OK, I’m not going to start the hate fest about teaching values and not understanding the concept of of “earning things” that inevitably comes out of these posts, but I will say this: who in their right mind thinks it’s a good idea to give a kid with no driving experience a 425 horsepower muscle car? Do you think this is going to end any way other than badly? Because I sure don’t.

Remember kids, burnouts are for the street or the track, not the garage, OK?

Hankook Camaro Testing from lab17 on Vimeo.

The guys from Hankook took their wicked Camaro out to the track to vaporize some rubber and caught the whole thing on video. Enjoy.

Let’s say you own a third gen Camaro and you want to pick up some spare cash on the weekends. Why not enter some burnout contests for the extra scratch? This video shows you why, as the “brand X” all season radial explodes, literally through the back of the guy’s car. Truly epic damage.

Here are some reminders, boys and girls: first, air down your tires to 15 or 20 psi before doing burnouts, OK? Second, remember that tire speed ratings are there for a reason; overheat a non-speed rated tire at full pressure, and bad things are bound to happen. Finally, invest some of your winnings on tires designed for burnouts, not tires sold over the counter at Pep Boys for $25 each.

Source: Bangshift

Jay Cassill’s brother Landon was NASCAR’s 2008 Rookie of the Year. To celebrate, the Cassill brothers had ADM cook up a 2010 Camaro RS/SS with a blown Lingenfelter LS3 motor and dropped suspension set up for both track days and drag strip runs. The car dyno’d at 1,000 horsepower and “over” 1,000 lb-ft of torque, and that’s before they installed the nitrous kit. I’m not one for moderation, but sweet Jesus: 1,000 horsepower may be good enough for me.

Source: CarDomain

15 years ago the terms Pro-Touring and G-Machines didn’t even exist. There were simply new cars and old cars, but then something happened. Those old cars started to become cool again, I mean don’t get me wrong, they were always cool, but beginning in the mid-90’s a trend started to develop whereby classic muscle cars were being turned into some pretty serious street machines. Over the next few months Ridelust.com is going to be profiling some these uber updated G-Machines to give people not only a glance, but a little bit of insight, as to how these cars are built, who the owners are and why they decided to zig as opposed to zag.

The first car to be showcased in the new Corner Carvers section is Jerry Forthofer’s 1977 Chevrolet Camaro.

Thanks to M. Espinosa for supplying pics of his silver ice metallic 2010 Camaro SS. The 6.2 liter motor cranks out 426 horsepower in stock form, more than enough to light the 275/40-20 tires at the rear.

Behold the fury of this ferocious 454-powered ‘67 Camaro as it terrorizes the plebeian traffic of Swedish country roads on the way to a dirt track.

This video poped up on the Internets quite a while ago, but it’s worth revisiting. Again, and again. And again.

My dad’s 327-powered ‘55 Chevy had a Hurst T-bar shifter just like that, too.

Via: Jalopnik

Photo: WCPO

What is it with Camaros lately? A Cincinnati man walked away from this horrific accident with minor injuries and a new found love of Jesus. The unnamed driver was last seen buying lottery tickets.

WCPO via Jalopnik

Just in case you’ve had a bad day, the above video is proof that someone, somewhere, had it worse. The Camaro’s axle snapped during a burnout, sending the Camaro into parked traffic. There’s no word on the total damage, but I’m betting the owner’s winter project will now include replacing a fender, hood, door and rear quarter panel. Not to mention the check he’ll be writing to buy someone a new Taurus wagon.

Burnouts, boys and girls, are for racetracks. Or deserted streets.