Category Archive: Apex Project Cars, Apex Spotlight
The Mongrel Is Back And Getting Lots Of High Build Primer! Paint Coming Soon!
We love the Mongrel Project, a combination of a cool old British Ford and Mazda Miata that is somehow right in every way. The stance, the width, the flares, the fabrication, it all speaks to us and...
How To Build A Basic Chassis Jig, And How To Use It. The Fabrication Series Is Building Something Cool!
I’ve dreamed of having a big fancy chassis table for many years. You know, the kind you see in full blown chassis shops? Yeah, I want one of those, with all the fixtures and all the clamps and...
Get To Work Finishing Your Projects! Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Is Still Shipping All The Parts You Need And Want! GStreet Goodness
We’ve been preaching to all of you to spend as much time in the garage working on your hot rod while you are cooped up anyway. It sucks not being able to go play, but you might as well take...
Morning Symphony: McLaren M1B – Choose Your Own Adventure
Bruce McLaren made a strong start when he kicked off his car-racing business and in the short few years between the starting point and McLaren’s death in 1970, the cars that were cranked out...
The Reality Part Isn’t Virtual: Bubba Wallace Loses Real Blue-Emu Sponsorship After Quitting NASCAR iRacing Event
One of the biggest hits of the whole “no racing because of the pandemic” moment we are living through at the moment has been the broadcast of NASCAR iRacing events on FOX Sports 1. These...
Doubling Down: INDYCAR Announces Double Header Weekend At Iowa – Friday and Saturday Races, ARCA Stock Cars As Well
If you are an INDYCAR series fan, we’re thinking that you are going to want to get to Iowa this July to see something that you’ve never seen before. The series has announced that it will...
Seeing This Vintage Morgan Plus Four Race Car Cruised On The Streets Makes Us Want One Bad
I have had a fascination with old British sports cars for some time. They’re interesting to me because for a long time they were some of the neatest and highest performing machines in the...
Retro Car Show Coverage: This Look Back At The Kneeland Concours Contains Incredibly Beautiful Cars!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the only previous Keeneland Concours in which I can find a significant number of pictures. Why am I bringing this stuff out…? Because I...
Crash, Bang, Boom: This Compilation Of Racing Crashes On The Nurburgring From 2019 Is Wild!
You’re probably stuck at home. Hopefully you are stuck at home and in a healthy state waiting this whole mess out. The video is designed to cheer you up. Why? Well because if you are at home,...
QuarantinePiece Theater: Fifty Years of Sideways – An Hour and a Half of Epic Video In The World Of Rally
It was a few years ago that dinner with our BangShifty pal Bill Caswell resulted in us learning about a film called “50 Years of Sideways. Caswell went nuts telling us about this film and how...
Horsepower Battle At Goodwood: Watch Two Vintage 1960s Can-Am Cars, A Lola and A Chinook Battle
The era of Can-Am competition that gets the most attention is the early 1970s because it was then that the cars had aluminum big block engines, horsepower numbers that nearly made them 1:1 in terms...
Which Modern Muscle Car Delivers The Most For The Least? Here’s One 13-Year Old’s Opinion
(By Tom Lohnes) – Being stuck in quarantine, I will do anything to pass time (Digital school starts this week – ed). What I do the most though, is go onto car configurators and spec the...
Cruise Ships: This Film Comparing The Dodge Monaco, Plymouth Fury, Ford Galaxy, and Chevy Impala Is Great
Now this is some 1970s goodness. You are going to see a film comparing the Dodge Monaco, Plymouth Fury, Ford Galaxy, and Chevy Impala against each other. Ok, not really. You are going to see a film...
Stock Cars Racing: A Driver’s Eye View Of The Freedom 500 Invitational Race!
For any doubters that thought Cleetus McFarland only bought a track for stupidity and YouTube stunts…well, here’s your crow to eat. Recently he ran what he dubbed the “Freedom...