Most fun you had in a car. KEEP IT P.G.

[b-body fan]

I actually have 2 favorites from "back in the day " . First was my best friend in high school's Pinto that we shoved a 289 hypo and a 4 speed in. Too many stories there. We grew up in the country so on road and off road fun. Sometimes off road unintentionally. 

Second was my 74 Montego, I didn't check the oil and blew the engine. The same friends father had an R-code motor under a tarp in the barn. We put it in the Montego and put the 351 under the tarp. Destroyed that car in 2 weeks. Put his C.J. back, dropped the 351 back under the hood and scrapped it. May have been the best 2 weeks of my life. I'm still not sure why I'm not a Ford guy.

[my66s55]

Keep it p.g. Boy, that's a tall order

[Jon Haigwood]

One time that comes to mind was when I used to go fishing after work. I was always in a hurry to get there and there was lots a two lane curves.I was driving my 67 SS/RS Camaro and once picked up a couple young lads that were hitchhiking . My Camaro was great at corners and I really pushed it that day. Needless to say the Lads seemed to be a bit frazzled and requested to get out before they even got to their destination.

On another occasion my Hunting Buddy and I were trying to get to our hunting camp after work on a Friday. We were in my 67 Comet cruising along and enjoying some Strawberry Hill. My buddy likes to stretch his legs out and had them stuffed well up under the dash. It was starting to get a bit chilly so I went to close the vent. and it seemed to be stuck on something so I kept trying to close it. In the meantime my Buddy was starting to panic as he thought my car was trying  eat his foot. We still laugh about it to this day.

Edited August 18, 2015 by Jon Haigwood

[Danno]

Running up Pikes Peak at high speed (closed course, professional driver; kids and goofballs don't try this whether at home or not).   Killer fun*.  

Not so much fun, but almost: running downhill on Pikes Peak at high speed.  Risk of seat damage (pucker factor)*.

 

*PS:  WHEN it was still dirt!

Edited August 18, 2015 by Danno

[Ramfins59]

When my wife and I were dating she used to "borrow" her dad's car keys for his '67 Ford and we would climb in the car in the parking lot around the corner and.......  Oh...... right...... we're keeping this P.G.

[1930fordpickup]

One of them, before the seat belt law seeing how many kids you could put in a Matador wagon for a Dew run down to Stuckey's. Fall of 82. 

Mostly any time in a car before you were 18 and no parents was a good time. 

[Drake69]

There's a lot more room in the back of an '86 black Monte Carlo SS when you fold the seats forward.....

I'd like to say how I found out.... but no.

[AC Norton]

...........hmmm, this is a hard one, because I have had many cars, 14 different performance / or muscle cars from the early 70s up to just the last couple of years....but if I had to pick one time, it would be when my wife and I drove our 92 mustang 5.0 litre to a local mustang shootout event in 1994,  listening to some of our favorite tunes all the way, actually winning the event with that car, then driving home very thrilled and so very excited, listening to those same tunes on those cassettes all the way home again......she passed away just over 10 years ago, and of hundreds of cherished memories,,,it is one of our most special.......the ace...........

[disabled modeler]

I have had fun in quite a few cars/trucks I have owned over the years rather they were running or not.... but my old custom Dodge van was fun...my old 75 Trans Am was fun to do 2 block long burnouts in....took it to the track once they told me not to bring it back without a roll cage in it...

[b-body fan]

Good point!!!

One of them, before the seat belt law seeing how many kids you could put in a Matador wagon for a Dew run down to Stuckey's. Fall of 82. 

Mostly any time in a car before you were 18 and no parents was a good time. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Autocrossing my first car, a '62 Bug, both with the stock 40-horse Bug motor and later with a 356 SC Porsche engine. Taking it out on a frozen water-filled quarry was kinda fun too, but probably not very smart in retrospect. Using the Super 7 S2 as my daily driver, and many years later the old Beck Spyder as a daily were kinda nice too.

Driving from Atl to Arizona in a Geo Metro convertible was fun, and really horsing a client's '72 911S made me smile. Fell in love with the 911 that day.

Then there was the night in Buckhead in a real Auburn Boattail Speedster, driving the world's very first Datsun 240Z convertible (built by me) before it was stolen and cut up, and the girl who came up to me and said "I'll do anything for a ride in that car" when I rolled up to a bar in a client's Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

I had an old Chebby step-van for a while too, ex-KrispyKreme green-and-white, and that thing was terrific fun. Felt like the donut man...though in those days, I didn't look like him. 

Edited August 18, 2015 by Ace-Garageguy

[vettecote]

Putting a 5 speed in a '67 Corvette 427 Tri-power and taking it for a test drive. Wow! That thing was glued to the road and pure fun. Another customer had a original AC Cobra 427. Rebuilt all the bushing in the rear end suspension( at the time there were no rebuild kits for the car) I had to make each one on a lathe. It felt like the car was on rails....what a ball!!...Joe

[kitbash1]

Keep it p.g. Boy, that's a tall order

I'm sorry, but I can't.

[DrKerry]

Mine was back in my senior year of school. Myself and two buddies were out cruising with me in my 70 442. We came across an old country road that had a single track burnout and we started seeing how long it was. We counted 10 telephone poles from start to finish and we looked at each other like.... HMMMM?????

Back in those days I'd stop at a local salvage yard and grab two stock steels with snow tires on them just for the weekend fun. That went on all summer and got to the point the owner of the yard would have a few sets up front for me because he knew I was gonna stop in!!! LOL

Anyway, we all looked at each other and said.. Why not? So we pulled over and between the three of us we could have the car up tires off and others on and on the ground in under two minutes. This was when we had a four way and a small floor jack in the trunk. We changed them and pulled back up to where the single track started and I had Mike line me up exactly with the start of the other.... I dropped it in low one and started out going slow at first then picking up a bit of speed. Told Marty in the back seat to start counting poles, counting them off at 5,6,7,8 and up about the ninth one I hit it into drive and nailed the throttle. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.... That's when the snows started to come apart and had the tread slapping the underside of the car, hit 15 and just after before the tires came completely apart I let off and idled out of it. We pulled up the road and swapped tires out again and put the rally's back on it. Then  we backed out and drove back to marvel at the site... I made the comment that night that I would of loved to be a fly on the glass in that dudes car when he came out and saw that!!!

By the way, the old 442 laid posi marks the entire way that night and ripped the tread off of both tires, they were nothing but cords showing on both. Had I gone for 16 they would of both blown for sure!!! Man do I love the old days!!!!!!!!!!

[XJ6]

I Plead the 5th Amendment Right ?

[XJ6]

OK  I will come clean I once back in 1986 in a New '86 Camaro drove out of Las Vegas, NV to Salt Lake City, UT in 5/12 hrs then into Denver,CO in 6hrs that is averaging just over 100mph the whole trip 

Why ? Over a $100.00 bet ? with a friend of mine almost had me in Wyoming my Radar went off and saw that State Patrol in the Rest Area too late for me to respond he must had been in the rest room I will always remember blowing by that Patrol Car Sitting There 

It was an Experience I was 26yrs old with a Brand New Camaro Few Dollars in my Pocket and just did not care if i got caught at some point wanted to see if I could do it 

So yes there are times I still tell the story  when the opportunity arises for iam sure not many has not done that ROAD SPEED like I have. 

Even at my age now I often think about it kinda like to do it again but this time slow down be on two wheels and take off to New York and open up the Throttle ?

Don aka XJ6 ? 

[1972coronet]

1969 Dart GTS with a 496" (440 based ; Kellogg NASCAR stroke crank) , Art Carr 727 with full manual valve body , 8.75" with 3.23 Sure Grip . An incredible thirst for 105+ octane Ethyl . That car was obnoxiously loud ! The tyres would bark , even if you "short-shifted" the trans . Parallel parking was no small feat , even with 14x5" steel wheels and 16:1 manual steering !  Best trip in that oxidised green cop stopper was to Fashion Island in Newport Beach ! Ritzy area , with hardly a car older than 3 years of age being seen ; the Dart stood out like a sore thumb ! HA HA HA !! The exhaust set-off every car alarm in the parking lot .

My favourite way of launching that car was to brake-rev it against its 3,000 RPM converter , and then let-off the brake while nailing the loud pedal .

[Petetrucker07]

Way too many good times, with long stories. A few would be the time I made a "cool guy" look bad with his girlfriend in his little rice rocket when he tried to street race me in my Camaro. Or idling through the grocery store parking lot setting off car alarms, really like that. Or rollin down the street about 45 and slap the shifter into 2nd, light tires up, scare the cr@p out of the kids walking on the shoulder. But my favorite would have to be the first trip down the dragster in my car. I remember it perfectly, I cut a terrible light, dead pedal off the line, no slicks, smoked the tires to about 330, then it hooked and ran 13.10 at 94 mph. Then started getting better, slicks were bought, a bigger motor installed, went from a 325 horse, 327, to a 550 horse 406. Last time I ran it, it went 11.48 at 112 mph.

Now, in the big truck. Besides the short skirts and shorty shorts in the summer from my "elevated" view. It would have to be the night I scared a group of high schoolers, about 12 of them. They were crossing the highway, in the dark, no street lights. I got along side of them and laid on my train horns. Half went runnin, the other half hit the deck. That was good moment.

[Southern Fried]

PG huh?

 

How about "evil fun"?

My Senior year of school, 1974. I had a '56 Chevy Bel Air 2dr hardtop. Beautiful Turquoise paint job...except for the front cap/hood. The previous owner had wrecked, and replaced it. Cap was flat black, with the fender wells removed. No bumper. It had a '68 L48 350 out of a Camaro, with an unknown year factory aluminum intake and Holly 650, unknown aftermarket cam, along with a M22 4 speed, and 4:10 limited slip posi out of a Big Block Camaro. Fenderwell headers with Turbo mufflers.Leaf springs out of some year Rambler station wagon that were stiff, fit perfect, and gave it 3 inches of extra "lift" without shackles. It cleared the American Torque Thrusts and M50's with no problem. Front buckets from a Camaro. This car would hook up and scream.

We lived "rural" Alabama. 

There was a family down to road from us that lived pretty much "primitive". Old folks. Well water, no car,no phone, old house. I got to know them well. The "Old Man" of the family was about 80 years old. He was known by everyone in the community, and always walked/hitched a ride out to the local country store 3 miles away. Somebody always gave him a ride, to and from the store.

He was "hitching" one day, and I stopped and offered him a ride. After buckling him in (lap belts only) we started our trip.

Once he was in, I "launched" this rocket to an almost wheel stand. He was not prepared. He tried to reach, and hold on, to the dash...until I hit 2nd gear...which pushed him right back into the seat. He had almost grabbed the dash...when I hit 3rd gear. Back into the seat he went again. I leveled it out, and he held on to the dash the rest of the way.

We got to the store, and I told him I would wait for him, and take him back home. He said it would be a long time before he got finished shopping, and that he would get home just fine. I think he "hitched" with someone more "mature".

He NEVER let me give him a ride again...

[Muncie]

wow - been fortunate - so many good times where it just couldn't get better....

Bonneville, sunrise, speed week...  some have already filled in the story with just three words

Waiting at the end of the pavement (which is five miles out on the salt) with the racers and spectators until they open the salt at 7AM.  When that time comes, there are still five miles to go on the salt to the pits - some years it's single file and 20 MPH - other years, the salt is good and it's 65 MPH and cars/haulers spread out 400 feet wide.  Been before and you know it's going to get better.

At the pits, 35 degrees cool but you know it will be over 100 in the afternoon - the sun is starting to come up  - biggest most colorful sunrise any place - can't be described and photos don't even get close - quiet and reverent with expectations for the day... then the quiet breaks with the perfect background sound as the sun rises when the first big V-8 fires for it's warm-up in the cool, quiet, sunrise morning light...

 

 

 

[Miatatom]

The most fun was anytime I raced. Fun cars like my Royale Formula Ford, several Formula Vees, a couple of Miatas and the most fun was the '60 Bugeye Sprite. Fun tracks like VIR, Road Atlanta, Roebling Road, Barber Motorsports Park and Taladega Grand Prix Raceway.

[b-body fan]

Great stuff guys. Life was soooo good!!! 

[Scott Colmer]

There have been a few episodes, but my favorite goes like this...

One rainy night in 1983, my roommate and I were on our way home from a local sacramento bar. The Pine Cove was a favorite with college students because of the .50 drafts and 1.00 well drinks. No charge for the hair in your glass. We drove by the fairgrounds and noticed the gate was left open. We had seen an autocross there a few weeks before and thought, why not. We drove onto the course and spent the next 45 minutes sliding around in my ported RX3 laughing our asses off while we pretended to be rally drivers. 

It is amazing and very lucky we did not get caught. 

Good times.

[ChrisBcritter]

Trying to think of a story that was a fun thing and not a really dumb thing as well, let alone PG-

Once in '82 or '83 I had just polished up my '62 Imperial (with NuFinish, the once-a-year car polish!) within an inch of its life and went out to practice with three or four of my fellow Aztec dancers. Afterward when we were leaving Plaza de la Raza I saw a long line of 15 or so cherry lowriders. One slowed down and waved us in, and we spent a good chunk of the evening cruising Lincoln Heights. I've never done much cruising like that so that one good time with my buddies stands out.

Another time, much later I was following my former boss up to his house and he decided to take the twisty portion of Mulholland Drive. He was driving his triple black '89 Porsche 911 Speedster and I had, of all things, a triple black '90 Olds Toronado Trofeo (when's the last time you saw one?) To my surprise I realized I was able to keep up with him through all those turns - it was one of the best handling cars I'd ever driven. Of course we weren't going that fast because he was behind somebody in a Jeep Cherokee...

Edited August 19, 2015 by ChrisBcritter

[charlie8575]

Riding in a 1916 Hudson Super Six around the parking lot at the Hudson-Essex-Terreplane Club's national meet in 2008 is right up there. Same family since new. What a remarkable automobile.

Traveling down to Front Royal, Virginia in 1999 for the H-E-T's Eastern Regional while I was in college and doing research for my thesis centered around the Hudson Jet and how it sunk Hudson was another great memory. Nice scenery, the AACA Winchester meet nearby and a great group of people, and a flawless trip in the 1994 LeSabre I bought for myself as an early college graduation present. 

My 2004 visit to the Saratoga Auto Museum for the Bulgari collection and Buick Centennial exhibit, going out the back roads of Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. I ended up with my first 1991-96 B wagon, a '93 Roadmaster, and that was a nice, pleasant ride. The B-bodies are king of the road cars as far as I'm concerned.

Charlie Larkin

Edited August 19, 2015 by charlie8575