Favorite Ride

[lemon boy]

Okay- Doesn't have to be an owned vehicle.

Favorite vehicle you've spent a decent amount of time driving.

Me?

1982 Chevy Wrecker 454 3spd slushbox 4x4
Top speed: 61mph
Fuel Mileage: 3-4 mpg

Short frame dually, holmes equipement.

It was the wrecker/shop truck for the university's shop when I worked there and we beat the shit out of it. At 27mph it sometimes developed a death wobble that shook the entire truck. And it would pull but not necessarily lift any vehicle (including transit busses) the Uni owned. Had a full push bar designed for pushing vehciles with 1/8th inch steel plate covered in rubber with verticle 1/4" steel grate over the radiator/lights.

During the spring and fall when school was in we always timed our trips to campus for in between classes (pussy patrol). B/C it was the wrecker we could (and did) drive all over campus, on sidewalks etc... For some reason though college girls aren't into skinny kids in greasy coveralls with grease caked ballcaps :shrug:

oh and if you wound it up good, fully let off the gas for just a second and then floored it again she'd backfire and leave a big black sootmark on the pavement.

[lemon boy]

Sometimes we just pushed cars and trucks back from campus and for a "joke" we sometimes would push the person while a light was still red. In 4wd it would push a 1ton pickup like it was a vw bug and there was nothing that person could do about it.

[teledave]

Originally posted by lemon boy

oh and if you wound it up good, fully let off the gas for just a second and then floored it again she'd backfire and leave a big black sootmark on the pavement.

LMAO! Memories.

Not necessarily my favorite ride, but before I actually got MY first car my dad had a Jeep Cherokee that I drove everywhere (it was the extra car no one drove). Whenever you shut it off it would idle on for about 10 seconds and then backfire not once but twice.

Something like, chuggathow, chuggathow, chuggathow, BANG! BANG!

I swear my dad wouldn't get it fixed just so I couldn't sneak in the house without them knowing I was home and thusly checking up on my sobriety or lack thereof.

Me and my friends would drive through town and just occasionally shut it off to scare the shit out of whoever was in traffic near us, and just for effect at other random places and events.

Of course this was a lot funnier after a couple of fatties and some Miller ponies than it really is now.

[13]

1997 Corvette ... Hands down

I also really liked the Trailblaze I drove all of last summer, too.

[Game Over]

'76 Mecury Marquis
not my fave, but memorable..this is the fall/winter '95-96.
My parents were on this "you need to learn the value of the dollor BS", they would not let me pick out my own car, but I had to pay for it...yea fucking Nazi..anyhow I got this ride for like $300, it all worked out cause their criteria was it had to be the biggest safest thing....so anyhow, known as "Hoopty", it burnt a quart of oil every tank of gas. I would park in the "senior lot"..witch was really just a section of the lot where we all hung out and smoked, I stop to park when the tire hit the curb, well the nose hung over the grass so much it bent the fence that borders the whole lot over at a 45 degree angle, and it is still bent to this day....there was a family of mice that lived in the fucking thing, you would see em for just a second. There was always a bong in the back, the car was always unlocked and seemed to always have someone in it.. whom was usually on drugs, skipping class--afraid to go. At lunch and other missions I would drive over straw bales that they had set up at all these housing developments to prevent erosion...they would get lodged in the wheel well and I had my own type of 3-wheel motion.

[noodles]

2001 Honda S2000
Top Speed: 170mph (+-2)
Redline: 9000 RPM

[mrw]

1985 BMW M1 euro. Black/Tan interior. 5spd sport seats.car was amazing. So were the repair bills.Had to go. Miss the car not the recurrent shots in the wallet.


M1 in my dreams, it was an M6

[The Suit]

My wife's 1998 BMW M3. Best brakes of anything I've ever driven. Easiest car to drive fast.

I talked her out of bringing it to Jackson because we live at the end of a mile long dirt road, and it snows here. She's still mad.

[InspectorGadget]

It a toss-up between a Porsche Carrera S and a Ferrari 456:
http://www.supercars.net/servlets/PW.../PeP/9car0.jpg
A blast to drive, the '97 Carrera S is one car I would love to own - drool . . . .



I've logged quite a few miles in one of these
http://fp.images.autos.msn.com/meris...y/c435920a.jpg


Beats the hell out of my beater Camry, but that's not hard to do these days.

[Game Over]

you guys killed this thread with all this nice car bullshit...

my girlfriends car is cool '04 Lexus RX 330..but that is too obvious.

its all about the soul baby

[Schmear]

I'm just waiting for somebody to say 'moustache ride.'

[LCC]

Favorite Ride? God, I dated this really hot hairdresser for a few months a couple of years ago. Holy shit.

Memories.

(was this supposed to be about cars?)

[InspectorGadget]

Originally posted by LCC
(was this supposed to be about cars?)

It's now a wide-open field.

Originally posted by Schmear I'm just waiting for somebody to say 'moustache ride.'

I had that t-shirt


The NSFW rating is coming . . . .

[The Suit]

[i]its all about the soul baby [/B]

I have no soul. I'm a suit.

[crashnburn'd]

Originally posted by teledave

Something like, chuggathow, chuggathow, chuggathow, BANG! BANG!

Put it in reverse then shut it off and this won't happen.

I have one of these, except it's red w/ a black stripe, but it's in MN and I'm in NY. So it will be sitting in a barn this summer.

http://www.dodgedart.org/cars/73sport7.jpg

[G]

Holeee sheeiot:

http://www.supercars.net/servlets/PW.../PeP/9car0.jpg

I took one of these for a quick ride yesterday. It's my new all time favorite ride. This thing is a freaking rocket! I scared myeslf just taking off from first gear. Love the six speed in it, too. I wish I could have actually gotten to gear six.

Anyway, MY fav personal ride? 1972 chevy blazer (A.K.A. Bleeder A.K.A. chick deflector)

Gotta love a ten ton convertible with a huge engine and 4wd.

And, of course, I just can't seem to post in a car thread without sharing my favorite picture of my old ranger:

[PaSucks]

My beater ass car can be tons of fun. More donoughts, e-brake slides, burnouts, curb jumpings have been done in that thing then I can count.

One time we were at my buddy's house cause his parents were out of town, and we were just about to start drinking when someone comes up with the great idea to drive to one of the shopping plazas in town and run 1/4's on the highway out front, so we all hop into our cars, including a firebird, a Z28, an Integra, and a few other random beaters like mine.

Naturally we all haul major ass to the shopping center, and when I get there and pull into a spot, my oil light comes on. (it has leaked oil since the day I got it) No problem, that is why I keep a case in the trunk.

Pop the hood, pour in the oil, spill a little, it runs down the front of the block, no big deal, hmm there is some smoke, oh shit what is that bright light coming from down there?!?!? HOLY SHIT my car is on fire!

Instantly, all ten or so people around me scatter, bolt back to thier cars to move them as far away from mine as possible. One of my less bright friends parks his car about 30 yards away, and then gets out of his car to sprint across the 300 yard parking lot to the Taco Bell to ask for water instead of just driving there. The fire is out before his dumb ass gets back with the water. (Not like it would have worked anyways, but it's the thought that counts I guess)

Anyways, we drag raced for hours that night. The cops drove past numerous times, and never said a word.

[Mulletizer]

http://www.asdz30.dsl.pipex.com/panda3.jpg

[Mountainman]

'67 Mustang.

My first car. Drove that thing for over a year when there was no speed limit in MT and gas was .89 cents a gallon.

[bad_roo]

Originally posted by Mountainman
'67 Mustang.

My first car. Drove that thing for over a year when there was no speed limit in MT and gas was .89 cents a gallon.

Talk about all the planets lining up...

[interloper]

I scared myeslf just taking off from first gear. Love the six speed in there, too. wish I could have actually gotten to gear six.
Got one into 3rd gear in Kent,Wa one night before I let off the gas. I had passed the 3 digit number on the speedo in second.

[Aldo]

HEMI CUDA

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...cuda-1970b.jpg

[Crinkle]

i have too many favorites. My mom worked for a Buick Grand National and GTO parts dealer for a few years. My brothers and I would work the gates and see Grand National T-types, GNX, and some of the sweetest GTO's you ever saw.

[tonghands]

http://www.amx-perience.com/mustang19682left.jpg

Got to drive this car, Horst Kwech's 1968 factory Mustang Trans Am series car a few times. Dad used to work at Ford in the race department and bought it around 1970, sat in the garage for 10 years before he restored it. First time we fired it the entire neighborhood woke up.

[Woodsy]

Katie,

mmmmmm Katie