Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Awesome Video: Check Out This Video Featuring The Options Chevrolet Offered In The Early 1970s
From Posi-Traction to Four Season air conditioning, to the Comfortron climate control, the names and offerings of Chevrolet options in the early 1970s were wide-ranging and well named. This video is...
The “WTF?!” Files: Racing Combines Up The Côte de Holtz Hillclimb in Luxembourg
Ten years have passed since this this running of the Côte de Holtz hillclimb was filmed. Ten years ago, some dude with a radically-overbuilt Claas combine that he willfully named the “Green...
Snow-Khana: The Wildest Mark III Supra We’ve Ever Seen!
Everbody praises the Mark IV Toyota Supra as the best of the breed. I disagree. I prefer the boxy, angular Mark III version more. It’s a personal preference issue, but the late 1980s sport...
Awesome History: A Pair Of Tatra Cars From the Czech Republic – One A Champion Nazi Prototype and The Other A Nazi Killer
There’s interesting history behind pretty much everything in the modern world. Even the most mundane stuff has a story and when we look back at cars, they ALL have something cool happening...
Watch Rob Dahm’s Insane Billet 4-Rotor RX-7 Make Repeated 1,000hp AWD Dyno Pulls! This Is Mental
Rob Dahm’s RX-7 build is one of the most wildly awesome things on the internet. Not content to just do it like so many others have, Dahm is building what is basically the fastest, hardest core,...
Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Build: More Machine Shop Action, Some Carnage, and The Repairs That Save The Day
When last we checked in on the Hagerty Redline Rebuild Buick straight eight engine project, a few of the bores had been condemned to be hogged out for sleeves and a couple of them had been given the...
Morning Symphony: Jim Hall’s Chaparral-Powered 1970 Chevrolet Camaro
If this car doesn’t put a big-ass smile on your face, you are on the wrong site. Drag racing has a strong place here, but I’m more of a road course guy and SCCA Trans-Am racing is my jam....
Y Block, Why Not? This Video Shows Master Engine Builder Keith Dorton Rebuilding And Improving A Legendary Ford Y-Block V8
The Ford Y-block was the company’s first overhead valve V8 engine, technically its first small block, and the engine that replaced the venerable flathead that had powered so many millions of...
This Guy Might Be The Happiest Person Ever After His Track-Prepped Honda S2000’s Wheel Failed!
Racing a car adds stress to every single component on the vehicle. Doesn’t matter what type of racing, doesn’t matter what kind of car. If you race it, you will find weaknesses and you...
Angry Cavallino: Ferrari 360 Modena Rally Car…This Wins Outright!
Ferrari…rally racing. Ferrari…shiny red cars, exclusivity, factory-driven vetting. Rally racing…over the hills and through the woods making a ton of noise as you go. The two almost...
Machine Shop Time: This Update On the Hagerty Buick Straight Either Build Is All About Checking For Faults
There’s many parts of engine building that are not exactly sexy. It’s work, right? The internet tends to gussy the process up a bunch and we kind of get the sexiest version of engine...
Happy 2/25: Today We Celebrate The Venerable Chrysler Slant Six – Uncle Tony Preaches Truth!
Today is Slant Six day here in the world of BangShift.com. Yes, the 225ci engine that helped to shove low-budget Chrysler cars around for decades. It is widely recognized as one of the best passenger...
Throttle Therapy: This Petrolicious Feature On A 1965 Mustang Fastback Touches On Many Of The Reasons We All Love Cars
It’s insane to say that a car “helps” you, right? It’s crazy to say that the rolling hunk of steel, plastic, wood, and glass provides some service to better your mental and...
The Mongrel Project Gets More Paint, Suspension, And More! This Sucker Is Getting Close To Making Noise And Smoke!!!
We love the Mongrel Project, a combination of a cool old British Ford and Mazda Miata that is somehow right in every way. The stance, the width, the flares, the fabrication, it all speaks to us and...