Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Watch A Large Ferry Thread The Needle Between Two Ships And Get Run Aground On Purpose At A Wrecking Yard In Turkey
If someone ever asked us if we could run a large vessel aground at full speed while navigating it between two other disabled ships, we’d just shrug it off and say, “Yeah, why?”...
Violence: Watch An AMA Supercross Rider T-Bone A Competitor On Purpose!
Of all the wild stuff we have seen racers do to one another in the heat of the moment, this video of AMA Supercross rider Mike Alessi t-boning fellow competitor Broc Tickle on purpose at a recent is...
Historic Video: A Trans-Antarctic Voyage in Tucker Sno-Cat Trucks Circa 1955
Man has always strived to create devices and machines to traverse all kinds of harsh environments. From dog sleds to huge “tundra trains” the frozen ice caps of planet Earth have always...
Carnage Video: Top Fuel Reverse Burnout and Guardrail Smash, OCIR, 1980
Driving a Top Fuel Dragster is no easy feat. It wasn’t any easier back in the early 1980s as this video will show you. Filmed at the now defunct Orange County International Raceway in 1980,...
Video Fail Break: Why TV Reporters Don’t Drive Dump Trucks
There are few things we love more than good television news bloopers. When over-zealous, smarmy reporters get a dose of their own medicine on camera, it is pure gold. In what could be the single...
Vintage Drag Video: Ohio’s Thompson Drag Raceway in the 1960s and 1970’s
Thompson Raceway Park was once known as Thompson Drag Raceway and it ranks very high on our list of personal favorite tracks. The track has been up and running for decades and was one of the central...
Battle Of The Roadkill All Stars – Every Running Roadkill Project Gets Thrashed In New Episode
The latest episode of Roadkill dropped today and it is a fun one that pits every running project car from the series against each other in an autocross format. When we say all the running projects...
A Sequel To The Awesome Stop Action Hot Wheels Car Chase Flick Has Surfaced! Nitro Warriors 2: Afterburner – This Rules!
It was only a couple of days ago that we showed you “Nitro Warriors”, a fantastic stop-action short film that featured an epic car chase with Hot Wheels cars. Well, the sequel to that...
The Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine Was A 1930s Marvel That We Wish Was Still Around Today (Video)
While the name is pretty staid and unimpressive, the Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine was a marvel in 1932 when it was installed and put into use at a parking lot in Chicago. With space for 48...
AMERICAN BADASS: Col. John Stapp Went 632 MPH in a Rocket Sled with an OPEN COCKPIT
We’ve all seen footage of crash test dummies getting put through their paces to understand how crashes effect the human body. Through the years, auto manufacturers have employed everything from...
Video Bonanza: The Racing in Slow Motion Series
Every now and again a cool video hits the scene and ripsaws through the automotive interwebs like wildfire. Currently, that video is the latest release in the Racing in Slow Motion series on YouTube....
Video: The Hover-Barrow Was A Neat And BangShifty Solution To Job Site Drudgery – Cool Idea!
Human beings have been seeking ways to make life easier since the dawn of our existence. From coming up with ideas like the wheel, yogurt in a tube, electricity, and nuclear weapons, we’ve been...
Awesome Drag Video: Watch Grumpy Jenkins Live Up To His Nickname In A 1975 TV Interview – This Rules All
Away from the race track Bill Jenkins was an affable man with lots of friends and stories. At the track, he was as serious as a heart attack, not all that friendly a dude, and an intense competitor....
The Dynasphere Is A Fun British Creation From The 1930s That We Want To Drive! (Video)
People have been designing and building so-called “mono wheel” vehicles for a long time, like over 80 years now as is proven by the video below. We’re sure that the existed on paper...