There is just something about a rig bouncing off the rev limiter of it’s healthy V8 that gets your blood pumping. Good thing for you, Busted Knuckle Films was on hand to cover the wide open throttle action of the May Madness event put on by Central Alabama Offroad Society (CAOS) at Gray Rock ORV near Birmingham, Alabama. There was also a Brawl for All competition put on by Blue Torch Fabworks. BTF put up $1000 bucks to whoever made the quickest time around the course. Gary from Crazy Horse Kustoms ended up taking 1st place while doing a wheelie up one of the final obstacles. As if that wasn’t enough the owner of Bluetorch put up another $1000 bounty for the rig that could make it up the infamous Cable Hill the fastest. Cole Shirley driving his LS1 powered Jim’s Garage JK Buggy and Mike George driving his BTF fusion buggy were the only 2 drivers to make it up the obstacle and the times were too close to call. Then Cole went for another run and killed it with a 20sec run removing all doubt and grabbing the cash. The other participants in this put up or shut up event provided plenty of carnage. Blue Torch’s King of the Hammers Race Car grenaded the atlas transfer case on its full throttle attempt at the hill. The spider buggy broke the rear section of its frame in half after a rev limiter run. The Coleworx Highlighter buggy shredded ring and pinion in the front dana 60 while smoking the tires. But like Brain Cole says “If you are scared of breaking this aint the sport for you.” Be sure to watch the videos in High Definition (Double Click) below for some of the action that will be featured in our next Offroad DVD. All Videos were shot in 720p with a Panasonic HMC40 camera with a Rode Videomic.
WOW Cole made that look easy.