Here In My Car, I Feel Safest Of All
By Mitch Berg
Via Pianomomsicle, a car quiz:
- If money were no concern and LOOKS the only consideration, what car would you get yourself? A Triumph Spitfire.
- If money were no concern and YOUR LIFESTYLE the only consideration, what car would you get yourself? Jeep CJ7 (with a freshly-overhauled transfer case). I used to have one a lot like this one:
- What is the best thing about your current car? It’s almost paid off.
- If cars could be skinned the way cell phones, laptop computers, and iPods can, what would be a really cool skin for your car? I life-sized skin of itself, only bigger.
- If you were going to decorate a friend’s car with a custom-made skin as a practical joke, whose car would you skin and what would it be? There’s a lady down the block who’s Subaru is entirely encrusted in “Franken ’08” and “Air America 950” and “You Can’t Simultaneously Prepare for Peace and for War” bumper stickers. I think a skin to make it look like a Hummer H2 with “Kill a Commie for Mommy” and “Gun Control Is Hitting Your Target” stickers (and, of course, AM1280 The Patriot) would be fun. And an inexpensive neighborhood improvement.
That is all.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Do you think you’d even fit in a Spitfire?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I’d have to pull the seat and re-bolt it to the floor a few inches back.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Dang it…Kermit beat me. Even then, I still think it would be an interesting sight to see you drive one of those things. I’m just sayin.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s more like take out the back seat and put in a seat from an F1 car.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am
This would be my answer to #1 and #2
http://www.ki7xh.com/953%20dakar.jpg
I was looking at making a replica of this car, but the front suspension pieces are impossible to find.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I rebuilt a Spitfire once. The fact that it had two batteries should have been a clue as to how reliable it would be. When I told a guy at the classic car club I was in the midst of the project he told me the old joke: What do you have when you have two British cars and a Chevy? One reliable car.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I’m thinking a big “Peace through strength” skin with guns, cannon, and ships of war all over it. After all, that’s what I yell out the window at anti-war protesters when in a feisty, over-caffienated mood.
Any car in the world? http://hillmanimages.com/912/L062401-12.html
Even over a ’69 Camaro, a vintage ‘Vette (too many years to list here) or two, even over my longed-for Hudson Hornet. And the ’57 T-bird. And the ’59 Caddy 429, a ’51 Buick convertible, a ’69 442…ohhhh, so many to dream about! Maybe even have my first car back, a V8 ’86 Grand Prix SE…*sigh* I’m still dreaming about this one, even if they did screw it up by putting silly digital things in the dash.
Really, I’d take just about any car in my set of classics there.
That said, we love my present car. Yet another gift from above!