Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It Got Real Quick: Watch This Insane Wreck From The 24 Hours of Lemons Race In New Jersey!
One of the things that budget car racing series like the 24 Hours of Lemons keeps really close tabs on is the safety equipment required in competition cars. Some people have issues with this because...
Freaky Good: This 1960s GM Safety Film Called Unrestrained Flying Objects Is All About Seatbelt Safety
Now this is weirdly entertaining. You are about to watch a film called “Unrestrained Flying Objects” and it is a GM safety piece that is designed to educate people on the benefits of...
Classic YouTube: Bobby Allison’s Win At Darlington In An AMC Matador
It’s easy to picture American Motors fighting it out in Trans Am racing back in the 1970s. Mark Donohue did wonders promoting the brand and the red-white-and-blue Javelins and AMXs. But AMC...
Video: Forget Everything Else, We Need To Go To A Rally Legends Event, Like NOW
There’s a load of stuff that we want to do in the world of cars and motorsports like RIGHT NOW but after seeing this video, getting our asses to a Rally Legends event is what we want to do...
Video: The Scarab Was America’s First F1 Effort – A Glorious Failure Then But A Vintage Winner Now!
America has had an interesting past when it comes to success on the international racing stage. Back in 1921 the biggest and arguably first international win for an American car came when Jimmy...
Little Giants: Here’s A Video Looking At 10 Of The Smallest V8 Engines Installed In Cars
We have been, will be, and won’t ever apologize about being V8 centric around here. We love all kinds of engines here at BangShift but there will never be anything that’ll supplant the V8...
Video From The 1976 Hulman Classic Captures Some Of The Coolest Old Sprint Car Action
By the time this film was made in 1976, the Tony Hulman classic had become one of the most prestigious and profitable sprint car races in the world. Started in the early 1970 and held every year in...
We’re All About Crazy, But A Rotary Engine Powered Shifter Kart? Yeah, It’s For Real And This Is The First Ride
When the guys over at Build Break Repeat got their hands on a rotary engine with a clutch shifted transmission from some old motorcycle project there was no doubt that only bad thoughts could come...
Project Escargo Keeps On Keeping On. The Project Binky Boys Are Making Progress And It’s Going To Be Awesome!
Unique car haulers are cool, and when we last saw this one the boys from Bad Obsession Motorsport had just finished gutting it and getting it ready to start the renovation process. What had started...
Morning Symphony: The St. Anton Hill Climb – Angry Little Devils, Aren’t They?
High up in the Austrian Alps, to the southwestern area of the country lies St. Anton. When snow is on the ground, St. Anton is a skiing paradise, a world-renowned destination that offers up nearly...
Ride Along In A Period Perfect Road Racing Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt
I’d rank the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt near the top of the coolest cars of the 1960s. These things opened the floodgates for factory drag racing specials (we know they existed before but the...
Ride In The Rip Roaring Hill Climb Monster Of Kevin Mackrell – AWD, V8, 800hp, Datsun 260!
In this video we take you to the country of Australia and more specifically the Mt. Alma Mile Hillclimb, an event that has been going on for about 10 years. Like many hillclimbs, this is a short...
No Margin For Error Is An Awesome Film From The 1957 Pikes Peak Hill Climb
Since 1916 racer have been sprinting up Pikes Peak in one of the longest running and hardest core races in the world. The scene at Pikes Peak has evolved over the years and now the course is...
