The ABC has all the word from the Summernats launch.
Highlights include:
– Rose Tattoo are the Saturday Night headliners which should keep the crowd jumping up and down.
– They’re shooting for a world record for a simultaneous burnout
– The CityCruise down Northbourne Avenue is going to be allowed to include the cars no longer registerable
” – They’re shooting for a world record for a simultaneous burnout ”
wonderful .. you see on the telly young kids gawking at the smoke ( and other things ) ; suckin in all those good things the tyres put out, yet I can’t burn a few leaves in my backyard. ??
The burnout should be so cool.
MERC600 said :
whoops .. make that leafs, and also some twigs,
MERC600 said :
True. I’m not encouraging to burn leaves, but it doesn’t make sense.
Gross
Does the EPA turn a blind eye to this type of thing? How is this allowed in 2013?
I am not a wowser, infact far from it; but I happen to believe that a burn out in a motor vehicle is the most brain dead thing on two wheels or four.
Pork Hunt said :
Tourism lobby trumps environmental concerns.
c_c™ said :
c_c™ said :
Are you seriously suggesting the burn out is brought to us by the same people that will give us Toulouse-Lautrec?
Pork Hunt said :
Yes but then again this would be fun methinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDN2bCIyus
Pork Hunt said :
I think Henri would have done a very good job portraying the women waiting to go out for a wet T-shirt competition. Or afterwards, resting.
With a fat man circling…
They should rename this site Whineact… EPA, Jesus…
Pork Hunt said :
Well that would be art curators more specifically, but common to all events are the managers and lobbyists for the tourist dependant businesses who want people coming to Canberra and aren’t too picky about the reasons.
Who’s going to burn out warriors at Wakefield on Sunday?
I wonder if the ‘world’s biggest simultaneous burnout’ will end up being only ‘Canberra’s biggest’, in the great bookmark tradition?
And if it’s not simultaneous, but serial, it doesn’t count. Obviously.
Pork Hunt said :
Not a wowser? Yeah you are.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
What is?
460cixy said :
I think he’s describing the average comic book and gamer.
See, I can generalise like a dick too!
what_the said :
Well said. If you don’t like something don’t go no ones forcing you at gun point or anything
what_the said :
So comic book guys are fatties and revheads are knuckledraggers … what’s the big deal?
I’m going to burn some tyres in my backyard for Bogan solidarity.
2615 4 Eva!!!
what_the said :
You’ve only just noticed?
bundah said :
Yes. But that involves skill. All burnouts require is beer. (Well, that equine urine that bogans call beer.)
Solidarity said :
What is not brain dead about doing a burn out ? It is mechanical abuse of clutches, drivetrains and tyres. It serves no purpose since any vehicle apart from a fat kid on a bicycle can do a burn out so it’s hardly exclusive. All you need is a postie bike and not some 900 hp bucket of bolts.
People who spend more money on their street machine than they do on their home generally do not abuse the bejesus out of it like some 11 year old with his first hard on….
460cixy said :
Actually, I used to own a rad xy. Thought it would be a good idea to put it in the summernats. I think 2006??? And yeah it’s totally gross. Not all the entrants were total fuckwits, but the majority of the were, even more of the crowd were even huger fuckwits.
It could be a great event, but no, the influx of bogans make it incredibly gross. Total sub humans.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
And here I was thinking that this kind of person never leaves there dank bedroom because its just to hard to get off the play station
Yeah it’s brain dead but it’s just entertainment! If you’re a revhead it’s exciting! If you’re not, you’ll never understand. Fireworks serve no purpose either…… oh look, the fun police got rid of them. They’ll keep trying with the Summernats and one day they might get rid of that too. You may not call yourself a wowser but it’s people like you who say “how is this allowed in 2013″ that will eventually get rid of all the fun stuff till there’s nothing left but a flower show.
While I can see that burnouts will never be appreciated by everyone, as mentioned its total mechanical abuse against the car, which a lot of these spend as much money on their engines and drivelines as the guys in the Top 60 hall on their cars. There is also a little bit of engineering that goes into a car that can sustain anywhere between 800-1500hp wide open throttle in such conditions.
That being said I’m looking forward to being one of the 70 cars involved, and also participating in the CityCruise with 225 other cars, along with 25 true unregistered “Street Machines”
CoffinRX2 said :
Thanks for the advertorial Andy.
To those who say “If you don’t like it, don’t go” I don’t like this Bogan event and I don’t go. I do get pissed off when they open the gates of hell and let the Bogans spill out onto our streets though.
Keep them locked inside EPIC and you would have a lot less pissed off people
BelcoMan said :
Can’t we keep public servants locked in there offices? no they open the gates of hell every afternoon and let them out to roam the streets and clog our roads with Toyota camrys with there lanyards cutting off there oxygen supply makeing pthem carry on like tards on our roads. Makes the so called bogans look tame
460cixy said :
Nothing quite like a joke hijack is there, take someone elses post, change it slightly, then give yourself a pat on the back for being so creative…