. BMcT recently showed us an Olds with a factory manual. Apparently, they aren’t as rare as...
This ’86 Omni GLH Helped Bring America Out of the Automotive Dark Age
While Ford and General Motors both continued to build V8 pony cars in the 1980s as attainable sports cars, Chrysler instead tried to turn their econoboxes into their performance offerings. They did...
LS Fest Outtake: The Crunched Camaro That Was Still Going To Race
All Adam Prante wanted to do was to come down to Bowling Green and have a good time at the 2016 LS Fest with his late-model fifth-gen Camaro SS. Entered into the Grand Champion set of events, he had...
A Mid 70’s Mopar Bluesmobile In The 24 Hours Of Lemons? It’s Real, And It’s Awesome!
(All photos by the author unless otherwise noted) Last weekend, the 24 Hours of Lemons descended upon Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park for the The GP Du...
Remember The Challenger Deputy? This Was One Of The Cheapest Stripper Machines Mopar Ever Offered!
(By Greg Rourke) – A Mopar aficionado I am not. I love them, and am always amazed at how the real experts can spout option codes and production figures. “This is one of 37 1970 Cudas in...
Triple Threat Corvette! A Guy Is Using A 1977 Corvette For Daily Driver, Autocross, And Rallycross Duty!
A lot of car guys out there that have a cool race car or toy often have a more mundane and reliable daily driver, which more times than not is a boring appliance or maybe a useful truck or family...
A Yak 3 Airplane And Porsche GT3 RS Feature Like None Other. This Is Bad Ass
(Words and Photos by Dennis Vos) This little “write up” is about what happens when you have 3 photographers going at it on two different objects during a private session somewhere in Belgium. As...
This 1968 GTO Didn’t Start Out Looking Like Much, But Look At It Now! Lots Of Build Photos Included
When Chadly at MetalWorks hit me up at SEMA and asked if we would be interested in sharing some of their builds with our faithful BangShifters, my answer was “Hell yes!”. After all, these...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution – We Work The Final Evo Ever
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It’s over. The longstanding and natural born rival to the Subaru WRX, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will cease to exist as a production model after...
A Break In The Case? Fitzgerald Has Come Up With Some Cool Info In The Case Of The Junkyard Hot Rod
Ever been to a movie where two warring factions are suddenly faced with a common enemy so they stop fighting each other and join forces for victory? Neither have we. The point is that Craig...
Car Feature: Ryan Pope’s Model A Roadster Pickup Is Timeless And Cool
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Some astute readers might remember young Ryan Pope’s ’56 Chevy gasser –...
A Story About Finding A Diamond In The Rough, Courtesy Of A Formal Naval Admiral And A Ferrari 500 Mondial
Racing cars lead abusive lives. Let’s get that fact out of the way now. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and even in the hands of a caring owner who is meticulous about...
The Mind-Blowing, AWD, Jet Hot “Double Down” Is Heading To Auction – What Do You Think It’ll Sell For?
Call me names if you want but I think that this is one of the coolest hot rods built in the last two decades. The Jet Hot high performance coatings Double Down by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods is the 1932...
Wham Is The Coolest 1969 Ford LTD Possibly Ever – The Story Behind the Car Is Cooler Still
What is it about big cars that makes me smile? I don’t know why my DNA strands have locked me into loving the huge cars of the late 1970s and early 1970s but I do so you can imagine my glee...