Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
In 1950s Germany They Towed Skiers Behind Porsches At 100mph For Fun (Video)
Oct 08, 2020Brian Lohnes1
More than 60 years ago in Germany thrill seekers were hauling ass around road courses carved into snow with skiers hooked to the bumpers for bragging rights. We’re not talking about idling...
Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
If you have never treated yourself to the sound, speed, and fury of Supermodified racing on a circle track, you’re doing it wrong. These are the most beastly short track race cars in the world...
Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days
2016 was the year of the Ford GT and the Ford GT40 as the company and the motorsports world remembered and celebrated one of the great racing feats of all time in Ford’s conquering of Ferrari...
Someone’s Fired Video: Watch This Rally Car Plummet From A Cradle As It Is Being Lifted By A Crane
Oct 07, 2020Brian Lohnes4
Right now, somewhere across the globe, stuff is being loaded into a building. That stuff may be pushed in, driven in, or even craned in. We’re guessing it is if it is being craned in, the guys...
Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie
Oct 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie
YouTube and the days of everyone recording everything are a recent trend. There is a reason that you do not see a ton of “behind the scenes” footage of racing before at least the...
The Upcoming Tesla Model S Plaid Is A Maniac Sedan With 1,080hp and More Torque
Oct 06, 2020Brian Lohnes7
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want the quickest current production car with the most boring name on a current production car? Well, Tesla has you covered with the Model S Plaid. With a claimed...
Hot Parts: Mark Williams Enterprises upgrade for the C4 Corvette Rear Wheel Hub Shaft Solves The Problems Of Breakage
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Hot Parts: Mark Williams Enterprises upgrade for the C4 Corvette Rear Wheel Hub Shaft Solves The Problems Of Breakage
The C4 Corvette is one of the hottest platforms in hot rodding these days. Why? The cars can be had cheaply, there’s loads of hot parts available for the chassis, engine swaps are becoming more...
Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
The four-speed manual transmission transformed the mighty cars go the early 1960s from slip sliding automatic equipped beasts to the straight line missiles that we all still admire and love. They...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: The Weather Smiled Upon Us All
Oct 06, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Since I’m based about fifteen miles from Beech Bend, I’ll lay claim to being the most knowledgable over what the weather is like in western Kentucky during certain parts of the year. From...
Morning Symphony: Monza Historic 2020 – The Choir Of The Legendary
Oct 05, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: Monza Historic 2020 – The Choir Of The Legendary
If you are one of the few car freaks left in the world that has not seen Ford vs. Ferrari, then do yourself a favor. Watch it. Watch it as a movie, watch it as a rough reality of what took place...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Blending The Old And The New Together
Oct 05, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
You couldn’t have two more polar opposites if you tried. Out in the show car fields sat one of my dream cars and a BangShift feature car, Jason McDaniel’s 1969 Shelby GT500. Curving...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Welcome To The Blue Oval’s Burndown!
Oct 04, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
LS Fest came and went. MoParty had it’s first showing. That means that it’s time for Mustangs, for Cobras, for Broncos, and every other thing that wears the legacy of Henry Ford on...
Small Block Chevy Power Combos: 400-1000 Horsepower, We Got You Covered Right Here With 7 Different Combos.
Oct 04, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Small Block Chevy Power Combos: 400-1000 Horsepower, We Got You Covered Right Here With 7 Different Combos.
I get asked all the time about combinations that will make certain horsepower levels. Whether it’s a small block, an LS, a big block, or whatever, everyone has some magic power number...
Historical Footage: Group A Rallying In The 1990s – Faster Than Group B And Just As Wild!
Oct 04, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Historical Footage: Group A Rallying In The 1990s – Faster Than Group B And Just As Wild!
We tend to look at Group B Rally as the wild era of the sport, and for good reason: manufacturers were all but unchained from regulation, required only the barest minimums of homologated cars, and...






