Really Fast Food: Drifting C5 Corvettes for Burgers and Shakes in a Ridiculous Competition

Cleetus McFarland drifts a couple of C5 Corvettes as his passenger attempts to grab and eat as many fast-food burgers as possible.

People modify C5 Corvettes for all sorts of reasons. Some want to do it to enhance the looks. Others do it to improve the sound. And some want to make their cars faster around a racetrack. But what if you wanted to drift your car through the world’s fastest drive-thru, grabbing and eating burgers and drinking shakes along the way? Is a stock C5 Corvette good enough or do you want a modified Corvette in order to grab the most food? Does that sound like a ridiculous test? It should because it is. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t highly entertaining. Especially when you add Cleetus McFarland, Emelia Hartford, and competitive eater Nick Wehry to the mix.

The first episode of Between 2 Rides season 2 recently dropped on the eBay Motors YouTube channel. The concept of the series is that two cars are compared to each other. One is stock and the other is modified. There is then some sort of competition to see if the modified car performs better than the stock one. Well, in this case the test is to see which C5 Corvette is best at drifting while picking up fast food. Much like fast food itself, we know that this is a bad idea, yet we feel compelled to indulge.

The Cars

The yellow C5 is supposedly stock. Although it seems to be running massive spacers at the rear. In any event, it is mostly stock. The modified C5 Corvette has a laundry list of upgrades. From the engine to the rear end to the steering just about every component on this car has been upgraded. It is a full-on race/drift car. And it was built in the traditional way. Which is one component was upgraded, which cause another component to fail, so then that was upgraded, and so on and so on. The next thing you know you have a reliable 680 horsepower drift car.

First Food Stop

McFarland takes the stock C5 out first with Hartford in the passenger seat. We love the C5 Corvette, but it is not a drift car. Hartford ended up with only one burger and one shake. The rest were scattered around the racetrack and smeared all over the car. So, let this be a lesson to you C5 Corvette owners out there. Do not use your car to drift past a drive-thru while trying to grab fast food. It is not going to work very well. Of course, that should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Second Food Stop

Time to get serious. Hartford has been replaced by Wehry and the stock C5 replaced with the modified one. To make things more interesting there is an extra challenge this time around. Wehry has two laps to collect as much food as he can, and then five laps to attempt to eat at least ten burgers. Can he do it? You have to watch the video to find out. But as off the wall crazy as it is to see these C5 Corvettes take on this challenge, you can’t help but to smile as you watch it. Corvettes, V8s, burgers, and tire smoke. Does it get anymore American than that?

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