Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Watch A Land Speed Racing Corvette Suffer A Nitrous Explosion And Become An Inferno At The Texas Mile
Yikes! This is a pretty nuts video that was shot at the Texas Mile during the 2013 season by the crew at GearheadFlicks. The video, which has in car and out of car footage shows a heavily modified C6...
This Dude Jumps, And Destroys, A Chevy Lumina Like None Other. Watch This!
We keep saying we want to get a crap car and go out and jump it and thrash it for absolutely no reason except the fun of doing it. Well Dave and his buddies have been doing just that, and we’re...
Watch A Rally Turn Worker Avoid Certain Death Because Of A Well Placed Tree!
Of all the incredible close calls and near death experiences we have shown you over the years, we believe that this video featuring a rally corner worker being saved by a well placed, sturdy tree...
Aussie V8 Supercars Tangle – Driver Scores Direct Hit On Competitor’s Driver Side Door – All OK
Like the burnout contest guys, the Aussie V8 Supercar series is in full swing and last weekend the Phillip’s Island course played host to their brand of mechanical competition. You know and...
Best of BangShift – Carnage Video: A Stroker Boss 429 Explodes on the Dyno
This Boss 557 meets a spectacular end on the engine dyno when it appears that the flywheel explodes at peak RPM during a pull. The accompanying notes with the video say that there were multiple...
This Video Of A Sprint Car Chassis Being Crash Tested Is Crazy And Pretty Surprising
We have to thank the dudes at Racing Head Service for tipping us off to this video yesterday. As weird as it sounds, we have never thought about what race cars would look like getting subjected to...
Watch A Road Race Turn Into a Rolling Demo Derby – Half The Field Destroyed In Two Big Wrecks
During my time as an announcer for SCCA road races in New England, I went from knowing zero about the sport of having a decent understanding of it by the time I decided to concentrate my efforts on...
Video: The Most Violent Land Speed Racing Crash We’ve Ever Seen – Driver OK – 209 MPH Wreck
This is the most terrifying looking crash we have ever seen anyone survive and it happened at the El Mirage SCTA Meet just a week or so ago. The car in question is a Honda Insight powered by a highly...
Volvo Truck Crash Testing Is Impressive To Watch – Big Impacts Teach Engineers Big Lessons
Over the weekend we showed you the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme stunt where he pulls off the epic split between two new Volvo big rigs that are reversing down a runway at relatively high speeds. One...
Wild Rolling Wreckage Video: A Vintage Road Racer is Saved From Certain Death By a Good Cage
A couple weeks back we showed you video of a replica Shelby Cobra racer cheating death when his car rolled. That guy did not have any sort of roll cage protection around him, but the guy in this...
Wheelstand Video Trio! Two Camaros And A Mustang Fly…One Of The Three Crashes. Watch ‘Em All To Find Out!
We wanted to finish the week strong and kick your Friday off right. We’ve had some killer wheelstand videos up this week. Camaros dragging the bumper, Mustangs landing on two wheels, and today...
This In-Car Wreckage Video Is Wild and Scary – Driver OK, But This Was A Bad Ride!
Jon Baker has the honor of sharing a name with one of television’s most famous fake police officers, but in the other direction he recently suffered a very nasty wreck in his x275 Mustang at a...
Watch The Infamous Geo Tracker Drag Machine Pull A Bumper Dragging Wheelie Then Wreck Hard!
It always sucks when we see a car or truck that we’ve shown you performing at a high level crash and burn. Such is the case with this wild little GEO Tracker that we once showed you video of...
This On-Bike Video Of A Crashing Hayabusa Reminds Me Why I Can’t Own A Motorcycle – Wreckage!
I admire people that race motorcycles largely because I know that I am incapable of doing it. I have seen land speed racers and drag races on two wheels a lot this year and I am always impressed with...