Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Field-Bashing: A Low-Buck Race Beater And A Grass Field, It’s A Beautiful Thing!
I don’t know which adult in my life actually had the bright idea to cut me loose on a dirt road in a gutted and half-prepared Pontiac, but that decision sealed in some fates. Actually, not just...
Morning Symphony: Rear-Drive Rally Roar
Anybody else ready to puke if they hear “Auld Lang Syne” one more freaking time? Look, we’re all glad that 2019 is done and over with. At least, for sure, I am. The last twelve...
Best of 2019: Beater Heaven! Listen To This Lincoln LS Drift The Day Away At King Of The Heap!
It is easy to dismiss a race of $1,000 beaters as nothing more than crapcans toddling around a racetrack sometimes. Sure, it’s something fun to do during the off-season, but just how exciting...
Best of 2019: A Great Story About One Guy’s Quest To Build A 1964 Mercury Marauder!
This video is called “The Odyssey” and that’s a proper title that the folks at Petrolicious gave it. Why? Because the owner’s quest to build this 1964 Mercury Marauder the way...
Best of 2019: Katech Made Nearly 1,500hp With Their Stock Bottom End LT5 Before They Called it Quits
A couple of weeks go we reported on the 1,000+hp LT5 that Katech had created with the stock fuel system and minimal amounts of bolt on parts. That particular engine still had the stock camshaft in...
Best of 2019: The “Vendetta di Nannini” Incident
Passion is a strange thing. It will drive you to commit actions that are irrational, ill-advised, and just plain questionable. They’ll seem right at the time, and in the heart, they probably...
Best of 2019: SCCA Trans Am Racing At Road America In 1977!
Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s is often remembered as the scene where pony cars battled it out for supremacy on road courses. Cougar GTs, Javelins, Cuda AARs and Challenger T/As,...
Best of 2019: Hear The Story Of The Alfa Corse DTM Team’s 1990s Experiences!
The beauty of having an excellent cable TV package in the household I grew up in was that I got to see racing that most Americans generally didn’t know much about…or didn’t give...
Best of 2019: Watch Petter Solberg Rip His Subaru Through The Fench Alps – Insanity
(By Eric Rood) – The 2016 World Rally Championship kicks off this weekend as it usually does with the monumental Rallye Monte Carlo and what better way is there to prepare than to watch this...
Best of 2019: 1950s Video Greatness: This Standard Oil Film About Service At The Service Station Rules
Ahhh yes, the golden years of the American service station. The place where you pulled in, were greeted by someone in uniform, had your car checked out and sent off down the road with a clean bill of...
Classic YouTube: 1981 Daytona 500 – Adapting To The Smaller Bodystyles After Years Of Big Cars
1981 was a transition year for NASCAR. This was the year that wheelbases changed from 115 inches to 112, which left cars like the Chevelle and the Torino in the dust and saw new models, like the...
The Little Crapcan That Could: The Holden Barina Returns With More Modifications!
The Holden Barina that Street Machine is building up as a dirt-cheap track-day bomber keeps on moving up in the world! If this is your first introduction to the psychotic little gumdrop, here’s...
Lo Car VS Hi Car: Can A $450 Brake Upgrade Hang With A $4,500 Brake Upgrade?
There are certain truths that we hold to be self evident here at BangShift. The first is that physics and the laws therein are pretty damned accurate. The second is that hot rodders always want to...
