Art & Inspiration "Before I die,I want to.......(car related only PLEASE!)

race one of my cars down the quarter mile - - - on another continent!!

 

I want a blue...then maybe black hat from Bonneville.....that's all.

Hans

 

Get a 34 3 window,
Travel to the U.S,
Meet Billy Gibbons!!

 

Since this thread started 2 years ago, how many people have ticked off anything on their lists???

 

I want to complete my favorite car collection.
Go to Daytona Beach (old stock car course) and see the beach parade.
Go to Bonneville.
Just keep on working at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame!!!

 

Get a 39 - 40 Ford
Go 200 MPH.

 

Since you asked Craigo,
Went to Bonneville...

Everything else is pending,hahaha!

 

I can cross off ride in a supercharged drag car, thanks to my friend Kenny Walsh. Thanks again Kenny!

 

First I need to win the lottery, then...................

Bonneville and get into 200 mph club

Go to and drive in every NHRA event one year... { take my 60 Vette with a 283 and run stock class }

 

Finish and drive my '40 a LOT
Finish my '65 Belvedere and race it a LOT
Restore my '69 R/T 'vert (to make the wife happy)
Finish my '78 Fairmont pro-street (for some strange reason)

 

Build my own (Model A'ish, full fendered coupe) vehicle, 100% scratch made frame & body.
Drive it across the U.S. with no tag/title/ect.
Try to make it to the Pacific ocean and give it away to the first nice person (or State Trooper) encountered.

 

Drive the salt flats.
Chop a real 32'.
Open, run, and make a living in rod/kustom shop of my own.
Own a Viper.
Drive a Ferrari.

 

finish my AMX!!!!!

 

Go 200 on the salt and asphalt

 

Hit 200 MPH (or more)

 

...get the Blue Skylark fast enough to need a helmet at Famoso's "Test & Tune" weekend.

 

Find a famous old HOTROD and bring it back to its former glory and have Bruce Meyer look at it and say "Damn I wish I had found that one !"

 

I'll throw in some of what I would like to do.

Hot Rod related -
Get through school and then -
Build a bad ass custom anything.
Enter and get to Detroit for the Autorama with a car I've built
Enter the GNRS with a car I've built.
Drive across country and see more than what I've seen. ROUTE 66 works! Especially since I am from So-Cal and lived in a few cities it ran through or close to.
Get to Bonneville DURING speedweek
Get to El Mirage. How the hell did I not know about this place when I lived 30 minutes away for 15+years?????
Own a Woodie wagon
Drive the Hot Rod Power Tour

Sports Car related -
Own a Ferrari - I've already driven 3 so far, so no need to for that to be on the list
Take the Ferrari Factory Tour rather than drool from the front gate like I did in 2003
Drive Pista di Fiorano (Ferrari Test Track) rather than drool from the fence line between the cottonwoods. The pics came out great though.
Drive a car really fast around Laguna Seca rather than just get a ride
See an F1 race in Monza, Italy
See an F1 race in Spa Francorchamp
See an F1 race in Monaco. I missed it by 2 weeks before and 3 days after in 2003.
See the Le Mans 24 hours in person
Drive a Bugatti Veyron. The ride was phenominal!
Get a ride in a Lamborghini
Drive a Lamborghini
Take the Lamborghini Factory Tour
Drive the Autobahn at top speed.
Go to a NASCAR race and sleep through it to prove how BORING it is watching them go in circles. I actually used to go to the Orange Show in San Bernardino for races before I was 6 to watch. It was cool then, but reality hit me when I got into real racing.

I could keep going!

 

At least that's one thing done. My list only has 3 things and I reckon I'll still struggle

 

Customize an original Tucker!

 

Attend Bonneville speed week and own a 49 merc kustom.

 

Unfortunately most of my car related bucket list requires winning a substantial lottery or finding a lamp with genie....and substantial medical procedures.
* Get a 59 Studebaker Lark 2 door sedan or wagon in recoverable condition.

* Have an acre or so of land, and a pole barn with a lift inside...a place to store and work on cars.

* Start a side business buying & selling old recoverables and parts.


In the realm of realistically possible:
* Legally get the necessary modifications to our PT Cruiser to allow me to drive it.

* Find an old 50s or early 60s jalopy (preferably a Studebaker) that I can fiddle with in the driveway...that's in good enough shape that the neighbors don't complain.

* Get a rebuildable condition Studebaker 289 V8 that I can play around rebuilding on a motor stand in our shed.

 

I cant say its the only thing I want or want to do, But owning a customized 49 or 50 Merc. Well, I found a chopped 50 Merc last year and now own it. I love it.

 

Gumball 3000 (In a hot rod ofcorse)
cruise the entire route 66
have my car at the woodward dreamcruise and detroit autorama within the next 2 years.

 

Run over 200 mph in the quarter mile. All area tracks are 1/8 mile. Be satisfied with one paint job, without wet sanding and buffing. Make more friends! Meet an intelligent NASCAR fan....

 

I'd like to get my Falcon road-worthy and take it across whatever is left of the original Route 66.

Drive out to the Viva Las Vegas show some time.

Meet pin-up extraordinare Dayna Deluxe and get her to pose with my ride.

 

Never had a forty ford coupe
Give all the grandkids a ride in my hotrod
Finish my garage
Indy
Salt flats
Dayton 500
Bike week fla
Find a 57 chevy Belair like my fist car in 1964.

Live to 150 to complete the list ..........LOL

 

1 Go 300 or faster in a quarter mile in a Top fuel rail.
2 Cruise coast to coast with my son, in a hot rod and on the bikes
3 Build a knuckle head Harley
4 Teach grand children to drive some day.
5 Hang out with family and friends as much as possible.

 

1- Go to Bonneville (Going this August, come hell, high water, rain, don't care, I'm GOING)
2- Drive a Front Engine dragster or Altered (you can put a throttle stop on it, if I can get 150 mph in the traps I'll be happy)
3- Build an all-steel, 26 or 27 T roadster, full fendered, unchopped windshield, engine to be determined
4- Acquire a 1940 Willys Americar Coupe, and gasser it!!! (but unless i win the Lottery, that ain't gonna happen)
There's probably more, but that's all that is in my head at the moment.

 

Finish my 1932 Plymouth roadster project while I can still drive...