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Crash-A-Rama - Destruction
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Crash-A-Rama - Destruction

If You Love Smashing Things, Crash-A-Rama Is The Event For You

By John McGann
Photography by John McGann

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Drastic times call for drastic measures, and these are certainly drastic times. With the economy on the brink, auto manufacturers going under, and others barely hanging on, it is often beneficial to stop and take a stern accounting of things--or better yet, take time to smash a few dozen cars into a steaming heap.

Though it's often utterly pointless to break stuff when stress levels rise, it sure feels good, doesn't it? That's the point of Crash-A-Rama. It's an automotive catharsis, a hilarious diversion from the daily grind, not to mention a messy but effective way to dispose of a brace of junker cars, buses, and fishing boats. Crash-A-Rama is a traveling road show that roams to various half-mile tracks around the country, and we caught up with it on its second stop of the season in Monroe, Louisiana. At Monroe, Crash-A-Rama was preceded by an abbreviated schedule of their normal Saturday lineup, which included Legends cars, American Thunder stock cars, and a front-wheel-drive compact class. You gotta love an event where a giant earthmover doubles as pace car and rescue vehicle--alternately leading the parade laps and depositing derelict vehicles in one of the four giant rollaway Dumpsters strategically placed around the infield to accommodate the mess. Enough with the blabbing--let's get to the pictures, already.

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