Car cruise Burnout gone bad.

[68coronetGLwannabe]

I was a local Saturday cruise in last night and a Ford that was leaving decided to do a burnout. This guy was in his late 50's or so. This guy lights them up and looses it, starts going sideways locks up the brakes  slides about 100 ft across 3 lanes of traffic up over the curb into the landscaping. He finally comes to a stop right in front of everybody at the car show. He backs up limps the car away on a flat front tire and some smoke coming from under the car. I bet we wont see him for a while. last year a guy did the same thing in a Firebird.  Burnout are all fine a good but most cruise in disapprove and luckily no one got hurt (Just there pride) either time.

[Ghoste]

It is good no one was hurt.  I like doing burnouts as much as anyone but everytime one goes wrong in public like that it just becomes more fodder for the old car haters.

[jb666]

It is good no one was hurt.  I like doing burnouts as much as anyone but everytime one goes wrong in public like that it just becomes more fodder for the old car haters.

Exactly.. It also is the primary reason for car shows going bye-bye.. The organizers of the show get threatened with the need for a police detail and can't afford it.. So they shut the show down , all because one hero wanted to show off and couldn't handle the power he had.

[sixty8charger]

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZV23yP4D4

[sixty8charger]

or.. no injuries.. no real burn out either.. hmmmm. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9TX82c2VI

[4cruzin]

Lucky no one was hurt.  Burnouts are just asking for trouble if not done in a controlled area . . . 

[Cooter]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....Outlaw Low Performance DRIVER's, Not High Performance Cars....It's good he has to scrape up his pride into one big pile afterwards...Thank goodness he didn't take out any little kids...

There's one at every car show/cruise in...Some idiot in a car that has about half the power of most there, and just can't control his "urge" to "Smoke-'em"...Knowing that most of the cars there would hand him/her their ass...."Oh wow! Your car doesn't hook for sh*t..Now I'm really scared come race day!"

I ALWAYS leave the cruise nights/car shows in style....NO BURNOUTS! this is what gets 'em shut down people....I make it a point to physically laugh at these types when this type thing happens...That way, maybe they will LEARN how their car reacts to "Burnouts" before they try it in that E-Bay, "Buy it now" car they have driven about three times since the purchase...

[69bronzeT5]

I never do burnouts leaving shows.....I just think it's kind of tacky. Whenever I do a burnout with any of my cars anyways, it's always in a low traffic area (I usually go down to the shipping yards by the river).

[Sublime/Sixpack]

Yeah, enough with the burnouts at car shows and cruise-ins, it's not only irresponsible but it's been done to death!

[sixty8charger]

.. been done to death!

amen to that

[mauve66]

or.. no injuries.. no real burn out either.. hmmmm. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9TX82c2VI

then his mommy or wife came home and caught him tearing up the work car.............

[tan top]

or.. no injuries.. no real burn out either.. hmmmm. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9TX82c2VI

thats funny    he was prolly just trying to get a last burn out before the  salvage /insurance company come to pick it up 

[Sublime/Sixpack]

or.. no injuries.. no real burn out either.. hmmmm. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9TX82c2VI

What an idiot!  I have to admit I enjoyed the video clip, I laughed out loud.  But I'm so grateful I don't have idiot neighbors like him!

[TUFCAT]

Here's another example of an asshole leaving a car show.

(@ 45 seconds in the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tkP3sbp4Ns&feature=related


...and the biggest DUMBASS of them all....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkKSe-L3zYE

...and other view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrRZLv4BDU&feature=related

...last one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkntJ96aeo&feature=related

[Brock Samson]

 A couple of a few Mos. back I went to the El Camino Cruise (Stu and I posted on it and you can do a search - if you care two   ) anyhow, there were all these really cool older cars, some pretty modified (read "RACE") with blown mountain motors and slicks - the whole nine yards. I think a few cars of the few hundred were less than, 35 Years old, typical drivein types mostly like you'd see in the early '70s or whatever. though cruising everyone was very well behaved, except these too or three assclowns in brand new Vettes, they were burning rubber in really unhealthy (read crowded) situations, They really put newer Vette owners in a bad light... Like they're...   cars weren't attracting enough attention or special enough so they had to try to impress folks by scaring them...
it was Pretty Sad.      Everyone was insulting them with disparaging remarks.

[bull]

You've heard of a horsepower to weight ratio, right? They really need to post a horsepower to brains ratio on some of these cars and their drivers so you know which side of the concrete barrier to stand on when they leave.

[Iron Chef]

Here's another example of an asshole leaving a car show.

...and the biggest DUMBASS of them all....

I've left a few of those Cars and Coffee gatherings.  Really doesn't help to have people lining the sides of the road shaking their fists and yelling at people to "Light 'em up!"  I'd never do it...I think it's pretty classless...but there are always those toolbags that want to show off, and of course the "hat on backwards" crowd is right there to give them an audience. 

[BigBlockSam]

don't spin your wheels with the steering wheel turned 

[mauve66]

don't spin your wheels with the steering wheel turned 

its perfectly ok to do that you just have to be prepared to counter act it before it gets out of control, not after.  we used to do it all the time in empty parking lots, way before they called it drifting

[BigBlockSam]

i'm not talking about drifting. i'm talking about turning onto a highway and and burning rubber in the middle of your turn. odds are your car's gonna spin out .

[mauve66]

only if your not paying attention, turn the wheel and feather the throttle, works every time

[BigBlockSam]

only if your not paying attention, turn the wheel and feather the throttle, works every time

no kidding   

[Ghoste]

Or just don't do them in crowds.

[Rallyecharger]

We had a situation a few years ago when an older fellow leaving our gas station parking lot cruise night.
He pulled his newer Corvette out onto the main road and started to pound on it(rumor was he was racing someone) and lost control. He jumped the curb and hit/killed a lady walking with her husband. This all transpired within 2 blocks from where everyone was gathered.

[chargergirl]

MORONIC AND IMMATURE! Want to prove what it can do? Hit the track!

[oldcarnut]

Some of the shows here ask and warn the participants not to do a burnout.  Many times there are the cops waiting half a block down ready to give a fat ticket.   Cost one guy 6 pts and $900 .  Most got the hint after that but there are always some that take the chance.  It's one of the reasons many of the places here require clubs to out up a million $$ insurance policy to have a show in their parking lot.

[jb666]

Last year, at one of the biggest shows in New England (2000+ cars every two weeks) we were sitting, like hundreds of others, watching people leave.. It seems that each person has to out-do the last.. one guy got into it pretty hard, nailed the curb, blew out his tire and ended up off the road on his roof... 

I heard, later on, that he had just finished a 5-year resto and that was the first show he had gone to.... 

I've gotten shit from people because I leave shows so quietly. People tell me to "spin'em up!" I do nothing but laugh.. Yeah, I built it to impress YOU so I could get a ticket.. Sure thing!!

[dkn1997]

I love watching burnouts and doing them.  The biggest rule is this:  If you're going to do one, make sure you know what the hell you are doing.  There is NOTHING like the feeling of the tires breaking loose and the ass end creeping a bit sideways as the tach climbs...NOTHING!!!! 

I guess it's like anything else, if you do it enough you get pretty good at it and the car won't surprise you.  I definitely would not do a smoke show in an unfamiliar vehicle with a huge crowd around.  Get the lay of the land in a parking lot or something first.

[chargermike]

had a idiot last summer whogot drunk at a car show and jumped in his hemi cuda and started doing a burn off in a crowd of nice cars and lot of people and a couple of cops. the sad part was watching that cuda leave on a roll back.   he went to jail the car went to impound and we all thank the cops . jerks like that give motor heads  a bad name.

[68X426]

Around here it's assumed that the burn-out guys can't tune the motor, can't slow idle, so they gots to get away fast before they stall. 

[THE STIG]

Here's another example of an asshole leaving a car show.

...and the biggest DUMBASS of them all....

I've left a few of those Cars and Coffee gatherings.  Really doesn't help to have people lining the sides of the road shaking their fists and yelling at people to "Light 'em up!"  I'd never do it...I think it's pretty classless...but there are always those toolbags that want to show off, and of course the "hat on backwards" crowd is right there to give them an audience. 

When mongoloids like that tell me to do a burnout I tell them to go to hell. Buy me two brand new BFG 275/60/15 and I'll consider it.

Some of the shows here ask and warn the participants not to do a burnout.  Many times there are the cops waiting half a block down ready to give a fat ticket.   Cost one guy 6 pts and $900 .  Most got the hint after that but there are always some that take the chance.  It's one of the reasons many of the places here require clubs to out up a million $$ insurance policy to have a show in their parking lot.

And this means that these idiot are ruining it for the rest of us. One day car shows will be outlawed thanks to these inbreads.

[THE STIG]

Wait it gets better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Pjv2Gasi4&NR=1

and better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOr2usv66j4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

[mauve66]

that first one was waaaaaaayyyyy funny, it kills me that they can't "feel" the car starting to move on them, he lost it in the first 50 ft, and then their just too stupid to lift, counter steer, brake, ANYTHING to control it.  thats why i sent my kid to a drivers edge class so he would know ahead of time what it felt like to loose control of a car

[sixty8charger]

thats why i sent my kid to a drivers edge class so he would know ahead of time what it felt like to loose control of a car

Best thing a parent can do for their kids.. 

my folks did the same to me, asap!

99% of people on the road today (that is roughly 176,745,266 of 196,165,666 licensed U.S. drivers! 19,420,400.. i think are getting too much credit... in my simple calculation here.  http://www.statemaster.com/graph/trn_lic_dri_tot_num-transportation-licensed-drivers-total-number)  don't have a clue how to control their vehicles!!!!.. 
they just take their vehicles for granted. Talk on the phones and listen to music at a volume the human ear shouldn't be exposed to and drive like an ass hole.. even though they are "operating" at a minimum a 2 ton wrecking ball on wheels towards all other human beings.

ok i'm done.

[lexxman]

Ya,and when I was teaching my oldest son how to drive people would tell me I was crazy for taking him to an empty parking lot(in winter) and let him slide around. Yes its fun,but it also teaches them how to control a car in a slide.Like we have all said to meany drives can handle the car they drive.

[THE STIG]

Since all we've had all the snow in the Midwest I've taken the oppurtunity to intenially get my rear end loose in my truck just so I can have a little practice correcting. Plus it's fun, but I do it in a respronsible manner in empty parking lots with nothing near me to hit.

[tan top]

Wait it gets better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Pjv2Gasi4&NR=1

and better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOr2usv66j4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

  good no one got hurt !! but what an idiot !! could not even feel the back end  getting loose 

[elacruze]

Ya,and when I was teaching my oldest son how to drive people would tell me I was crazy for taking him to an empty parking lot(in winter) and let him slide around. Yes its fun,but it also teaches them how to control a car in a slide.Like we have all said to meany drives can handle the car they drive.

That's how I did it, that's how I taught the kids to do it. People here in S. Florida are far less adept at burnouts and far more prone to rear-ending others. They are always caught by surprise when the roads are slick.