Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Morning Symphony: A Coyote-Powered 1987 Cougar Ripping Around Sears Point
(Photo: DW Burnett via Drunken Squirrel Racing) Color me shocked: very few people bother with 1987-88 Mercury Cougars as a fun vehicle. I can find a few builds from old CarDomain pages, and there is...
Work Truck Dreaming: This 1977 Dodge Power Wagon Is Very Worthy
The desire for a truck has hit hard, readers. Real hard. I’ve only owned two actual pickups and if we want to get picky about it, a total of four truck-ish vehicles. Three of those are Dodge...
Your Moment Of Zen: Meet Ford’s Sweaty Bum Robot And Watch It Test Out New Seats
Did you make that omnipresent New Year’s Resolution to lose some weight? Are you a trackside photographer who works mere yards from a river in a location that naturally sees temperatures over...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Take On The New Crop Of YouTube Mechanics?
Today’s question starts out with a video series on YouTube that kicked off at the beginning of the year on the D.I.Y. Gang YouTube channel. A 2016 Dodge Challenger Hellcat that saw the wrong...
This 1983 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler Is The Vehicle From The Year I Was Born I Could Use Right About Now
I hate playing the “what car from the year you were born” game. 1983 didn’t offer up a lot of positive options. The Fox Mustang is a solid choice, but it wasn’t that much of...
$300 Charmer: Junkyard Digs Drags A Beater Oldsmobile Home!
I hate to be a spoilsport of sorts, but this Oldsmobile Delta 88 has already been sold off. I know, because I was privy to the whole thing from beginning to end. Kevin from Junkyard Digs had been...
The Auction Mistake Corvette Has A New Heartbeat! See Cleetus Get Dirty Putting The New Mill Together!
The last time we nosed around Cleetus’s neck of the woods with the Auction Mistake Corvette, it was right about the time he absolutely and utterly fragged the engine while on a dragstrip pass....
Resolved Issue: This 1971 Chevy Vega Wagon’s Biggest Failing Has Been Fixed
You want to say that GM tried with the Vega. You really do. And I’m sure that someone, somewhere, in a corner office that had no windows fully intended on building a good compact car....
BangShift Question Of The Day: Does A Dual-Clutch Overrule A Manual Transmission?
It would figure that something would be complaint-worthy about the 2020 Ford Shelby GT500. Moments after the presentation had happened at the North American International Auto Show, you could see a...
Extra Crispy: Anybody Interested In Some Roasted Superbird?
Chances are good that if you’re a die-hard, dyed in the wool Mopar geek, that you’re looking at that picture and are screaming to yourself in utter agony. That is…was…a 1970...
Money No Object: A True GOAT – Clean Body, Clean Interior, 428 Pontiac Power!
The kid in me wants to go out to the nearest store and see if he can locate the scale version of this 1970 Pontiac GTO. It shouldn’t be too difficult…restored body, redline tires with...
Synergistic: An SN-95 Mustang Packing A Toyota 2JZ Inline-Six. Cue The Hate Mail!
Some people can’t survive on watching the world burning alone. They have to stand next to the flames with a can of Jet A and insist on throwing cupfuls of fuel onto the fire just to make sure...
Family Car Greatness: This 1979 Chevrolet Malibu Beats The Hell Out Of Driving A Crossover Everyday!
Among the many interesting cars that I grew up riding in the back seat of, there’s only one car I genuinely wished stayed put instead of being moved on. I couldn’t tell you what year...
