Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Pucker Factor Ten, Captain: The Armco Barrier Saves This Rally Team From A Cliff Dive!
To be quite fair, there is plenty of reason to not make too much light of Tomasz Kasperczyk’s incident at Rally Islas Canaries. Rally cars, Armco barriers, and cliff faces make for scenes...
2017 Spring Redneck Rumble: Rats, Rods And Rust In The Rain!
Compared to last Spring’s Redneck Rumble, this year was a much more muted affair. Why? Two words: Mother Nature. After a few weeks of absolutely wonderful weather, she proceeded to soak down...
Bitchin’ Video: Ride Along In a 410 Sprint Car On A Banked 3/8 Mile Oval in Michigan – Ludicrous Speed!
Of all the mighty beasts that roam the circle tracks of America, few have the mystique, raw power, and ability to keep people on the edge of their collective seat like 410ci winged sprint cars. These...
Rough Start: A Four-Speed Oldsmobile Omega Is A Shift From The Normal Nova
This 1976 Oldsmobile Omega is one year off from what I rode around in as a kid growing up in Washington State. My mother drove one of these for years…originally bronze with a black vinyl roof,...
Check For Damage, Use Less Throttle, Try Again – Watch This Rockbouncer Backflip Off A Sheer Wall!
What you are about to see was not choreographed in any way. Rockbouncers are capable of doing a backflip…with springy suspension, plenty of power, and drivers who simply do not have a shred of...
Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest Dead Car You’ve Ever Found?
There is a difference between just finding a car, and finding a dead car. A dead car is one that is only coming back to life with a totally stupid amount of cash, a spare parts car, years to dedicate...
Money No Object: A 1987 Mercedes-Benz Unimog Doka Short Wheelbase Just For The Boss!
Both Brian and Chad are head-over-heels for Unimogs, the bulletproof, brutally stout workhorses that Mercedes-Benz built. I can’t knock the trucks at all, they are one of the most legendary...
Classic YouTube: A Pontiac-Powerd AMC Pacer That Moves Out!
Harrel Lamkin might be the only person we can think of who would be proud to be the owner of an AMC Pacer. You know one of the weird little fishbowl AMCs that he’s connected to: his daughter...
Want to Watch Holley LS Fest West Live, Including Us Racing? Here’s The Spot!
We’re going to be kicking off our 2017 Holley LS Fest West coverage LIVE on Facebook and the link to catch it all is below! Through the weekend we are going to be all over the place at Las...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2017 Lincoln MKC Black Label – Can Lincoln’s Luxury Compact SUV Make A Dent In A Crowded Field?
We like many others have been kind of harsh on Lincoln’s attempt to get back to relevance in a luxury market that seems to have passed the brand by. Ford has injected a lot of money into...
Cool Video: Watch The Army Try Our Experimental Steel Airless Tires On A Jeep – They Worked Pretty Well
This interesting video shows the US Army trying out experimental steel airless tires on a Jeep in a bunch of different conditions. While we do not have the specific makeup of the “tires”...
Classic YouTube: All You Need For A Ken Block Parody Is A Ford Painted Right!
Make no mistake, Ken Block’s Gymkhana series of videos set a pretty high bar when they first came out. That was back when Block was still beating the living hell out of prepared Subarus and not...
Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Swap A Sport Bike Engine Into?
Jamming the engine from a crotch-rocket into a car the size of a postage stamp would almost be a no-brainer, wouldn’t it? If for no other reason than having a redline that would make a rotary...
Too Loud? Not Unless You Blow The Airbags In Your Camaro ZL1!
You ever make a tweak or a modificaton, and later wonder if you’ve done something that will invariably cause the car to fall apart all around you like the Bluesmobile? You know how it goes:...