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!

 

[Gary Seven]

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!

 

[Gary Seven]

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.

 

[GLASNOST]

... 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!

I'm surprised you didn't get cancer.

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.

Oh, you mean in the winter when the ground was hard. Yeah, I can see that.

 

[Gary Seven]

I'm surprised you didn't get cancer.

Oh, you mean in the winter when the ground was hard. Yeah, I can see that.

It was around October, I think. It definitely was a bit slippy. I see to remember we did get stuck once and had to walk. Back then we'd walk miles in a day between each other's houses anyway. This was just a couple years before the home video game console years when kids became a bunch of couch potatoes. We were still a bunch of troopers.

 

[GLASNOST]

..... Back then we'd walk miles in a day between each other's houses anyway. .....

Ah yes, "back then". I remember when me and Abe Lincoln had to walk 75 miles to the library .... then back again.

 

[Gary Seven]

Ah yes, "back then". I remember when me and Abe Lincoln had to walk 75 miles to the library .... then back again.

Nah I really did walk for miles. And letting the tiny valley town with no other tows for about 5 mi in any direction. On any given day I would probably have to walk a mile and a half to any friend's house. And later on do the same back again after having walked all around the town with them anyway. Hi nice days we used to get buzzed and walk around on the country roads for hours. It really was a lot of miles. It was also at the base of a mountain range with cliffs and crags everywhere. We did a lot of spelunking as well.

 

[GLASNOST]

Nah I really did walk for miles. And letting the tiny valley town with no other tows for about 5 mi in any direction. On any given day I would probably have to walk a mile and a half to any friend's house. And later on do the same back again after having walked all around the town with them anyway. Hi nice days we used to get buzzed and walk around on the country roads for hours. It really was a lot of miles. It was also at the base of a mountain range with cliffs and crags everywhere. We did a lot of spelunking as well.

On good days I walk 5 km just for the exercise. But I'll be 79 in a couple of days so walking long distances is not on my list of "wow!".

 

[Gary Seven]

On good days I walk 5 km just for the exercise. But I'll be 79 in a couple of days so walking long distances is not on my list of "wow!".

I'll rarely walk more than a mile or two these days. Few times a week after work I'll take a short hike in the woods between my house and work. We have a number of trailheads nearby. Off and I'll end up just walking a few hundred feet with my camp chair, find a nice clearing in the woods with a couple of beams of sunshine, crack a beer and read a little. After an hour or so that I'll just go home.

I recently got better from a long grueling case of plantars fasciitis. And it actually led to a stress fracture in my heel too, so I was off work for about 5 weeks. Even after I came back after the bone healed, the fasciitis was still with me for a while and I had to go back for a cortisone shot. So I'm finally getting to go outside and stretch my legs for the first time since November. I was really starting to worry about my health after sitting around in the house for so long.

Happy early birthday, BTW!

 

[GLASNOST]

I recently got better from a long grueling case of plantars fasciitis. And it actually led to a stress fracture in my heel too, so I was off work for about 5 weeks. Even after I came back after the bone healed, the fasciitis was still with me for a while and I had to go back for a cortisone shot. So I'm finally getting to go outside and stretch my legs for the first time since November. I was really starting to worry about my health after sitting around in the house for so long

Sounds like you're doing good now!

Few times a week after work I'll take a short hike in the woods between my house and work. We have a number of trailheads nearby. Off and I'll end up just walking a few hundred feet with my camp chair, find a nice clearing in the woods with a couple of beams of sunshine, crack a beer and read a little.

Is there enough space for one more camp chair in that clearing without cramping your style? I'll be quiet if you want. Ohhhhh, maybe I should ask what brand of beer you brew in your neck of the woods before I get carried away.

Happy early birthday, BTW!

 

[Gary Seven]

Sounds like you're doing good now!

Is there enough space for one more camp chair in that clearing without cramping your style? I'll be quiet if you want. Ohhhhh, maybe I should ask what brand of beer you brew in your neck of the woods before I get carried away.

Thanks! Yes I truly am doing FAR better. Plantar fasciitis is no joke. It's like getting a hot nail in your foot when it gets really inflamed.
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Yeah, there's a little space down the hill in the next hollow. I'll send you down a a sixpack of Erie Brewing Co. Railbender in a basket via zipline! (I actually haven't had that in a while but it's pretty good. I'm more likely just to grab some Heineken or something. Also, Jamaican Red s
stripe is now outsourced to Holland and is actually a little better than it was in my opinion.)

 

[GLASNOST]

Thanks! Yes I truly am doing FAR better. Plantar fasciitis is no joke. It's like getting a hot nail in your foot when it gets really inflamed.

Ouch!

Yeah, there's a little space down the hill in the next hollow. I'll send you down a a sixpack of Erie Brewing Co. Railbender in a basket via zipline! (I actually haven't had that in a while but it's pretty good.

I'm looking forward to it.

Jamaican Red stripe is now outsourced to Holland and is actually a little better than it was in my opinion.)

I don't smoke dope anyway. I had two joints in Vietnam '66-'67. It's not what it's cracked up to be.

 

[evenflow1969]

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.

Lol, you did no drag racing or else you would understand.

 

[Gary Seven]

Ouch!

I'm looking forward to it.

I don't smoke dope anyway. I had two joints in Vietnam '66-'67. It's not what it's cracked up to be.

You're probably just joking about weed in 'Nam....but Red Strip LAGER is a beer. Since you've said you're not in the U.S. I'm not sure if you knew that or not.