Cars are built to operate on four wheels — but it's always awesome to see one running on just two. After all, if a car is powerful enough to hoist its front end into the air, it qualifies as totally depraved in the most awesome way possible.
So this week I dedicate this beloved exploration of the Internet's back roads and alleys to wheelstands. Because even when they're fake, they're cool.
On the Set of Fast and Furious 4!
If there's one thing movie studios fear in this era of YouTube and video cameras embedded in cell phones, it's footage of their productions getting out long before they hit theaters. Take this clip, which shows a scene from the fourth Fast & Furious film being shot. Remember, according to the Internet Movie Database, this movie isn't supposed to hit theaters until June 2009!
How they get that '70 Chevelle to wheelie is pretty dang clever, however. And it looks a lot better than when they faked the Charger's wheelstand in the first movie.
Amazing Wheelstands
Byron Dragway in the thriving Northern Illinois metropolis of Byron bills itself as "The Playground of Power" and is home every October to the "World Power Wheelstanding Championship" where muscle machinery meets to dang near destroy itself in glorious two-wheeled antics.
This video is a compilation of runs from the 2005 event and if it's indicative of what goes on there every year, I'm booking my flight and reserving a room for this October 5.
With any luck, my room will have a real good view of the Byron Nuclear Generating Station!
A Wheelstand Would Have Been Better
Apparently this was shot at Orlando's Speed World drag strip back in 2006. There's no doubt, however, that this guy is lucky to be alive.
Even More Wheelstands
There's nothing here except an accumulation of wheelstands set to the tune of Guns 'N Roses' cover of "Live and Let Die." And frankly that's enough.
So this week I dedicate this beloved exploration of the Internet's back roads and alleys to wheelstands. Because even when they're fake, they're cool.
On the Set of Fast and Furious 4!
If there's one thing movie studios fear in this era of YouTube and video cameras embedded in cell phones, it's footage of their productions getting out long before they hit theaters. Take this clip, which shows a scene from the fourth Fast & Furious film being shot. Remember, according to the Internet Movie Database, this movie isn't supposed to hit theaters until June 2009!
How they get that '70 Chevelle to wheelie is pretty dang clever, however. And it looks a lot better than when they faked the Charger's wheelstand in the first movie.
Amazing Wheelstands
Byron Dragway in the thriving Northern Illinois metropolis of Byron bills itself as "The Playground of Power" and is home every October to the "World Power Wheelstanding Championship" where muscle machinery meets to dang near destroy itself in glorious two-wheeled antics.
This video is a compilation of runs from the 2005 event and if it's indicative of what goes on there every year, I'm booking my flight and reserving a room for this October 5.
With any luck, my room will have a real good view of the Byron Nuclear Generating Station!
A Wheelstand Would Have Been Better
Apparently this was shot at Orlando's Speed World drag strip back in 2006. There's no doubt, however, that this guy is lucky to be alive.
Even More Wheelstands
There's nothing here except an accumulation of wheelstands set to the tune of Guns 'N Roses' cover of "Live and Let Die." And frankly that's enough.
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