F-150 Owner Does Such a Brutal Burnout That He Pops a Tire

This Ford F-150’s savage burnout goes beyond generating a lot of noise and white smoke. It requires a jack and a tire iron.

There are several different types of truck out there – and we’re not just talking about brands. There are show trucks, the kind that have a candy paint job and a catalog’s worth of aftermarket parts on them. Of course, there are literal work trucks that people jump into and take to a job site. Then you’ve got your family trucks, the ones that take kids to school and them and their parents to vacation destinations. This 1997 Ford F-150 is what you’d call a beater truck.

That’s what the man behind the YouTube channel OutlawFarm (we’ve nicknamed him Captain Redbeard) calls it. And for good reason. The 4.6-liter Triton V8 has a bad case of rod knock and the Check Engine light is on. The paint is worn and scratched to hell. Captain Redbeard makes sure to treat his run-down rig accordingly in this video.

He starts off by tearing through the woods. He soon gets a tree wedged between one of his front fenders and the wheel under it. After freeing his truck, Captain Redbeard proceeds to do a wicked burnout that churns up a cloud-sized puff of white smoke. It clears to reveal a charred spot on the ground and a half-bald rear tire.

Captain Redbeard continues the truck torture by driving up and over the gravelly peaks of a local quarry. But it’s a flat spot that turns out to be the most dangerous place for his F-150.

Captain Redbeard starts doing another burnout…and doesn’t stop until nearly a minute later – and only because he has to. The smoke show lasts so long that the sound of the carnage changes pitch. It literally ends with a bang when the driver’s-side rear tire can’t take the heat and friction any more and blows out. Not a good thing when you’re “150 miles from the nearest civilization,” as Captain Redbeard puts it.

Neither is an overheated engine. According to Captain Redbeard, his stunt made the coolant temperature rise to roughly 300 degrees. He jokingly says, “That’s perfectly normal.” But he knew what trauma he was going to inflict on his unfortunate pickup so he “came prepared” with a jack, tire iron, and plenty of coolant.

Captain Redbeard’s antics may have been too much for a tire, but they didn’t do in his Ford truck’s V8. That lives to run another day – and endure more abuse.

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Derek Shiekhi

Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.

After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.

While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.

Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.

In addition to writing for a variety of Internet Brands sites, including JK Forum and Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Derek also contributes to other outlets. He started There Will Be Cars on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube to get even more automotive content out to fellow enthusiasts.

He can be reached at autoeditors@internetbrands.com.

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