Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX

Watch This Ford Fiesta Rally Car Jump Half A Football Field At Rally Sweden! Woah Mamma!

(By Eric Rood) – Ah, Rally Sweden, the world’s best snow rally. When not contending with mixed ice and snow conditions on the country’s back roads, drivers are fighting the difficulty of...

This 1970 Dodge D100 May Be The Neatest Pickup Truck We’ve Seen – Awesome In Every Way

There was flood of words that come to the tip of my tongue when I saw this truck and none of them are printable. I unabashedly love every inch of this rig and what’s even better than the looks...

Swapped Freak: This Caddy 4.9L V8 Powered 1981 Citation X-11 Has A Four Speed – Want It?

All swaps are not created equal. Some are weird for the sake of being weird. Some are entertaining because they are so wrong, and some, like this one are just plain interesting and different. The car...

Check Out This 1940 Studebaker Six Making Some Dyno Pulls – Low-Po Cool!

What kind of person sticks an old Studebaker flathead on an engine dyno? What kind of person builds a pretty awesome tubular intake and header for it? The same type of person who wants to make sure...

SCCA Track Night In America Driven By TireRack Returns For 2016! 7 Venues Added – This Rules!

  The best program that the SCCA has ever created returns for 2016! Track Night in America is greatness because it is a no hassle, all fun way for you to get your street car onto a road course...

This 1955 Imperial Newport Is A 331ci Hemi Powered Survivor That We’d Cruise As Is

In our fair opinion, there are few things cooler than a legitimate survivor car. Not something that has been dragged from a barn on its last legs and about to break in half but a car that has...

Last To First In One Lap! This Spec Miata Racer Schools The Field IN A HURRY!

(by Eric Rood) – We’re always big fans of last-to-first charges here at BangShift, but this one might take the cake. Spec Miata racing pits identical Mazda roadsters against each other in a...

24 Hours Of LeMons Barber Action Gallery and Race Report – Cool Stuff Here!

(By Eric Rood) –  I’ve taken most of the week to catch up on work and sleep after a long drive back to Chicago from the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham,...

Pro Touring Video: A Look At The 2015 Midwest Muscle Car Challenge – Great Action and Fun

The 2015 Midwest Muscle Car Challenge brought some of the coolest pro touring cars and people from across the country to Indiana and they’re planning on doing it again in 2016. The...

24 Hours Of LeMons Video: Where There’s Smoke, There’s A Dying Mini-Van Barfing Trans Fluid

(By Eric Rood) – Sometimes, a team (aptly named Bad Decisions Racing) race a GM U-body minivan in the 24 Hours of LeMons. And sometimes, that van blows a transmission line three minutes before...

Video: A Profile Of Dave Marcis, NASCAR Legend And Current ECTA LSR Racer

The man with the drift and the three pound sledge in the lead photo is NASCAR great Dave Marcis. It isn’t the only time you’ll see him beating on one of his race cars with a hammer in...

The List: Here Are The Top 5 NASCAR Races Of The Last 30 Years (Videos)

(By Matthew Young) – As one of America’s favorite sporting events, NASCAR was born from the days when moonshiners would race to beat the law and each other to get their product to...

Project Cellar Dweller Update: We Finish Teardown, Decide On Power, Lay Down Paint, and Pick Parts

We’re back with an update on the father/son BangShift go kart build that we’re calling Project Cellar Dweller. To catch you back up to speed in case you missed the introduction to this...

Eastwood’s Hands On Cars With Kevin Tetz Show Us How To Strip Paint and Finish The Bottom Of Your Ride!

As great as building cars is, it also sucks. Or at least it does when you get to certain jobs. Jobs like finishing and painting the bottom side of your hot rod can be a royal pain in the ass. After...