Category Archive: CRASH & BURN
Blow It Up Sunday: Jack Beckman’s Crazy NHRA Fuel Funny Car Explosion At Pomona
As the NHRA season opener Winternationals is underway today in Pomona, we thought it would be appropriate to show our pal Jack Beckman’s 2012 Pomona explosion that happened mere months ago at...
Blow It Up Sunday: A Chevy Van Tests The Rev Limiter… And The Connecting Rods. Which One Fails First?
We are firm believers in testing all the available options on rental cars, new cars, etc. This of course means the rev limiter as well. And various manufacturers have very different rev limiters that...
Blow It Up Sunday: Watch This Turbo Motor Explode Spectacularly On The Dyno
For this Sunday we decided it was going to be all about exposions. Engines blowing up, cars blowing up, rods and pistons getting away from crankshafts, etc. It’s awesome. Watch in this video as...
Video Bonanza: Hoods Flying Up and Off – Or – Where Are The Effing Hood Pins?
If you’ve spent any time at a race track, or just screwing around with cars in general you’ve either forgotten to install the hood pins in a car, forgotten to completely latch the hood,...
Watch:Ford Raptor Destroyed While Landing A Massive Jump – Rednecks With Paychecks Carnage!
The Ford F-150 Raptor is one bad ass truck. Having thoroughly worked one off road and even jumped in it, I can say that they’re capable of standing up to almost everything a sane person could...
Car Chase Movie Sunday: The Violent And Bad Ass Cigarette Truck Chase From Beverly Hills Cop
Here’s our last one of the day and it is a favorite. This is the great cigarette truck chase scene from the original Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is stuck in the back of the big truck (and...
Car Chase Movie Sunday: A Trans Am Takes On A Hot Rod Chevy Pickup In 1978’s The Driver
I guess I have Pontiacs on the brain today but seeing as this is another 1970s movie and it features another 1970s Pontiac in a car chase I guess it is fair to say that Poncho was the only brand out...
Car Chase Movie Sunday: Steven Segal In A Classic Chevy Pickup Versus An Evil Mack!
Steven Segal owned the schlocky action genre for a time in the 1990s and then became a dominant player in the “straight to DVD” market. He’s now a real life law enforcement officer...
Jump Video Extravaganza! Part Four: Dukes Of Hazzard, Starsky And Hutch, And More
This is a montage of television and film greatness! All the high flying action you wish they still had on tv, plus some great movie stuff too. And it’s all set to great ’80s music. The...
Jump Video Extravaganza! Part Three: A Big Ramp, A Big Truck, and Small IQ Make For Carnage
Take one part falling apart early ’90s Chevy Truck, one part giant long ass ramp, one part just as big landing ramp, separate by 2.5 truck lengths, shake driver until he’s reached single...
Jump Video Extravaganza! Part Two: Jeep Sand Dune Fail, That Isn’t A Jeep, Extra Fail
There are like 4 jillion postings of this video on YouTube, but the one we grabbed is a double fail, because not only does this dude fail miserably at landing his dune jump, but despite the title...
Jump Video Extravaganza! Part One: Farm Truck, Snow, Steep Ramp, Big Air, BIIIIGGGG Landing
Every time we mention that we want to jump a car or truck, Brian and I immediately get emails and texts from our Lawyer or Accountant telling us that we’ll get sued or kill ourselves or...
Rental Car Burnout Video: We Don’t Even Know Where To Start On How Great This Is
Yeah yeah yeah we’ve heard it before. We know, it’s not cool to bash rental cars, blah blah blah. This video rules no matter who you are. And if it makes you sleep better, just pretend it...
Insane Crash Video: 1983 Camaro Jump Fail With Flips, Twists, And More
This is one super bad video. The woman driving this thing was thrown around like a rag doll, but walked away! When the Camaro leaves the ramp, it’s not going fast enough or high enough to clear...