Ford F-150 owner prepares to buy a new rear tire by finishing off the old one.
Most Ford F-150 owners and drivers in general don’t enjoy buying new tires, but there is one possible upside to new rubber; the old tires have to be discarded. Of course, if you are buying new tires, you can simply drive the vehicle as you normally would until you head to your local tire shop for replacements, but if your vehicle is up to the task, there is fun to be had with these near-death tires.
As the video above from the P.S.I Adrenaline! YouTube channel shows, even if your F-150 will only spin one tire, a big smoke show is clearly the best way to finish off a set of old tires.
Awesome ‘90s F-150
There are few details on the 1990 Ford F-150 in the video above, but we can see that it has an awesome strobe-style striping layout that would have been all the rage when this truck was new. More importantly, it sounds as though this truck has a V8 engine and it sits like a rear-drive model, making the ideal candidate for a righteous tire-slaying machine.
We don’t know which V8 is under the hood, as the 1990 F-150 could have been ordered with either a 5.0- or 5.8-liter, but both of them provided enough power to spin one of the skinny, stock-size tires.
In the case of this 1990 F-150, it is due for a new tire, so the driver wanted to send the old Goodyear tire off in proper form. The humorous part here is that the details actually say that it needed a new tire, not new tires, so we have to wonder if the owner really did only replace one rear tire. In any case, the one that is smoking receives a proper send-off.
Rolling Burnouts
The video begins with a close-up look at the passenger’s side rear tire as the engine of this 1990 F-150 gradually adds power. After a few seconds, that tire starts to spin and a few seconds later, smoke pours from the rear end. A short time later, the smoke is so thick that we can no longer see the rear tire, but when the burnout reaches its peak, the driver lets the old F-150 roll forward and race off into the distance.
Next, the F-150 is way off in the distance, doing another one-wheel burnout in place before racing towards the camera, laying down hundreds of feet of rubber down on the pavement.
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