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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Best Lighter Around: Lighting Off Bonfires With A Jet Car At The NHRA Lucas Oil Nationals!

Don’t ever say that racers won’t help out when the need is present! Racers help the community, they help each other out, they will do whatever they can when the need presents itself. Case...

Caption This: Well…Hell With Mudding In The Jeep, We’ll Go Tubing Instead.

I have a question: If you are piloting a mega truck, wouldn’t you notice if one of the massive wheel and tire assemblies just quit being part of the program, up and left the scene, and just...

Will It Grip? The Hoonigans Try To Launch A Rally Car On A Ton Of Dish Soap!

If you have never seen a late-model rally car launch from a standstill, you need to find the nearest event to you and treat yourself. Those hyperactive little screamers go from nothing to ballistic...

Classic YouTube: Using A Dodge Intrepid As A Rally Car!

You can blame this one on my recent fixation of converting a Dodge Intrepid into a rear-drive, V8-powered hide-in-plain-sight kind of machine. I’ve shown you before just what that can look...

The “WTF?” Files: Who Offroads A Toyota Van, Really?!

Now here’s a vehicle that I don’t give much thought to ever, a 1980s-era Toyota Van. Toyota sold these one-box style things in the United States from 1983-1989 in both rear-drive and...

Seems Safe: What Happens When you Drop A Truck Whose Tires Are Turning At Speed?

“Every warning label has a story”. This isn’t just a comic’s intro to a horrifyingly funny story, it’s a real thing. No engineer on the planet can possibly think up...

Now You’re Just Showing Off: One Wicked Bounty Mud Pit And …A SHERP?

A dug out trench that looks more like an evaporation pit than anything even remotely close to natural and a bunch of mega trucks nearby can only mean one thing: the bounty mud hole is open for...

Hard To Starboard: The Project Neighbor Crown Vic/Shelby Mustang Mashup Goes Drifting!

The most fun vehicles I’ve ever thrashed, or have been around during the thrashing, haven’t been sports cars, or muscle cars, or any kind of purpose-built machine. No…they have been...

Please Secure Your Belongings Before Departure: This Malibu Got It’s Rear Window Knocked Out At Launch!

You’d think a drag race is a simple affair: point car at the finish line, don’t hit anything, and be sure to stop at the end and you’re fine. You’d think it’d be...

Watch The “Open Container” Boat/Truck Capsize At A Northwest Tuff Truck Competition – 100% BangShift Approved Action!

Dave Tucker of Oregon is a man we want to drink beer with. He owns and operates a welding and fabrication business that does lots of work with off road guys, he has built his own monster trucks, and...

Watch A Huge 48-Foot Power Boat Take Flight While Speeding Over The Wake Of A Yacht – This Is An E-Ticket Ride!

 If there’s a group of motorsports enthusiasts crazier than the wheel driven contingent it is the boat guys. The machines are incredible but they are also astronomically expensive to buy,...

Science Time! Does Soaking Tires With Bleach Equal A Bigger, Smokier Burnout?

I’m not going to even pretend what the correlation is between vulcanized rubber and bleach is supposed to be. I’ve heard it from many sources over the years: if you want your burnout...

Cleetus Got A New All Billet Intercooled Intake Manifold For Leroy The Savage! This Thing Is Sick!!!

CNC Milling and Machining has changed the world we live in more than most people realized, but in the hot rodding and racing world we’re pretty aware of just what can be made using these...

Hot Doggin’: Ride Along As An Oscar Meyer Weinermobile Takes On Circuit Of The Americas!

I know that seeing an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is supposed to be a throwback to innocent times, where toy Weenie Whistles and tasty hot dogs meant good times for all. Which is why every time I write...