Corvette Burnout
Melting Slicks
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From: Kingston Ontario
I saw the winners car with about 5K of damage to a cherry ride, thats what he gets for being stupid.
There you go folks, it's that very reason why a lot of car mags and car lovers have a different opinion of corvettes and thier drivers. Most guys are great, some are just too good for the rest of us. 99% of the burnouts I've seen have bever caused damage.
Drifting
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From: Sacramento California
Race Director
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From: Forked River NJ
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is stupid to build a nice car with all this horsepower and then sit it in the garage to look at and wax. I built mine to go out and drive it hard. If something breaks and it does I fix it. I enjoy pushing my car to its limits. Much better than having garage candy. 
Le Mans Master
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From: Lebanon Township New Jersey
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is stupid to build a nice car with all this horsepower and then sit it in the garage to look at and wax. I built mine to go out and drive it hard. If something breaks and it does I fix it. I enjoy pushing my car to its limits. Much better than having garage candy.
I'm no spring chicken and I don't consider myself stupid, but I love to burn rubber.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Magic Valley ID
Let face it only the fellows who dig doing burnouts would get a knot in their panties over the word "retard" what term do they deem PC correct?
I had to think about this thread, we all did the burnout thing as kids because we thought it was cool, I have seen the asinine burn out contests that Car Craft holds but we all know the target readers of Car Craft,
I saw the winners car with about 5K of damage to a cherry ride, thats what he gets for being stupid.
So I ask myself why a person would do a burn out...to warm the tires for more traction which isn't a need for any legal street activity, so then it might happen at a drag strip but for the street it is just posturing...showing off
Back in my days of hanging at the local cruise every weekend I never saw the fast cars doing burn outs only the slower cars trying to show off,
I guess the sad part of this thread is in all due respect that burn out was really lame.
Being young and dumb as a kid, I would do stuff like that...shoot, I have STILL been known to do that every once in a blue moon...but the older I get, the more I realize that it's gonna be ME fixing whatever goes wrong with my ride when I pull stunts like that! I've changed many a set of tires in my day, but never have I roasted the old ones off in order to see what the "old girl" will do. I DO respect a healthy burnout every once in a while, but damn I must be getting old when I think "I wonder how much THOSE tires cost....or, I wonder if HE'S going to fix that when it breaks?". It was like that Z06 FAIL video....that dumbass just cost himself a shee-yite-load of cash...for what? I make a jackass out of myself without needing to break parts of get exhibition tickets in the process! But maybe that's just me.... 
Now if I were to get me hands on my old Vette...the 89 that my ex-wife got in the divorce settlement....well that would be a different story!!
Deja
Burning Brakes
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From: Sherwood Park AB
Le Mans Master
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From: Pittsburgh suburbs Pa.
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is stupid to build a nice car with all this horsepower and then sit it in the garage to look at and wax. I built mine to go out and drive it hard. If something breaks and it does I fix it. I enjoy pushing my car to its limits. Much better than having garage candy.
Race Director
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From: Eustis ( Area 51 Bat Cave ) Fl
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordonm
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is stupid to build a nice car with all this horsepower and then sit it in the garage to look at and wax. I built mine to go out and drive it hard. If something breaks and it does I fix it. I enjoy pushing my car to its limits. Much better than having garage candy.
There is to me a big difference between building a race car and using it on tracks and doing a silly, to show off burn out on the street,
You ever notice many times showing off ends sour and around here when some Redneck yells "Hey ya'all watch this" that always ends up with thrills, chills and hospital bills.....
Originally Posted by Gordonm
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is stupid to build a nice car with all this horsepower and then sit it in the garage to look at and wax. I built mine to go out and drive it hard. If something breaks and it does I fix it. I enjoy pushing my car to its limits. Much better than having garage candy.
You ever notice many times showing off ends sour and around here when some Redneck yells "Hey ya'all watch this" that always ends up with thrills, chills and hospital bills.....
Team Owner
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I think that is in the eye of the beholder as well. A guy building a car to race it, and then going out and racing it is not "abusing" his car IMO, he is using it for what it was designed and built. If you don't want to race, don't buy a race car. If that "cuts potential buyers in half", I for one would be glad to avoid dealing with half the potential buyers who aren't serious anyway.
I could go off on a rant here about how I think 90+% of folks on here are WAAAYYY too concerned about selling the car they are in the process of buying, but I think that would cross the line into being off-topic.
Race Director
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From: Eustis ( Area 51 Bat Cave ) Fl
I think that is in the eye of the beholder as well. A guy building a car to race it, and then going out and racing it is not "abusing" his car IMO, he is using it for what it was designed and built. If you don't want to race, don't buy a race car. If that "cuts potential buyers in half", I for one would be glad to avoid dealing with half the potential buyers who aren't serious anyway.
I could go off on a rant here about how I think 90+% of folks on here are WAAAYYY too concerned about selling the car they are in the process of buying, but I think that would cross the line into being off-topic.
I could go off on a rant here about how I think 90+% of folks on here are WAAAYYY too concerned about selling the car they are in the process of buying, but I think that would cross the line into being off-topic.
Apples and oranges....race cars on a track have little to do with street burns outs...
This thread is about burn outs and the only legitimate reason to do a burn out is in a staging lane at the 1320 to warm up the tires,
A burn out on the street is nothing more than showing off and illegal,
Burn outs and all that jazz on the street is best left to the Duke boys or Beau Darville
Most ( not all ) builders of race cars do have the common sense and respect not to do silly posturing like burn outs on the street..race parts cost lots of money and most racer do not want to break parts just showing off how big of a horses *** they can look like on a city street.
When I see some silly kid racer romp on his import or some mullet head nail a oh so cool one wheel burn out in his 75 POS Slow-amaro I wonder what are these dolts really trying to prove or make up for.
Drifting
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From: Enid Oklahoma
And I agree about not doing it on the street, parking lots may draw cops attention, but around here they cant ticket you there. At Rallys especially bike rallys they dont care what you do in a lot away from others as the guy in the yellow Vette was. I know this is a Vette forum, but I have ridden bikes all of my life amost so sorry about the bike references.
Last edited by 81pilot; Feb 4, 2010 at 10:12 AM.
Race Director
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From: Eustis ( Area 51 Bat Cave ) Fl
Hmmmm, once the tires brake loose the only real damage is to the tires as long as you don't over rev. And the lateral forces on the suspension even in a donut are no greater or most likely way less than an autocross. I say if guys like buyin tires its ok. I have a motorcycle with 2053 CC's thats 125 cubic inches I have about as many mods you can do without adding NOS or a turbo like my buddy has. It has a high speed car tire on the rear. Every once in a while I like to show people how much power it has a do a smokey quick burn out, it is fun to show off sometimes, no harm no foul IMO. And I agree about not doing it on the street, parking lots may draw cops attention, but around here they cant ticket you there. At Rallys especially bike rallys they dont care what you do in a lot away from others as the guy in the yellow Vette was. I know this is a Vette forum, but I have ridden bikes all of my life amost so sorry about the bike references.
And I agree about not doing it on the street, parking lots may draw cops attention, but around here they cant ticket you there. At Rallys especially bike rallys they dont care what you do in a lot away from others as the guy in the yellow Vette was. I know this is a Vette forum, but I have ridden bikes all of my life amost so sorry about the bike references.
Just kidding...I hope....
