Originally posted by Streets
1977 interview

David Hapgood: Why don't you do fire burnouts anymore?_

TV Tommy Ivo: NHRA outlawed them. They say they're dangerous. I've done over 500 of them. I think they have more things to worry about than that. If I do one I get my driver's license taken away.
Yeah they always seem to want to take the fun out of things.

Like I said before, I always thought it was one of the coolest things to see, especially at night, because with all of the fire on the track at one point during the burn out you would actually lose sight of the car and then all of a sudden it would burst through the flames doing its burnout......at least thats the way I remember it. I admit I was pretty young at the time though and things always seem much grander when you're that young.

Cheers,
Firechicken