Category Archive: Apex Video
Project Binky Update! This Little All Wheel Drive Mini Is Getting So Close To Done!
Mar 03, 2019Chad Reynolds1
Project Binky is one of our favorite online projects, and after years of work it is getting so close to complete that we can taste it. In this update video the little all wheel drive Mini gets a...
Project Mongrel Is Coming Together! Steering Column, Hydraulic Hand Brake, Harness Bars, And More!
Mar 02, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Project Mongrel Is Coming Together! Steering Column, Hydraulic Hand Brake, Harness Bars, And More!
We call them a Happy Handle, but whatever you call a hydraulic hand brake it can be fun as hell in the right car. We figure the Mongrel will be that car. In the latest updates from Project Mongrel,...
Mean Little Green: This Video About A Porsche 914 And Its Owner Is BangShifty Stuff
Mar 01, 2019Brian Lohnes4
Perhaps the neatest thing about cars in general is how people respond so differently to so many different models, right? Stuff that you’d walk past on a used car lot others would be throwing...
Radioactive: This Collection of NASCAR Team Radio Communications From Atlanta Is Awesome
Feb 28, 2019Brian Lohnes3
Any time we can get a window into the world of professional racing that we don’t typically get, we love it. In this case it is a video featuring radio communications from a bunch of the NASCAR...
Heavy Hauling: Truck Racing From Thruxton in England
Feb 28, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Heavy Hauling: Truck Racing From Thruxton in England
You know what we don’t see nearly enough of? Big rig racing on tracks. Sure, we’ve seen the drag races in Canada and many a rig hooked to a pulling sled, but when was the last time you...
High Stakes Bet: Loser Gets Their Mitsubishi Crushed!
Feb 27, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
Why anybody would build a Mitsubishi Lancer (read: Mirage) is beyond us. It’s probably because in the States, the Mirage was a penalty box, the car you bought because you felt that you deserved...
Morning Symphony: The Rally Masters At Monza – Group A, Group B, and Group 4 On Track!
Feb 25, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Rally Masters At Monza – Group A, Group B, and Group 4 On Track!
Is it fair that we pay so much attention to the Group B era of rally racing? No, it’s not. Sure, Group B has the stories, the unhinged factor of both the cars and the races themselves, where...
Natural Aggression: Banger Racing Brutality Straight From The Brits!
Feb 23, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
We’ve addressed the difference between demolition derby events in the United States and banger racing in the U.K. before. In America, we put a bunch of violent, nearly apocalyptic-looking tanks...
Morning Symphony: Thrills! Chills! Spilled Beers! Spectator Drags From Seekonk!
Feb 22, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
Spectator drags…you have to love ’em for the simple fact that it doesn’t take much for two guys with egos to step up and come out onto the track to play. There is always the risk...
Destroyer: The Merc9 Is A 555ci Kaase Ford Powered 1971 Mercury Cyclone That Started In NASCAR And Now Mangles Road Courses (Video)
Feb 22, 2019Brian Lohnes4
(Photo credit: Merc9.com) – BangShifter Todd Staege gets the credit for tipping us off to one of the most awesome road racing cars we have ever seen in the form of the absolutely evil Merc9, a...
Watch Mark Stielow Run Down, Chew Up, And Blow Off, A Porsche in His Awesome Hellfire Camaro – Porsche Guy Didn’t Want Him Coming By!
Feb 22, 2019Brian Lohnes4
One of Mark Stielow’s finest pro touring Camaros which he dubbed “Hellfire” is a pro touring tour de force. With 957hp under the hood, all of the accumulated years of Mark’s...
The Grasshopper: This Petrolicious Look At A 1962 AC Bristol And Its interesting Owner Is Cool
Feb 21, 2019Brian Lohnes2
If there is one thing that I have learned over the years here at BangShift and everywhere else in the automotive world it’s that every car and every person has their own story. In this case we...
The Ultimate DSM: The Breakdown Of John Lazorack’s Brutal Chrysler Conquest
Feb 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
It is, in my eyes, one of the most underrated Japanese cars to ever hit the U.S. market. Captive import or whatever, doesn’t matter…the shape was right, the OEM performance was solid, and...
This 1950s Video About Engines is Awesome, Complete With Dangerous In Home Experiments!
Feb 19, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1950s Video About Engines is Awesome, Complete With Dangerous In Home Experiments!
There’s nothing better than finding old timey videos like this one. Made in the 1950 as part of an educational series for kids, this thing is all about how engines work. We dig it because the...