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What do you get when you bust out the Krylon and some stencils, add race liveries to combines, and then crash them into each other? You get the best freakin' demolition derby ever, in which the participants harvest record crops of awesome with every smash.
This, in a nutshell, is the thing of beauty otherwise known as the Washington Combine Demolition Derby. 2008's combine carnage is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, and we have never wanted to attend something more in our entire lives. Even if we don't go, at least we can still score ourselves a t-shirt or hat. How this hasn't yet been turned into a top-selling video game is beyond our comprehension -- we'd put down Prologue for this if it had online play. For a taste of the spectacle, follow the jump for video! Thanks for the tip, Scott!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SPG @ May 12th 2008 5:18PM
That was pretty sweet, loved it.
Iridium @ May 12th 2008 5:30PM
my finace's dad was just talking about this yesterday. She said, they do what? no way.
Now I can show her that her dad isn't full of sheet. Thanks Autoblog.
theomega @ May 12th 2008 6:29PM
wow....could they make it more dangerous/awesome??
kevin @ May 12th 2008 8:42PM
These aren't as much fun as they sound. Keep in mind combines don't move very fast. The last combine derby I went to was pretty much a sumo match.
tonysbone @ May 12th 2008 10:12PM
I agree, I went in 2006. It's fun to see, but pretty slow paced compared to other destruction derbies. The complete lack of safety cage does make it interesting to watch though, and there is no better place to people watch.
kaslings @ May 12th 2008 10:25PM
Exactly Pickup truck or compact car demo derby's are more fun, cause they MOVE!
studemax @ May 12th 2008 10:58PM
They've held combine demo derbys for years at the Kansas State Fair.
One caught fire once, but no one was hurt.
This is just good, clean fun even if you don't farm.
J3-Colt @ May 13th 2008 9:10AM
I get the impression that this event was likely started by someone saying "hold my beer, and watch this..."
pismos @ May 13th 2008 10:01AM
This is nothing new. My home town in Ontario did a combine derby over 10 years ago. They went back to the regular car derby the next year.
Benfolio @ May 13th 2008 1:52PM
Same here. Ozaukee County WI demo derby a few years back had combines. It sucked so bad (super slow, and took forever to damage them enough to stop them from running) they vowed to never do it again. It's been good old school busses ever since.