Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump
Tuff Truck races are normally a good time. The competitions are basically an off-road style obstacle course complete with jumps, mud, and other impedances. The trucks are all home-built creations and...
Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some...
Crazy Screaming Video: A Two-Stroke V8 Powered Sand Rail On the Dyno
Apr 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Crazy Screaming Video: A Two-Stroke V8 Powered Sand Rail On the Dyno
We’ve heard screaming motors before, but never in our lives have we heard anything like the sound of this Evinrude two-stroke V8 powered sand car (not the one pictured). The engine is actually...
Wreck Video: A Swamp Buggy Stuffs It Hard
Apr 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Wreck Video: A Swamp Buggy Stuffs It Hard
Naples, Florida, is home to the Florida Sports Park. It’s a motorsports facility best known as the home of the world famous Swamp Buggy races. There are seven classes that range from 4-banger...
Cool Old Video: Ten Minutes of Kooky AMC Commercials Circa 1973
Apr 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Old Video: Ten Minutes of Kooky AMC Commercials Circa 1973
We love old car ads around here so when we saw a compilation video made up of the entire 1973 AMC television ad catalog, we had to share it with all of you out there in readerland. While on a long...
Carnage Video: A Turbo Failure Results in Exhaust Stack Fireworks
Apr 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Carnage Video: A Turbo Failure Results in Exhaust Stack Fireworks
With the surge in popularity and power of diesel pickup trucks, the pulling scene is buzzing like never before with entries in stock and modified diesel classes. This particular nitrous injected,...
Cool Old Promo Video: Curtis Turner and Ford’s Total Performance Campaign
Apr 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Old Promo Video: Curtis Turner and Ford’s Total Performance Campaign
Few men in NASCAR history drove harder or lived faster than Curtis Turner. He was one of the sport’s first bonafide legends and because of that he was used as a pitch man. In this video...
Killer Drag Video: A 1960 Impala Twisting Itself Up Like a Pretzel
Apr 15, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Killer Drag Video: A 1960 Impala Twisting Itself Up Like a Pretzel
The educated hard core racers who see this video will immediately say that the racer is leaving ET on the table by having his massive 1960 Impala launch like Shamu. To those smarty pants readers, we...
Engine Video: A WWII Cadillac M5 1-G Tank Engine On the Stand
Apr 15, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Engine Video: A WWII Cadillac M5 1-G Tank Engine On the Stand
When we learned yesterday that Packard built the 1,200hp engines that powered WWII PT boats, it got us to thinking about tank engines from the same era. We remembered that Cadillac motors powered...
King of the Trar-maros
Apr 15, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on King of the Trar-maros
You may have a personal, deep seated hatred of trars. We do not. In fact, trars like the fourth-gen Camaro featured in this video have our ultimate respect. This thing is a full on, bad-ass mud...
Totally Insane: Rocket Plane Racing Series to Debut Next Weekend, With Video
Apr 14, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Totally Insane: Rocket Plane Racing Series to Debut Next Weekend, With Video
The Rocket Racing League, an organization that is set to put on races featuring rocket-powered experimental racing airplanes, is ready to show themselves to the world at the QuickTrip Air and Rocket...
Fire Video: A Chevelle Cooked Medium Rare
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Fire Video: A Chevelle Cooked Medium Rare
There’s good and bad in this video. The bad is the obvious nitrous pop which blows the hood scoop off the nice looking red Chevelle and then turns into a raging inferno shortly afterward. The...
Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower
It wasn’t that long ago that nitromethane-burning engines were not making 2,000 hp. As you’ll see in this video, that magical number can be breached on gasoline in a hurry using a pair of...
More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like...