Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Seeing This Vintage Morgan Plus Four Race Car Cruised On The Streets Makes Us Want One Bad
I have had a fascination with old British sports cars for some time. They’re interesting to me because for a long time they were some of the neatest and highest performing machines in the...
Crash, Bang, Boom: This Compilation Of Racing Crashes On The Nurburgring From 2019 Is Wild!
You’re probably stuck at home. Hopefully you are stuck at home and in a healthy state waiting this whole mess out. The video is designed to cheer you up. Why? Well because if you are at home,...
QuarantinePiece Theater: Fifty Years of Sideways – An Hour and a Half of Epic Video In The World Of Rally
It was a few years ago that dinner with our BangShifty pal Bill Caswell resulted in us learning about a film called “50 Years of Sideways. Caswell went nuts telling us about this film and how...
Horsepower Battle At Goodwood: Watch Two Vintage 1960s Can-Am Cars, A Lola and A Chinook Battle
The era of Can-Am competition that gets the most attention is the early 1970s because it was then that the cars had aluminum big block engines, horsepower numbers that nearly made them 1:1 in terms...
Cruise Ships: This Film Comparing The Dodge Monaco, Plymouth Fury, Ford Galaxy, and Chevy Impala Is Great
Now this is some 1970s goodness. You are going to see a film comparing the Dodge Monaco, Plymouth Fury, Ford Galaxy, and Chevy Impala against each other. Ok, not really. You are going to see a film...
Stock Cars Racing: A Driver’s Eye View Of The Freedom 500 Invitational Race!
For any doubters that thought Cleetus McFarland only bought a track for stupidity and YouTube stunts…well, here’s your crow to eat. Recently he ran what he dubbed the “Freedom...
Go Play In The Dirt: The Gambler 500 Presents HooptieX at Oregon City
Eliminate the cones, the ropes, the caution tape, the timing equipment and the guy telling me when I’m allowed to go, and you pretty much have my early driver’s education experience...
QuarantinePiece Theater: The Anatomy Of Auto Racing Is A 1973 Film That is Simply Amazing! From Can-Am To Indy To SCCA
Sears Tire and Auto Centers, remember them? Back in 1973 Sears was raking in money as one of the most massive retail chains in the world and because of that they were looking to promote their other...
Hilarious Video: This Promotional Film For The Dinner With Racers eRacing Series Is Brilliant
The explosion in popularity of iRacing in the recent months has been amazing to watch with amateur racers gaining in status because of their abilities and pro racers looking both good and sometimes...
Engine Tech Video: Watch This Little 302 Receive A Trick Flow 11R Top End Kit – Installing The Upper End Of The Valevtrain
One of the neatest things to happen for people who love making horsepower over the last ten years has been the emergence, explosion, and acceptance of the “top end kit”. It was a...
Quick Junk: This Look At The 1986 Maserati Bi-Turbo Highlights A Car With Horsepower And Even More Headaches
Man, the Italians have had some really interesting bad cars over the years. The 1980s Maserati Bi-Turbo examples usually make every list of “worst cars of the 1980s” because of the fact...
Want To Avoid Splashing Into A Frozen Lake? Use Firestone Winter Tires Like Those In This 1970 Ad!
We have seen some awesome television ads for tires over the years. This is doubly true for winter tires. Cars accelerating and braking on ice rinks, cars clawing their way up snow covered mountain...
Piston Tech Video: Learn All You Ever Wanted To Know About Piston Coatings With MAHLE Motorsport
When it comes to piston coatings, there’s lots of stuff that people think they know and lots of stuff that’s just flat out wrong. In this video you are going to learn all you ever wanted...
Historical Footage: SCCA Trans-Am Racing In The 1980s
It’s easy to look back on the Trans-Am racing series of the late 1960s and early 1970s and think happy thoughts. The drivers were great, the cars were perfect, the racing vicious. What...