OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Your "Most Fun" car
"Most Fun" has a lot of potential definitions. Maybe most fun was that convertible where you could drop the top and cruise on a warm summer night. Maybe it was teaching your 3-year-old to say "HEMI!" when you would accelerate in your new Dodge Charger. Maybe it was the GTI you just took autocrossing (Was a blast this past weekend). Maybe it's the old Jeep that you'd get stuck in mud despite the 32" tires (Miss it every day... that I don't buy gas). Maybe it was the old Impala with the huuuuuuuge back seat in high school.
What was the most fun car you've ever had? Why?
*Have personal experience with convertible (both Jeeps), GTI, and Jeep. No experience with owning Chargers or back-seats of Impalas.
She gave it to me when I was a senior at U-M in 1982-83. She had already beat it to death (bad parking experiences, running into parked cars, ... grandma-style traffic drama).
It was a boat and could carry 6 people and several $3.50 cases of Weidemann long-necks, which we'd drive through the Beer Depot to get before cruising about campus or speeding down Huron Parkway like we were in the Grand Prix, frighteningly unconcerned about getting pulled over.
Of course this is behavior I'd be ashamed of now, but it was the free and easy 80s, coming out of the anything-goes 70s... and we did what came naturally in the context of that period in history, not looking at it in horror through today's stricter view of such things.
It was replaced upon graduation with a new Ford Escort. It was the only time I wasn't convinced that getting a new car was the right thing to do. That powerful old tank never left me feeling small and scared on an entrance ramp or keeping up with traffic on I-94.
It was a different time and it was a great old beater car that served its purpose.
Plan to auto cross it and will probably take it to Norwalk once just to see what it'll do. I've never been a big drag race fan.
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must've had bad fuel.
For a car with such low HP, it was a blast to drive. It was red with the black plastic louver cover over the back window. One afternoon in 1992 driving on I-75, the interior suddenly became much brighter as the louver detached and was moments from shattering on the freeway’s pavement.
In my mind, the ½ year made it a classic.
I'm an old fart so I've had 60-70's cars that were cool, but I had a early 80's VW rabbit with a 5 speed that was a blast to drive.
I worked for VW way back. I had another Rabbit that was a lemon, but the red 5 speed with the sun roof provided some nice and easy summer cruzin. It had pep, handled well, and was easy to drive.
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