Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Across All Lines: This Rusty 1972 Porsche 911S Speaks To Everyone Who Loves Honest Old Cars
There are certain things that literally cut across all the boundary lines of the automotive world. Things that hot rodders, european car enthusiasts, truck guys, and racers alike can appreciate. One...
Drift Video: How COMP Cams and Taylor Hull Racing Have Teamed Up With Big Results
The world of drifting continues to evolve here in America. It is a motorsports that began on the fringes, captured a generation of sideways loving, tire smoke admiring kids, and continues to refine...
Violent Outburst: Dean Kearney’s Drift Viper Going Balls-Out At Hoonigan!
For the most part, I’m a team player. I follow traffic laws. I open doors for others. I try to be as neutral as possible…partly because I’m fully aware that I can be intimidating to...
Work Truck Wednesday: Bringing A 1969 GMC Back To Life After Living Out In The Open For Years
The old farm truck at the edge of the property that hasn’t moved in years bit is almost cliché at this point. Whether it’s a 1940s Ford, a Power Wagon with the paint flaking off of the...
Dyno Catastrophe: Watch This Diesel Truck Explode And Burn At The Ultimate Callout Challenge
This is literally as bad as it gets. You are going to see the monstrously powerful DRD Diesel built pickup truck on the chassis dyno at the Ultimate Callout Challenge event in Indiana suffer a simply...
Two Wheels And One Cylinder: Time Lapse Rebuild Of A Kawasaki KE100 Engine Is Awesome To Watch
The ring-a-ting-ting of a two stroke engine is really something that fires the synapses of any gearhead’s brain. It is the sound of fun, really. Go karts, dirt bikes, and weird homebuilt...
Buyer Beware Video: This Duster Looked Like A Good Buy…Until Tony DeFeo Actually Looked At It In Person
We’ve literally all been there. The car we wanted for (close to) the price we wanted to pay for it. It’s exciting and exhilarating to go and see this thing that’s been the object of...
The Good Old Days: Working In A Sulzer Plant Back In The 1930s
When Kevin Brown sent me the link to this video, I noted gigantic metal parts and instantly had to click. So what if the footage is in black-and-white, if there’s large-scale engines and...
The Honda Trail 70 Revival: Can’t Run Well If It Can’t Get Any Fuel!
Welcome back to my latest obsession, the revival of this 1972 Honda CT-70 minibike. I’m all about this semi restoration project because I bombed around fire roads and trails in the Pacific...
WTF IS THAT: The Bad, Worse And Just Plain Disgusting Sides Of Maintaining Old Buses
The closest thing I have to compare working on buses made shortly after World War II, like the guy behind Bus Grease Monkey does on a regular basis, is Army motorpool work, where pretty much...
The V8 Lada Swap: The Russian Freakshow Is Now A Twin-Stick!
The last time we saw this Lada, the one that has had a V8 engine from a ZiL work truck dumped into the engine bay, we got to see torque on display, and not much else. The 7.0L engine is not a rev...
Build, Break, Now Repair: Fixing Problems In A 1955 Chevy With Hoonigan (And Daughter!)
It’s been a minute since the infamous race at the Winternationals between Jon Chase and Mike Finnegan. Both sides had serious problems with their 1955 Chevrolets, but ultimately it was Chase...
Mired Down In The Bog: Buried To The Frame At The Buck Motorsports Mud Bog
Ah, mud, the final frontier for keeping your foot buried to the floor for as long as you dare. The only thing stopping you from redlining your engine until the fuel is gone is the threat of blowing...
Heroic Honda: The Reunion Of A Mid-Engined Civic And It’s Builder
From the moment the kid in the blue 1999 Civic Si started stomping on my last nerve with cleats on, I have had a passionate bent against Honda products. Civics, CRXs, Accords,...