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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

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...

Wreckage Video: A Stolen Truck Plows Through Traffic

Imagine yourself as the driver of the truck in this video. He’s a car thief who made off with the big truck only to drive into heavy traffic and total gridlock. Rather than seek an alternate...

Vintage NASCAR Wreckage Video: Johnny Allen Crash and Fire at Darlington Circa 1962

As much as we loathe the modern iteration what a racing “stock car” is, they are a vastly improved piece, on the safety front than their older brothers. Proof of this comes in the form of...

Epic Video Bonanza: Bus Jumps!

 We tend to get fixated on stuff every now and again. Recently we have become obsessed with people jumping school buses over stuff. Judging by the comments of our previous items featuring flying...

Crunch Video: A Hot Rod Pile-up

Hot rods that get driven occasionally get crashed. This is a sad but unavoidable fact. We’ve all seen a guy who got a little nuts with his car on the street and hit a tree or pole. One thing...

Wild Video: Dude Swallowed by Alky Funny Car

The luckiest dude in America is the guy who is standing in front of this Alky Funny Car when the car shoots forward and swallows him up inside the body. It appears to us that the driver was whacking...

Wreck Video: Full Contact Aussie Road Racing

During our days announcing SCCA road races, one of the most fun classes to call was Spec Miata. What they lacked in power and speed they made up for in contact. It was Saturday Night Thunder with...

Extreme Wreckage Video: Sleepy Woman Drifts Jeep Into Convenience Store

Cars crashing into buildings make for good video. So long as no one gets hurt and the only wounds are suffered by bags of Cheetos and Funyuns we’re good with reveling in the carnage. This video...

Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling

Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...

Wild Wreck Video: In-Car Footage of a Dragster Rolling Over at Speed

The advent of the affordable on-board camera has made the wonder of in-car video a rather normal thing these days. Footage of cars crashing from the inside out never gets old in our book. We were...