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Gumball 3000 2012: Burnouts Mean New Tires

Sure, doing burnouts is a lot of fun and it’s also pretty simple- you just turn the two pedals of your automatic car into two buttons that spell “pleasure”. However, you must remember that you’ve got 3,000 miles to cover, so you wouldn’t want to turn all the rubber that separates your car from the tarmac into smoke.
Well, this is exactly what the Storm Troopers did, with the rear tires of their Camaro SS being turned into slick ones. This meant that they had to get new rubber, but, as you’ll be able to see in the video above, which comes from betsafe, that was not an easy task.

The 2012 Gumball Rally is taking participants on the following route: New York City (start, May 25th); Toronto, Canada (May 25th); Indianapolis (May 26th-27th); Kansas City (May 28th); Santa Fe (May 29th); Las Vegas (May 30th); Los Angeles (finish, May 31st).
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About the author: Andrei Tutu
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In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist.
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