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During the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival, a 4th gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am does a wicked burnout on the street.There are few chances in life for a gearhead to do a big, nasty burnout on the streets without any risk of a ticket and/or jail time. However, this 4th gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is doing a "legal" burnout on Route 66 at the 2014 Mother Road Festival. This takes place each year in Springfield, Illinois and in addition to the rest of the festivities, they have a burnout on the street under the careful watch of event officials.As we can see in the picture above and the video below, there is plenty of space from the 4th gen Firebird to the crowd, with safety barriers on each side of the car and plenty of water to make the tires easier to spin.We don"t get any details on the Pontiac Firebird in action, but it appears to be a later 4th gen Trans Am and it has a pretty healthy roar through the quickly-building cloud of smoke. It is obviously an automatic transmission, as when it drops into 3rd gear, the RPMs drop suddenly and the car has to work to keep the tires spinning.At about the 20 second point in the video, the smoke is so thick that the Firebird is no longer visible, but through the cloud, we can hear the continued roar of the Pontiac"s LS1 V8. Best of all, since there doesn"t appear to be a whole lot of smoke during the burnout, the smoke just sits around the car as the burnout ends with the blast of an air horn.We don"t know if this Pontiac Firebird Trans Am won the competition, but it had to be a contender with this awesome 30-second burnout.
Date written: April 21, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 7538
During the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival, a 4th gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am does a wicked burnout on the street.There are few chances in life for a gearhead to do a big, nasty burnout on the streets without any risk of a ticket and/or jail time. However, this 4th gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is doing a "legal" burnout on Route 66 at the 2014 Mother Road Festival. This takes place each year in Springfield, Illinois and in addition to the rest of the festivities, they have a burnout on the street under the careful watch of event officials.As we can see in the picture above and the video below, there is plenty of space from the 4th gen Firebird to the crowd, with safety barriers on each side of the car and plenty of water to make the tires easier to spin.We don"t get any details on the Pontiac Firebird in action, but it appears to be a later 4th gen Trans Am and it has a pretty healthy roar through the quickly-building cloud of smoke. It is obviously an automatic transmission, as when it drops into 3rd gear, the RPMs drop suddenly and the car has to work to keep the tires spinning.At about the 20 second point in the video, the smoke is so thick that the Firebird is no longer visible, but through the cloud, we can hear the continued roar of the Pontiac"s LS1 V8. Best of all, since there doesn"t appear to be a whole lot of smoke during the burnout, the smoke just sits around the car as the burnout ends with the blast of an air horn.We don"t know if this Pontiac Firebird Trans Am won the competition, but it had to be a contender with this awesome 30-second burnout.
Date written: April 21, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 7538
