Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Aussie V8 Supercars Tangle – Driver Scores Direct Hit On Competitor’s Driver Side Door – All OK
Like the burnout contest guys, the Aussie V8 Supercar series is in full swing and last weekend the Phillip’s Island course played host to their brand of mechanical competition. You know and...
In-Car Videos: Making 7-Second Passes In A 5-Speed, Nitrous Fed, 498ci AMC Powered GREMLIN!
Kevin Fontenot is one of the most hardcore AMC guys on planet Earth. How do we know that? The dude has a Gremlin that runs in the 7-teens at nearly 190mph in Outlaw 10.5 trim. This car has a custom...
Video: Epic Rental Minivan Burnout That Results In Slight Panic And Lots Of AC Vent Smoke
If you don’t know what AC Vent smoke is, you haven’t done a big boy burnout in a new rental car and forgot to turn off the automatic climate control. We have, and can tell you that as...
Video: An Inside Look At The Ring Brothers… The Who, What, And Why That Explain How They Tick
For nearly 20 years the Ring Brothers have been building bitchin cars, but in the last decade they have truly come into their own and are considered to be one of the upper echelon custom car builders...
Best of BangShift – Carnage Video: A Stroker Boss 429 Explodes on the Dyno
This Boss 557 meets a spectacular end on the engine dyno when it appears that the flywheel explodes at peak RPM during a pull. The accompanying notes with the video say that there were multiple...
This Video Of A Sprint Car Chassis Being Crash Tested Is Crazy And Pretty Surprising
We have to thank the dudes at Racing Head Service for tipping us off to this video yesterday. As weird as it sounds, we have never thought about what race cars would look like getting subjected to...
In-Car Video Mayhem: What Happens Inside The Car When A Tire Shreds At 244 MPH!
Modern racing tires no matter the genre are all amazing testaments to engineering. From the amazing punishment absorbed by tires on desert race trucks to the grinding death that NASCAR racers put...
Gasser Video: A Look At The Thriving Period Correct Gasser Scene At Greer Dragway
While lots of drag racing fans like to sit on the internet and try to find a way to bring professional drag racing “to the next level” we’re not into that scene. Why? Because the...
Awesome: Watch Sammy Miller Run 4.73 In His Rocket Funny Car And Blow All The Windows Out Of The Santa Pod Tower!
It was good to be Sammy Miller in the early 1980s. The guy was everywhere, setting speed records on ice, running rocket cars in the US and Europe, and he was still building up to his biggest moment...
Gear Bangin’ Video: Watch A Dude Run 10s In A 6.0L LS Powered, T56 Shifted, Third Gen Camaro
When we see the phrase 7,800 RPM Launch in the title of a video, you know that we’re going to run it! This is in-car footage of a stout third generation Camaro that is equipped with a 6.0L LS...
Watch A Road Race Turn Into a Rolling Demo Derby – Half The Field Destroyed In Two Big Wrecks
During my time as an announcer for SCCA road races in New England, I went from knowing zero about the sport of having a decent understanding of it by the time I decided to concentrate my efforts on...
Wild Video: Ride On A 6.99 (Quarter Mile) Motorcycle That Pulls The Wheels In The Lights! (video)
I have gained a huge appreciation for fast motorcycles over the last year. Having seen so many two wheeled rockets at the ECTA meets in Wilmington, Ohio I learned a lot and came to really like seeing...
Epic Find: Home Movies From A Day At Lions Drag Strip In 1958 – Awesome Cars, Fun, 1950s Drag Racing Perfection
If there is one place that has long captured the hearts and imaginations of drag racing fans from around the globe, it is Lions Drag Strip. Operated from 1955-1972 the place is viewed by many as the...
Video: The Most Violent Land Speed Racing Crash We’ve Ever Seen – Driver OK – 209 MPH Wreck
This is the most terrifying looking crash we have ever seen anyone survive and it happened at the El Mirage SCTA Meet just a week or so ago. The car in question is a Honda Insight powered by a highly...