A couple of the crashes on there are Alan Johnson's cars and in 96 his little brother Blanie was killed racing a fuel car everytime one of his cars breaks apart he must almost have a heart attack.

The only thing that comes out of it is when you lose people close to you when it comes to safety you don't play around.

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A very instructional video. Several important things to note.
Nitro, it really makes the power, but when it goes wrong, it goes wrong in the worst possible way.

The destruction of the fiberglass bodies relieved the internal pressure & minimised damage to the driver. It also prevented the whole car from becoming airborne in a really big way like some did in the early days. At 50 feet in the air & 200 mph, you just know it isn't going to be a soft landing, particularly when the body explodes at the peak of the balistic trajectory.

The fuel rails are designed to break up just in front of the drivers protective cell, as well as just behind it. The idea being to lose that burning mass of engine & drive line as well as the front of the car, leaving the driver nice & safe in his little low mass, low inertia cocoon. Sometimes it even works.

The power that these things produce, both before & after the big bang is truly frightening.

Great footage, thanks K12.

That vids phenomenal!

Some of those guys need ejector seats!!!

i dont think i want to spectate at the drags ever again its even dangerous in the parking lot!

..after watching them videos..I'm driving really slow for the next 3 months...

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If the car is built right your fine.

See this one ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQgWaD89is&NR

WHAT THE @#$%!!!!!

That comes close to the top of the list of the best way to shorten your life span!!!

After looking through "youtube" last night at some car crashes, I doubt you would get me sitting in there....

I spose I wouldnt actually have to get it registered, just swap the plates of the regisered white one when I wanted to take it for a drive.

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Only 95% done, but for sure it would need to go on a trailer.

Could you even get a car with a tube front half engineered ? i wouldnt think so.

Engineered? It doesn't look like a street car. He probably trailers it to races.

Keep it real, keep it all Nissan.