Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Crazy Carnage Video: A European Wheelstander Eats Concrete and Flips
We’re going to get Friday off to a smashing start, literally. One of our European forum members tipped us off to video clips of a wheel-stander, The Little Green Wagon, drilling the guardrail...
Dyno Video: A Cross-Rammed Chevy 302 Singing on the Pump
After fantasizing about owning Dave Strickler’s Camaro, we went hunting around the web to find some beautiful music being made by one of the little 302s that Strickler abused. We found a kick...
Killer Vintage Drag Video: Original Footage of Classic Wheel-Standers In Action
Confession time. We freaking love wheel-standers. Many hardcore drag race guys like to talk smack about jet cars and wheel-standers as being circus acts or somehow inferior to “real” race...
Killer Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Gives a Tour of the Four-Engine Showboat Dragster
Tommy Ivo’s four-engine Showboat dragster remains one of the most audacious and incredible pieces of machinery to ever assault the drag strip. At first glance it seems about as complex as a...
Epically Awesome Video: Firing Up a Twin Engine Nitro Harley In the Driveway
We’ve found a new personal gearhead hero. Whoever this guy is, he rules. Anyone who can claim ownership of a twin-engine, Harley-powered nitro bike is already walking among titans, but to have...
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo, Norm Weekly, and One Bad Ass Bucket
It’s a rare video that manages to tell the personal story of someone you’ve never met and keep you riveted to the screen. We caught wind of this piece of YouTube awesomeness through a tip...
Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air
This is a pulling event we have to try! It takes place on asphalt and is completely basic in nature. There’s a sled with concrete blocks chained to a truck and the truck’s job is to drag...
Historic Carnage Video: Major Wreckage On the Old Beach Course At Daytona
We unearthed this radical ancient video of Modified jalopies whooping it up on the Daytona Beach circle track in the late ’40s or early ’50s. These guys really thrashed the cars, almost...
The Parting Shift: Stretching the Legs of a Dual Quad 1964 Buick Wildcat
This week’s Parting Shift is a change of pace. We’re stepping away from the race track and all the transmission violence in favor of some good old fashioned muscle getting a leg stretch....
Crazy Video: An Alky-Burning Drag Race Lawn Tractor
You’d laugh at us if we told you that there are lunatics out there racing 100hp, alky burning, two-step equipped lawn tractors. Impossible, right? Wrong. The escaped mental patient driving the...
Fuego Video: Little Car, Big Flames
After getting all nostalgic for LACR we decided to go hunting for some cool video action from the track. Unfortunately we only got as far as the staging lanes. This video shows a cool old Lloyd that...
Weirdly Cool Video: A Monster Truck Event in Time Lapse Photography
We admire people with artistic talent and vision. Since ours kind of stunted after we were introduced to finger painting, it’s our sworn duty to highlight the works of people who do neat stuff....
Carnage Video: Mustang Pole Vault Attempt
Let’s face it, we are at the dragstrip more than anyone but the touring pros, so it only makes sense that we’ve seen a lot of funny and weird things go down while at the track. One that...