Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Thursday BOOM: Funny Car Blower Explosions
As evidenced by the wild lead photo of the funny car belching fire from every possible place, blower explosions in drag race machinery can be spectacularly awful. With the modern advent of burst...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best “Yard Car” Memory?
We called it the “War Car”. It was a 1975-ish Dodge Coronet two-door that somehow had earned a target for elimination, a sentence of death by torture. The big brown barge of a Mopar...
One-Family Owned Masterpiece: This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Ignited A Passion!
Maybe Ralph Nader was genuinely trying to save humanity from a mechanical demon that was flawed. History has shown that the first generation Chevrolet Corvair did indeed have handling issues that...
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...
How Do You Say ‘Straya? How About A V8 Supercar In A Burnout Contest?
Motorports in Australia, and go…let’s see here, there’s drag racing, of course…Stadium Super Trucks have proven to be popular…Ok, hell with it: V8 Supercars and...
Prove You Want That Win Light: All Four Tires Off Vs. Blowing The Engine At The End!
Competition brings out the best in any situation. Nobody wants to be the loser. Nobody wants to make their way back to their friends and admit that they got their ass handed to them. Everybody wants...
On This Day, The Trans-Canada Highway Was Opened, So To Celebrate, Take A Trip Via Sped-Up Dash Cam!
There’s a long trip, then there is a proper road trip. What’s the difference? The long trip is where I pack gear in the car, hit the Interstates for a few hours’ worth of driving...
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...
Morning Symphony: Gene Felton’s IMSA Chevrolet Nova At Road Atlanta
Gene Felton is not a guy you’d want to line up with on a road course anywhere. The gentleman can wheel pretty much whatever you put him in, though he’s done fantastic work in IMSA in the...
SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!
If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...
Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!
You know what makes a turd like a 1989 Hyundai decent to drive? A manual transmission. Same goes for a Ford Festiva, a Dodge Ram 50, an early 1990s Beretta, and many other cars we’d love to...
Classic YouTube: Car And Track’s Review Of The 1969 Avanti II – Of Course A Blown 327 Was Going To Be Fun!
Studebaker had been dead for three years when this Car and Track test took place. The car, an Avanti II, had roots that dated back to 1962 and had been in and out of production…Studebaker...
