Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX

Speed Records: Listen To The Amazing Sounds Of Sebring Record Circa 1956 – Crank It Up!

(By Eric Rood) – Here’s a great time capsule from 60 years ago: Riverside Records’ Sounds of Sebring LP, uploaded to YouTube interestingly enough by high-end restoration shop Scott...

No Margin For Error: This 1968 Film From Autolite Follows Road Racing, NASCAR, Desert Racing, and More

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned promotional film from the late 1960s to brighten our day around here and this is one of the best. The opening sequence alone is freaking awesome with...

Synergistic: An SN-95 Mustang Packing A Toyota 2JZ Inline-Six. Cue The Hate Mail!

Some people can’t survive on watching the world burning alone. They have to stand next to the flames with a can of Jet A and insist on throwing cupfuls of fuel onto the fire just to make sure...

The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb

We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...

More Progress On The Mongrel Project: Sheetmetal Work Continues, Along With Some Rust Repair.

Here’s another inspiring post on the Mongrel Project in England. Take one Mazda MX5 Miata and cut the body off of it. Then take a Ford 100E and pull the chassis and floors out of it to install...

Horsepower Video: Watch Katech Make 1,000hp With An LT5 V8 – No Port Injection, No Cam Sawp

The LT5 V8 is a brutal 755hp 6.2L blown beast that lives in cars like the ZR1 Corvette and is available for purchase by hot rodders out there for use in both classic and modern applications. The LT...

Siestarossa: The Hoonigan Shred Bed Gets Tested At An Indoor Kart Track!

Somebody had to do it sooner or later. Honestly, we’re pretty sure someone else has already turned one of those racecar beds into a go-kart at some point prior to this example. We at least hope...

Historic Video: This Look At The 1962 Nassau Speed Week Will Have You Itching For A Time Machine

Now this is the type of thing we really love around here. Nassau Speed Weeks was one of the coolest road racing events on planet Earth for about a decade through the 1950s and into the 1960s. We have...

Morning Symphony: The Supercharged Snake Slithering Up The Grass-Lined Driveway

The thing that appeals most to me about the Dodge Viper is it’s roots. Namely, the fact that one of the wildest cars of the last thirty years, with the V-10 engine that was a marvel at the time...

The Mongrel Is Looking Bad Ass! This Little Ford 100E Project Is Starting To Really Excite Us.

Take one plain, but cool, old boxy British Ford that never ever would have been considered a performance machine and make it so cool everyone will want it. But how? It’s simple really, just cut...

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Riley Stair Might Have Built The Baddest Trans Am Ever And We Love Him For It

This 700 horsepower, 10,000 rpm Pontiac is THE car that virtually broke the internet when it was debuted at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas in November. There wasn’t a single moment of the show that...

V8 Supercar Randomness: Check Out This Collection Of Odd Moments From Australia’s Halo Motorsport!

Cars arrive, cars tech in, drivers qualify. Pre-race festivities go on, cars line up, cars race, somebody wins, cars get packed up and move on to the next stop in the series. That pattern goes for...

RideTech Comparo Video: Bone Stock, StreetGrip, and Coil Over A-Bodies On The Test Track

Over the years we have watched RideTech grow and evolve into one of the premier suspension companies in the automotive aftermarket. From their days as an air-specific company to their development of...

Best of 2018: James Brolin Racing An AMC Spirit AMX At The 24 Hours of Nurburgring In 1979

Two AMC Spirit AMXs on the starting grid of the 1979 24 Hours of Nurburgring in the Group One class. Six drivers would run the two AMXs: Gary Witzenburg, a journalist; James Brolin, an...