Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Unreal: This Exhaustive List Featuring The Greatest Lemons Cars Ever Is Filled With BangShifty Gold
From the whimsical, to the weird, to the genius, to the diabolical the 24 Hours of LeMons racing series has inspired hundreds, hell, thousands of car builds over the time it has existed that would...
Tuesday Night With BangShift Chad On The Nitro Report! Get Your Dose!
Tonight, watch BangShift’s Chad Reynolds when he joins Donnie Couch and Darr Hawthorne and Bruce Barker on the Nitro Report from the West Coast Funny Car Factory Studios tonight December 29th at...
$10,000 For A 3rd Gen With Suspension, Baer Brakes, And A 530 Horse Small Block? Sounds Good To Us
It’ not often you find a car for $10,000 that has this much good stuff in it. This 3rd Gen Camaro, which is becoming a hot car to build right now, has a Dart SHP small-block that makes 530...
This 1969 Mustang Was Built As A Drag Strip Terror And Restored To Factory Original Goodness
When looking at old cars, the options that the original buyer specified from the factory tell a ton of stuff about how the car was intended to be used and what kind of buyer the person was. In the...
Craigslist Hilarity: This Ad For A Beautiful Survivor 1964 Impala SS Is Awesome!
We LOVE a good Craigslist ad and we know that many of you do as well. Know who else is in the club? Voice of the NHRA Alan Reinhart. He’s the gearhead who sent me the link to the ad we’re...
You Can Own A Legit 200 mph 4th Gen Camaro Right Now!
There are a lot of people who make claims as to the performance numbers of their cars. And some big portion are all bullshit. This is not one of those cases. This car has been featured in multiple...
Best of BS 2015: “Miscalculation” Is A Fun Short Film That Shows OUSCI Competitors Overshooting The Stop Box At The Speed Stop Challenge
(By Scott Parker) – The speed stop portion of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational is a devilishly simple looking thing but it is very, very hard to win. The point of the exercise is to...
Best Of BS 2015: Happiness Is Running A Snotty F100 Through An Autocross Like You Own The Place
This is pretty much what a Craftsman Truck would look like circa 1971, and that’s awesome to us. This Ford F100 makes the right noises, dances properly, and rips through the cones of this Texas...
AMC Fans Rejoice! Use Your Christmas Money To Buy This Running, Driving, Rust Free Javelin!
Want to be a pro touring bad ass? Are you an AMC junky? Most people would say “Good luck! Ha ha ha”. But not me. I say buy this running, driving, straight, clean, rust free 1972 Javelin...
This 1966 Pontiac Lemans Is A Steal And Ready For Pro Touring Excellence!
We wouldn’t even make it into a GTO like most people, we’d just leave it clean and simple and make stupid power with the Poncho and a supercharger or turbo, and then back it up with great...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution – We Work The Final Evo Ever
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It’s over. The longstanding and natural born rival to the Subaru WRX, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will cease to exist as a production model after...
Ford’s SnoKhana 4: Ho Ho Hokhana Is Cute, Funny, And Really Makes Us Want A Focus RS
For the last few years, Ford has been putting out a fun video during Christmas time, normally featuring stop action style film making and toy cars. This year they have taken that concept and ramped...
A Break In The Case? Fitzgerald Has Come Up With Some Cool Info In The Case Of The Junkyard Hot Rod
Ever been to a movie where two warring factions are suddenly faced with a common enemy so they stop fighting each other and join forces for victory? Neither have we. The point is that Craig...
Alternate Fox Body Pro-Touring Machine That’s Already On Its Way.
Looking for a reasonably priced car to get into the Pro Touring movement with? Need a good Christmas gift for the family corner carver? This 1984 Mercury Capri could be just the ticket. It’s a...