Category Archive: Apex Car Feature, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
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...
The Admeyer 1933 Chevrolet Roadster Is One Of The Classiest Hot Rods At SEMA 2015
Cars like this normally don’t catch my eye. Cars like this are not the things that stop me in my tracks and draw me in to see more. Cars like this often require an intimate knowledge of what...
This Class 11 Baja Bug Is The Toughest Vehicle At The 2015 SEMA Show – Here’s Why
The little car sits among a veritable garden of massive, lifted four by four trucks. It is a funny sight at first and if we could turn real life into the movie “Cars” those big trucks...
2016 Jaguar F-Type R Convertible: The Topless Monster That Roars
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I’ve never been a guy to seek out two-seater cars. Maybe it is because I am from New England, maybe it is because I’m on the larger boned side, or maybe...
Nomad Or Not? This 1955 Chevy Carcass May Be Trying To Look Like Something It Isn’t
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Recently Bryan McTaggart showed us Paul Nichols’ 1955 Nomad. Paul generously shared the transformation from total rust bucket to totally cool partial...
Apex Feature: Barney, The Home-Built, Big Purple Corner-Carving G-body!
(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) While you BangShift readers may not realize it, our feature on Lance Hamilton’s 1985 Chevy Monte Carlo SS has been a long time in the making for me. I’ve...
Casey Woodside’s Fifth-Gen Camaro Is His First Car, His Race Car, And His Daily!
It’s a daily driver, it’s raced hard enough to place in the Optima Ultimate Street Car challenge and to hang with the serious builds during the LS Fest autocross and 3S Challenge, and if...
2015 Charger R/T Scat Pack: We Drive The 485hp Four Door Fun Machine
It was an interesting turn of events to step from the seat of the BMW i8 into the cavernous confines of the 2015 Charger R/T Scat Pack a couple of weeks ago but since someone has to do the dirty...
Future Flash: A Week In The Seat Of A 2015 BMW i8 Provides A Glimpse Into What Lies Ahead
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It does not look, sound or behave like any other car I have ever spent time in before. It literally causes people to stop and take notice. My kids thought it was a...
BangShift Road Test: 2015 Mustang GT Convertible – Less Bruiser And More Cruiser
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – The Mustang has long been known as the automotive version of the man with 100 faces. Between what’s factory available to what aftermarket tuning houses offer,...
2015 Corvette Z06: We Drive The Most Beastly Corvette Ever Sold To The Public – Snarling Monster!
Sorry Mr. Hellcat. Yes, the 2015 Corvette Z06 makes 650hp and 650 lb/ft of torque and you make 707hp and the same amount of torque but when you combine that power with a chassis that is far more...
This 1969 Corvette Was Customized In 1972 And It Still Gets Cruised Today – Amazing Paint!
(Photo credit: Kevin Livering Collection) – In order to wash the taste of that fugly 1971 Mustang out of your eyes, we present to you this amazing 1969 Corvette that is owned by...