Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

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...

Classic YouTube: The 1965 12 Hours Of Sebring And The Flood From

How do you top drama that starts when Enzo Ferrari, pissed off by the news that his cars had engines that were too big for the prototype class and therefore had to be in the Unrestricted class,...

Teardown Video: Watch A Chrysler A-833 Four-Speed Come To Pieces (On Purpose)

The Chrysler A-833 four speed transmission is one of the great singular components in the modern history of the American automobile. They were made by the millions, they were used not only by...

Master Class: This Video From Full Boost On Building High Horsepower Street Engines Is Spectacular

This is the opposite of a kind of wham-bam engine building video. If anything this is a slow moving, artfully edited, content packed trip through the mind, manner, and process of a truly awesome...

Extra Wasabi Please: The Upcoming Acura NSX-R Is A 600hp Throwback To The Future

(By Tom Lohnes) – Is the “normal” $150,000, 573 horsepower, 2.7-second to 60 Honda/Acura NSX not good enough for you? Well, here’s a throwback. A newer version of the Acura NSX-R, along...

Timeless Beauty: This Profile Of A 1967 Lamborghini Miura Is A Loving Look At A Game Changing Supercar

There have been all kinds of landmark cars over the years. Cars that for some reason have changed not just their genre of automobiles but changed the game overall. The Lamborghini Miura is one of...

Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck

We’re definitely fans of the RideTech StreetGrip line of suspension systems. We have installed them here at BangShift we have driven cars with them installed and we have come away understanding...

Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?

(By Tom Lohnes) – The kind folks at Kylotonn provided a review copy of WRC Championship 9, their biggest racing title and a game I was excited to try out. My excitement was not wrong, because...

Pro Touring Vs Germany: A Killer 1966 Mustang Takes On A Porsche 911 Turbo S At The Streets Of Willow!

Well this is a fun surprise! A couple years back, I was part of a show for Motor Trend called “Put Up or Shut Up”. It went for two seasons and the idea behind the show was simple. Race...

Project Bargain Racement: Building A Race Car From An $1100 Hatchback. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Come on, you’ve had to have heard dummer ideas than this! And it won’t surprise you to know that our friends from Bad Obsession Motorsports, the home of Project Binky, are behind this...

We’re Cooler Than Ever! Installing a Flex-A-Lite Radiator in a ’64 Chevelle

(Words and Photos by Todd Ryden) It’s summertime, it’s a hot one and there’s a severe shortage of events, however that doesn’t mean that you can’t hit the road and cruise! When it comes to...

Morning Symphony: The Sounds And Sights Of What “Maximum Attack” Is

You don’t half-ass racing. You just don’t. The point of competitively driving against other people is to prove, without a shadow of a doubt to anybody watching, that you earned that first...