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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

Crash Test Video Bonanza: A Bunch of early 1980s Junk Gets Smashed to Bits

They don’t build ’em like they used to. Well actually they do, but only in China. This crash test footage from 1980 shows a Renault Le Car being walloped from behind at 35 mph. Pay close...

Watch Paul Dallenbach’s 1400hp Unlimited Pikes Peak Car Launch Off the Course With A Stuck Throttle – Driver Banged Up

Paul Dallenbach was driving one of the most hair raising machines at this year’s delayed Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. The 1,400hp open wheel car is a little larger than a go kart and packed...

Watch A Miata Take Out A Third Gen Firebird During Last Weekend’s Spectator Drags At Seekonk Speedway

Last week we gave you a video bonanza filled with random videos of crashes during “spectator drags” at small circle tracks. Well, “spectator drags” are the internet’s...

Carnage Video: Duramax Trucks Experiencing Tie Rod and Driveshaft Failures at the Truck Pulls

The independent front suspension used in GM trucks has long been the bane of hard core truck guys. IFS is a pain the rear end to deal with when lifting a 4×4 as opposed to the simplicity of a...

Carnage Video Bonanza: Wreckage From Circle Track Spectator Drags

There are few things more entertaining to watch than the spectator drags at a local circle track. Never seen them? After watching this grouping of videos you’ll be seeking them out. Basically...

Wreckage Video: Another Angle of the Massive Buick Wheelie and Crash

Earlier this week we showed you a couple angles of Jeff Wild’s massive wheelstand and crash at Cedar Falls Raceway last weekend. Wild and a couple of pals were making exhibition passes a la...

Watch An Opel Speedster Wreck Hard on the Nurburgring in Germany – Video

Germany’s Nurburgring has been in the news lately because poor management and awful financial decisions have left it nearly bankrupt. People from all corners of the world have been freaking out...

Watch A Massive Buick Wheelstand Result In A Dead Buick (Driver OK) — Two Videos!

BangShift reader Nick Lingua sent us a tip on this video from last weekend’s “Night of Fire” at Cedar Falls Raceway in Iowa. The event is a totally bitchin’ match race that...

Video: Big Rig Crashes into Cool Old Building: Building Fights Back When Truck Is Removed!

Chris Stinehelfer sent us the tip on this crazy truck vs. building fiasco. The truck gave it to the building for sure, but the brick building made sure to get in a few licks before they hauled the...

Epic Burnout Video: Brasher Burnout Nationals… Held In His Backyard… Literally

Whoever the hell Mick Brasher is, he rules all. Every time Brian leaves town I have to run some Australian burnout video, and this one rules more than any other burnout video ever. The best part is...

Watch a Blown Vega Wreck at the 100-Foot Drags in Lethbridge, Canada

Lethbridge, Canada is a city located out in the Alberta Province of the Great White North and it plays host to an event called, “Street Machine Weekend” each summer. As you’ll see...

MSD Atomic EFI Gets The Off-Road Wet Test! Plus Free Air Cleaners from MSD with Atomic Purchase!

We dig it when folks test things hmmmm how should we put it…”thoroughly”. Or for you guys that don’t get innuendo, that means we dig it when people try to tear the crap out of...

Watch An Extremely Violent Wreck From The 2012 X-Games Rallycross – A Jump Goes Very Wrong

During the X-Games, a high intensity, made for TV version of rally cross is held and frankly, it is pretty fun to watch. Small rally-ish cars with lots of power and all wheel drive haul ass around a...

Icelandic Hillclimbing…You May Ignore the Laws of Physics, but The Laws of Physics Will Not Ignore You

When Ian Ellis sent us a link to a “Hillbilly Go Cart” Video, we were intrigued. But then we got all sidetracked with all the other crap that shows up on the side of the YouTube page and...