Burnout!! Send Smoke!
Ignore that guy with the trench coat and tiny camera! Do a burnout and send it to Car Craft Burnout!! 6420 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, or fast mail at CarCraft@primedia.com with a photo that is at least 1 MB in size. Do it now and be a bronzed god in the eyes of all your friends.
This is Mopar Club member Tom Rose about 10 minutes after we finished installing an 831/44 Sure Grip in his grandfather's Charger (last year of production). Call it a Cordoba in the magazine and he'll hate me for months! -Pete Ciciarelli, Syracuse, NY
Attached is a picture of one of the many burnouts done in a '77 Ranchero given to me for parting out. The windshield was sold a few days before, so we had to wear eye protection when driving. We decided to add some flavor to it one night, and put flames and scallops everywhere. We also painted "The Wurm" on its side in honor of the "Early Bird" swap meet we were headed to. The burnout would have been longer, but we had to get to the swap meet where we were going to be selling car parts! Interestingly, detonation is real easy to hear when there's no windshield in the way. -Jason Nelson, Puyallup, WA
While on vacation in Havasu, my son Matthew, my buddy Jonny, and I put my rental car to the test, and I'm happy to say it lived up to it. I took the Magnum to rpms it had never seen before. Other than needing new rear tires the car handled it great. I love rental cars. -Jamey Clark, Monroe, WA
The go-kart has a 5-horse engine and does 70-foot burnouts with a 9-horse nitrous shot. We ruined a new $60 Bridgestone slick and used 2 pounds of nitrous to get the shot. It will do full burnouts and spin past the Tree on its way to 14.63 at 39 mph in the eighth-mile. -Dale and Colton (the driver) Wilson, Arden, NC