Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Educational Carnage Video: What Happens When a Cosworth DFV F1 Engine Eats a Valve
Engine failures are much better experienced as a spectator sport. Between the potential for wreckage and the financial injury, the only engine most hot rodders don’t mind seeing fail is one...
If You Have Missed Any Of The Hoonigan Caster Car Volvo Build, Check It All Out Here
The Hoonigan crew is clearly known for being a bunch of weirdos, but they are our kind of weirdos, and that makes them ultra fun to watch and hang out with. When they decided to cut the back half off...
Classic YouTube: Banger Racing, Fifty Years Ago – More Class, Same Crash
Have you seen the crash comparison between the 1959 Bel Air and a 2009 Malibu that the IIHS put on about ten years ago to demonstrate the differences in structure design that have made vehicles safer...
Classic YouTube: Testing Nuclear Carrying Casks By Crash-Testing Trucks And Trains Into A Concrete Wall
There is one word that will send the fear of God into just about anybody who hears it: nuclear. Nuclear energy might provide electricity to millions around the world, but that’s not the first...
The Eye-Opening Experiences: Check Out This Collection Of Psycho Rides From Sydney Jamboree 2018!
If it was a perfect world, everybody would line up, make a good burnout, back up, stage, and go straight down the track as fast as they can at the strip. There would be no oildowns, no wall-to-wall...
The Cure For A Bad Day: Banger Racing At It’s Most Violent…European Cars Against A Cadillac Limo!
The only way you know what is good is to experience the bad. That’s something that was instilled in me years ago. If you only knew good, how would you know what “good” really was?...
Watch The Insane Robert Hight, Matt Hagan Double Explosion Run From The 2018 NHRA Gatornationals – Both Walked Away
This is something that even the most salty, grizzled, drag racing veterans at the Gatornationals had never seen before. Two funny cars exploding on the same run within a second of each other. Below...
Durability Tested: Watching This Tuff Truck Jeep Cherokee Crash And Come Back To Life Tells Us We Need To Get One!
Lets talk about Jeep XJs for a second. The Cherokee is one tough little SOB…they showed what American Motors could do with the right influences from Renault, Richard Teague’s eye for...
Roll It Over: Watch Dan McMillin’s Truck Get Turned Right-Side Up After Rolling Just Yards From The Finish At Baja!
When mere yards separate the distance between finishing the Baja 1000 and your rolled-over truck, which you’ve just busted your ass in for hours over terrain that is punishing at it’s...
Classic YouTube: Ditching A B-24 Liberator In The James River, With A Crew Aboard!
More often than not, you don’t put the words “aircraft crash test” together. It’s an inevitability: if an aircraft crashes, it’s a bad day for all involved even on the...
Watch The Horrendous John Force Jonnie Lindberg Crash From The NHRA Arizona Nationals
The silence hung over the track like a lead curtain. You could have heard a pin drop for minutes as the NHRA Safety Safari tended to both John Force and Jonnie Lindberg after one of the scariest...
Going For Broken: Watch This Holden Blow Off The Supercharger At Over 10,000RPM!
A 327 Chevrolet can tolerate RPMs in the range of about 7,500 for only so long before a spinning a main bearing. That was the first lesson I ever learned about Engine Destruction 101. I didn’t...
Treat It Like A Rental: Watch As This 1995 Buick Century Takes Every Ounce Of Abuse Thrown At It!
It’s an automotive cockroach. The Buick Century, the one made between 1982 and 1996, might be proof that at some point in time GM actually did try to make a good front-driver car for the 1980s....
