Category Archive: CHEVY, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Hot-Lapping: This Half-Mile Corvette Catches Fire After A 180+ MPH Run!
Everything about this C6 Corvette Z06 is awesome: the stance, the 1,000 horsepower supercharged mill under the hood, the exhaust note that could wake the dead, the ability to run 181 in the...
This Is What It Looks Like When You Ride Your Dirtbike Into A Barbed Wire Fence At 30 MPH
As I have mentioned many times in the past, there are some fundamental things keeping me from becoming a motorcycle enthusiast. The first is a distinct lack of coordination and fine motor skills and...
This Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Went Up In Flames At TX2K16!
It makes you sick to see this happen to a fellow racer, but one of the best ways to bring the realities of the dangers of racing is to see, without a doubt, just how quickly it all can go wrong. This...
Copart Cadaver: A New Shelby GT350 And It’s Flat-Plane Crank V8 Will Be For Sale Soon!
High performance car plus low performance driver always means that inevitably, a badass car is going to find it’s way onto Copart.com, the online search hub for everything dead and crunched in...
Video: Forty Two Years Ago The Most Spectacular Fire In The History Of Dirt Track Racing Took Place In Kansas At The Hutchinson Nationals
Thanks to BangShifter Don McGinnis we have this incredible video to show you today about a catastrophe that happened 40 years ago and has largely been lost to the unrelenting march of time. This is...
Ka-Boom! Watch As The GEMWAR Holden Gemini’s Fuel Tank Explodes During A Burnout Contest!
The car is “GEMWAR”, a Holden Gemini that is everything that you would expect an Aussie burnout car to be: Flashy, loud and when the gas pedal is matted, exceptionally violent. Built by...
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...
Carnage Footage: Touring Car Masters Crashes – Australia’s Grand Master Class Of Touring Cars Still Play As Hard As Ever!
We are glad to see race cars actually racing instead of collecting dust and sitting on the lawn at shows. They were built to run, so run ’em. The Touring Car Masters series in Australia is one...
Winter Rally Madness: The Action And Carnage From The Jari-Pekka Junior WRC Rally In Finland
As I type this, snow is dumping on BangShift Mid-West HQ for the third time in two weeks, and just as the last of the second storm had melted off. It’s no secret that I’m not a winter...
Wild Ride: Watch As The Back Tire Of Loris Baz’s MotoGP Bike Blows Out At 180 Miles An Hour!
(Lead photo: @EyzalAmriz) Blowing out a tire at 180 miles an hour is a bad deal, I don’t care what that tire was attached to. Plane, car, whatever…your day has just gone down the tubes...
Supercross Showdown! Weston Peick Fined $5000 And Suspended One Race For Throwing Blows At Vince Friese!
Close-proximity competition breeds frustration and anger. Guys who would normally be cool with each other turn into demons once they are placed on the course against one another, and that’s...
Classic YouTube: Giving A Tired, Rusty And MOT-Failing Jeep Cherokee A Proper Sendoff
Not every car is a Rolls-Royce, or Duesenberg, or 1957 Chevrolet, or Hemi ‘Cuda…most are pedestrian tools that have a limited life, and once that life is used up, they generally hit the...
Best of 2015: XJ Cherokee Versus A Swimming Pool: Which One Will Win?
Okay…we have a homemade ramp made mostly of old pallets. We have one well-used and abused Jeep Cherokee, and we have a backyard swimming pool. We also have a bunch of Canadians who are looking...
