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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

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

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

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...

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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

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

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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...

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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...