Camaro almost catches fire while sacrificing its tires to the burnout gods.
This insane burnout video comes to us from theCamaro Craze YouTube channel. It features a 1970 Chevrolet Camaro doing a monster burnout in a roomy one-car garage. The only details accompanying the video are that the owner has new tires on the way and his wife is out of town. Evidently, without the missus there to yell at him for filling the garage with smoke, he decided that a wicked burnout was the best way to kill the old rubber.
As for the vehicle, it is a sharp-looking 1970 Camaro with a big cowl induction hood, aftermarket wheels and what sounds like a pretty healthy V8.
Massive Burnout + Garage = Smoky Glory
This video is 68-seconds long and this 1970 Camaro smokes the tires – in the garage – for all 68 seconds. Had this burnout taken place outside, it would have surely been an awesome smoke show, but compressing the smoke from the burnout into the large one-car garage amplifies the smoky final moments of these tires. It only takes the Camaro about 30 seconds to create enough smoke that it begins to pour out the front of the garage. The cameraman backs away from the garage to give us a better look at the whole building, with smoke billowing out of the front like the building is on fire.
Around the 45-second mark, the smoke in the shop is so thick that we begin to lose sight of the Camaro and just shy of the one-minute mark, the garage is completely filled with smoke and the car disappears.
However, we know from the roar of the engine that the 2nd gen Camaro continued to roast the tires right until the video ends.
For all of you who have done long, smoky burnouts, while watching this, imagine how much rubber dust is going to be on the back wall of his garage.
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