Longtime readers of Dragzine will certainly recall one of the baddest and certainly most unique drag racing vehicles we’ve ever seen: the Frozen Assets snowmobile dragster that is (or was…we’ll get to that in a minute) the creation of Jim and Bernie Warning and Paul Groth. Frozen Assets, a truly state-of-the-art and one-of-one dragster combining the best in drag racing technology with that of a snowmobile, featured a Spitzer Race Cars-built dragster chassis, with power from a Proline Race Engines bullet (the very same Proline that’s powered Tim Lynch, Jose Gonzalez, and others into the drag racing record books) with a pair of turbochargers. The estimated 3,000 horsepower was transferred through a set of snowmobile-like tracks in place of tires that would plant the gobs of horsepower to the icy and snowy surface of a frozen lake.

Several videos surfaced of Frozen Assets being shaken down in 2011 and 2012, including a killer 170-plus mph blast down the ice last winter at the St. Germain Ice Drags in Wisconsin, but we’d not seen or heard anything more of the awesome creation in the year that followed. These videos, however, just might  explain why.

In these videos dated February 17th of last year and filmed at an unknown location, Frozen Assets is seen drifting out of the groove into the snowbanks lining the racing surface and taking a nasty tumble that, from the vantage point of the camera location well down beyond the finish line, virtually destroys the dragster chassis. By our count, the car barrel rolls five to six times before coming to a rest…no doubt a terrifying and sickening end to an amazing piece of machinery that had all sorts of untapped potential. We can only hope the Performance Concepts group returns in the future with another creation to break some ice records.