Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
In-Car Video: Fly Around Daytona In A Chevron B-16 During The HSR Classic 24
Our high speed chauffeur in the video below is Martin Lauber and his mount is a Chevron B-16, one of the best looking road race cars ever. It is an interesting car that was built by a small British...
Watch This Family In England Perform On Their Wall Of Death – Old School Thrills
If you have never seen a “wall of death” or a “sphere of death” or a “something of death” motorcycle act in person, you are missing out. It is fast paced, loud,...
Plan Your Build: This Video Goes Through the Best G-Body Suspension Upgrades
The GM G-body platform is one of the most popular and most easily modified in all of the enthusiast world. But because of those two things, there’s lots of questions that need to be answered...
New BMW M3 and M4 Announced: Face Only A Mother Can Love But Performance We’ll All Find Beautiful
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want a nostalgia trip back to the days of old where the M3 was only one model and Naturally aspirated? Well you can’t have that but you can have the new M3 and M4...
The New Z Car Has Been Shown And It Sure Looks Good On Paper – Here’s Our Take
(By Tom Lohnes) – After 12 long years, a new Z car has arrived, and it doesn’t disappoint. Replacing the 370Z, the Z Proto/400Z/Fairlady Z made a giant splash in the car community at its...
Ultra Cool: This MotorWeek Review Of The 1991 Buick Park Avenue Ultra Brings Back Memories
We carry memories with us though our lives and for gear heads, many of those memories are attached to cars. Perhaps strangely, some happy ones from my gearhead life stem from the Buick Park Avenue...
Appropriate Is Relative: Check Out Some Nurburgring Oddities!
With miles of asphalt, hundreds of corners, and the opportunity to wipe out just about every potential car that pulls onto it’s surface, the Nurburgring’s legend is set in stone for good...
Is Toyota Building A Road Legal Le Mans Style Hypercar? It Sure Looks Like It To Us!
(By Tom Lohnes) – It’s no secret right now that Toyota is a dominating racing team. With three consecutive Le Mans wins they are tearing up the track. Wildly with the new Hypercar they’re...
Cannot Hate It: This 1947 Plymouth Is Actually A 1994 Dodge Viper In Disguise V10 and All!
I know I should probably hate this car and for a large portion of my automobile loving life, maybe I would have but I just can’t. I have no idea why but I can’t do it. Maybe its the...
Video: A Bill Thomas Cheetah Returns From The Grave To Tear Up The Track – Win!
Few cars have the interesting history that the Bill Thomas Cheetah does. Designed to be Chevrolets answer to the Shelby Cobra, it was an odd looking car that while fast, never had the success on any...
Watch A Guy Chuck A $50-Million Ferrari 250 GTO Around Goodwood Like It Is A Second Gen Camaro – Hero Level!
If there’s such a thing as mechanical royalty we’d say that the early 1960s Ferrari GTO is it. These things sell for tens of millions of dollars, they were killer race cars in their day,...
Homecoming King: A DeKon Monza Recreation Ripping Around Monza
During my early, influenced years, I ate up everything I could about cars that I had an interest in. I knew the quick origin story of the Mustang before I was in kindergarten. I learned about the...
Bargain Racement: Can You Build And Race A Car For The Same Or Less Money Than SIM Racing? YES, YES YOU CAN!
Before you start going all gamer bitch on me and start spouting examples of SIM racing setups that are cheap, realize that everyone knows you can do SIM racing at a bunch of different budget levels....
Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers
(Words by Jim McIllvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelly) By the time the world’s best street cars rolled into NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, five events were in the books for OPTIMA’s...