AA/Fuel Altereds are without question, the most stupidly brutal and maladjusted cars to ever set slick on a drag strip. Essentially an engine stand with a supercharged fuel burning engine bolted to it, their lack of wheelbase causes every whack of the throttle to become an unpredictable test of the pilot’s driving ability. Here’s the crazy part. Apparently, these things will try to kill you going backward as well as forward.

As this video starts we surmise that the driver has completed his burnout and had backed up. Apparently the reverser is stuck and will not disengage. As the driver and a crew man struggle with the car, it either overpowers the feeble rear bakes or they fail and the driver becomes the pilot of an unguided, rearward moving missile.

The announcer seems to indicate that everyone makes it out of this ordeal OK. You really have to see it to believe it though. It is wild stuff and shows one of the true nightmate drag strip scenarios, a runaway car.