Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
IROC Porsches: 911 RSRs Battling It Out In IROC’s First Season!
Oct 21, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on IROC Porsches: 911 RSRs Battling It Out In IROC’s First Season!
I’ve been on a bit of an IROC racing kick this week. Blame it on diving down the internet rabbit hole after finding that footage of Bobby Unser’s absolutely folded Camaro. I decided that...
Video: Stevie Fast Jackson Wins NHRA E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Title – Takes Aim With Champagne
Oct 16, 2019Brian Lohnes2
What is greatness? This is an age-old question that comes up in every sporting endeavor. Is it just winning? Is it winning with a panache that others do not have? Is it winning with the expectation...
Nine Years And Counting: The Mud Pit In Moses Lake That Won’t Be Defeated
Oct 15, 2019Bryan McTaggart4
Let’s say, just for a moment, that you were in charge of a bounty hole mud pit that, if successfully navigated, would earn the driver coin. Would you put any rules down? Maybe one that says you...
Video: NASCAR Riverside In 1965 – Gurney Dominates, Foyt Breaks His Back, The Mopars Boycott
Oct 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: NASCAR Riverside In 1965 – Gurney Dominates, Foyt Breaks His Back, The Mopars Boycott
It’s something to see videos like this. I have been immersed in reading about the history of the Indy 500 and other 1960s racing series as of late and the familiar cannon of names that competed...
Video: Mendy Fry Locks Up 2019 NHRA Heritage Series Top Fuel Title In Tulsa – Emotional Victory For Team
Oct 10, 2019Brian Lohnes3
When Tom Shelar died unexpectedly a few weeks ago, many wondered what would become of the High Speed Motorsports top fuel team. They had been dominating the 2019 season, they were the 2018 series...
Nova Monster: Steve Spiess Has A 565ci, Twin-Turbo Ford Boss Engine In His Chevy And It Flies – Drag Week Car!
Oct 09, 2019Brian Lohnes5
Steve Spiess is a bad ass. In the event you do not know who tis guy is, he’s knocked down championships in the world of IHRA mountain motor pro stock, he has started, grown, and sold companies,...
All-Terrain, Not Anti-Gravity: Extreme ATV Hillclimb At Bikini Bottoms ORV
Oct 09, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on All-Terrain, Not Anti-Gravity: Extreme ATV Hillclimb At Bikini Bottoms ORV
Jump a dirt bike? Sure. Power-slide a three-wheeler with half of my body seemingly cocked-off of one side? All day long. Take a 4×4 quad into a “puddle” on a trail so damn deep that...
Episode 4 Of The Horsepower Wars $10k Drag Shootout Is On! Builds Are In Full Swing And Burritos SUCK!!!
Oct 06, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Episode 4 Of The Horsepower Wars $10k Drag Shootout Is On! Builds Are In Full Swing And Burritos SUCK!!!
The $10k Drag Shootout is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done, and I’ve been lucky enough to do some pretty rad stuff. With a team of great dudes and the drive to win, building a car...
Watch Shawn Langdon Save His Season By Catching Jim Campbell In A Wild Pedaler At St. Louis
Oct 04, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch Shawn Langdon Save His Season By Catching Jim Campbell In A Wild Pedaler At St. Louis
Shawn Langdon won the NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway in St Louis and he managed to complete round wins by out running people, by hole-shotting...
The Cool Hot Rod: This Film Shows Car Culture, Early Drag Racing, and Even Indy 500 Fun From The Early 50s
Oct 04, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on The Cool Hot Rod: This Film Shows Car Culture, Early Drag Racing, and Even Indy 500 Fun From The Early 50s
Yeah, sure this is a propaganda film, one of the many made to combat the public perception of the so called, “Hot Rod Menace” that was afflicting the USA in the early 1950s. Kids and able...
Kicking The Rods Out During A Burnout Contest Makes This Guy Way Harder Core Than Anyone Else!
Oct 04, 2019Chad Reynolds4
It’s hard to argue with the carnage that goes on at a Cleetus and Cars event. If you aren’t entertained by it then you are probably at the wrong event, because all of the people attending...
NHRA Insider Podcast: A Championship Resurgence – Lohnes Talks To Shawn Langdon and Erica Enders About St Louis Success
Oct 02, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on NHRA Insider Podcast: A Championship Resurgence – Lohnes Talks To Shawn Langdon and Erica Enders About St Louis Success
Two interesting winners from St Louis join Lohnes on the NHRA Insider Podcast this week. Shawn Langdon had a wild Sunday and Erica Enders finally broke through some vicious bad luck which had plagued...
It’s Back! The Aussie Boosted Bronco Is Running Nearly 150mph With A ProCharger Equipped Small Block Ford
Oct 02, 2019Brian Lohnes1
The internet never forgets. Sometimes people do, but not this web of electrons that seemingly binds the world together these days. Admittedly we had let the insane Boosted Bronco out of Australia...
Carnage-Fest St Louis Edition: Rick Hord Wrecks, Luigi Novelli Grenades At Night, Tim Wilkerson Annihilates Body
Oct 02, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Carnage-Fest St Louis Edition: Rick Hord Wrecks, Luigi Novelli Grenades At Night, Tim Wilkerson Annihilates Body
When the NHRA season comes down the stretch everyone kind of finds another gear of intensity and competitiveness. Last weekend’s event at World Wide Technology Raceway outside of St Louis was...






