Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Epic Video Bonanza: Bus Jumps!
We tend to get fixated on stuff every now and again. Recently we have become obsessed with people jumping school buses over stuff. Judging by the comments of our previous items featuring flying...
Crunch Video: A Hot Rod Pile-up
Hot rods that get driven occasionally get crashed. This is a sad but unavoidable fact. We’ve all seen a guy who got a little nuts with his car on the street and hit a tree or pole. One thing...
Cool Tech Video: Ditch your Valve Springs!
We were tipped off to this neat video featuring a system that replaces the conventional valve springs found in a push rod engine with a cool mechanical setup. Maybe we’re living under a rock,...
Awesome Video: Dennis Anderson’s New King Sling Mud Bog Racer
Dennis Anderson is the man who made the Grave Digger monster truck famous and who signed on the dotted line when Clear Channel (who owned the Monster Jam series) wanted to buy the commercial rights...
Wild Video: Dude Swallowed by Alky Funny Car
The luckiest dude in America is the guy who is standing in front of this Alky Funny Car when the car shoots forward and swallows him up inside the body. It appears to us that the driver was whacking...
NHRA Unleashed at National Trail this weekend, plus more video.
NHRA’s new UnLeashed series is visiting Hebron Ohio’s National Trail Raceway this weekend for the 3rd UnLeashed event of 2010. If you are looking for some of the quickest and fastest...
Wreck Video: Full Contact Aussie Road Racing
During our days announcing SCCA road races, one of the most fun classes to call was Spec Miata. What they lacked in power and speed they made up for in contact. It was Saturday Night Thunder with...
Video Bonanza: Duesenberg Drag Racing!
Recently the Ab Jenkins Memorial Duesenberg Festival of Speed went down in Indiana. The event was a historic gathering of the magnificent American machines and it also featured a Duesenberg drag race...
Extreme Wreckage Video: Sleepy Woman Drifts Jeep Into Convenience Store
Cars crashing into buildings make for good video. So long as no one gets hurt and the only wounds are suffered by bags of Cheetos and Funyuns we’re good with reveling in the carnage. This video...
Killer Drag Video: An Interview With Nitro-Shoe Mendy Fry Circa 1987!
Mendy Fry is one of the most sought after nostalgia nitro pilots in the world today. She’s in the Nostalgia Top Fuel 250mph club, has run down into the 5.80s in a nostalgia nitro flopper, and...
Killer Video: Plymouth Roadrunner Ads
Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be...
Event Coverage: 4th Annual Burbank Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show with Cacklefest Video
The 4th Annual Burbank, California, Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show was a big hit on August 28th, 2010. The Masonic Lodge of Burbank puts on the show every year, with all proceeds going to support...
Wretched Excess Video: A Triple Allison V-12 Powered Pulling Tractor
You’ve seen tractors with a bunch of blown Hemi engines powering the rear wheels. You may have ever seen one or two with radial aircraft engines, but this is a first for us. A European tractor...
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...