My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

[Memphis]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

No particular order other than #1
1. Buy my Dad a 67 Z/28.
2. Drive across the U.S. , for some reason its gotta be a old gm of some sort.
3. Drive on Laguna Seca for a few laps.
4. Go 200mph.
5. Find a muscle car in a barn.
6. Me and my dad build a 67 Cougar for my nephew. I am a gm guy but when I was little my dad bought me and my brother some hotwheels cars his being a green cougar with a black vinyl top and mine a elky.
7. Jump over a river.
8. Do donuts in Times Square.
9. Be able to pop a wheelie on the street.
10. One Lap of America.

[GreaseStains]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

cant belive i forgot targa Nfld. the ferry is 2 hours from me and i've never hadda chance to be there for it. hittin New Zealand is something i'm still hopeing to do, i just hope i dont have to get work in that area to finally get there.

[BetterWithBoost]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

1. Get into the 200 club at Maxton.
2. Run the Silver State classic with my brother.
3. Race the 'Ring against my brother(that's Nurburgring, not Nuremburg, Seth ;D)
4. Run at Bonneville. I don't care if I hit 300, I think the experience alone would be incredible.
5. Targa Newfoundland and Targa New Zealand in the same year.
6. Own a daily driven 500+ci blown Deuce.
7. Get my D-license at Maxton on a mini-bike.
8. Build my dad the Chevelle he's always wanted.
9. Have a group of car-minded friends always around.
10. Own/operate a hot rod shop with my brother.

[SpeedJunkee's Carbs]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

I dont realy have 10 but heres a few:

1. Straighten up my life
2. See my kids and let them know I'm there dad
3. Get back to my one true luv...........hotrods

and I have thought about route 66, just filling up my gas tank finding whats left of the road and driving till I run out of gas, and that will be where I live for the rest of my days........

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

import drivers are interested in european stuff .. autobahn ? hell ,try the NYS thruway , or NY to daytona under 14 hours
daytona speedway , talladega , bristol , pikes peak , syracuse mile , eldora , indy , pomona , englishtown , baja ,

[Joeys66chevy]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

i notice we all have going 200mph or faster.... i guess that is a staple of being a carjunkie or going REALLY fast is just REALLY fun to everybody

[HillbillySailor]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

The one thing I'd like to do before I die is drive (what's left of) Rt. 66...preferably in a hot rod of some sort.

[Schtauffer]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

In no particular order:

10. Build a nasty but road-trippable big-block for my 67 Malibu
9. Build a decent 400 SBC for my 85 Monte Carlo
8. Build a garage/shop for said projects
7. Become financially free (so I can go fast) ;D
6. build a car from scratch (as opposed to merely modifying an old muscle car)
5. learn to TIG
4. go 200 mph
3. road trip the 67 to the Pacific Northwest and back (from PA)
2. buy a car from another state, fly one-way, and drive it home
1. raise a respectable bunch of little CarJunkies

[fine59]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

1. Build an all out race car.
2. Go 200+ in the standing mile.
3. Go 250+++ at Bonneville.
4. Run the Silver State Classic full bore in the Unlimited Class.
5. Race @ The Ring (Nuremburg) with my brother.
6. Go ice racing in Scandinavia.
7. Do a massive bumper detaching wheelie (in a car).
8. Run the quarter in 9 flat.
9. Get a car featured in Hot Rod.

and most importantly..

10. Be a good father and pass on the love of cars to my son.

oh...and never climb Everest. Screw That.

Seth

number 10 was very well said, all the respect to you

[fahrenschnell]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

1. Build an all out race car.
2. Go 200+ in the standing mile.
3. Go 250+++ at Bonneville.
4. Run the Silver State Classic full bore in the Unlimited Class.
5. Race @ The Ring (Nuremburg) with my brother.
6. Go ice racing in Scandinavia.
7. Do a massive bumper detaching wheelie (in a car).
8. Run the quarter in 9 flat.
9. Get a car featured in Hot Rod.

and most importantly..

10. Be a good father and pass on the love of cars to my son.

oh...and never climb Everest. Screw That.

Seth

[GreaseStains]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

1. hit 300+ km/h
2. finish my bel-air (I'm moving too sssssllllloooowwwww)
3. go back to Chile.
4. get my diving licence. I'm getting to lazy to hold my breather long enough to snorkel much farther then 20 feet now..
5. build my own boat.
6. swim with the dolphins and or pilot whales that live around my home area.

and i ran outta ideas. I'd be pretty happy with all that tho!

[Joeys66chevy]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

1. Give local police a "Real" high speed chase
2. Bonneville(want red hat BAD)
3. wife who will put up with hotrodding(only 18 so i have awhile to search)
4. find a barn in the woods and fix it up into my dream house
5. "pilot" a blown alky Big block chevy WITHOUT list ending here
6. burnout an entire mile or as long as the car will go(see 1 and 5)
7. have customer come into shop wanting honda fixed,blow that up and pay him what it was worth just so i can laugh in his face and tell him to buy a REAL car
8. spin out at bonneville above a 150mph
9. live above 30(if you saw me drive you would see why thats a goal...lead foot)
10.Kids?? would be nice but if they acted like i did then no hotrods until they are out of the house(i feel SO bad for my parents)

[BangShift McT]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

La Tomatina would be cool, I've seen the 'after' pictures, the town looks like the great V-8 Juice tsunami hit it. I'd also like to see the thing in India where they have paint and colored chalk...similar to La Tomatina...YouTube "Scooter Behind the Cow", that's all the music video is about.

Now, as for running from a highly pissed off 1.5 ton Quad Stacker...uh..no.

[KeithTurk]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

Pomplona (SP) Spain ... is, ahhh, interesting... I turned down the opportunity twice... with good reason... HELLO... that's freaking NUTS...

excuse me... let me go out here and wag your tail and pat your horns... cause I know your happy to see me... MR TON+ bull... ain't nobody bothered you today and it's My Turn.... Oh yeah.... Sign me up Coach...

It's like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute... ( folks have lived ya know )...

Bull Fighting.. Riding is all good... I get those... but hanging out with bulls on the street? hmmm nahhh "Not so much"

Want to go get in the middle of that Tomato fight they have over there... Hell yeah I'm a player...

Keith

[Brad54]

Re: My Top 10 list of things to do before I die!!! Car Junkie style

In no particular order:
earn a 200mph patch at Bonneville
build a car to race in Targa Newfoundland
Build a '54 Buick to race La Carrera Pan Americana
Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail
Drive Boy Wonder to school in a 10-second gasser
Run with the bulls in Spain
Run in the Baja 1000
Run 1 Lap Of America
Improve my building skills and get enough shop equipment that I can build all those race cars myself
Keep giving my son enough great memories that he'll never run out of things to tell his friends and kids about.

-Brad