Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Stacked Like Cordwood: Watch As A CN Train Derails North Of Saskatoon
When you calculate the total amount of weight being moved, the kinetic energy of a loaded freight train that is suddenly out of control becomes a frightening thing. When tons and tons of steel and...
Fire For Effect: This Land Rover LR3’s Days Come To An Abrupt End!
I’ve made two vehicles die unquestionably violent deaths in my time. One was a Chevrolet CUCV that caught a grenade from an M203 grenade launcher during basic training, and the other was the...
Bomb Blast: This Chevelle’s Transmission Detonates As If The Pin Was Pulled!
The automatic transmission’s job is highly underrated. Scratch that…the transmission’s job is underrated. Converting the force from the engine’s crankshaft that is being...
Flaming Craziness Video: The NHRA 2018 Wild Rides Compilation Is Non-Stop Nuts
It is that time of the year again. Time for the talented folk at the NHRA’s video department to put together the Wild Rides compilation video for the season that was. Let’s just say that...
Another One Bit The Dust: The Autopsy Of Project Neighbor’s Built Mill!
Cleetus isn’t having a good run lately. He wounded Leroy the Savage’s engine. He absolutely nuked the turbocharged truck motor in the Auction Mistake C6 Corvette. And then there’s...
KABOOM: Watch This Hot Rodded Nissan Patrol Shred A Tire On The Chassis Dyno
Here’s chapter 3,324 in the great big book of how to get mangled on the dyno. We’re not saying that these guys did anything wrong, just that there’s so much going on any time you...
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: A Year Of Launches, Close Calls, Tire Smoke, and Wheelies!
Our pal Tommy Lee Byrd is an awesome writer and photographer. During the 2018 drag racing season he decided to up the ante and shoot video and many of the events he attended. As Tommy gets around his...
Crushing Video: Watch A Varied Pile Of Old Cars Meet Their End With Hydraulic Pressure – Ouch
Ya know, a part of me really struggled with this. Should I share a video from a channel that has a load of them that depict the workings of a wrecking yard car crusher? Does this run against every...
What Does A 200,000-Mile Truck Engine Like About Big Boost? NOTHING! Cleetus KILLS The Auction C6 Corvette!
Following the story of the “Auction C6” Corvette that Cleetus bought at the end of last year has been kind of fun, actually. What started out as a knee-jerk impulse buy that left a strong...
Best of ’18: Watch Conway Witten’s Incredible Comp Eliminator Crash From Topeka 1993
While we have been telling you about some of the crazy things that happened at Topeka in 1993 because of the fact that the NHRA tour is racing there this weekend, there’s one story that’s...
Best of 2018: Watch As “The Bee Man” Guts A European Hornet Nest Out Of An El Camino
I have made no effort to hide my genuine fear of just about any kind of insect that has two distinct capabilities: flight, and a stinger on it’s ass. While I’ve never had a problem with...
Best Of 2018: The Footage Of The Power Driven Diesel Dodge Ram’s Runaway Explosion!
For the last couple of days, this green Dodge Ram has been all over my computer screen in various locations, all for the same reason: as you can plainly see, something severe happened under the hood....
Who Left That There? This Monster Truck Tire Takes Out A Mud Racer At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park
The typical monster truck tire is 66 inches tall, 43 inches wide, and weighs in somewhere between 800 and 900 pounds. they are derived from flotation tires used on farming equipment. Keep that in...
Nightmare Fuel: Aeronautical Structure Testing – It’s Ok, It’s Supposed To Do That!
A nine-year career as a helicopter technician and three years working around budding aeronautical engineers while earning my degree proved one thing to me: sometimes, ignorance is truly bliss. During...