Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
On The 30th Anniversary Of The Accident That Ended Group B Rally, A Retrospect On Henri Toivonen
Auto racing is a dangerous sport. That hasn’t been contested since the automobile appeared, and certainly not after the first auto racing fatality. The addiction to speed, the desire to succeed...
Check Out This Creepy Introduction To A Historical British Police Special, A Rover 3500!
Here in the States, we have our historical cop cars: the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1, the Ford Crown Victoria P71, the Dodge and Plymouth 440-powered Pursuits, and more. In England, they have this: the...
Historical Footage: This Kaiser-era Jeep Commercial Is Neat! Forward Controls, CJs…and a Buster Keaton film?
Now here’s a neat find! Back in the 1950s four-wheel-drive trucks were few and far between, and usually created when one of the Big Three sent a truck to an outfitter like NAPCO to be...
Grab Some Popcorn And Watch Carfection Rate Their Eight Best Car Advertisements From The U.K.!
Good car advertisements are a rare thing nowadays, but that wasn’t always the case. It used to be that strangeness, a little self-deprecating humor, a good soundtrack or a killer mustache would...
Columbine II, The Former Presidential Lockheed VC-121A-LO, Has Taken To The Skies Once Again!
One of the few remaining Lockheed Constellations left in the world is a lot more than it initially appears. Serial Number 48-0610 isn’t a Constellation, but a VC-121A-LO, a special VIP layout...
Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio
For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...
Classic YouTube: 1986 Chevrolet IROC Z28 Camaro Advertisement
How were automotive jingles still a thing in 1986? If there is one advertising trend we are glad has gone the way of the dodo, it’s singsongy lyrics to a pop music riff, and that’s what...
Classic YouTube: Pro Stock Eliminator Footage From The 1988 Australian Drag Racing Nationals At Willowbank Raceway!
I love 1980s Pro Stock footage. You have screaming engines that the drivers are willing to rev to the moon, dry hops, burnouts in excess, yet you still have cars that are basically the cars you see...
Classic YouTube: Motor Trend Television’s Review Of The LT-4 Powered 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS 30th Anniversary
1997…things were getting better for the automotive world. The C5 Corvette had come out and was impressing auto journalists with it’s new LS1 V8. The Dodge Viper GTS was the poster car of...
Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?
The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...
This Old Snow Blower Is Definitely Weird… And Definitely Bangshift Approved!
In the past week, the US has seen some really intense weather. While some parts of the country, like The Northeast, have seemingly skipped winter and gone right to spring, other parts of the country...
Classic YouTube: A Look Back At The Early Years Of Monster Trucks! Bigfoot, USA-1, Awesome Kong, And More!
It seems long ago that monster trucks were something more than fiberglass and noise. Back when Bigfoot was without question a household name, but had other names following right behind: Awesome Kong....
Classic YouTube: Barry Johnson Literally Flying A Subaru Rally Car At The 2007 Jim Clark Rally In Scotland
I know this footage well…shortly after getting internet in my living quarters during my deployment in 2007, this footage was sent to me by a friend who wrote, “if you drove rally cars,...
Wind Noise, Water Leaks, And Horrifying Electrical Issues: This Review Of The 1979 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue Perfectly Explains The Malaise Era!
Due to my age, I don’t see the issues with cars made between about 1974 and 1985 like some older readers do. “Malaise Era”…sure, I know all about the emissions restrictions,...