OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Your "Most Fun" car

Weekend backroading with the girlfriend(s) in high school made an otherwise boring car pretty damn sweet

The car I had the most fun in was the 1991 Trans-Am with t-tops I had when I was 17.  The amount of stupid things I did in that car are numerous.  

The car I CAN have more fun in is my current vehicle, a 2010 Challenger R/T with a 6 speed manual.  Sadly, I'm too responsible to have a ton of fun in.

1985 Ford Country Squire. A wood panel station wagon. It got like 9 mpg and in general was just a tank...especially after we cut off the mufflers (yes, two of them). It was basically just a big sled in the winter, but I was never scared. For instance, one time a guy backed into me in a parking lot; he drove off, and I was gonna be pissed. That is, until I saw the basketball sized dent in his crappy Neon...and not a scratch on my front bumper where he hit me :)

'79 Pinto. Don't judge me, man.

88 suburban. Drive it when I was 16-18. That thing was a tank and held more friends than I had.

Not a twin turbo but fun nonetheless. Black on black. Manual transmission. T tops, 5 star chrome Moda's. Car was a blast until things started needing fixed then it turned into the money pit.

87 Honda CR-V two seater hatchback stick shift. Fun little car.

1991 Ford Mustang GT convertible.  "Wild strawberry" color (metallic cherry red) with black rag and silver ground effects.  Zero to 60 in about, oh, before you even think about hitting the gas pedal.  Numerous times other cars would start drag racing me, like from a red light, and I only laughed at them in the rear view mirror.  Beautiful purr.  I had a manual, too, and while the clutch was heavy it wasn't that bad to shift.

Exact same model/color scheme as the car Michael Douglas drove in Fatal Attraction, btw.

As someone mentioned above, I could pile a dozen-ish high school friends into it.  Also, the bench seats totally came out whenever a special lady was involved.

And by "special" I obviously mean "willing to hook-up with me in the back of a 1987 van."

My most fun car was actually a 1974 Mustang II. I had it in high school in the early 90's. My dad and I pulled out the anemic V6 and put in a built small block 302 out of a 1968 Mustang that was totaled. It was way too fast for a 17 year old, lol. It was fun until I did one to many burnouts and blew out the rear end.

Red 95 Land Rover Discovery II. TALK about a tank. Very basic engine I could work on myself. Put grill guard on and could hit anything without a scratch which was nice parking it on the street in Georgetown. One time a big tree was in the road at 3:00 am on the GW parkway in DC and I went right over it (solid axle) while all the other cars turned around. A jeep tried it and got stuck lol. Jeeps are cute.

Had suicide seats in the back and could fit 6-7 in it. Broke down a lot but was a blast.

Other was my wife's 1992 civic. She paid $9,000 new and sold in 2001 for $7500 to "tuner". Never in the shop in 10 years. once got about 40mpg fun to drive.

I'm going to stretch here because 2 weren't mine. 

 

A) '94 Miata I own now. Stupid ridiculous fun just stock. Drove it from LA to TC and felt like I was a member of project Gemini, except I could drop the top. 

B) When I was 13, after years of sedans, my Dad bought a Dodge 600 convertible turbo. Cars and Concepts cut  of the 600. 146 horses of doom, and an audible turbo whine. We also convinced my Dad to install a HiComp stereo head from ABC warehouse so we could play tapes. This was at a time that convertibles were still somewhat rare. While it wasn't mine, and I didn't drive it, my brother and I LOVED that thing. Often times when he'd go out to a HS football game he'd let me tag along. 

C) Tie: my brothers '95 Wrangler (we took a couple cross country trips in it, top off, doors off). and prior to that, he had a '9(something) Geo Tracker. Easiest car to drop the top on; and our first experience at two tracking. 1.8 litre 4 cyl, 5 speed, 4hi and 4 lo. I laughed at it when he got it. I fell in love with it while two tracking. 

a 600 acre apple farm. One of the "farm trucks" was a 1982 Chevy Luv truck (think S-10 sized) with a 1.8L diesel, and a manual transmission.  Starting about the time I was 14 or so, my Dad would drive it down to the house at the end of his work day and the ask me to go park it in the barn for him.  He never cared that what should have been a 5 minute trip always took me about 45.  

Second place comes in the form of the fleet of 80s Chevettes that were owned by a pizza shop I worked at in college.  Nice thing was the owner of the pizza shop also owned about half of the other businesses in the small college town, and the pizza mobiles were unmistakable. The police didnt bother us much. I even got let go after getting pulled over doing 51 in a 25 right through the middle of downtown Bowling Green one morning aroundt 2.  

I am currently having fun with my current car.  Volvo C30 R-Design w/ the Polestar added.  I took it the the Tail of the Dragon (in North Carolina) a couple weekends ago and had a blast.  First time I had been there.  Highly recommended for anyone within driving distance!

I have a tie. My first car, a 1979 Z-28. White with blue stripes and a light blue vinyl interior. My first taste of freedom by car. And I felt really cool in it. I had a personalized license plate-- LLROCK (Long Live Rock) -- it was pretty freaking awesome. I almost died when I burned a hole in the console with a cigarette. 

 

Second would be my Alfa Romeo Graduate. It was the most bare bones version of the Spider. No door locks. Vinyl top, vinyl seats, crank windows. But so fun to drive with the top down. I miss that car.