Can you lift the front wheels on street tires?
 

Basically a simple question, is it possible to bring the front wheels off the ground running street tires on the rear or will the tires break loose first?

maybe if the car weighed 800lbs:D

Drag radials are considered a street tire. The quickest/fastest guys in the NMRA DR class are running in the mid to high 8 sec zone... pulling the front wheels, of course :D

Anyone ever see the pic of Big Daddy Dwayne Gutridge doing a wheelstand on DR's... you can see daylight between one of the rear tires as he's standing it on the bumper in one of the still shots! :eek: ...on street legal tires!

Regular ole radial treads (which is probably what you were talking about) ...fugeta bout it!!!! :D

From a dead stop on normal street tires, not drag radials but normal street tires I'd say no. I do however know lots of people that can get them off the ground on street tires by hopping the car. Like get going in first and goose it, when the front end comes back down goose it again, and on the third one nail it and the momentum I guess helps it. Got to watch doing that though I saw somebody break an axle that way.
One of the members in our club who has a car that is just a freak of nature when it comes to hooking can do that on street tires and get the drivers side front tire around 4"-5" off the ground sometimes.