Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Educational Carnage Video: What Happens When a Cosworth DFV F1 Engine Eats a Valve
Engine failures are much better experienced as a spectator sport. Between the potential for wreckage and the financial injury, the only engine most hot rodders don’t mind seeing fail is one...
All Show, And Even A Little Go: Take A Closer Look At The Dodge Aspen Kit Car
It’s The Other F-body…the one that doesn’t work well with connoisseurs. The Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volaré were supposed to take over the role of bread-and-butter sales leader...
Full Tilt Boogie: This Twin-Turbocharged Nissan Patrol Launches Like An Old Impala!
If you haven’t seen a Nissan Patrol, here’s a summary: it’s two boxes connected by drivelines. One box houses an engine, another, larger box houses humans and cargo. The...
Morning Symphony: Now THIS Is How An Italian Is Supposed To Sing! Listen To This Twin-Supercharged Ferrari 599 Shriek!
What side of the coin are you on when it comes to Ferrari? Do you side with Enzo Ferrari’s vision of a race car that could do no wrong, that was brilliant when being raced, and that it was up...
Farmtruck’s Down Under Wonder Is Back In Action! Watch As The Aussie-Built C10 Hits The Skidpad At Good FryDay!
We’ve seen the built-for-burnouts carbon copy of the infamous Farmtruck out and about before…unfortunately, that was when it made it’s debut at Summernats back in January, when the...
Morning Symphony: Track Action At The 76th Goodwood Members Meeting – Millions Of Dollars Of Race Machines On A Cold Track!
I can guarantee you that somewhere, at least one insurance agent had the file for one of their clients out on their desk. In the folder was a picture of the car in question, a virtually irreplaceable...
Big-Time Diesel Square-Off: Do You Like The Monster Mack Or The Insane International School Bus?
Diesel drag racing doesn’t have to be staging lanes filled with extra trucks from a recent country music video. Bigger rigs, like the “Thump Truck” Kenworth and the semi trucks that...
If You Have Missed Any Of The Hoonigan Caster Car Volvo Build, Check It All Out Here
The Hoonigan crew is clearly known for being a bunch of weirdos, but they are our kind of weirdos, and that makes them ultra fun to watch and hang out with. When they decided to cut the back half off...
Morning Symphony: Making The Donuts In A 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda!
One of the most influential moments on the path that led me to where I am today involved a Plymouth ‘Cuda similar to the one you’ll see in the video. It was a 1972-74 car, not a 1971 like...
Classic YouTube: Taming The Rubicon In 1968…Bring Your Jeep And Your Iron Spine
I want you to remember something as you watch this footage: the 1968 Jeepers Jamboree had been around sixteen years, providing a trail ride for fans of the World War II hero vehicle to come out and...
Details Are Nice, But A Wicked Ford Fairlane That Shakes Like NASCARs of Old Is Always Welcomed!
In the 1960s, Ford and Chrysler were hell-bent on dominating each other on the oval tracks of the Southeast, and they were not pussyfooting around with the task. Chrysler brings out the 426 Hemi,...
Mighty Car Mods Build A Z-Car! Take A Look At The Resto-modification That This Fairlady Z Is Undergoing!
We don’t often ask you to pick a favorite JDM vehicle, do we? No, we don’t. But if the day comes that we do, we fully suspect that the S30 chassis Nissan will be on the list. Known better...
Morning Symphony: Ride Along In A 1UZ-Powered Mazda Eunos Along Coastal New Zealand Roads!
You want to know the fastest way to stop all of those “Miatas are for hairdressers” jokes? V8 swap. Small-block Ford, GM LS, blown Hemi (there has to be one somewhere!), I don’t...
The WTF? Files: Ever Heard Of A Mustang 300C? We Hadn’t Either…
As I celebrate the fifth anniversary of ownership of the Chrysler 300C that you know as Angry Grandpa, I found something highly disturbing on Facebook for sale courtesy of Dave Bernheimer. Dave is a...