Old Ford F-150 struggles to spin one tire at a time, but it makes lots of smoke.
The Ford F-150 burnout action in the video above was captured while the person who runs the TankMonkey YouTube channel was on a trip to “Mexico”. We put the country in quotes because they description does as well. In many cases, people who don’t want to reveal the location of street racing spots say that they “went to Mexico”. The idea is that the illegal activities didn’t happen in the United States, so the police can’t go after those folks participating in the illegal activities.
In this case, we aren’t sure why the person behind the camera was in “Mexico”, but while there, they caught some interesting Ford truck burnout action.
10th Generation F-150
The only details on this Ford F-150 are that it was powered by a carbureted V8 engine and that it has an open differential. We know from the front end styling that this truck is from 1978 or 1979. During those years, there were a variety of V8 engines offered, all of which were carbureted. We don’t know if the V8 in this truck measures 302, 351, 400 or 460 cubic inches, but we would guess by its performance that the engine is relatively stock.
Finally, it sounds like this F-150 has an automatic transmission, making a burnout even more difficult, but the driver finds a way.
Burnout, Again and Again
The first attempt at a burnout takes place in front of the crowd, but the F-150fails to wow them at first. The tires are barely spinning and no smoke is created, so the driver stops and tries again. The second effort really isn’t any better, with a little more tire spinning yet still no smoke.
The next attempt is more of a drift and remarkably, the old F-150 is quite good at drifting. The driver artfully dances around the island of trees in the parking lot with the engine roaring and smoke pouring from the left rear tire. Once the rear tires were good and hot, the F-150 driver headed back to the area in front of the crowd for another shot, this time putting on a great smoke show.
The video ends with one more burnout, proving that this old school Ford truck can create clouds.
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