Burnouts for idiots?

rander3127 · 2004-10-03T04:02:20+00:00

This seems to be the opinion of mostpeople I run into. Burnouts are not seenas a demonstration of power but of stupidity. The best idea being to plant the tires as fast as possible and transfer theenergy to forward motion. I remember seeing a video about theAmerican car culture showing some teenburning the 70-series tires on his 1974 Old's Cutlass by doing a brake lock on the automatic. I kind of wonderedwhat the point was.I also remember a friend who had a 1971 351 Mustang who could burn rubbervery easily, but the car itself wasn't that fast.Given that current tire technology will allowa drag car to lift all four wheels off the ground,(saw a photo of it happening in the most recentissue of MM and Fast Fords, I wonder what the point of burnouts is, beyond heating up the tires?

Oct 03, 2004 20 Replies

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Stuart&Janet 21 years ago

I saw that car at Indy back in the 80's. It was wild. They were Hilborn injected Nailhead Buicks. StuK

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