1st Gen Camaro totaled leaving Cars & Coffee

[Nor Cal ZL1]

Originally Posted by rontammy0

My car club announces this during our giveaways near the end of the meet. If you do it in the parking lot your not coming back to the next one......but on the street they have zero control and tell people that the cops will take care of them. That's why you see so much of this on the street.....clubs or organizations have zero control there. I've seen many cars get on it a little leaving which is fine to me. It's the burnouts that are not needed.

I don't do many meets, but when I did the policy was if there were any burnouts, or launches parking lot or otherwise the offender was not comming back. This included opening cut outs. Didn't matter if it was on the street or not to them. If the car was identifiable, it was black listed. The organizers posted someone at the driveway to monitor activity. They can't control what happens on the street , but they can identify departure behavior, and exclude them from returning.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal ZL1

I don't do many meets, but when I did the policy was if there were any burnouts, or launches parking lot or otherwise the offender was not comming back. This included opening cut outs. Didn't matter if it was on the street or not to them. If the car was identifiable, it was black listed. The organizers posted someone at the driveway to monitor activity. They can't control what happens on the street , but they can identify departure behavior, and exclude them from returning.

Ya I agree it's funny last year my club told a group of mustang guys not to return. We have our meet in a big plaza sponsored by a store in the plaza. These guys decided to burnout across the parking lot once they left the area roped off for us. The problem is that there are still customers coming and going while these poundoffs drive like that. I see nothing wrong with barking the exhaust when leaving. I like hearing different cars.....its the burnouts we could do at other places that are not needed.

[Nor Cal ZL1]

Originally Posted by rontammy0

Ya I agree it's funny last year my club told a group of mustang guys not to return. We have our meet in a big plaza sponsored by a store in the plaza. These guys decided to burnout across the parking lot once they left the area roped off for us. The problem is that there are still customers coming and going while these poundoffs drive like that. I see nothing wrong with barking the exhaust when leaving. I like hearing different cars.....its the burnouts we could do at other places that are not needed.

Word, I'm all for roasting the tires, but a busy area is not cool at all.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal ZL1

Word, I'm all for roasting the tires, but a busy area is not cool at all.

But if there wasnt cars crashing coming out of meets and road rage vids from Russia I wouldnt spend much time on Youtube.

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by PROZ11

Yup, I'm guilty of autographing a street or two with my Pro Street Camaro. Any car can get away from you. Lots of power makes it easier for that to happen. That's the chance you take when you mash the gas, you kinda know that going in.

Not that it matters but, from what I've heard on other sites the throttle stuck. It's definatly stuck when he starts it back up. Not sure if that's what caused the accident or it was a result of it.

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You can easily hear in the video that the throttle didn't stick. It was a case of flat out losing it. That's the chance you take to be a show off. That was an expensive performance. I used to do dumb stuff like that until I grew up. Maybe that performace will push him into being a grown-up now.

[Nor Cal ZL1]

Originally Posted by rontammy0

But if there wasnt cars crashing coming out of meets and road rage vids from Russia I wouldnt spend much time on Youtube.

Yea pretty much.

[deweyg63]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Apparently this 1st gen driver doesn't have anywhere near your experience, skill, and on that day anyway, luck.

If it takes people being judgmental against burnouts when leaving the C&C get-togethers, so be it. Being judgmental in favor of allowing burnouts to continue (with their occasional consequences) gets events shut down, which is essentially what you're condoning even with your "try to be safe" suggestion. Even Mr. Burnout loses when meeting lots are lost.


Norm

Some people don't drive their car fast or do burnouts on the street. I do both although only the latter when my tires are nearing the end of their life. I'm pretty sure my car will do 185 mph and it will be done on a public road when the time and conditions are right. Point is I will drive the way I want no matter what others opinions. If some idiot messes up and gets an event shut down well that sux but most events are boring and worth about a 20 minute walk through anyway.

[102SS]

Originally Posted by deweyg63

Some people don't drive their car fast or do burnouts on the street. I do both although only the latter when my tires are nearing the end of their life. I'm pretty sure my car will do 185 mph and it will be done on a public road when the time and conditions are right. Point is I will drive the way I want no matter what others opinions. If some idiot messes up and gets an event shut down well that sux but most events are boring and worth about a 20 minute walk through anyway.

Driving at 185 mph on a public road is asking for disaster no matter the time or place.

Please be safe and enter a 1/2 mile or 1 mile event to do your top ending.

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by deweyg63

Some people don't drive their car fast or do burnouts on the street. I do both although only the latter when my tires are nearing the end of their life. I'm pretty sure my car will do 185 mph and it will be done on a public road when the time and conditions are right. Point is I will drive the way I want no matter what others opinions. If some idiot messes up and gets an event shut down well that sux but most events are boring and worth about a 20 minute walk through anyway.

I'm not a 'show car - car show' kind of enthusiast either, but that doesn't make it right for either of us to get a show or similar event that other people do enjoy shut down by driving in a manner at or around them that belongs at our respective tracks.

I honestly fail to see the appeal in doing or even watching burnouts. Not when I put up a pretty good smoke-screen a couple of times in a 2-barrel 230 gross HP automatic transmission Dodge back in the day. Just to see if I could. So, it's been a case of "been there, done that, nothing left to prove" for about 50 years now.


Norm

[deweyg63]

I appreciate your concern but it takes a lot more space to do it right. I won't do it alone. There will be at least a couple cars out ahead of me to make sure I am the only one put at risk.

[deweyg63]

Norm I agree. I haven't done a burnout or even taken off very fast leaving a car show since I used to go to the car craft nationals in the 80's. At those shows its just what everyone did. Even with the police cheering you on. When I do it these days it's for my own enjoyment not to show off.

[MrChrisLS3]

I don't know, a little spin off leaving an enthusiast event is alright. This guys engine sounded amazing. However, he. like many others, get caught up in the moment and stay on it way too long. That's when they get in trouble.

As far as 185 or the like on a public road, no way. Even if I'm the only guy on the road for miles, the road itself is a huge hazard. At those kind of speeds, a gravel patch, the smallest pothole, anything like that can make your next ride be in the back of a long black Cadillac.

[deweyg63]

I like long black Cadillacs! You have to know the road. You don't just blast down a road for the first time. You make a few slow runs first. Anyway.....feels like we're beating a dead horse. Everyone is different. Do what makes you happy