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

I just wanna drive my chevy again.. .

Fonzi

 

Take my Dad fishing in my '31 (I'm 34, he's 71)
Take my Dad to Bonneville
Build a bike and run it at Bonneville with Dad (Don't care how fast I go I just want to be in the game.)
Have kids
Have grandkids

Cruise (truck or bike) in their entirety:
US RT 51
US RT 40
US RT 66
US RT 101
Blue Ridge Parkway
Great River Road

Drive or ride to and thru Alaska
Cruise Hawaii, and I don't mean in a boat!
Drive the National Parks tour in my old buggy. (about 3000 miles) There was a PBS special on it a few months ago. I can't remember the name of it but they drove thru all of the western National Parks, all in one shot back in the 20's or early 30's I think. Looked like a lot of fun.
Goto Hershey with an unlimited supply of cash!

OH YEAH! I almost forgot! Set a course record at the Newport Hill Climb!

 

Bonneville!!!!!

 

I want to go to Bonneville for speedweek...oh, yeah, I want to take Salma Hayek on the hood of my car.

 

own a blue seated ferrari and have the money to drive it the way it was made to be driven.

surf jbay

build my dream 32 3 window

 

Go to the A-Bombers festival and race my shitbox.

 

Damn straight!

Okay, car related? I want a early '80s Porsche 911SC. Hey, you asked. Yeah, and a naked Salma Hayek on the hood...or wherever.

 

I see going to Bonneville is a somewhat common reply on here. For various reasons I have a Bonneville car, Packard powered Vega, that I no longer take to the salt. However I usually let someone borrow it and my trailer if they seem trustworthy to me. Most years the person who borrows the car fails to get his act togeather and make the trip. This year was that way. If you are in this general area and are interested in 2010 let me know and we will talk.

 

I want to die at an extremely old age at the hands of a jealous eighteen year old husband in the back seat of a Tucker.

 

Finish the 55
Race at the H.A.M.B. drags
Race at Bonneville
Build a copy of the American Graffitit coupe.

 

Sell my 32 roadster to a guy that would appreciate it as much as I have since 1962, & drive it as much as I have since completing it.
I think thats what Jack Lemmon would have said.
Sure did like that movie "Bucket list", puts things in real perspective!
One more trip across the USA in my roadster to Maine, then follow the Autumn color change South to Florida & return I-10 West to Ca. & then North to home in Oregon.

See gas prices return, like in 50's & 60's (35 cents per gallon)

 

Stand alongside the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans at 2 in the morning.
Bonneville
Goodwood Revival
Teach my kid how to double clutch a crashbox and apex a turn.

Kurt O.

 

I want a 54 buick special, and I want to spend one whole paycheck on my car before my wife gets ahold of it, and then proceed to laugh at her and get away with that too.

 

I'm at least part way finished...must be gettin' old.

1. Build a hot rod from the ground up, by myself...DONE
2. Drag race my hot rod...Done
3. Help my wife (The Flower) build HER OWN hot rod...DONE
4. Help my son chop the top of his '51 shoebox...DONE
5. Make a "no time limit" Route 66 run in the hot rod...DONE (July 2009)
6. Drive the hot rod to Alaska from SoCal to visit my brother.
7. Drive my sedan to a record at Bonneville...or at least try!
8. Hold the distinction of being the first car with whitewalls to hold a record at Pikes Peak...or at least enter & try.
9. Live long enough to finish the 450 hp mini-truck (the same one my son won the 1996 NHRA High School Drags in) for my Grandson to drive to school when he gets into High School (he is only 7 right now).
10. Drive my Grand-daughter to the wedding chapel in my hot rod...she is only 18 months old.

If I can complete all of these, take me...I'm ready.

 

Race at Bonneville!!!!

 

1. I want to own an all steel 40 willys coupe.
2. I want to jump the General Lee
3. I want to find a Henry J that the floors arn't rusted out.
4. I want to own an Anglia
5. I want to find an all original 1942 Ford coupe that all I have to do is put in fresh gas, change the oil, drive to L.A., pick up Drew Barrymore, then install tilt steering so she will have more head room

 

bonneville in my A with my dad

 

Just think...you'll only need to sell about 200 of those $8,500.00 Cadillacs you're selling to come near buying a vintage Ferrari racer..........

 

Yeah, in 1966!

 

I'm closer to it than most of you guys

My List
Build a 50 Merc, 50's style
Drive or ride in a Duesenberg
Build a traditional hot rod with my grandson like my first one in 66
Build an AMBR contender car

 

Drive the Olds on the Pacific Coast highway....

 

Own(or at least be steward of) the Ed Roth Mega Cycle .

 

just "up & go" on a cross country road trip in a car that doesn't look like it could make it across the country.

 

cast my own speed equipp.

 

See Greased Lightning and the Aztec in a no-holds-barred demo derby

 

Route 66 from chicago to the west coast.

 

Finish at least one car for me
travel 66
work for a custom shop (funerals are great but i'd rather learn to build cars)
build my kids cars

 

Finish my car!

 

Getr into the 200mph club

 

I'd settle for getting into the Mile High Club.