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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

Insane Wreck Video: The First Doorslammer Blow Over We Have Ever Seen

Mention the term “blow over” to any drag racing fan and visions of Top Fuel dragsters flying through the air upside down fill their heads. After watching this video, that vision may be...

Harley Show Off Fail Video: Best Surprise Ending Ever

People never learn, plain and simple. We’ll say it slowly, but no one will listen. If you own a race car, racing motorcycle, racing mini-bike, racing anything, do not ever put it on a public...

Incredible Wreck Video: In Car With Danny Thompson When His Mustang Flies at 260mph!

This is some amazing footage. We’re riding along with Danny Thompson in his Mustang as he hauls the mail down the Bonneville Salt Flats. Things are going along really well until he crests...

Dyno Video: Everything Was Fine Until He Hit the Gas

This dyno video starts with lots of promise. Seeing what looks to be a Pro Mod style car with twin turbos bolted to the front of it guarantees some type of entertainment. There’s lots of...

Crash Test Video: A Lamborghini Diablo Gets Totally Pummeled

All cars get crash tested, even the exotic Italian ones. This crash testing video of a Lamborghini Diablo probably represents the most fun the dudes at the crash lab have in their lives. The car gets...

Video: The Winged Express pulls off its craziest burnout yet!

Wild Willie Borsch and his famed Winged Express Fuel Altered were always known for smokey, sidewall deflecting, sideways burnouts, so it’s only fitting that the legend continues today. At this...

More Diesel Death Video: A Land Rover Smoke Machine

We can’t help ourselves. After seeing the Toyota van run itself to death we kept on searching for videos and found one featuring a Land Rover that had just been started for the first time after...

Not Green: A Runaway Toyota Diesel Dies In a Massive Cloud of Smoke

The runaway diesel engine is an interesting thing. The condition can be brought on by a number of factors. In this case it was apparently caused by overfilling the engine with oil. With no throttle...

Wild Video: The 2010 World Power Wheel Standing Championship From Byron Dragway

The 16th annual World Power Wheel Standing Championship is in the books. The brain child of Byron Dragway owner/operator Ron Leek, the contest has grown from small freak show to massive drag racing...

Wreckage Videos: Doorslammer Carnage From Shakedown at E-Town

The 2010 Shakedown at E-Town produced a raft of amazing performances as well as some truly scary wreckage. The most major crash involved Benny Alphonso who was on a solo run and impacted the wall at...

Near Death Fail Video: How Not to Pull Down A Tree

Pulling junk with a truck or tractor is cool as hell. We fondly remember our dad yanking bushes and stuff right out of the ground back in the day. Now that Goliath has his sea legs under him,...

Physics Wins Again Video: How Not to Mud Bog Your ATV

Riding four-wheelers can be loads of fun. Bombing around in the woods, doing some mud bogging, making some high speed runs down fire roads and under high tension wires, a jolly good time. As fun as...

Wet Wreckage Video: How to Destroy an Off Shore Racing Boat and Laugh It Off

Motorized boat racing on nearly every level is insane. Hurtling across a constantly variable surface with as little of the actual vessel touching the water as possible can lead to some humongous...

Wreckage Video: Early 1980’s Demo Footage From Deep in the Heart of New Jersey

We’re so confused about this video. On the one hand, there is the brilliant unintentional comedy provided by a cast of characters participating in this demo derby. Then there’s the...