Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!
Jan 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!
Out with the old and in with the new! It’s now 2010, and since we have a digital lampshade on our head right about now and don’t have a way to share the occasion with you personally, we...
Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!
Jan 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!
In an amazing showing of bowling-ball sized stones, 26-year-old Travis Pastrana set the world record for a rally car jump on New Year’s Eve, flying his Subaru 269 feet over water and landing on...
Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California
Jan 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California
Travis Pastrana has done so much bat-poop crazy stuff with cars that it reminds us that we should do a video compilation of it all. Until then, watch ESPN tonight to see if he succeeded with this...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965
Dec 31, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965
It was very good to be Carroll Shelby in 1965. Hell, it is very good to be him now, but in the mid 1960s the man had the world by the stones. Bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company, Shelby was building...
Car Looks Dumb, Gets Great Mileage, With Video
Dec 30, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Car Looks Dumb, Gets Great Mileage, With Video
Apparently making your car resemble a Gila monster will result in big mileage gains. We think it will also result in a marked reduction in the amount of lovin’ you receive from the opposiste...
Carnage Video: Failed Burnout Leads to Massive Clutch Explosion
Dec 29, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Carnage Video: Failed Burnout Leads to Massive Clutch Explosion
Clutch explosions are among the most horrific examples of automotive component failures. Few things attached to a car have the ability to cause more instant carnage, to things both mechanical and...
Video Bonanza: Dyno Time!
Dec 23, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video Bonanza: Dyno Time!
We love dyno videos. Not dyno videos of stuff blowing up, catching fire, or generally malfunctioning, but dyno videos of cool motors being wrung out from bottom to top. We also have a love of...
Another Historic Track Dead: The Milwaukee Mile, With Video
Dec 21, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Another Historic Track Dead: The Milwaukee Mile, With Video
It is claimed to be, at 106 years old, the oldest continuously operating race track in the country. It appears there will be no 107th season at the historic Milwaukee Mile. No national touring series...
Video: 351-Powered Ford Focus
Dec 18, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: 351-Powered Ford Focus
After showing you an LS1-powered Honda earlier today, we now present a video of a 351ci, V8-powered Ford Focus. There are a couple of outfits that manufacture pieces to complete this swap and, truth...
Boondoggle Media Videos from SEMA 2009
Dec 18, 2009Chad Reynolds1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know SEMA was done over a month ago. But, better late than never. Under the banner of our Boondoggle Media video production company we have been serving the automotive...
Carnage Video: High Flying Sprint Car Wreck
Dec 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Carnage Video: High Flying Sprint Car Wreck
There are few more intense race cars than 410 Sprints. These direct-drive, methanol-powered, 800hp, 1,300-pound monsters are the greatest show on dirt. They slide sideways around the tight corners of...
Crazy Video: Jan Magnussen Beats the Hell Out of a New ZR1 Corvette at The ‘Ring
Dec 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Crazy Video: Jan Magnussen Beats the Hell Out of a New ZR1 Corvette at The ‘Ring
In the past we’ve shared our opinions on the Nurburgring as an odd marketing tool for domestic auto companies, but that’s not to say we don’t respect and recognize the fact that the...
Fire Video! A Nitrous Blaze Destroys a Drag Racing Camaro
Dec 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Fire Video! A Nitrous Blaze Destroys a Drag Racing Camaro
This is, without question, the worst starting line nitrous fire we have ever seen. Hell, we think the track called Red Adair in to put the sonofabitch out. According to the video description on...
Video: Outakes from the New TV Show
Dec 15, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Video: Outakes from the New TV Show
Yesterday we announced the new TV show starring me and and Freiburger that airs tonight on TRU TV at 11:00 pm (but check the local listing, and if we’re not there, just tune in right after Full...