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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

Carnage Video: Bus Driver in Taiwan Plows Through Cars on Highway

We’re not sure if the driver of this bus loses his mind or his brakes, but either way the amount of destruction caused is epic. You’ll never look at one of those big buses barreling down...

Burnout Video: Crazy Aussie Smokes the Tires For a Quarter-Mile

This quarter mile burnout is cool for a couple reasons, the first is because it’s done by a 440 Ambassador. The second is because that Ambassador is a wagon. While it appears that the driver is...

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Truck Pull Carnage Video: Sled Failure Ends Badly

Forgive our recent fascination with carnage video from pulling events, but it’s just so weird and cool, we have to share. This video shows the sled itself failing, which results in a jack knife...

Videos: Big Willie Robinson and the Brotherhood of Street Racers

We were thinking about Big Willie Robinson’s 1969 Daytona being posted on eBay and thought to go looking for some background on the man and on his Brotherhood of Street Racers organization. We...

Carnage Video: Dude Crashes in Street Race, Posts Video, Gets Hit For Insurance Fraud

If you’re not familiar with the Nissan GT-R supercar, it’s an import-car legend that, in 2009 US trim, is packing a twin turbo V6 with 480 hp. It weighs 3,800 pounds and can run 190 mph....

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Historic Video: Mickey Thompson Becomes the First American over 400 MPH

A few weeks ago our Southern California division posted a bunch of photos of the Mickey Thompson display at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. What we didn’t know at the time is that...

Dyno Video: A 360ci Sprint Car Running Full Tilt on the Rollers

Gaerte Racing Engines is one of the premier Sprint Car engine builders in the country, and this totally bitchin’ video of the guys at Gaerte running a 360ci Sprinter on the rollers to check the...

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Awesome Video: Huge Trucks Flying Through the Air At Crazy Mud Bogging Event

We think we know about all types of racing and wild motorsports events, but on a pretty regular basis we’re slapped with something incredible we’ve never seen before. This video of the...

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Carnage Video: Car Flips and Burns at 24 Hours of Lemons

By now most of you have heard of 24 Hours of Lemons, the road-race enduro series with gag cars that supposedly cost less than $500 to build, safety equipment aside. Seems it’s a good thing that...

Hilarious Video: Trucks Climbing Each Other

We’ve seen magazine covers and other other static photos of massive trucks perched up on another truck’s tire, we’ve just never seen it done in moving pictures. We’re hoping...

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Carnage Video: Watch the Rear Axle Get Ripped Clean Out of a Pulling Truck!

Carnage is something that happens with regularity in all motorsports. Truck and tractor pulling is no exception. With motors and drivetrain parts being worked to within an inch of their lives under...

Neat Video: Buddies Horsing Around With Their Jag-Powered Slingshot, Dry Hops Included

This video struck us as very cool in a subtle way. It’s basically a few guys tuning on a vintage slingshot dragster powered by a DOHC Jag engine. The thing sounds cool as hell, and the fact...

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Cool Video: A Huge Custom Unimog Struts Its Stuff

Unimogs are bad ass 4x4s, and modified Unimogs are even better than that. This video shows a totally tricked out Unimog built by Couch Off Road Engineering for the firearms company Magpul Industries....

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Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County Fair

Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race...