Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, RACING & ACTION, TECH, Videos
Lo Car VS Hi Car: Can A $450 Brake Upgrade Hang With A $4,500 Brake Upgrade?
Dec 20, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Lo Car VS Hi Car: Can A $450 Brake Upgrade Hang With A $4,500 Brake Upgrade?
There are certain truths that we hold to be self evident here at BangShift. The first is that physics and the laws therein are pretty damned accurate. The second is that hot rodders always want to...
Reindeer Games: This Fun and Goofy Video From Holley Is ALL About The Tire Smoke!
Dec 18, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Reindeer Games: This Fun and Goofy Video From Holley Is ALL About The Tire Smoke!
Every year Holley Performance comes up with a funny video for their “Happy Holley Days” promotion which carries the company through the Christmas season. This year is no different and...
Goodwood Video: Here’s The 10 Best Moments Of The Last 10 Years At Goodwood
Dec 17, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Goodwood Video: Here’s The 10 Best Moments Of The Last 10 Years At Goodwood
There have been hundreds of different cars that have run up the hill at Lord March’s house in England during the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival over the last decade. The...
Yellow Bullet Nationals Video: Check Out This Killer Video From The East Coast’s Labor Day Drag Racing Bash!
Dec 17, 2019Brian Lohnes1
What makes something good? In the case of art like this video it needs to appeal to some sense that you have. Maybe you like the music, the visual, the editing style, it has to strike you somewhere...
This Volvo C70 Is One Bad Mother: 200+ MPH And The Ability To Drag A Literbike!
Dec 16, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on This Volvo C70 Is One Bad Mother: 200+ MPH And The Ability To Drag A Literbike!
The Volvo C70 coupe normally wouldn’t be anything more than a quick radar blip for BangShift: It was the first two-door coupe from Volvo since the 1990 Bertone-designed 780, and…well,...
Makin’ The Clouds – In The Skidpad At Cleetus And Cars!
Dec 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Makin’ The Clouds – In The Skidpad At Cleetus And Cars!
Alright…you’ve feasted on the turkey, you spent another few days noshing on the leftovers…which are finally gone, right?…and now we are looking at Christmas right in the...
Here’s Footage Of The Tunnel-Rammed Gran Fury Cop Car Getting Wild During Lahti Cruising
Dec 11, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Here’s Footage Of The Tunnel-Rammed Gran Fury Cop Car Getting Wild During Lahti Cruising
A couple of days ago we showed you this 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury ex-cop that has made the trip across the pond to the Scandinavia area. While we are still unsure of where the car is based out of, we...
Rare Footage: The Chase Scene From Gone In 60 Seconds 2, H.B. Halicki’s Unfinished Film
Dec 09, 2019Bryan McTaggart4
Henry Blight “Toby” Halicki is legendary in Hollywood for his car chase scenes. If you’ve seen the original 1974 version of Gone In 60 Seconds or The Junkman, you know that the...
Classic YouTube: Early 1990s Super Stock Class Eliminations At Indy! All Sticks Shrieking Engines, Dry Hops, And Gear Jamming!
Dec 09, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
I didn’t go looking for old racing footage for nostalgia’s sake this time. Between 1990 and 1992, when this footage from the NHRA US Nationals at Indy was captured, I was a young kid who...
Garlits Speaks: Listen To Big Daddy Talk About His Electric Dragster, His New Team Up With Holley Evi And More!
Dec 09, 2019Brian Lohnes17
To the unknowing, he is an older guy, short in stature, and packing a set of Popeye looking forearms that have been built up doing God knows what. To gearheads, he is the living embodiment of...
Morning Symphony: A DZ302-Powered Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am Showing Off
Dec 07, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
Thought the 302ci small-block Chevy was a Camaro-only unit? Nope. See, in South Africa, touring car racing is very popular, and in the early 1970s, Chevrolet had a problem: the Ford Capri Perana....
Unhinged: World’s Fastest Christmas Tree…Because The Season Doesn’t Come Fast Enough?
Dec 04, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
There are few things in the world that will make me roll my eyes and sprout a headache faster than internet challenges. I hate this crap. It’s as bad as a chain letter…”Hey,...
European Remix: BMW-Powered, RWD Volkswagen GTI…Watch It Dance!
Nov 30, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on European Remix: BMW-Powered, RWD Volkswagen GTI…Watch It Dance!
So, a fun fact about my family: I have a brother (the next oldest, since I’m the first) who is big into music. We both are to a degree, but I quit teaching drum lessons shortly after I left...
Best of 2019: Watch This Drag Racer In Thailand Battle A Power Wheelie On His Motorcycle
Nov 29, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Best of 2019: Watch This Drag Racer In Thailand Battle A Power Wheelie On His Motorcycle
We have long preached the fact that perhaps even more than soccer, drag racing is the most internationally diverse activity human beings participate in. Every developed nation (and some undeveloped...






