Burning rubber

[GLASNOST]

I did quite a lot of drag racing back in the 60s and early 70s. Mostly on the street but at the strip on week-ends too. I haven’t done any of that since I left the states so maybe you guys can tell me … what is this shit with burn-outs in town? What’s the joy of melting your tires down to the rims and people shouting “Yipee!”? I don’t get it and it literally stinks.

 

[White 6]

I did quite a lot of drag racing back in the 60s and early 70s. Mostly on the street but at the strip on week-ends too. I haven’t done any of that since I left the states so maybe you guys can tell me … what is this shit with burn-outs in town? What’s the joy of melting your tires down to the rims and people shouting “Yipee!”? I don’t get it and it literally stinks.

I don't know when you left, but we got board certifiable dumbasses running loose here, now, with more horsepower than brain cells.

 

[MarathonMike]

Those stupid little twits takeover street intersections and drive there cars wide open in circles and ruin a set of tires in one night for nothing.

 

[GLASNOST]

I don't know when you left,

1975

but we got board certifiable dumbasses running loose here, now, with more horsepower than brain cells.

That's for sure! I look at You Tube every day. What is this crap with two and three GMC blowers stacked on top of one another and slicks as wide as Aunt Jemima's buttocks!

 

[Natural Citizen]

When daddy is paying for the toys, recklessness often ensues.

 

[GLASNOST]

Those stupid little twits takeover street intersections and drive there cars wide open in circles and ruin a set of tires in one night for nothing.

And idiots cheering them on!

 

[BothWings]

I saw way more of that shit in the early 80's in the small New York town I grew up in than the small Pennsylvania town I live in now. Evidently they still do it sometimes because I see the rubber marks occasionally. But it's not so much like they're doing donuts is they just stop on a back road somewhere and then tell their passengers "hey guys watch this!". And they're off.

Once back in New York my buddies and I were hanging out down at the local country store. There was a little concrete wall that separated the parking lot of the store from the churchyard. Once an older (than us) guy we knew came down the mountain In his Impala and parked it right against that wall and proceeded to floor it. His car burned rubber for like 30 seconds straight. The entire parking lot was filled with thick smoke and it was literally raining shards of rubber on us for a few moments after that. We also used to do crazy shit like drive through cornfields in my friend's Pontiac Ventura. And I used to drive some of the little cars I had on logging roads with water filled potholes that you could drown a pig in. I rarely got stuck. I was very slow and calculated.

I think these days a lot of the rubber burning fiends live in urban areas and do their evil voodoo there. I do my best to stay out of urban places so I guess I don't see it as much as it actually occurs.

 

[GLASNOST]

I saw way more of that shit in the early 80's

I believe you.

.... it's not so much like they're doing donuts is they just stop .... and then tell their passengers "hey guys watch this!". And they're off.

..... Once an older guy we knew came down the mountain In his Impala

I can close my eyes and see it ..... a 1963 or '64 409?

... His car burned rubber for like 30 seconds straight. The entire parking lot was filled with thick smoke and it was literally raining shards of rubber on us for a few moments after that.

And why do they do that?

We also used to do crazy shit like drive through cornfields in my friend's Pontiac Ventura. .

You can get a Pontiac Ventura throuigh a cornfield? It must have tractor tires!

 

[BothWings]

I believe you.



I can close my eyes and see it ..... a 1963 or '64 409?

It was mid 70's vintage I think

And why do they do that?

You can get a Pontiac Ventura throuigh a cornfield? It must have tractor tires!

And I guess I really haven't answered your question have I? Well I have to admit the whole thing (burning rubber against the wall) was pretty impressive even though it did stink like hell. I mean it was literally raining rubber particles for like a minute!

Cornfields. I'm talking corn fields after the harvest... Or maybe before planting. Lots of partial stalks and husks lying around. It wasn't 7ft stalks in the height of summer or anything like that.