Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Promotional Goodness: This Chevrolet Pitch Video For The 1979 Nova and Monza Is A Fun Watch
By the time the late 1970s rolled around, the Nova had transitioned from a budget small or big block muscle car to a cruiser that was supposed to be “luxurious” when totally options and...
Swatting Bees! Watch This Guy Wrestle A Stock Suspension Classic Pickup Through The Autocross
Like the first time you take a bone stock car to the drag strip or when you bring a project to the dyno before wrenching on it, there’s real fun pushing tired old stuff to its limits. This...
Fun Video: Watch This Motor Week Review Of The 1982 Corvette Collectors Edition
1982 marked the end of the long running C3 Corvette. First introduced in 1968 it had soldiered on through the dark days of the 1970s and into the 1980s. 1983 was supposed to herald the entrance of...
Friday Moment Of Zen: Watch Charlie Baker Slide His Racing Big Rig Around Fayetteville, NC Circa 1986
Few men were faster, few men were more fearsome, and few men were harder driving during the golden age of the Great American Truck Racing series than Charlie Baker. Whether on asphalt or dirt, the...
Fender Bashing Fun: 1970s Rallycross Racing At Long Marston Airfield In England – This Rules!
We love modern rally-cross racing and like everything else it has interesting history. In England the sport really took off in the early 1970s and with backing from companies like Castrol, people...
Legendary Race: Watch The TNT Monster Truck Challenge From Louisville 1990!
Stock car racers, drag racers, hell, any racer typically can call out some big moments and events in the sport that they love. Traditional monster truck racing fans can do the same thing. It’ a...
Awesome Video: Watch Sir Jackie Stewart Test Drive The 1978 Crop Of F1 Cars This Is So Cool
Now THIS is something that will literally never happen again. Imagine the premier F1 teams in the world each handing the keys to their new machines to a former three time world champ to drive and...
Video: 30 Years Ago The Stirling External Combustion Engine Was Tested By The Government – Where Did It Go?
We’ve heard of the Stirling External Combustion Engine before but we never knew that they were not only built but also used and tested by the US Government, specifically the Department of...
Heavy Metal Video: This Compilation Of 1990s Figure Eight Racing Wrecks From Sportsdrome Speedway Is Insane
I have done some reasonably terrifying things in cars. I have ridden with Ken Block in a rally car hurtling though the woods at crazy speeds, I have been caught in weather so bad that I thought it...
Awesome Video: This Promotional Film For The 1978 Schkee Can-Am Car Is Spectacular!
The most beautiful race car you’ve never heard of. This is the Schkee (pronounced Sha-kee) DB-1 and it was the brainchild of Doug Schultz and race car builder Bob McKee. The car name is a mashup of...
1970s Perfection: This Motorcycling Safety Film Stars Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel – So Good!
If you were someone who was going to make a film about motorcycling safety in the 1970s and your job was to cast it, who would you pick? Certainly your first choices would have to be cool, they would...
Watch The Mighty March 717 Roar Up The Hill At Goodwood – 537ci Of Injected Big Block Powered Slipper!
Watching classic Can-Am cars running at full throttle in modern times is probably one of our favorite things in the racing world. This video comes from Goodwood and we get to see the one and only...
O’Reilly Auto Parts, Vice Grip Garage, Tony Angelo, Alex Taylor, And Tate Morgan Race Pontiac Aztek’s In The Desert And Invited Us To Join Them!
A few months ago, Derek Bieri, the man behind Vice Grip Garage and Roadworthy Rescue, gave me a call and said “I have a stupid idea and I want you to be a part of it.” My response was...
The StanceWorks 800hp 1931 Ford Model A Race Truck Is Ready For Street Testing And This Thing Is Scarier Than Ever!
It’s been a long time coming after this car tried to kill him, and itself, but the StanceWorks Model A Ford is back up and running and finally ready for some street testing before it goes to a new...