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Burnout Mondays: Let Ryan Tuerck Show You The Steps Needed To Fry The Hides Off Of A Minivan!


Burnout Mondays: Let Ryan Tuerck Show You The Steps Needed To Fry The Hides Off Of A Minivan!

I’m no saint. Never have been, never will be, especially if there are a set of car keys nearby. I’ve told the story of my first burnout before…it involved a set of car keys sitting on the counter, a hopped up Mustang II, and ended with my mother dragging my five-year-old ass away from the car. Did anything change over time? Nope. Ten years later, she came up the road to our house to find me hazing the rears off of my 1978 Impala. At twenty-five I was drifting my four-speed Dodge around the neighborhood with my now ex-wife screaming bloody murder in the passenger seat, and I promise you, nothing will change about that. There is no good reason for a burnout except “because I can” and that alone is a good enough reason.

But not every car was meant to do a burnout. Certainly, no minivan ever produced was intended to blow the tires off at will. When Chrysler introduced the Dodge Caravan in the early 1980s, it was meant to be a practical van that was cheap to make because it was just a huge K-car. Though the platforms eventually evolved to be the van version of the minivan, the overall feeling was the same: safe, easy travel for cargo or humans. No van was meant to do a burnout…but that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible! Here, Ryan Tuerck of Hoonigan and Drift Alliance teaches you the basic techniques to unleash the performance beast out of a rental-spec Caravan. Please, don’t try this at home. Go find an empty backroad!


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