Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Watch One Of The Most Horrendous High Speed Drag Race Wrecks We Have Ever Seen
Puerto Rico International Speedway was born from the remains of a US Army base that was constructed in 1940. In 1975 the track opened up as a drag strip and outside of a couple years in the 1980s it...
This Paddle Tire Equipped Fox Mustang On A Puerto Rican Sand Drag Strip Makes Our Pants Tight (video)
Juncos, Puerto Rico was founded in 1797 and has a population of about 40,000 people as best my extensive research into the place can find. The extensive research was done while eating an extensive...
Killer Old Promotional Video: Andy Granatelli Setting Records in a 1963 Avanti at Bonneville
In our never-ending quest to ferret out every cool old promotional video we can, we’re happy to share this film made by Studebaker in 1963 promoting the awesome accomplishments of the Avanti at...
Awesome Videos: Watch And Ride On Board With The Green Monster 19 Front Motor Turbine Dragster!
We were among the first to tell you about Tim Arfons’ project in recreating the front engined, wheel driven, turbine dragster that terrorized drag strips nearly 40 years ago. Now we’re...
Watch Two Insanely Modified Puerto Rican International Diesel School Buses Do Burnouts And Drag Race! One Of These Runs 13s!
No joke, although you cannot see the scoreboards at the end of this video the “winning” bus is capable of running in the 13-second time zone. How do we know that? We’re including an...
Insane Video: Axles Ejected From Drag Car… WITH THE AXLE HOUSING!!!!
In response to the video of Brandon Snider launching the driveshaft out of his ADRL Pro Extreme car, someone sent us a link to one that trumps that in a big way. I say someone because Brian just sent...
Torque Brutality Video: Watch A Big Rig Hauling Trailers Of Logs Lug Up A Hill And Nearly Twist Itself Into a Pretzel
I may get bagged on for my child-like fascination with big rigs, but when videos like this surface and we get to share them it doesn’t seem all that crazy does it? If you can watch this newish...
This Twin Turbo 292ci Y-Block Powered 1962 Ford F100 Makes 721hp At The Tire And Looks Beastly On The Dyno
A year or so ago I made a sideways comment about Y-Block Ford engines and their ability to make power, which thoroughly pissed of the Y-Block community. The hate came in from all sides and quickly I...
The Parting Shift: Gear Banging Awesomeness in a 1964 Impala!
There’s nothing cooler than a full-boogie barge with a stick box. This in-car video, taken at Atco Dragway in New Jersey shows a really beautiful 1964 Impala race car getting hammered on the...
This Vintage Massey Ferguson 55 Pulling Tractor Has A Pissed Off Ford 390 And Pulls The Sled Out The Back Door
With all the nostalgia drag racing and car show stuff that has been hitting the blog lately, we didn’t want our readers to think that we’ve lost our affection for tractors. If there is...
Ride In The Cockpit Of A Ferrari V8 Powered Spice Race Car On The High Banks Of Daytona!
It is Friday and that means the weekend is looming and fun is going to be had. This time of the year there are family holiday parties, office parties, drunken mall Santas, and people jumping into...
Killer Video: A BangShift.com Approved Trail Recovery
Anyone who reads the four-wheel-drive mags or scans YouTube for videos of guys rock crawling, mud bogging, or snow wheeling, will absolutely love this piece of video. Hell, any gearhead worth his or...
Watch This T-Bucket Run 6’s In The 8th: Driver Wearing Shorts And A T-Shirt. Brilliant!
By now all of you know how much I hate T-Buckets, which has been the subject of many “spirited” discussions between Brian and I. Well, here is a video of some dude in his 1927 T-Bucket...
Watch An Idiot Filming A Moron Wreck His Car – Stupidity Hurts
Sure, that title is pretty harsh but let’s be honest. If you are driving down the highway and see a truck purposely driving with two wheels up on the center divider barriers and you decide to...