Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
A Flippin’ Good Time: Ramping Beaters In Britain For Charity (And Carnage!)
There are limitless ways to send that old beater that nobody wants on to the great parking lot in the sky without just sending the car over the scales and collecting your cash. There’s...
Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages
Ahhhhh yes, as we continue on with the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Atlanta Dragway looms large on the horizon. That’s where we are racing this year as one of the tour’s true...
Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!
Growing up, a four-door G-body Malibu would’ve been labeled a “parts car” and pushed out into the far sections of the yard. One in particular stayed in memory: a white Malibu, tan...
Classic YouTube: A Geo Tracker Climbing The Escalator On The Hell’s Revenge Trail At Moab!
Light, simple and when geared properly, plenty capable, Geo Trackers are a better memory to have of the small-car GM brand than the Metro and have aged better over the years. They are scrappy little...
Video: The 1993 Ford Taurus SHO Was A Good Car – But How Good Was It? First Year For The Slushbox
Maybe because it was the late 1980s and early 1990s. Maybe it was because I was a pre-teen and then a teen. Maybe it was because this was an era where pretty much every car that everyone was making...
The Corvette ZR1 At Road Atlanta – The Weaponized Corvette Can Throw Down!
I’ve seen a few of them running around town, and I got to get up close with the parked display model and the precious few that were in owner’s hands at the Michelin NCM Bash a few days...
The Psychotic Doorstop: Take A Ride In A 1982 Lancia 037 Stradale!
It was the only two-wheel-drive rally machine that could show Audi’s Quattro that the driver still had a lot to do with driving to victory. It was Walter Röhrl’s favorite machine to whip...
Respect Your Elders: This 1922 Ford Model T Ran Street Machine’s Drag Challenge Weekend!
What will you be doing if you make it to the ripe old age of 96 years? If you get there, tell me the next time you see me wherever we end up, because I don’t expect to see a full century of...
Fabricating Custom X, Y, And H Pipes Isn’t As Hard As You Might Think
About 15 years ago exhaust system offerings from manufacturers started getting good. Not necessarily great, but good. Mandrel bent systems, for specific applications, became available from a variety...
Adrenaline Rush, Stat: 11/10ths Rally Action Footage That Doesn’t End In Crashes!
Rally racing is good for a couple of things. Like crashes! Sooner or later a highly powered psychotic bit of kit powered by a meat bag who is high on fear and adrenaline is going to find the rock, or...
Classic YouTube: A Buick Wildcat Smokeshow For The Ages
A quiet road, nobody around, and a tidal wave of torque at the discretion of your right foot. If you can say, honestly, that the thought of signing your name in melted rubber hasn’t appealed to...
1,800 Horses Running: Watch How Quickly This Viper Dispatches The Half-Mile In Dallas!
For a quarter-century, the halo car at Dodge was the Viper. What started out as a “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” shot at recreating the magic and the violence of the...
Truck Trials! Check Out How Folks In The Czech Republic Play With Their Big Trucks!
It’s almost a rite of passage as a kid: those toy cars will, sooner or later, see a mud pit that will ultimately be roof-deep. Those plastic machines see all sorts of hell: splashing through...
