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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Insane Aussie Burnout with Unintentional Fire

Aussies seem to take their burnout contests seriously. We’ve shown you videos of guys rolling junk over, tires blowing to smithereens, and engines exploding during some of these competitions....

Video: An Incredible Save on the Sand Dunes

This one is oooold, but still entertaining. It appears to come from the Middle East. We know in Dubai they call stuff like this “dune bashing.” Over here we’d call it hill climbing....

Carnage Video: Guy Falls off a Motorcycle at 200 MPH, Twice!

Brian’s blog about the guy crashing the Top Fuel bike a few times reminded me that Keith Turk told me about a guy who fell off a motorcycle twice at around 200 mph at El Mirage Dry Lake,...

Carnage Video: Crazy Catastrophic Engine Failure Now in High Def

The engine explosion of the European Maid pulling tractor has graced this website a time or two, but never in high quality television footage. This is the one where the motor explodes and the block...

Carnage Video: Flaming Rollover Crash at Shakedown at E-Town

This video has it all: a half-track wheelstand, a rollover, a guardrail smash, and fire. The best part is that driver Joe Newsham walked away from this wreck that happened at the Shakedown in E-Town...

Carnage Video: Six Minutes of Drag Strip Thrills, Chills, and Spills

This is one killer piece of video! It is non-stop action for more than six minutes and contains more wrecks, wheelies, and close saves than you could possibly imagine. It seems like the majority of...

BangShift.com Day of Destruction: It’s a Wrap

October 5, 2009, marked the first ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction, where we brought you action videos every hour on the hour all day long, with every video loaded with crushing, exploding,...

Destruction Video: Vintage Crash Tests

As our last item on the BangShift.com Day of Destruction, we bring you back to the old school with a crash test video from the 1960s, one that is probably from the 1940s with a ’30s car, and a...

Destruction Videos: Mopars Getting Mangled

Anyone who watched enough Dukes of Hazzard as a kid got filled with enough Dodges and Plymouth destruction to last a life time. Consider this a little dessert. If you only have the stomach for one...

Destruction Video: Amazing Industrial Accidents

So far today, the BangShift Day of Destruction has been all about the wrecking of motor vehicles. But a lot of car guys like anything with an engine and power, and the ability to wreck things, and...

Destruction Video: Road Rage Gone Wrong

Not that we endorse road rage or acts of violence against the Man, but every once in a while some chucklehead combines the two with results that backfire right in his face. Like the gentleman in the...

Destruction Video: When Animals Attack Cars

Here’s something you probably didn’t worry about on your drive to work this morning, but there was a chance that your car could have been attacked by a pack of wild baboons, or maybe a...

Destruction Video: Worst Drag Car Fire Ever?

This is a nasty, nasty bit of video of a car that burst into a raging fireball in a matter of 1 second at one of the Big Dog races at Piedmont Dragway a few years back. We happen to know that the guy...

Destruction Video: Stupid Burnouts Followed by Stupid Roll Overs

Burnouts are fun until someone gets hurt. Then they’re hilarious. Actually, we don’t think anyone really got hurt in any of the videos below, but it’s amazing how a little tire...