Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Education Video: Sending A Reporter Into A Cold Lake In Iowa In A Buick, To Teach You How To Get Out Of A Sinking Car
In the United States, on average, 300 or so people die in sinking or submerged vehicles. It’s a sad statistic that can be prevented. In this video, reporter Brian Allen volunteers to take a...
Video: Awesome Hovercraft Racing From France – Yeah, We Just Said Awesome, Racing, and France Together
(We know…you were expecting wall to wall Bonneville coverage today. Since the event has been cancelled, we’re going to highlight stuff that could be raced at Bonneville or stuff that...
The Parting Shift: How to Run 350mph at Bonneville in the Spectre Performance Speedliner
The Spectre Speedliner turned in some huge numbers at SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speed Week 2010. Company owner and ‘liner driver Amir Rosenbaum does a great job of narrating this multi-angle footage...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Carpool DeVille, The World’s Fastest Hot Tub Will Be On The Salt!
(Editor’s note: Craig wrote this story and we ran it some weeks back to let people know about the fund raising effort that the builders of the Carpool Deville were putting on in an attempt to...
Bonneville Speed Week Video: Watch What It Looks Like Inside The Jesel Land Speed Racing Team Dodge Truck When It Spins At 260MPH At Bonneville
Jimmy Barton is a bad ass ladies and gentleman, and has a bunch of records here at Bonneville behind the wheel of the famed Jesel Racing Dodge Ram Pickup. He’s driven it with everything from 4...
Powerful Video: Motor Trend’s Jessi Lang Tells The Story Of Her Autobahn Wreck And Recovery
I first learned who Jessi Lang was when “The J-Turn” series of videos she hosted hit the Motor Trend channel on YouTube. I watched the first episode, where David Freiburger taught her how...
Carnage Footage! Check Out “Redneck Racing”, And Make Sure Your Neck Brace Is Tight And Secure!
Tough Truck competitions are popular side-attractions at arena races and four-wheel events across the country. Basically a run-what-ya-brung event with only certain safety guidelines (and in some...
Check Out This Hilarious Review Of The 2000 Toyota Corolla-Accurate And Sarcastic, All In One!
The 2000 model year Toyota Corolla is about the most vanilla offering Toyota had in their lineup, which is saying something about the company that spent the 1990s and 2000s re-defining...
Straight Axles, Ladder Bars, Blowers & Chrome: Photos From The SoCal Gasser Tribute
We’ve all known that gassers have been around drag racing since the beginning and they were mostly raced on gas, blown or injected or some with a tunnel ram and carbs, but the idea of a gasser...
This Video To Introduce The 2015 Indian Scout Motorcycle Calls Back On The Company’s History And Focuses Around The Wall Of Death
The Indian Motorcycle company’s legend was built between the years of 1901 and 1953 when the first iteration of the company built some of the most romanticized and (now) valuable motorcycles...
Autocross Video: Ride Along In A Fast And Fantastic International Scout II Corner Burner!
When we saw the title to a video that suggested an International Scout II was on the autocross course we had to click it. Why? Mainly because the video was either going to show us a vehicle totally...
This Rabid FWD V8-powered Ford Festiva Is Severely Violent And Totally BangShift Approved!
How much head scratching did you do when you read that headline? We did plenty ourselves. When we searched “World’s Fastest Festiva” we expected to get a Shogun, the Festiva with a...
BS News: South African Overpass Leading 1-0 Against Giraffe In Game Of Chicken
When Brian ten minutes ago sent me a link to a story entitled ‘Giraffe beheaded by overpass’, I immediately quipped, “Wasn’t that the opening of The Hangover 3?”. I then...
This Awesome Short Film On The Richmond and Stark Streamliner Will Totally Have You Pulling For These Guys
When I was putting together the story about the nine cars I think can better the existing wheel driven Bonneville speed record, I came across this short film about the Richmond and Stark streamliner....