Category Archive: Apex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
A Bagged 1978 Lada?!?! Yeah, It’s Bitchin As All Hell
Aug 26, 2016Chad Reynolds8
Lada, the Russian car we’ve all come to recognize from any movie, news, or pictures from the Soviet Union. But we certainly aren’t used to seeing them air ride equipped, and sporting wide...
The Parting Shift: Ride In An Aussie V8 SuperCar Up The Goodwood Driveway Course
Aug 26, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: Ride In An Aussie V8 SuperCar Up The Goodwood Driveway Course
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a bucket list event for virtually every gearhead on the planet and the reason is pretty simple. You can see cars from just about every era, country, and style of...
It’s Over: Steve Kinser Announces He’s Done Racing Sprint Cars After Lebanon Valley NY Race
Aug 25, 2016Brian Lohnes4
At 62 years old the greatest sprint car racer who ever lived has decided that he’s had enough. After winning more than 600 feature races, claiming the Knoxville Nationals title a dozen times,...
It’s Udder Insanity When Cows Interrupt This 2014 Canadian Rally Stage
Rally drivers compete with a lot of obstacles while pushing their cars hard on some of the world’s most challenging racing conditions. Road conditions vary greatly across the miles of a given stage...
Even In a Commercial, A Running Diesel Oldsmobile Is Kind Of Amazing
As its name suggests, the Malaise Era was a truly miserable period of American car manufacturing. The last 1970s and early 1980s found carmakers struggling to produce fuel economy in line with...
Project BSx: Where We Try To Keep A Nova From Becoming A Future Barn Find
Aug 24, 2016Brian Lohnes4
(Words and photos by John Ulazek) – Introducing Project BSx. While we batted around a lot of ridiculous names for this project we are going to keep it simple, BangShift X-body gives us BSX.For...
Major Style Points: This 1959 Cadillac DeVille Owner Took the Car Autocrossing in Dubai
Autocross. The word conveys an image of auto enthusiasts pitching Miatas and CRXs and BMWs and Porsches around a cone-sea in an open parking lot. The nimble little cars squeak through slaloms and...
Ouch! This Evo’s Engine Annihilates Itself at a Track Day in Australia
Sandown Raceway in Australia is one heck of a place. The racing circuit is built around the outside of a horse racing track and hosts one of the big three endurance races on the Virgin Supercars...
Morning Symphony: Listen To These BMW M3s Rip Up A Tight Drift Course!
Aug 24, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
For this morning’s aural treat, we are going straight to the sharp howl of the E36 series BMW M3’s 3.2L inline-six. If you want to see what true brand loyalty looks like, ask a BMW fan...
Here’s a Curious, Sharp-Looking Javelin For Sale In AMC Racing Livery
While American Motors Corporation is perhaps best-known in the general populace as company that built the oddly proportioned Pacer and Gremlin, AMC also produced a few iconic muscle cars. The...
This Kellison Kit Car Is Hemi Powered And On A C1 Corvette Chassis
Aug 22, 2016Chad Reynolds6
This one seems a little odd to us, but we’re down because you don’t see these Kellison kits very often and we dig them. The body on these things is super sexy and cool, with an aggressive...
This Cayman Spins On the Nurburgring At 150 MPH and Somehow Doesn’t Hit Anything
Ah, the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, that narrow 15-mile ribbon of asphalt winding through the Eiffel Mountains in western Germany. The harrowing “Green Hell” has crunched up many a car during...
In Australia, NASCAR Only Used To Turn Right
If you’re a devoted fan of The Simpsons, you already know the most important question about crossing the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere: When you flush a toilet, does the water swirl the...
Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
Aug 22, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
It’s no secret that we at BangShift love the McLaren M8 Can-Am cars: They’re absolutely brutal machines with big displacement, big noise, big power, and requiring big commitment from a driver. As...