Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX

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...

Watch Smokey Yunick Make A Side Splitting Speech From His Induction Into the Daytona Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame

While Smokey Yunick died about 16 years ago now, his legend continues on and will for generations. We got tipped off to this truly awesome video by a guy who said that it was must watch stuff. He was...

Ride In A Screaming 289 Powered GT40 As It Tears Around Spa And Makes An Insanely Tight Pass

Everyone has their short list of cars that they’d do something horrible to have a shot at driving and we’re thinking that the Ford GT40 shows up on most people’s. Ultimately it was...

Jeff Kiesel’s 500hp Turbocharged Rotary Bug Eye Sprite Is The Ultimate Autocross Weapon – Take A Ride In It

This is like riding on a 500hp Ginsu knife. Jeff Kiesel’s Sprite is known and has been known as one of the nastiest autocross cars in the country for years. Powered by a turbocharged 13b Rotary...

The Real McCoy: The Front Clip From The Jack McCoy 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona NASCAR Racer Is For Sale

Now this is pretty awesome. For sale on eBay right now is the complete and shockingly straight front clip from NASCAR racer Jack McCoy’s 1969 Charger Daytona. McCoy was an amazing competitor...

Million Dollar Hauler: Meet The Rolls Royce Silver Spectre…All $1,250,000 Of 700hp Shooting Brake

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever yearn for a 2-door wagon but don’t want to be a peasant and buy a $280,000 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso? Well, Rolls Royce has the car for you, and there’s only 3 of...

Dart Machinery Block Prep Service Means That When Your Block Is Delivered, It’s Ready To Build

People have different needs when they buy stuff like engine blocks. If you are a builder maybe you want it as raw as possible to put all the tweaks and tricks you know into it. If you are a home...

Great Drive: Watch British Touring Car Championship Driver Sam Tordoff Run From Last To Second In Porsche 356!

There’s some of you out there who will say, “Of course the guy who is a BTCC racer is going to fare well against mostly amateurs in old cars!” Your opinion is not wrong at all, but...

The One That Started It All – This Look And Drive Of The 1971 AMG 300SEL Is A Trip Back Into Racing History

These days we all know that when you see the AMG badge on a Mercedes you are looking at a pretty bad hombre no matter what size the car is. Back in the early 1970s AMG made its name with a behemoth...

Evel Knievel: True Grit – This Documentary Is Pretty Awesome, Honest, and Fun

This is something else. Evel Knievel: True Grit is a documentary style film that was made before Knievel died and it documents many aspects of his life in raw detail. Knievel himself tells some of...