Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Pro Mod Disaster Video: The Tindle/Cagle Uber Wreck
There are drag racing crashes and then there are drag racing CRASHES. This is the latter. The wreck involves the blown Mustang Pro Mod of Tim Tindle and the nitrous Camaro of Tori Cagle. From the...
The Parting Shift: A Regular Guy Shows GM How Powershifting Really Goes
In the blog item just below this one, we showed you a video from GM on how they test their manual transmissions “Woodward Ave” style. Those tests are designed to recreate the kind of...
Funny Video: Eight Minutes of Pace Car/Safety Car Fails
One of the great gearhead movie exchanges of all time went down between Robert Duval and Tom Cruise in, “Days of Thunder”. Duval tells Cruise to pull out on the track and hit the pace...
Big Fire Video: A Mustang Blows a Transmission Line and Lights Up Like a Roman Candle!
This video, shot at the currently dormant Gateway International Raceway just outside of St Louis does a great job of depicting the volatility of transmission fluid when it hits red hot exhaust parts!...
Bonneville Video: Amir from Spectre Talks Us Through a 350mph Streamliner Run
The Speed by Spectre ‘Liner will be running at Bonneville next week and we’ll be there to cover it. Chad will be bringing the fight to the salt starting on Monday. But we digress. If...
Instructional Video: Don’t Put Your Face There Kid
Being a gearhead, especially a young one, means living through many rites of passage. The first time you push a wrench with a closed fist and rip all the skin off your knuckles, the first time you...
Cool Video: A Guy Tests Out His Homebuilt Quarter-Scale Jet Dragster!
We’ve seen lots of neat miniature race cars, engines, and tractors in our day, but we’ve never seen a freakin’ home made jet dragster! This thing rules all and is even capable of...
Cool Video: Let’s Ride Motorcycles
So if we led off by telling you that the below video is an advertisement for a Taiwanese bank, we’re not sure you’d get far enough to check it out. It would be your loss of course,...
Cool Video: 101 year old Margaret Dunning Still Cruises Her 1930 Packard!
Margaret Dunning is 101 years old, which is pretty damned impressive in itself. Add the fact that she still cruises her 1930 Packard, changes its oil and spark plugs as well as the other maintenance...
Cool Video: A Vintage Ford Pro Stocker Rumbles Back To Life
There’s a slowly emerging crop of vintage Pro Stock drag race cars emerging around the country. Some, like this car were truly competitors back in the day, while others, like Brian...
Chad Reynolds
We all know the Australians kick ass when it comes to burnouts. They put on the craziest shows full of tire smoke, blower whine and donuts you have ever seen. The only reason I have for why they do...
Video: Australian Burnoutapalooza! Burnout Mayhem 3 from Sydney Dragway
The Australians rule all when it comes to burnouts and burnout contests. I hate to admit it, but it is true. Take this video for example. Are the cars really that small? Or are the blowers really...
Video: Super Sexy Goodguys Columbus Show Coverage
The Goodguys PPG Nationals show in Columbus is the biggest of the year. The Street Rod and Street Machine of the Year awards are presented, every area of town is like a car show each night, and it...