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

Are We Seriously Rooting For A Hot-Rodded Suzuki Swift? Yes We Are! Watch This Little Beast Go!

You probably would recognize it better if it was called a Geo Metro, but it’s a Suzuki Swift. Or a Suzuki Cultus. Or whatever…you know what kind of car it is, they were sold all over the...

Classic YouTube: Big Barge Ice Racing On Garfield Lake In Minnesota!

Winter weather is going to happen no matter how much you love or hate the season. The best thing you can do is to bundle up and go enjoy it, have some fun, and do anything that isn’t just...

Heavy Hauling: This Compilation Of The Trucks Of LS Fest Brings Back Good Summertime Memories!

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will make you miss the hot summer days quite like resorting to a soft-blow hammer and a flat blade screwdriver to chisel your way into your own car, or taking a pocket...

The Perfect Recipe: This Turbocharged Fox Notchback Is The Right Combination!

You don’t mess with the combination when success is guaranteed. You might try a different thing here or there, but when the engine, trans, suspension and even the hook is right, you just...

Find The Good Parts Of Snow And Ice With A Review Of Ken Block’s Cold-Weather Shenanigans

In the span of a couple of hours, BangShift Mid-West went from nearly 70 degrees and unseasonably warm to ice and snow. Literally, twenty-four hours is all it took. One day I was cruising along the...

Cleetus In An Aussie Burnout Contest! Watch As He Whips This LS-Powered Toyota Around!

Aussies love to shoot their mouths off about how no American can actually do a proper burnout. We happen to know some people with a wood-covered 1980s station wagon that could play that game quite...

Refueling While Tandem Drifting – This Is How You Keep A BMW Sideways For Over Eight Hours!

Eight hours sideways without stopping…that’s the record that BMW wanted to claim with their new variation of the M5 sport sedan. That’s a lofty goal, when you look at the logistics...

Tough Truck Racing For Breast Cancer Awareness – A Good Event For A Good Cause!

No gearhead worth their salt needs an excuse to go out, get behind the wheel, and play a little. If there’s a few free moments and gas in the tank, stand back and watch the entertainment. But...

Testing For Sevens: This Holden VL Cuts The Number On A 255 Radial Tire!

Remember back when you needed a big balloon slick to make enough grip to grab the track to make a single-digit pass? Now you’ve got folks with nearly stock tire sizes and no tubs whatsoever...

Winter Weather Have You Stuck? Sit Back And Watch Some SLMRA Lawnmower Ice Racing!

As I type this, I’m looking out the window of the office and I’m watching Mother Nature coat everything around BangShift Mid-West in a fine mist that is going to freeze up and make all...

As High As You Can: This Blazer Went Stargazing At Byron!

The Byron Wheelstanding competition is one of those love-it-or-hate-it events that happens throughout the year. You either love it because it’s raw power turning into wheelstands that get the...

Here’s Something We All Can Enjoy: A Small-Block Powered Porsche 914 Running Elevens!

The Porsche 914…the half-hearted Porsche. If you’re unfamiliar with these things, here’s the quick and dirty version: Porsche wanted to replace the 912 and Volkswagen wanted to...

Watch At The Hoonigan Team Welcome In The New Year Right: Eighteen Car Tire Fire!

The Hoonigan folks are car geeks to the core. Videos, jokes, and all of that mess are secondary to the machines. Everybody who hangs around the shop on a full-time basis has their car ready to go:...

This Rally-Racing Plymouth Valiant Rules! Watch This Classic A-body Tear Through The Forests!

Just like the Ford Falcon and the Chevy II, the Valiant was only meant to be the compact car that buyers wanted, that Detroit really didn’t want to build. Just like the other two, the Valiant...