Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Awesome Video: This Big Wreck At The 1984 Talladega IROC Race Had Derek Bell Fuming!
Old school IROC racing was awesome. Sure, by the time the thing had petered out the series was a shell of its former self, but if you want to argue with the 1984 Talladega IROC race field you have...
The Mongrel Gets Paint Color And Rad New Wheels!
The Mongrel is getting close! So close in fact that colors are being chosen and wheels have been delivered! This little Ford 100E and Miata mashup is becoming cooler and cooler by the day and I love...
Ride Along On The Fastest Sidecar Motorcycle Lap Ever Run At The Isle Of Man TT
Anyone who competes at the Isle of Man TT falls into the thinly separated categories of brave and clinically insane but perhaps none more so than the guys running the sidecar motorcycle class. Take...
The Mongrel Gets A Coat Of UPOL Raptor On The Bottom And It Sure Looks Nice
Since the Mongrel project has had such extensive sheetmetal work, including a complete floor and chassis swap, there are a lot of seams that need to be sealed. And because the car was blasted to bare...
Project Binky Update! This Little All Wheel Drive Mini Is Getting So Close To Done!
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!
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
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
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
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!
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!
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!
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!
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)
(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...