Don't you guys realize that if you HAD a time machine, some bygone strain of some illness that your immune system has never experienced before would just kill you anyway...
I would go back to the early 80s and buy a shit-pot of Intel stock. Then, in 2000 I would cash it all in and buy a shit-pot of real estate. Then in 2006 I would sell all my properties and wait about 2 years and buy a shit-pot of classic cars and sit on them and be out in my giant garage looking at them right now - and licking my chops ;-)
I would pick the fifties, The people of this era had been brought up in the depresion and had survived world war 2, they learned to be resoursefull, had great inginuity, were not wastefull and above all were very helpfull to each other, The next time you go to a model T or model A swappmeet , look for the old guys and take the time to talk to them, just dont tell them your a hotrodder for they might call you a butcher. Any way they are the next best thing to a time warp machine , and then there is Viva las Vegas.
That's Easy, Starting with the summer of 1968 till the summer of 71! This was the highth of the Muscle car era, with Mike and I right smack in the middle of it loving every minute. The music, the cars, and some great folks who made that time so special, if we wern't racing, we were partying, or just hanging out on Douglas absorbing it all. Fun was not expensive in those days. Still it was a thrill seeing just how many folks we could sneak into the drive-in movies under that Taneau cover of El Kabong, and still have enough room for the drinks and food only having to go to the concession stand for Nature's calling. Yup those were the days all right. Carrie
Screw cars I would tell my X wife to go fuck her self and save my self YEARS of heartache. I can buy almost any car I want I just have to save. My 2 cents
I was reading this and thinking of something that interested me and I read your post and you nailed it, nothing else I'd rather do...
Well I would go back a week, play powerball and chill for a week. Once the other me goes back in time I'll pop out, destroy the time machine and live it up.
I'd be happy just to re-live my life again and clean up a few mistakes I've made along the way. I'd certainly be there at the disco in 1979 where I met my wife of almost 30 years, but I'd have a lot more money in my pocket and a much healthier liver! I'd also get that A sports coupe that was buried in my parents' back yard in 1962 cause no one wanted it, and the sweet running 26 Chev tourer my old neighbour sold for $10 the same year. I'd keep the 41 Willys sedan I bought for $20, and the 28 Essex coupe on Ford rails I paid $60 for in 1967. Oh yeah, and I'd take much better care of my teeth too! Just be careful how far back in time you'd like to go, think of the advances in even basic medicine in the last 100 years.... Cheers, Glen.
HEY KRASH...thats easy. 1964 for sure- because i was there. the hayday of funny cars. i saw dyno don-garlits-dick landy - stone woods cook-gene snow-ronny sox-don gay-grumy jenkins-hebert plat-too many to mention. NUF SAID!!!call me pop.
I'd go back to Ford's Theater, sneak up on John Wilkes Booth and kick him in the ass so he'd miss Abe Lincoln. Nothing like chanigng the course of history for the better, eh?
Ha, this has to do with a girl. 1978, I broke up with the only girl I knew that liked cars. I wish I could do it over again..........
No, Ransom Olds created the first automotive assembly line, assembly lines have been in use for centuries, in one form or another.
I would go back to 1997 and NOT sell my badass 56' Nomad for 12,000.00. Fuck that is a mistake i will never forgive myself for, you can barely find a basket case for that price anymore.
I'd go back to the '70s. The 1870s. To pilot a stagecoach through the great Southwest. Then be on hand to witness Wilbur and Orville's experiments and first flights. The dawn of automobiles. Electric light. Just to witness the discoveries and the wonder of it all. Dinner with Laurel and Hardy would be fun. Be the first to chop a T.
I'd stay right where I am and not do a damn thing different (and that's saying a lot!), 'cause if I did I wouldn't have the good things that I have now.
If you keep your eyes open, we are living in days like that now. When you look back on things they look dramatic, but everything happens over a vast amount of time. History compresses events so it appears that things happened "all of a sudden". They don't. The Wright Brothers did the small flight of a few hundred feet and most people thought..."OK, big deal, so what?" Same the the automobile...didn't exactly catch on overnight...hint, hint...no good without gas stations, etc., much less decent roads. Many of us on the HAMB were born before the first Space Shuttle in 1981, so many of us should remember that moment in time, but, sadly, we probably don't. That was a big deal. A real big deal. Same with the way the world was revolutionized with computers and then the internet. That has changed the world quicker and with more effect than maybe anything else in history. So, although it would be cool to go back...you can't, obviously. I've experienced so much change in my lifetime, I couldn't begin to list it all. Vastly different world since 1950...some real bad and much real good. Enjoy what's in front of you at the moment, keep your eyes and ears open....lots of history being made everyday.
All I would do is start over in the exact time period as in my mind I grew up in the perfect time but I would just do a few things differently !!! >>>>.
^There are some lessons to be learned by the younger folks in the older folks posts above^ You're just full of cheer today aren't you. Tim....is that you????
Whoa, do I smell the aroma of a dozen roses suddenly? (Dude, don't forget a nice bottle of Zinfandel or rose'!) [Who says cars don't promote romance?]
Well, I can't say I'd want to back very far as a permanent thing. I would very much like to go back to certain dates and clear up my "shit list"...........Go back and make damn sure that the parents of those on my shit list never meet. (This entails both famous and not-so-famous persons.) Hmmmmm......maybe to Dallas on the day of Kennedy's assassination, with a few friends, armed with video equipment. Roswell, N.M.? Oklahoma City? There are so many other historical incidents that should see the light of truth, that my own life seems rather small in comparison. Roger
Man, I don't know...Born in '48, graduated high school in '66, drafted in '69. Raced Top Fuel '70-'72. Survived the fog of drugs and booze. Got a great wife, beautiful grandkids. I can't imagine it being any better than what it already has been. Where could I go to top it?
Doesn't matter, the only reason I would do it is so that I could place some bets. I'm willing to bet times back then were'nt as wonderful as some people think.
im 29...i dont know where I'd go...but it wouldnt be permanent...would i love to be at the lakes in the late 40's, see how life was back then, or at the strip during the 60's watching Dyno don and Ronnie Sox, and all the other racers run? maybe hit up some street racing we've all read about...yeah, but while im ot exactly happy with life, everything has led to the point im at...so I guess i cant complain right...haha so, can I get some day passes?
Hmmmmmmmmm!?!?!? Come to THINK of it, time travel could be VERY useful! I'd go back in time and scan around and catch the lousy shits who stole 2 cars and numerous car parts from me. How 'bout that.
I would travel to Yorktown Va the day of October 19, 1781 and kick Lord Cornwallis in the nuts for not meeting with Washington when surrendering his troops.
I'd go back to 1950. I would, hopefully, have an easier time getting a job and would be able to find and build me a real hot rod. Also, by going back to this period, I would be able to witness all the trends of the 50's and 60's.
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