Category Archive: Apex Project Cars, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, OTHER, Project Cars, TECH, Videos
The SRT-4 Powered MG Midget: Suspension Design And Engine Mockup
We’ve been following a couple of deep-work builds, like the Mongrel and Project Binky. We love that people are using YouTube to kind of document their work…you might not see every single...
Don’t Care, Hook It Up: Everything Can Be Hooked To A Pulling Sled!
You know what the beautiful part of the pulling sled? It doesn’t matter what you hook to it, there will be a crowd around waiting to see what happens next. It’s kind of a solid bet when a...
FCA Has Brought Back The Warlock – Needs More Hemi And More Stakebed!
Call me a little bit suspicious if you must, but there is something quite familiar about the newly introduced 2019 Ram 1500 Classic Warlock. Obviously, the nameplate is a surprise…the Warlock...
Classic YouTube: Selling The AMC Gremlin Against The Volkswagen Beetle
By 1970, the competition for small, economical and cheap cars had finally become a pain in the ass of American automakers, one that was big enough to cause some discomfort. Japanese companies had...
Morning Symphony: Screaming Through Rainbow Canyon At Low Level
In military terms, it’s a section of the desert northeast of Los Angeles known to aviators as “The Complex”. In general aviation terms, it’s R-2508 and you better have your...
Rough Start: This 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Done – LS-Swapped And Turn-Key!
Calm down, anti-LS brigade, it’s not worth the fight today. Cheap-car hunting and GM’s current golden child of an engine normally don’t go hand-in-hand unless you have no problem...
Accel’s Ceramic Boot Spark Plug Wires Are Hot Exhaust Proof And Now Available In Black
I’ve had the pleasure of using Accel’s Ceramic booted plug wires on engines on the dyno at Westech and can tell you that these things are capable of handling anything your headers can...
Tow Pig Greatness? This Phantom Dodge Crew Cab Shortbed Dually Just Needs A Fifth Wheel!
So the other day Chad brought up the question of what kind of tow rig you would pick if you were transported back to 1975. It’s a good question, though you could realistically expand the years...
Unhinged: Car Culture Clashes Spoken Eloquently And Dead-On Perfect
(Photos: Speedhunters/Matthew Everingham) You would think that it’s just a quick jibe, a line that is meant to be nothing more than some good-natured ribbing. You would think that what...
Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Gets A New “Fresh” 4.8 With Hopes Of Running In The 8’s Soon!
The Auction Corvette is no stranger to breaking engines, after all it had done it before Cleetus even bough the damn thing. It has stuck to that script since he did purchase it, and now it is in need...
Super Semi Pulling Trucks – When In Doubt, Grab A Lower Gear And Give It Hell!
Semi tractors, dump trucks, heavy wreckers…they are all the workhorses of the Interstates, the farms, the factories. You see eighteen wheels, you know that someone is working somewhere and that...
High Roller: Mickey Thompson Offers Its First Off-Road Only Tire – It Is Bad Ass
When one thinks of an “off-highway” performance tire, you’re likely seeing a drag racing slick in your head. What if we told you that Mickey Thompson has just released the off-road...
Romp And Talk Video: Ride With Jim Pace As He Laps Daytona In A Shelby Daytona and Narrates The Lap!
There is nothing like hearing someone who is really good at something describe how to do it…as they do it. In this video we get the road racing version of just that as Jim Pace laps Daytona in...
Watch The Emergency West Wheelstander Perform At Great Lakes Dragaway
There have been dozens and dozens of notable wheel standers in the annals of drag racing but few of them were as BangShifty cool as the Emergency West wheelstander. We’re talking about a 1977...