Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Morning Symphony: Gene Felton’s IMSA Chevrolet Nova At Road Atlanta
Jul 29, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Gene Felton is not a guy you’d want to line up with on a road course anywhere. The gentleman can wheel pretty much whatever you put him in, though he’s done fantastic work in IMSA in the...
SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...
Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!
You know what makes a turd like a 1989 Hyundai decent to drive? A manual transmission. Same goes for a Ford Festiva, a Dodge Ram 50, an early 1990s Beretta, and many other cars we’d love to...
Classic YouTube: Car And Track’s Review Of The 1969 Avanti II – Of Course A Blown 327 Was Going To Be Fun!
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Studebaker had been dead for three years when this Car and Track test took place. The car, an Avanti II, had roots that dated back to 1962 and had been in and out of production…Studebaker...
The Full Kit: A Solid Old Land Rover That Has Everything You’d Ever Need
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Land Rover and Jeep have both followed similar paths: war horses turned off-road legends…that somehow morphed into luxo-tanks that people spend stupid money on. Look at vehicles like the Evoque...
The Swan Song: The Corvette ZR1 Is The Final Form Of The C7 Platform
Jul 27, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
The ZR1 is the final form of the C7 Corvette. GM admits this freely, though they won’t say squat about what’s coming down the pike. (The tours through Bowling Green Assembly are still a...
Just Drive It! Nothing Is Better Than Putting A Dodge Viper GTS To Work!
Jul 27, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
The Dodge Viper GTS…when the original RT/10 roadster showed it’s face in production form, it was simply a great nod to the AC/Shelby Cobra and Carroll Shelby’s legacy. It was also a...
Morning Symphony: The 1987 Volkswagen Golf II – Double The Engines, Double The Fun!
Jul 27, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The 1987 Volkswagen Golf II – Double The Engines, Double The Fun!
Picture this: it’s 1987, and Pikes Peak is coming up quickly. Everybody and their mother is running recently orphaned Group B rally cars. The mountain still has dirt stages, drivers have more...
Amateur Hour Done Right: Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge, Doorhandle To Doorhandle!
Jul 26, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Amateur Hour Done Right: Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge, Doorhandle To Doorhandle!
Normally, the idea of spectator drag racing in our heads involves a small asphalt circle track, a motley crew of machines, and an announcer that sounds like Lohnes after a few beers in his system,...
Hot Doggin’: Ride Along As An Oscar Meyer Weinermobile Takes On Circuit Of The Americas!
Jul 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
I know that seeing an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is supposed to be a throwback to innocent times, where toy Weenie Whistles and tasty hot dogs meant good times for all. Which is why every time I write...
Classic YouTube: Meeting The 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo…It Was A Solid Effort!
Jul 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
The Dodge Daytona of the 1980s was proof of a couple of things. One was that Chrysler had zero trouble recycling names…”Daytona” had last been seen on a late-B body Charger as a...
Shelby Meets Crown Vic: Cleetus’s “Project Neighbor” Crown Victoria Is A Monster!
Jul 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
Cleetus has been working on “Project Neighbor”, a hybrid of a Ford Police Interceptor and what was left of a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 that had been balled up pretty badly....
Another One Returns To The Road: This Bullnose Ford Gets A Second Lease On Life!
Jul 24, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Heritage vehicles don’t exist in my family. They don’t stick around long enough. Looking back over thirty-plus years of vehicles, and not one lasted longer than ten years. The ’82...
The Pie In The Sky Idea: Take A Look Back At The Evolution Of The Flying Car
Jul 24, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Some ideas are way too ambitious, and ever since the automobile appeared and two brothers figured out that whole flying thing in North Carolina, the idea of a flying car has been ingrained in the...