Burnouts

[Walt Longmire]

Back in my youth, I burned 6 (3 sets) tires off the rear of my car in one weekend. Oh, I could do the smoke shows. 

[jack_pine]

Ont the fourth weekend in our small town the Burnout Competition is one of the big draws. Right behind the parade and the demolition derby.

[Huaco Kid]

Back in my youth, I burned

oh.

Never mind.

[janice6]

Reminds me of the Doctor filling out a questionnaire on a patient.  He asks, "Do you smoke after sex?", and the woman  says, "I don't know, I never looked!".

[Walt Longmire]

1 minute ago, janice6 said:

Reminds me of the Doctor filling out a questionnaire on a patient.  He asks, "Do you smoke after sex?", and the woman  says, "I don't know, I never looked!".

Oh the smell of burning rubber, and the sound of a screaming whore.

[PNWguy]

I couldn't afford to burn off my tires for fun...

I had a `65 GTO with a transplanted 428 that made it an honest 11-second car.  

When cruising Main street in the 80's on a hot summer night, my favorite trick was to put it into 1st gear, let out the clutch, and then just let it idle along.  The cam was so aggressive and it had so much torque, that when the cam cycled, it would chirp the rear tires.

If that didn't dissuade street racing challengers, then I would give it some gas and lift the front up, then let off and let the front come down and when it bounced and was coming up, I would time it just right and hit the gas again and the front tires would come off the ground.

Nothing says "you really don't want to embarrass yourself by racing me..." than making your car do a wheelie with a couple of well-timed blips of the throttle.

Miss that car...

 

[Jack Ryan]

Lots of kids like to do those burn outs. Burn outs doing burn outs, usually in their Dad's pickup.

[holyjohnson]

i enjoyed them so much i started building other peoples cars to do them in..........

 

and i absolutely did not do a burnout earlier today.

[DWARREN123]

Never had enough money to waste on tires.

[KBKEITH]

Two memorable ones from high school and both were done by my buddy with his dad’s 1980 Caprice Classic. 

First one was at a party we were having on a cul de sac of a new subdivision development one night. Brake torque with a very slow roll out. Very smoky, and left a wonderfully long and dark black stripe on fresh pavement. It measured 200’ in length.

Second one was last day of our senior year in high school in 1986. Brand new tire on the right rear. Me with a big bottle of bleach. He did a sit and spin brake torque while I kept the bleach flowing. The idea of course was to cover the upper and lower parking lots and school grounds with as much smoke as we could generate. We easily accomplished that goal and then some. It looked like a huge bomb went off. Billowing smoke everywhere. End result was probably a 2-3” deep groove cut into the pavement and a tire down to the cords.

 

[XSIV4S]

7 hours ago, DWARREN123 said:

Never had enough money to waste on tires.

+1. I never understood that. I didn't want the attention, tickets or tire cost.

[Walt Longmire]

10 hours ago, holyjohnson said:

i enjoyed them so much i started building other peoples cars to do them in..........

 

and i absolutely did not do a burnout earlier today.

Not even in the rental car?

[Mr. Black]

Old crappy video from about 10 years ago in my GTO after I did long tubes headers on it.  That car changed A LOT after that video.   

 

 

[Cougar_ml]

I'd always burn up the rear tire on my motorcycle when the new one was in at the shop waiting for me.

Shop was a block from my job, so I burned out in the parking lot one time.  Managed to get traffic stopped on a 4 lane road from the smoke

 

I did a burn out one Saturday night on the main drag in town.  Turns out there was a cop watching me do it the whole time...

He started following me, so I started heading out of town.

He stopped following me, so I headed back into town.

He saw me again and pulled me over.  First words out of his mouth were "you should have just left town"

We talked for a few minutes, I explained my reason for what I did.  At the end of the conversation it was "have a nice night, stop screwing around, and get a new rear tire."

Apparently the cops in that town aren't used to dealing with honesty, because the reason I told him for my burnout, and that got me out of (in his words) a "$1000 ticket" was "I'm bored"

[Dric902]

“Son, you have a car now, I’m buying the first set of tires. The next set is on you”

 

i learned pretty quick

[Walt Longmire]

2 hours ago, Dric902 said:

“Son, you have a car now, I’m buying the first set of tires. The next set is on you”

 

i learned pretty quick

My old man never paid for anything on any of my vehicles. He would work on them though. 

[Mr. Black]

Back in the early 2000s I drag raced for 2 and a half seasons straight at Pacific Raceways in Washington.   Doing burnouts kinda of lost their allure for a while lol.   

 

 

Edited August 15, 2018 by Mr. Black

[jmohme]

It was my junior year of high school. We were all talking crap in front of the school when one of the local smart ass gear heads came cruising buy in his Chevelle, came to a stop, smiled at a group of hot seniors, gassed it and dumped the clutch. The tires barked, followed by a clanking noise and the drive shaft rolling out from under the car. ?

Yep, burnouts are really cool. ? ??

[holyjohnson]

13 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

Not even in the rental car?

not since hertz stopped renting the Taurus SHO

[Walt Longmire]

17 hours ago, Mr. Black said:

Back in the early 2000s I drag raced for 2 and a half seasons straight at Pacific Raceways in Washington.   Doing burnouts kinda of lost their allure for a while lol.   

 

 

I bracket raced at Puyallup in the 70's. Raced at S.I.R. a few times also. Used to go with a friend that ran his Hemi Cuda in Pro Stock class. I ran my street ride.

[Walt Longmire]

I did a smoke show in front of a couple deputies late one night. No ticket. Wasn't much going on in our one horse town, so they took to following me everywhere. I was finally able to lose them in traffic, and then I followed them. They pulled over and got behind me again. At one point we drove through a side street that was flooded from recent rain. When we both stopped for the stop sign they nearly hit me. (wet drum brakes) They swerved up onto the curb. Haha. I headed towards home. Came to a 4 way stop with them right behind me. I sat there a bit, turned on my left blinker, so did they. Turned it off, so did the deputies. I jacked it up with an awesome smoke show, shifted into 2nd with the speedo hitting 70 plus, but the car barley moving. Then let it hook up traction and cleared the intersection. Went down the County road a few hundred yards then around a corner, and pulled over into a gravel turnout, and waited.....and waited. I wondered why they weren't coming after me, then I heard that big block Ford. The driver had his foot buried by the sound of it. When they rounded the corner and saw me just sitting there, he swerved into the gravel turnout and laid on the brakes. Woops, it don't stop so well in gravel. Should have braked while still on the pavement. They slid so close that even after getting out of the cop car, they couldn't see the rear license plate. Butt chewing ensued. They wanted to know why I would do a burnout right in front of them. I said, "Hey you've been following me around looking for a reason to hassle me." I then asked why they didn't take right off after me. Well some of the tension on the stop had subsided a little by then. The one driving laughed and said, "We had to wait for enough smoke to clear to be able to see." I did not get a ticket. I only lived a mile from there, and was told to go home. I did. It was probably a good thing I was part of a big family with a mostly good standing in the community. Fun times way back then.

[NDcent]

Tires nowadays have compounds that won't really burn unless they catch from a car fire or other open flame, but in the pre 80's, 70 era tires would. I had a friend pull out of a bar-b-q joint and literally light um up; only one caught fire but it was still a hoot.  

[Walt Longmire]

13 minutes ago, NDcent said:

Tires nowadays have compounds that won't really burn unless they catch from a car fire or other open flame, but in the pre 80's, 70 era tires would. I had a friend pull out of a bar-b-q joint and literally light um up; only one caught fire but it was still a hoot.  

Those polyglas tires were some of the best 'smokers'

[Mr. Black]

3 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

I bracket raced at Puyallup in the 70's. Raced at S.I.R. a few times also. Used to go with a friend that ran his Hemi Cuda in Pro Stock class. I ran my street ride.

I live literally across the street from what was once the Puyallup Raceway.   It is still there but nothing but weeds now.  Private property.     Also rode dirtbikes there in the mid 80s.  

[Walt Longmire]

64 Funny Cars at S.I.R. was a good time.