Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio

For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...

Drag Video: Watch A Wild Aussie 10.5 Nova Pull A Massive Wheelie Through The Traps At 200+ MPH

It has been like Aussie Week here on BangShift so far! We’ve been running lots of video and content from the land down under and frankly there’s a reason…it is cool stuff! This...

Watch As Victory Motorcycles Earns Their Guiness World Record For Longest Motorcycle Burnout – 2.23 Miles!

If you’re going to do a PR stunt to promote your product, this is how you do it: prove that your product is capable and durable. Victory Motorcycles is currently promoting their new Octane, a...

Haulin’ Ass Without Gas: Watch As The Genovation GXE Corvette Z06 Runs 186.8 MPH In A Mile!

The beauty of an all-electric powerplant is that all of the torque is available immediately. Hit the button and whatever the number is hits the drive wheels right now. Cars like the “White...

March Meet Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car

The boys on the crew of the Mr Boston nostalgia top fuel car had a rough go of it in Bakersfield during the 2013 March Meet. The car never did what they wanted it to do and ultimately they suffered a...

The Registration Plate On This V8, RWD Hyundai Excel Says It All: “WHY NOT”

I don’t want to hear one word about this Hyundai Excel being LS-swapped. Not even from the LS hate crowd. Using the logic that it’s wrong to LS-swap a car that didn’t originally...

Corrupting Power Levels! Check Out The Finalists From Powercruise’s Powerskid Competition!

There isn’t one of the cars you will see in this video that I would not do bad things behind the wheel of. Not one. Not even the Mitsubishi sedan…I would gladly plant my carcass behind...

Classic YouTube: Tuff Truck Racing From The Pacific Northwest, Complete With Thrills, Spills, And A Celebration Injury!

We joke about thrashing the life out of a beater often, but how many of you have actually done it? We’re not talking a mild romp on a dirt road, either…we mean thrash, with extreme...

If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!

It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...

An Aussie Burnout For For The Underdog Crowd, Complete With A Blower Off To One Side! This Screaming Six-Cylinder Holden Ute Rules!

There is something so sweet about Ben Falk’s Holden HG ute killing it on the skidpad. Is it the burnout itself…no, that seems to be a skill every Aussie gearhead learns as they grow up....

Morning Melody: Enjoy The Spine-Tingling Sounds Of A Lexus LF-A Making Dyno Pulls!

Aside from the deliciously violent noises a good old V8 makes, the exhaust song that I could listen to over and over again comes from the Lexus LF-A. I first heard this car at the 2010 SEMA show, and...

Classic YouTube: Off-Roading Some Funky Subarus In Washington State

Confession: until about five years ago, I didn’t know what to call the cars you are about to see. All I knew them as were “Subaru wagons”. They weren’t Leones or Loyales or...

Classic YouTube: Snow Donuts And Drifting In A Subaru SVX, Because All-Wheel-Drive Drifting Looks Awesome!

I’m sure that at least 80% of readers are going to roll their eyes, mutter something that involves my name, the phrase “crap car” (or something like it) and move on, and...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Strap Into The Time Bomb Camaro For Some Half-Mile Runs At Ocala!

The Time Bomb Camaro, driven by brothers David and Mike Matyjasik, has been a favorite car of ours here at BangShift for years now. We’ve seen plenty of footage of this black beast ripping...