What (1) Vehicle have you owned that was

[Little6pack]

the most fun Vehicle to ever own?
Please only 1 & a story about it.

( it can be anything motorized from motorcycle, truck, atv, street car, race car, scooter, watercraft )

 

[John Larkin]

'70 Ford F100 with 360 v8 & 3.91 rearend. I could do burnouts in reverse until I let off the gas. It just spun and spun forever.

 

[cold85]

78 cj7 jeep. the reason it was so fun was because it was lifted and had side pipes on it and at night you could go down a hill and leave it in gear and let off the throttle and it would blow a flame about 6inches out the pipe and pop. it was great because it was at head level to the people beside me in cars. it would scare the hell out of them.

 

[Little6pack]

Nice keep em coming

I have to say my 68 $375- street beater GTO was a blast, I took it to NED on sundays for bracket racing & drove it like a lunatic on the street.
That car was the DONUT KING. I remember doing donuts at an abandoned outdoor MDC skating ring cement pad. The rubber was there until the day they took down the rink many years later.

 

[1ARUNEM]

65 corvair monza comes to mind. Ran good and would go anywhere. Kinda like a baja bug. Real fun car to drive. Easy to put yourself into an "interesting" handling situation as well.



Also had a 4 door 80 Corrolla wagon with mudgrips for riding in the woods.

Then there was the 77 powerwagon.

Had to love my 66 chevy II ss327. Lots of looks and plenty of power.

73 cuda 340 was a blast with plenty of power, air, ps, pb and alot of thumbs up.

69 dart was fun with power, ps, pb, air and painted Al Bundy brown.

Both 66 mustangs were great cars.

I could go on forever. I've had over 50 cars and enjoyed most all of them.

 

[2quiktocare]

My '30 Ford 5 window coupe with a 366 cid chevy 4 bolt and running high rise with plenum and 2 Holley 750 DP's. Had 5:56 rear end Detroit locker and 14"X 16" street slicks.
The car was 1800 pounds and was the meanest stop light to stop light car I was ever in. Third gear wheelies and all. What a monster to hold straight.

 

[87ttypeV8]

i havent had too many cars but my 1987 regal T (v8) was the most fun yet ...
mainly because it was just beaten on... had no collision on it and it received 3 accidents... none my fault though so at least it made me some money

needed new tires all the time after i got a 3.73 posi installed... it wasnt fast at all but did some nice burnouts and donuts...

was just a fun car to drive around in! wish i still had her running good

 

[arista5]

87 WE2

 

[NJTurbo]

I had a 74 Chevy Monte Carlo with a 400 small block in it. This thing was a tank, we use to get drunk and take down stop-signs with it all the time.

For a tank it moved pretty good, the back seat was huge the ladies thought they were on a couch

Then we use to take it in the woods and go 4 Wheeling with it, the thing was unstoppable and would take down tiny brush and trees like nothing, The bumper weighed like 200lbs.

I bought the car for $500.00 as a no start, it needed points and a condenser. I switched it over to HEI ignition for like $60.00. I drove the car for 2 years sold it for $1500.00 and then 1 year later bought it back for $450.00 and drove it another year, then sold it for $1200.00. What a ride the BANANA

 

[DCEPTCN]

NJturbo is a damn maniac!




My first GN. I got it the summer that I was eighteen and owned Main St. all summer long. Guys who beat me up in grade school were driveling at my feet and girls who wouldn't talk to me in junior high were fighting over who was next to go for a ride. Those were the days.

 

[Buick From Hell]

There's several cars I wish I had back, but my favorite was my
'70 Coronet R/T...

440 six-pac (which I changed over to a pair of 650 AFB's, BIG difference) with 2-1/8" casler headers (to which I bolted a pair of 18" cherry bombs, with nice loud drivelines for tailpipes), slapstick 4-speed, working ram air, 4:10 posi rear, all white interior (that never stayed white)...

Most raw "factory" torque of any car I've ever owned, if you weren't at LEAST in 3rd gear, simply stomping the gas pedal was instant hockey-rink time. The old L-60-15 tires of the day were no match for the 440!

Paid $1700 for it with 46k miles in 1973....it's only worth 22x that amount now...

<sigh> ( )

and this is the ONLY pic I have of it...

 

[Slow91z]

82 Datsun 280ZX

Inline 6 with a 5 speed, would bury the 85 MPH speedo in 3rd at 7000 RPW, and would pull 5th to 6700 RPM or so.

I beat, banged, and just tryed to hurt that car for over a year...Bought it for 200, put a clutch in it, plugs and wires, and it NEVER failed me...Sold it for 200 with a rusted subframe.

From my house to my GF's house took about 15 min, if you were speeding alittle...I got there in 3.5 min one night when she was home alone with the kids and someone was messing around outside (trying to get in, throwing rocks at the house, etc)...I jumped the railroad tracks next to her house, downshifted in the air, broke it sideways when it hit the ground, slid into her driveway, pulled the E-brake, opened the door, slid out of the seat as the car came to a stop with a old hickory axe handle in my hand...They ran.

 

[NJTurbo]

NJturbo is a damn maniac!

Yea that was the old days when I was serving Satan

 

[Zurn]

80 toyota corolla

The 3TC Toyota motor is one of the best motors ever built. Only used form 80-82. Little Hemi the called em. I usually drove around in 1st at about 7000 Rpm because I was too lazy to shift. Had the car for two years, never once changed the oil. Would challenge anybody to a RPM contest, usually my friend’s v-tech Hondas and stuff. Nobody could out rev me and hold if for as long as I could. Man what a motor. They build them in Porto Rico with turbots and stuff and run 7-8 second 1/4's all day long. I didn't believe it until one of my friends form there showed me some videos of the races form down there. I guess they are really popular down there along with the Mazda rotary motor. Looks hella funny because the cars only hit 130mph in 1/4 but they get off the line so fast and sound so funny!

 

[BLACK6PACK]

I had a 79 malibu wagon when I turned 16, that thing was a party mobile!!

Believe it or not, the car I had the most fun with was a 91 geo storm gsi. The thing must have only weighed 2400 lbs and would 1/4 in the mid 15s. Not a drag car, but I couldn't tell you how many times I had that thing in a 4 wheel drift coming off the off ramps. It had "lotus tuned suspension" whatever that is, but it had zero body roll. It was great having a beater. I don't think there was a body panel that didn't have a dent which came in handy down here. If I needed to get over for a turn or to get on an on-ramp and there was a nice new vette trying to keep me from cutting in, I could fake like I was cutting over and they would give me pleanty of room. When they saw the number of dents and dings, they had no doubt that I'd smack em if they didn't give me room!!

 

[mjdwyer23]

My 79 malibu wagon with 87 GN drivetrain. I would pull into school and cut the wheel and go down the whole driveway sideways, then hit the linelock in the parking lot after school and leave a huge cloud. I'd run race gas on the street and whoop up on everybody with the ET streets. Good stuff. I also had a 70 monte carlo that I put a 406 sbc in, that thing ripped. It was a peg leg and could just sit there burning for hours.

 

[SilverSleeper]

Ive had some fun cars.
Of course, top of my list is my 87 Turbo Regal. Theres nothing like pulling alongside some punk and just blow them away, all with a vinyl top chrome trim grandpa car. Its the whole wolf in sheeps clothing thing that does it for me.
Even in its previous state, (as a carbed 307 car) it was a lot of fun. I put soooo many miles on that motor. It was back when I drove because it was fun, and not because I had someplace I just had to be. It was on its last legs at 125000mi as I was driving it to the shop for the LC2 transplant.

My 73 Electra has to be a close second though. I bought it for 600 as a winter beater, and it just grew on me. It rode sooo nice, and it was such a tank. Even to date the most reliable car I ever bought. I put TA headers and dual glass packs on it, and I could just sit and listen to that exhaust. It sounded so sweet going down the road like that. If I hadnt snapped the frame by the rear axle and plowed down a guardrail at 60 mph, I think I would still be driving it now.

Ive only had my Cruiser for a month now, but driving it is actually fun. I think this summer it will be a blast to drive. Im glad I got the manual trans, the autos really suck.

 

[Turbo Indian]

her name was B.A.M.F. (bad a** mofo)79 Ford fiesta, 6 nights after I paid $1300 for it I hit a deer about the size of a big dog @ about 70 mph. spent a week with a BFH & a set of comealongs, 1 new radiator and it was like new. I went through 17 pairs of tires in the 7 months I had it the first time. I would back up about 30 mph & ever so gentley pull it out of reverse & place it in 1st, hold my foot to the floor & dump the clutch! it went places where a friends f250 with 38'' tires wouldn't go, the secret is to get enough speed!! I sold it after 7 months for $380 a a happy meal a mcdonalds, I then bought it back just in time for the next winter. I had to pay $50 & a cast iron sbc 4 brl intake for it. by now the rear shocks were totaly wore out you would hit a bump & it would bounce for an 1/8 mile. you could not kill that car.

 

[D.K.]

I've had a bunch of cool cars in my day, but my favorite was my first. a 1970 R/T big block 4 speed Challenger. Don't get me wrong, this was no show car. It stayed in primer for years and had headers with glass packs bolt to the collectors. A few motors later, and it was making big power and sporting a tunnel ram with two 600 double pumpers. Wish I had it back now!!

 

[GNeric]

I would have to say my little 75 Monza. I dropped in a 307, Hooker headers, 795cfm Q-jet, MSD/HEI, factory T5 5 speed, 3.42's with Auburn posi. Could leave from a stop in 3rd gear and would still pull. With the stock manifolds, pipes, cat.converter and tailpipe without muffler, it was a complete sleeper with it's 3.2 litre badges. Ran low 13's at 104 with 205/60/13's. I miss my stick shifts.