Oh no, we definitely thought they were cops. We thought it was a sting operation. And whenever they sent the guys out to film the sizzle reel, I thought, \u201cThey\u2019re going to film us racing each other for how long? Eight weeks?\u201d I thought they\u2019d never air a single episode. The first season was eight episodes, and I really thought we weren\u2019t going to make it out of our first season. For it to go 12 years, and we\u2019re still recognizable, that blows me away. Everyone recognizes the truck. That\u2019s just an old crappy truck that we built in my garage. We worked on it on weekends and started racing it, brought it out of town and it was a great sleeper, it worked. But yeah, I\u2019m still blown away that we can go to a track and have a line.<\/p>\n
You all have done this for quite a while now. Looking back on the show, what\u2019s either a favorite memory or accomplishment that each of you had over the course of\u00a0<\/em>Street Outlaws?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Talking about memories and favorite moments\u2026my favorite moment is when we built the Dung Beetle, and AZN got behind the wheel. He had to row gears, and he showed them all how it was done. It was the only stick-shift car out there and he did pretty damn good, outrun a bunch of supercars with it. Even though we\u2019re not related, he\u2019s 20 years younger than me and it was like watching my boy. We built the car, we raced the car, and that\u2019s one of my fondest memories.<\/p>\n As things progressed, it wasn\u2019t just the 405 show anymore. With nearly 20 spin-off shows, you were basically filming year-round. With a cast made up primarily of regular, blue-collar workers, how did you balance your regular jobs and filming full-time?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Well, first of all, you mentioned spin-off shows. I think we, or\u00a0Street Outlaws<\/em>, set a record for the most spin-off shows in any reality TV show series. We\u2019re proud of that.<\/p>\n One of the most popular spin-off shows was\u00a0<\/em>No Prep Kings. How did you all balance the idea of being street racers that are now competing at the track, but also giving fans of the show the opportunity to come out and experience what you\u2019re doing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Well, a little bit of the history of the show and how it evolved. Every human wants a nicer home and a nicer car. Same thing with racers \u2013 they want to go faster. We had run out of real street racers on\u00a0Street Outlaws<\/em>\u00a0to race and the producers started finding us races, and that\u2019s when you saw Pro Mods show up. All the other guys said, \u201cHey, we\u2019re in front of the world here. We got to step up our game. If we\u2019re going to be racing Pro Mods on the street, we got to do this.\u201d They did what they had to do to compete.\u00a0<\/p>\n AZN and I, we knew we couldn\u2019t compete. We just wanted to keep it simple. So we still have the same old Farmtruck. We put a bigger and better motor in it, but it\u2019s still streetable, and it\u2019s still what we wanted the show to be. Our last season, we were driving street cars, we were cruising, we were getting back to our roots. Everybody was having fun, no one was arguing. We were racing in other towns, other states. That was the best the show had been in a long, long time.<\/p>\n With the evolution you talked about \u2013 the never-ending desire to continue going faster combined with big-money teams jumping in \u2013 do you believe it eventually went too far from what made it popular to begin with?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Well, it\u2019s gone too far for us, but not for them. They did it, and I\u2019m glad they stepped up and built these awesome cars to compete. People evolved and they got better at what they do. AZN and I, we\u2019re still stuck in the past.<\/p>\n Looking ahead, with Speed Promotions Racing taking over what was formerly No Prep Kings, and no television show currently in place, what are your plans moving forward? Will you continue with SPR, or focus more on match races and paid appearances?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n No, we want to do what we want to do. We want to build cool stuff. We just got done with our \u201cFunny Farm,\u201d which is like a double truck, with two front ends. And we want to have a lot of fun creating stuff like that. We want to come to these tracks, do some grudge racing. We don\u2019t do much street stuff anymore. A lot of these small towns will block off the roads and let us race. We love that stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019ve been invited to go out and race with the other guys [SPR], but we didn\u2019t hear from them in a long time and so we booked the whole year, and we really don\u2019t have it in our schedule to go this year. We love doing stuff like this at small tracks like Mo-Kan. There\u2019s lots of friendly people, a lot of hardcore\u00a0Street Outlaws<\/em>\u00a0fans that come out to see us.<\/p>\n The post DI Interview: Sean \u2018Farmtruck\u2019 Whitley on The Heart of \u2018Street Outlaws\u2019 & Getting Back to His Roots<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In early May, former DI contributor Craig Cook sat down four of the original Street Outlaws cast members for a roundtable interview at Mo-Kan Dragway\u2019s inaugural 405 Shootout. 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