Art & Inspiration "Before I die,I want to.......(car related only PLEASE!)

Im still tryin to figure out what i wana do before i bite the dust! but it will be hotrod related!

 

Drive the truck in my avatar again after 47 years. Looks like it might finally happen. Mass says they are going to title it!!! I'll believe it when the paper comes in the mail, but I'm working on the truck. It will be powered by a 270 GMC like it was back then.

 

1. finish my two projects and drive them
2. go to bonneville

 

I'm nearly 62 and can verify this is a worthy aspiration.
Worked for me so far.

 

I'd like to Have a shop that builds engines for old stuff only. Tractors and heavy equipment pay the bills but I have more fun with Packards, Buicks, Caddys, Y-Blocks and anything Flathead. An ocational "Popin' Jonny" or Cub would be OK too.

Oh, and my Red Hat too!

 

Mine would be to give my wife a huge diamond ring and yes it's car related. I've had over 200 cars since we were married and the diamond ring would be a partial payment for her sticking around all of those years while I had so much fun. The rest would have to be in the form of an IOU because I could never repay her for all she has done.
Oh yea, get the '32 5w I bought in 1973 on the road.

Frank

 

go to Bonneville Speedweek again been 10 years

drive the 50 Olds coupe on the flats someday

dig up a 53 Studebaker coupe run it on the salt

windup the Route U S 66 run

 

I guess I want my health to stay good !! I just want to keep building hot rods until I say when !! Not when my health says when !!! So far it's been a good life >>>>.

 

Would make any difference to you if said teenager was male or female?

 

...see the inception of a 28 hour day so I can have 4 hours to work on my own stuff every single mucking day.

...Drive the old 49 Merc p/u At Bonneville just to say I ran with the big dogs (and with a 4:50 ratio rear I will happily claim 72 mph before the desert heat shuts me down)

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I'd like to go to bonneville, and have a stable full of pre-'60 rods and customs.

 

race up pikes peak in a time under 15 minutes

 

That's a tough one...I love watching Pikes Peak Hill Climb. What would you be driving?

 

I want a
1 radical custom for next years shows and need one that will place consistently and has documented history
2 enough cash to attend 12 indoor shows next winter

3 thats mostly all I can think of other than some little stuf like my roadster starting and painting my 53 chev w metalflake I dont even worry about #3 here just want to make one and two happen next year and thats my goal

4 well one more is to do 30 shows this summer on #6 so far
last year was 19 shows
will be doing a lot this september and october to get the numbers up

 

bang kim kardashian...in a 36 ford 3 window.

 

1. be able to drive my 53 Cadillac on a regular basis. I should be driving her by the end of the week.

2. build my 52 Cadillac series 62 to set a record over 200 mph and get a Red hat. I am thinking 540 with twin turbos . Then give all unsuspecting takers a good beating.

3. build a garage large enough for me to build all the cars I want to and not have to go somewhere else to have things made or done for you.

4. Build cars for my kids and have them help me. My youngest has already claimed the 53 when Im gone.

5. Drive a sprint cup car, funny or prostock car at speed.

 

1) Build an A coupe

2) Drive it down the west coast

3) Become a regular at the local dragstrip

4) Give the coupe to my boy for his 16th

 

Master of None, wish you lived by me, I'd take you up on #5 .

I would like to have the funds to be able to have a nice home garage w/ a good stable of tools, a couple of projects to work on and a couple finished to drive in the meantime - and room to store them!

 

I would like to go to Daytona for a race. I need to build each of my kids a bad ass ride. At the moment my seven year old son wants a muscle car like a Plymouth gtx and he wants it to have a blower on it, yeah that sounds affordable. My baby girl at the time wants both the 46 stylemaster and a pink VW. bug I can do that. I would like to drive a 10 second car on the track. My bucket list also includes an Easy Rider cover bike, and I want one of my cars on the cover of a magazine. I have two friends of mine in the hospital right now. One with heart concerns and the other with liver and kidney problems. Both of them are around my age "young" I have been thinking about my own life and I don't want to go for a long long time. I want to see my grand kids in my 56 ford.

 

1. sell my apartment here in Lithuania
2. buy plane ticket to USA
3. buy affordable place (with big garage) somewhere in USA
4. buy 28-32 Ford sedan and build a fenderless Hemi rod
5. go to Viva Las Vegas Weekend

 

...finish my car...

 

me to.

 

Go for my first ride in an old car, let alone a hot rod.

 

I'm late to the game but i'll add to it.
Go to B'ville once in a car i built
Finish my 32 5 window,clone my dad's 63 Impala and own a black 60 Coupe DeVille..

 

Drive a highboy roadster over 300 mph.
Finish my 30 sedan
Thats all I ask

 

Go to Calif. and ride in Bad Bob's Merc. that thing is bad ass.....

 

Well I guess it is time for me to get in on this...

There are the normal answers that everyone gives:
Bonneville with my boy on a "guy trip"(he went on his first guy trip last year here is the link http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=373325 )
in a hot rod or a cruiser

el mirage

go to Kiwi Kevs house and see his awesome collection in person

take a month and cruise across the country with my family in a late 40s to mid 60s Caddy or a 49 thru 53 Buick custom nothing too radical but real dependable and comfortable or a wagon or a 50s suburban. Camping anfd fishing and seeing the sights on no particular schedule...

build a awesome garage where i have plenty of room for me and my family to work on all the cool projects we want to. I want our house to be the "cool" house where all my kids friends want to come hang out.

get my 66 vette back on the road

build an autocross car on the cheap maybe a 914 Porsche like my dad had when I was a kid.

take better care of myself so i can maybe make some of this stuff come true

Drive wide open on the Autobahn

Build a straight axle style car henry J of a late 30s Chevy coupe and race it and be a terror.

Also leave the line at full throttle dragging the back bumper sparks flying, butterflies wide open, and when I set it back down bust the oil pan and front axle without flipping or hurting anyone and being the run of the meet that everyone remembers for years to come.

 

Build A Big A$$ Garage That I Can Hang Out In With All My Toys
Finish My Shoebox Custom
Build A 30's Ford Sedan
Build A 50 Olds Custom
Build A 55 Mercury Custom
Drive My Shoebox To Santa Maria, Viva Las Vegas, LA Roadster Show, Grand National Roadster Show, Bo Huff Show, Bonneville & The Entire Length Of Route 66, All With Buddies With Old Cars Too.

 

Finish my hot rod.
get in the 200mph club at bonneville
build a hot rod with an ardun motor

 

Bail my dad out of jail for raising hell in his yet to be finished 32 truck.