Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Video: 30 Years Ago The Stirling External Combustion Engine Was Tested By The Government – Where Did It Go?
We’ve heard of the Stirling External Combustion Engine before but we never knew that they were not only built but also used and tested by the US Government, specifically the Department of...
Cool Video: The Interesting History Of Tony Stewart’s Last Winning NASCAR Stock Car
Race cars are ultimately tools or implements designed to get a specific job done in a specific way. They are not things that have feelings, a brain, or the ability to communicate. Well, sometimes we...
2023 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet – The Iron Trap Boys Found Some Gold!!
Carlisle, the name alone just makes hot rodders drool. It is one of those iconic swap meets that signals the start of hot rodding season, and gets east coasters out and about to collect more parts...
Muscle Car Hoard Found in Oklahoma! How Do These Still Exist? Patrick Glenn Nichols Finds Them
Whenever a collection of cars like this come to light in the public I’m blown away. Intelligently, I know that these things exist all over the place, but when you see them it just makes my...
What Is An East Coast Hot Rod – Hot Rodding 101 With Iron Trap Garage
Traditional hot rods are where everything we do ultimately came from. While hot rodding may find a lot of its roots on the west coast, the east coast was super influential in the hot rodding and...
A Legend In His Own Words: This Feature On Smokey Yunick Is So Awesome As He’s The One Telling The Stories
There’s few things more awesome than seeing old video of a legend telling their own stories. Yes, this is a relatively short clip, lasting a total of about five minutes but it’s fantastic...
Is 1990s F1 Noise The Best F1 Noise? Listen To This 3.5L V10 Williams FW15 Attack Goodwood and Prove Us Wrong!
If there is one thing that defined Formula One for a generation of people like me when I was a kid, it was the sound. These were the race cars that sounded like none other. I could hear small engines...
Good Ol’ Charlie Brown: Watch Mike Boyles’ 283ci 4-speed 1957 Chevy Wagon Clean House In IHRA Super Stock
There are cars in drag racing that just seem to lead charmed lives. They are lovingly cared for by their owners, they win races all the time, and they just seem completely timeless. Such is the case...
Gearhead Video: The Restoration Of This Weirdly Awesome 100 Year Old Ball Shaped Electric Motor Rules
We all seemed to have loved the recent restoration video about the Maytag gas engine last week so it is only right that we follow it up with something even more interesting and different. The...
Comfy Cruiser: This 1984 Chevrolet Caprice Review Revels In The Platform’s Longevity And It Still Had a Decade More To Go
There are some telling words at the end of this MotorWeek review of the 1984 Chevy Caprice. Those words point to a future where cars will have the same amount of interior room as a 1984 Caprice but...
Neat History: This 1970s In-Depth News Feature About Drag Racing In New Zealand Is Great – Fuelers!
Now this is pretty awesome. You are about to take a trip back in time to the 1970s and more importantly that trip will take us to a couple of the country’s drag strips like Thunder Park to see...
A Sporting Venture: In 1985 Ford Tried To Add Excitement To The Mercury Topaz, We Stress Tried
Did you ever just have cars you hated no matter what? The Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz were those cars for me. I know they were needed in the lineup but all the way until their demise in the 1990s I...
Victory Lap: This 1960s NASA Video Celebrates the Mercury Program’s Success And Is Awesome
We here at BangShift have never been quiet about our live for the US space program and the incredible magic it produced for decades. The famed Mercury Seven were perhaps the most brave and heroic...
