YouTuber Cleetus McFarland is infamous for his unconventional stunts behind the wheel. While he behaved himself in the NASCAR-sanctioned ARCA Series at Daytona (mostly), he recently got his hands on something a little more street legal – a Ford Mustang RTR, the brainchild of Vaughn Gittin Jr. – and ended up slapping an obstacle while trying to “hard park” it.
Hard parking is a stunt in McFarland’s repertoire in which he tries to drift a vehicle and rein it to a stop between the lines of a parking space. Since the Ford Mustang RTR is designed to drift, it’s the perfect vehicle to give it a shot. McFarland absolutely sends it, getting the pony car sideways and absolutely tearing up the tires, which makes it difficult to direct.
McFarland tries to slot the Ford Mustang RTR into the parking spot again, but ends up drifting off the pavement into the dirt. There’s nothing left to do but try again… and again… and again. Unfortunately, he sends it a little too hard, drifting off the pavement and striking some bricks resting in a planter, scattering lava rock across the sidewalk.
The impact knocked the rear bumper cover out of place and likely trashed the left rear wheel. McFarland debates trying again, then decides it’s probably better to let the injured vehicle be.
“Having a real swell time,” McFarland says. “I think I’m gonna have to buy this.”
His crew tries to lift his spirits, telling him it’s not that bad, and McFarland says that it shouldn’t be a problem finding a color-matched bumper through his buddy Gittin. They get Gittin on the phone, and Gittin encourages McFarland, saying he should absolutely keep doing what he’s doing with the Ford Mustang RTR. McFarland decides to buy the Mustang RTR even though Gittin says he doesn’t have to – although he plans to be a bit gentler with it in the future.
It’s not that McFarland doesn’t have drifting skills. He was just unlucky this time. When he drifted his Ford F-150 Raptor R, it went a hell of a lot better than this.
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With a name like Cleetus, what do you expect? Stupid waste of a car.
I just don’t get these clods wrecking great vehicles just to have something to post. Get a real job where you add value to something or fill a need. If we all did this crap as our vocation the store shelves would be empty in a week.