Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
The Wile E. Drop Test: How Volvo Is Mangling Cars In The Name Of Rescue Training
Translate from metric to standard at your leisure, but 30 meters in the air is roughly 100 feet. 100 feet in the air, dangling from a guide wire, with some schmoe hanging on to the emergency release...
Riding The Washington State Ferries During A Windstorm Wasn’t A Good Idea…
For the most part, riding the Washington State Ferry service is a pleasant affair. You drive onto one end of the ferry, let the workers chock your car, then you head up into the passenger cabin for a...
Classic YouTube: Crash-Testing The NASCAR SAFER Barrier, Just To Make Sure It Worked
Racing cars crash every now and then. It’s just a fact supported by statistics. Nobody wants anybody hurt in a crash…not the driver, not the fans, nobody. Over the course of motorsports...
Slight Miscalculation: The Tough Truck Mustang Gets Friendly With The Wall At Buck Motorsports
Between 1979 and 1993, millions of Ford Mustangs rolled off of the assembly line. Millions. Their popularity hasn’t waned any, either…they are light, easy to modify, have an outstanding...
This Compilation Of High-Speed Vehicle Crash Testing Is Brutal! One Car Into Another At 200 KM/H!
When you were a kid playing with your Hot Wheels, did you ever simulate accidents? I sure as hell did. I had one car in particular, a Dodge Monaco cop car, that in my twisted little mind, was...
The Final Word: Take A Quick Look At The Art Of The Crash Barrier
Nobody ever wants to have to have the opportunity to thank a crash barrier for doing it’s job…because if that has occurred, it’s already a pretty messed-up day. When control is...
Exit Stage Left: Chris Pearce’s Wall-Jumping Pinto Wheelstander At Byron
Until Kevin McMullin’s wall-riding Mustang crash at Ford Fest 2020, I could not tell you the last time I saw a car rail-slide the concrete crash barrier better than a skateboarder. Lohnes might...
This Russian Dashcam Video Catches The Moment A Motorcyclist Beame An Unwilling But Successful Stuntman
Pereslavl-Zalessky, in northwest Russia, seems to be a nice, quiet town. Judging from the dash cam of this car, things are going along at a nice, slow pace. Traffic doesn’t seem to be too wild,...
Rough Day At The Office: Wreckage, Carnage, and Downright Insanity At The NHRA Midwest Nationals
It was one of the most carnage filled days of drag racing that I’ve ever personally witnessed. From Leah Pruett’s top fuel dragster breaking in half at 270+ mph to Alexis DeJoria...
Practical Application: Hydrolocking An Engine Under Load
It’s Engine 101: air compresses, water does not. If you are unlucky enough to have water go down the gullet of your engine and into the bores, your best hope in hell is that you shut the engine...
Watch Two Russian Guys Miss Certain Death By Inches While Stranded On A Highway – Incredible!
There is a reason why it is dangerous to break down on the highway. There is a reason why if you get stranded on a highway you are supposed to stay in your car. That reason is that it is an...
Goofy Video: Little Car Makes a Big Mess And Nearly Kills Driver In The Process
For starters, we have no idea what country this video was filmed in but we know it is the land that torque forgot. The brain trust involved has a tiny little car hooked up with a chain or some sort...
Carnage Report: Just How Jacked Up Was Cleetus’s Dale Truck On RMRW 2.0?
If you were following along on the live stream of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, you probably figured out in a hurry that the “Dale Truck”, Cleetus’s Earnhardt-liveried Chevrolet...
