Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos

Classic YouTube: Will Hoy’s 1993 British Touring Car Wreck – Punted By His Own Teammate!

Touring car racing in the 1990s ruled. The drivers were unhinged, the cars were just modified street cars, and the racing was mental on a basic race day. When competition, stress and emotions flowed...

Classic YouTube: Prototype Testing For The Lancia Delta S4 Rally Car

One of the more exciting things about the development of a new model is the spy photography that comes with it. The days of waiting to see the new models in September have been gone for years, but...

Classic YouTube: TVR Tuscan Challenge At Snetterton In 1997

TVR has always been a strangely unhinged company. They eschewed safety gear like airbags and anti-lock brakes because they don’t add to the vehicle’s performance. They built a supercar so...

Classic YouTube: Bob Mayer’s Independent Review Of The 1980 Chrysler Cordoba

I’ll let you in on a little secret about testing cars for manufacturers: they don’t like it when you are nice and honest with the cars you drive. Nowadays, the main bitches of testers...

The 1966 Winternationals Highlights, Powershifts, and A 1960s Steve Evans Doing Voice Over

There are cool old drag racing videos and then there’s THIS! We dug up this footage from the incredible drag racing archive known as YouTube. We’re not sure where the film first ran but...

Classic YouTube: Dirt-Work Hillclimbing In Colorado! Check Out This Footage From The Temple Canyon Hill Climb!

When there is nothing but mountains and fire roads around you, and you have one of the most important automotive racing events in your backyard, it’s difficult to not strap on some all-terrains...

Classic YouTube: Car And Track’s Review Of A 1971 Chevrolet Camaro 350 Rally Sport!

After slamming together the first-generation Camaro, GM knew that a quick update was going to be needed if the Camaro had a prayer against the Ford Mustang. For 1970, that prayer was answered. The...

Classic YouTube: This Mountain Dew Ad From 1985 Is Like A Lohnes Daydream: Big Trucks Everywhere!

The mind of Brian Lohnes is an incredible thing, it really is. The man is an encyclopedia of racing history, trivia facts that even die-hards would have trouble remembering, and he comes equipped...

Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!

One of the best ways to get all three of us laughing and cheering on the underdog: find the biggest car you can and make it do things it was never ever designed to do. You don’t get much bigger...

Big Wheels, Big Power, Big Body: A Look Back At The “Kut Da Check” Chevrolet Caprice

Building a monster out of a 1977-90 Chevrolet Caprice isn’t anything new. It seems like it, but it isn’t. Lohnes has had Buford T. Justice for six years now, and those in the know have...

Find The Good Parts Of Snow And Ice With A Review Of Ken Block’s Cold-Weather Shenanigans

In the span of a couple of hours, BangShift Mid-West went from nearly 70 degrees and unseasonably warm to ice and snow. Literally, twenty-four hours is all it took. One day I was cruising along the...

Classic YouTube: Testing Out BigFoot Fastrax In 1989…Make Way For The Tank!

Bob Chandler has had many variations of the BigFoot monster truck built over the years. From the first one to BigFoot 5 and it’s ten-foot-tall tires to the current fleet of race trucks that...

1970s Formula 1 Through The Eyes Of Antonio Tomaini, Scuderia Ferrari’s Manager

You know the names Niki Lauda and Mario Andretti for sure, even if you don’t normally follow Formula 1 racing. You might know the names Clay Regazzoni, or Gilles Villeneuve if you do follow...

Classic YouTube: 2005 Ford GT and Mustang GT – Ford’s Blue-Collar Exotic And Pony Car Were Riding High

Has it really been over a decade since the Ford GT and the S197 Mustang platform debuted? Yes it has, and both have stood those years very well. The GT, Ford’s present to itself and to...