Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Vintage Drag Video: Billy Meyer and Gary Densham Burn Their Floppers to the Ground
It’s been said that if you drive a Funny Car long enough, you’ll have to experience a fire. Both Gary Densham and Billy Meyer certainly did, as evidenced from this vintage footage from...
Unintentional Stunt Jump Video: A Drunk Driver Launches Her Car in Dallas
Well this may have sobered her up. A suspected drunk driver in Dallas, Texas, launched her car over a set of toll booths at the DFW Airport when she failed to slow down and pay the toll. We can only...
Russian Carnage Video: Street Racing Is a Bad Idea There, Too
As this video proves, it isn’t just dumb to street race in North America, it’s stupid all over the world. This is some heavy duty carnage when two cars launch off and amazingly, a...
Whoopsie-Doodle Video: Automotive Prank Goes Wrong
Remember being a teenager and doing stupid junk with your car? Remember the time that stupid junk caused damage that you knew mom and dad were going to see and that you’d never be able to talk...
Hilarious Video: Three-Wide Bus Racing at a Michigan Oval
So far today we’ve taken you to Indy and to the Midwest Musclecar Challenge, two events featuring cars that have been designed, tested, and trashed on the race track. Now we’re headed to...
The Parting Shift: Robert Schmitt’s Killer 1967 Chevelle
We’re checking out for the long holiday weekend, but before we abandon our battle station on the blog we wanted to leave you with some good ol’ fashioned gear rowing. Robert...
Crazy Flaming Carnage Video: 18-Wheeler T-Bones Dump Truck
We’ll start with the punchline. According to the Associated Press, neither driver in this massive collision was hurt. We cannot fathom how that is possible because the impact looks like someone...
Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton
Bobby Issac and Harry Hyde famously bombarded the Bonneville Salt Flats with a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona stock car in September of 1971. Chrysler had chopped its racing budget and the wing car was...
The Parting Shift: Grabbin’ Gears in a Mustang at Atco
This week’s Parting Shift takes us to Atco Raceway in New Jersey for some good old fashioned four-speed abuse. The Mustang featured in this video sure seems like a runner as it takes no time at...
Cool Drag Racing Video: The History of Funny Cars as Narrated by Steve Evans
Any drag racing video that features the dulcet tones of Steve Evans is automatically awesome in our book. If you combined the pipes of Evans and a fun subject like the evolution of funny cars you...
Crazy Truck Video: Massive 8×8 Trials Competition From Czechoslovakia
Who knew such craziness existed in the Czech Republic? This video of giant trucks battling in an extreme off road competition is great. Seeing what an 8×8 truck powered by a big turbo-diesel...
Fantastic Vintage Drag Video: Garlits, The Greek, The Snake, Muldowney, Trophy Girls and Nitro
This video carries the ambitious title, “The History of Drag Racing.” At only three and a half minutes, the history is a bit truncated, but the footage used in the film is some of the...