Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
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....
Classic YouTube: Will Hoy’s 1993 British Touring Car Wreck – Punted By His Own Teammate!
Touring car racing in the 1990s ruled. The drivers were unhinged, the cars were just modified street cars, and the racing was mental on a basic race day. When competition, stress and emotions flowed...
This Poor Alfa: From A Track Machine, To A Safari-Style Build, To Jumping In A Parking Lot…
If you are an Alfa Romeo fan…a classic Alfa Romeo fan…you might want to just go ahead and hit that back button. This 1974 2000 GTV has had a pretty rough life. This is Illiya and Nikita...
Funny Racing Fails! Check Out This Collection Of Some Of The More Laugh-Worthy Moments From 2017!
Sometimes, all you can do is find the humor in a situation, no matter how messed up it may be. Did I slip and fall on some ice? The pratfall is one of the oldest and easiest laughs in the book. Did...
The Farmtruck Burnout Machine? The Guys Built (And Wrecked) The Burnout Farmtruck At Summernats!
Farmtruck and AZN had a ball last year enjoying the sights and sounds of Summernats, the crazy Australian gearhead get-together that is currently underway. They loved it, but when approached to make...
No Dixie Horn? Watch As This Kia SUV Jumps Over Traffic After Hitting The ATM!
Elsewhere today you will read about the Kia Stinger GT, a five-passenger sedan with rather shocking acceleration. Apparently, that entire review was for nothing, because the way this Kia Sportage SUV...
The Cold, Hard No: Watch As This Rockbouncer Rolls Back To The Bottom Of The Hill
Being told “no” sucks. It’s one of the first things you learn as a child and it sticks with you as you grow up and grow old. No, you can’t have another piece of candy. No, you...
Best of BS 2017: Look Before You Leap: This Dune Rider Went From A Hundred-Foot Jump Onto The Hood Of A Jeep!
In most sand dune off-road parks, you need to have a ten-foot orange flag attached to whatever you are riding or driving for safety. This way, accidental incursions between vehicles can be minimized,...
Best of BS 2017: The Howl Of The Angry Demolition Derby Car
Around 1997, there was a demolition derby build car in our yard. It was a late 1970s Pontiac Catalina two-door, which was just another cheap GM B-body that somehow had the misfortune to end up at the...