Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX

Take a helmet-cam ride in a bike-powered sports racer up a Spanish hill climb course

Bike-engined hill climb cars are a bit of a European specialty with a number of companies like Wolf, Norma, and Osella producing what are essentially miniature Le Mans prototypes. With featherweight...

Here’s A $160,000 Camry That You May Want To Own And Could Be The Buy Of The Century

Put your weapons down. Drop the torches, the pitchforks, whatever that other thing is, and the bazooka. I have not lost my mind. I have not sold my soul to the devil, but what I have done is stumbled...

Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro RS 2LT Four-Cylinder – How Does GM’s Pony Car Stack Up With Only Half Of The Deck?

In the fall of 1981, the new-for-1982 Chevrolet Camaro offered up an option that pretty much told you how bad the situation was: the LQ9, better known as Pontiac’s “Iron Duke”...

For The Ultimate In Entertainment Buy This Exo-Caged Former Cop Car Crown Vic – PIT Maneuver For Lyfe!

We’re not sure that there’s a better way to spend $3,500 than there is on this former cop car Crown Vic that has been outfitted with big steel bashers front and rear, likely for PIT...

Morning Symphony: Beating On New Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s around the Nurburgring Was Never Mentioned At Career Day

So far, I haven’t worked one single job that would line up with what my guidance counselor told me I’d wind up becoming. To be fair, most of the jobs I’ve had didn’t line up...

152 Miles An Hour At Indy, Semi-Autonomously – Watch As Sam Schmidt Run Indy Using Only His Eyes And Breath!

152 miles an hour around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2016 should register much of a reaction normally, but in the case of this black Corvette Z06, it’s a milestone. Driving the car is...

Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back

I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...

James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track

Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...

CraigsList: The World’s Nicest Chevette Scooter Is Up For Sale

There’s no point in sugar-coating this: The Chevette was a miserable car from a miserable era of American motoring. The 1973 gas shortage had sent automakers into a panic and Chevy had...

Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria

If there’s anything to take away from this absolutely brutal crash in the European Formula 3 Championship last weekend, it’s that modern safety gear is entirely remarkable. Chinese driver Zhi...

Two rally cars crash into same section of woods, which promptly catches on fire

Fire is a racecar driver’s biggest fear and there are few things more frightening than the prospect of experiencing fire on a rally stage miles from any fire crew. That circumstance befell not one...

Roadkill! The Guys Celebrate The 50th Episode With Another Comparison: Every (running) Roadkill Car Against A Kia!

It’s amazing how far these two have come. From the first episode, where they road-tripped a Pontiac land yacht to picking up one of my favorite online finds of all time and confusing it with an...

Fun Video: Enduro Destruction, Amateur Two Wheeled Car Skiing, Roll Over Contest, More!

Well I think most of us roll our eyes when we see cars getting destroyed for nothing but the owner’s entertainment, I’m of the mindset that regular cars, jalopies, junkers, and high...

Will The Lowest Mile 1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette Bring Big Money? 4.1 Miles On The Odometer!

I normally spend a small part of my day chucking darts at a board with a photo of Crag Fitzgerald on it. Today I have stopped that practice for the morning and will instead tip my cap to the man...