Coolest Car you have ever driven?

[Davecr-v]

I started this up a couple of buddies based upon who has driven the coolest car. My List bye the way the top 2 belong to the director of my company he is pretty letting me even near some of his cars although he has a huge collection and deep pockets.
1. Ferrari 360 Modena- Scariest experience ever the acceleration and cornering abilities of this vehicle is fantastic you cough look down and your going 125 mph which feels as stable as 30 in any other car just fearful because its known to be quite twitchy and its a freakin Ferrari!

2. Maserati Quattroporte-I never got the point of this car honestly I thought the S-Class was a better solution and much more reliable (this thing is always being fixed) that being said it is a hoot to drive and looks stunning the back isn't quit roomy enough but it is sporty and surprisingly easy to drive.

3. Porsche 911-Belongs to my second uncle he is 75 his wife is 40 you can guess why he drives this car, to be honest this car scares me I know it will kill you at any time plus he was in the car with me so I kept reasonably slow road feel was amazing and brakes were out of this world.

4. BMW M3- Belongs to a friend from Serbia good fast but my buddy is a terrible driver so I try to avoid rides in it and yes his parents are quite wealthy and hasn't worked a day in his life but to be fair it is a few years old ;)

The rest is kind of boring Toyota's and Honda's not bad but not as exciting as the exotics that being said anyone else have some interesting joyrides or own some of these amazing machines its kind of sad most of these cars never get to see the road because they are to valuable.

[Badgerland]

In high school I had a friend who fixed up a 69 camaro z-28; and that puppy had over 500 neck snapping HP...MUCH too much for two stupid kids looking for a good time.

[lizzurd]

87 Porsche 911 Turbo. One of my old customers had 5 Porsches and just before he sold the Turbo he let me take it for a test flight.....err drive....scared the crap out of me....but man did that thing handle.

Second favorite was a 71 Camaro 454 that one of my customers had at our shop while we waited for custom made rims to come in.

[rdorman]

512 BB boxer, 911's, multiple open and closed wheel race cars, GT-40's, and this one in the garage........

[Claude]

Difficult choice
Which of your children do you like the best?

[RandyC]

I have been fortunate (instructing at racetracks and autocrosses) to drive many cool cars. Lamborginis, Ferraris, shifter karts, and even open wheeled formula cars. I just sold my own car, which was a highly modified Lotus Elise with supercharged engine. It was a bit fast. ;p

This is my next car, it is supposed to arrive in April. It should be quick with 300+hp and under 1500 pounds.

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[2RedV's]

I will keep it to ones I have owned.

1969 Camaro 327 V8. High school car. Owned it for almost 10 years."Hugger Orange"
1984 Porsche 928S. Fast, ultra-reliable and sexy. Porsche's only true daily driver supercar. "Desert Taupe"
1979 Triumph TR7 convertible. Heavily modded 2.0 litre was like a tightly wound rubber band and quicker than a late 80's Vette to 60mph. "British Racing Green"
1970 Nova SS, 1/8th mile drag car that I drove on the street for fun. 4 mpg and could pull the front wheels in second gear. "Black with Pearl Blue stripes"

[Mac81]

1. Mercedes W113 230SL 1964 model (Most Headturns per mile, fullstop)
2. BMW E9 3.0 CSi 1971 model. A friend of mine (i want to get one! Pure BMW)
3. Audi UrQuattro 1985 (used to own one)

[kann]

My brother in law has a 1970 Chevelle SS. It moves. Quickly, loudly, and with authority. Only car I've ever driven that has really had me scared to put my foot all the way to the floor after grabbing the next gear.

My father in law has an old Buick GSX. They've got a thing about the A-Body's, I guess. He's got a picture of it downstairs in his office with the front wheels off the ground at the line. I make sure to point out to him every chance I get that he redlighted the pass. ;) Fast car in a straight line. Not as much fun as the Chevelle, though...

I drove a late 90's Viper GTS shortly after we moved here. I take it back... this car made me question my sanity once or twice, as well. God, I want one so bad! :D

My brother in law also has an '01 (I think) Audi S4 with some work done to it. I thought my '04 VW Jetta with the VR6/6-spd was fun until I drove his Audi (same platform). After that I just felt grossly inadequate.

BMW Z4 when I was in Germany. It's a big go-kart.

Honestly didn't keep track of all the different BMW's, Mercedes', Audi's, and other Euro sport sedans we had as "rentals" over in Amman while we were there. Going fast has never been so smooooooth...

I think that's it as far as "cool" goes. I haven't had the opportunity to drive any Italian supercars. I am quite jealous of those of you who have! :mad:

[Davecr-v]

About 2 days ago I got to drive a new 911 turbo cabriolet full out, a good friend of mine comes from money and the family has a weird thing with cars they have 4 expensive cars but they kind of just share them they leave the keys on a table and you grab whichever one in the morning on the way out. They have an MDX, E-class, a Range Rover HSE, and the father has the aformentioned 911 anyways I was motoring with my buddy who had the car for the day and without the original owner in the car I was caneing it on this empty freeway I thought I was doing 100 MPH I looked down at the speedo and the car was at 140 but it felt as stable as the CR-V at 30.

[Black Pearl]

Coolest was a friend's Scarab Z. Early 70's Datsun 240 Z with a Chevy 327.

Fastest another friend's 68 Z-28 Camaro. High winding 302 with racing cam, Eldebrock manifold, and a Holly the size of dutch oven. Took his class consistently at a local drag strip. Shifter handle ripped off on the guy from second to third and he put his fist into the radio.

Junkiest: (But Fast) 69 Road Runner. Cheap tin can rattle trap with a hopped up 440. It should have had a govenor to limit it to 60 mph, didn't handle worth a damn.

Weirdest: 67 Vette 427, factory lake pipes the size of water mains, with a 2 speed powerglide transmission! It kind of went like this Vaaaaarooooommaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhh. Sounded mean as hell until it shifted, then it sounded like it was puking.

[jpod]

Davecr-v

I envy you. In the next few days I will be visiting with a family in Nevada that has, amongst other toys, a turbo Cayenne, a turbo 911 and an older Ferrari. I am lobbying to drive one of more of them.

One of the coolest cars I ever drove was my own modified road racing 57 Austin Healey. And in the middle 80's I drove a 944 turbo along some asphalt oilfield roads at high speed for an hour or so. That was fun!

My own "faster than I realized" story is about driving a small displacement (205cc?) factory built Honda Grand Prix motorcycle on a deserted airfield in Japan at what I thought was a comfortable speed and looking down a the speedo and seeing that I was doing an indicated 130KMH. Im not sure I was even in high gear or at at full throttle.

Here's to speed.
JPO

[jpod]

BP

Forgive me while I sit in a motel room and reminisce.

Your post about the two speed Vette reminds me of one of my first cars. It was a 55 Ford former police car with a huge engine (425? 440? 490?) but in its brief tenure as a ranch car someone had replaced the OEM 4 barrel carb with a 2 barrel.

This car would accelerate zero to sixty in a few seconds but would not go over about 70 MPH. I suppose it ran out of air. Anyway at about 70 MPH in 3rd gear it started making a sound like a semi using a jake brake and refused to go faster.

I put a four barrel carb back on it and it ran very fast but soon blew up. This was probably Karma or poetic justice since I was basically a geek pretending to be a hot rodding hood. Maybe I still am.

Anyway I enjoyed your post. Here's to hot rodding geeks.

[tcturner]

Had a 69 Firebird HO,standard steering and brakes,350 cubes with 350 horse.4 speed Hurst with Shaffer clutch,sawed off duel Thrush.I got stopped by the cops at least once a week because even doing the speed limit it looked and sounded fast.What a memory.
Jim in TO

[Black Pearl]

Motels are bad places to hang around. I usually jump in the car with the GPS and do some touring until it is bed time. Sometimes I get a little carried away with the touring and bed time becomes 2 AM...oh just a little further. I have seen more places in the dark. Although that is happening less and less the grayer I get.

My grandfather bought a used 55 Ford, standard V8 with a 2 bbl, 3 sp with overdrive. Pretty much a standard car with the exception that it had a glass pack muffler on it and it made one hell of racket. My grandfather didn't have a driver's license, but that was simply a formality that kept him out of town. One time my sister and I went with him from his farm to aunt Beulah's, about 8 miles. Good God I have never been so scared in my life. I was probably 9, before the hormones kicked in and I was still sensible. We were flying down windy, narrow, poorly graded, country roads at 70 mph, glass pack roaring. He gets to some field and cuts up across that faster than an normal human would have gone on a dirt road, but there was no road. Total nut case. I think he did me a great service. While I was car crazy in my teens, I had no great love for speed. Never have, never will. Once on El Mirage Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert (yes! where Micky Thompson got his start on weekends, what? in the late '40s) during the week when it was abandoned I opened up my 70 Duster, 318 not a street rod, got up to 112 or something. Too damned fast for me.

I went to a highschool that was one of the new (in the 60s) area high schools. There were 3 classes of people in my highschool. The hot rodding hoods from the poor township that drove hot rod 57 Chevy's they paid for themselves with crappy jobs that they spent most of their non-school lives working at, then the cool kids from the rich borough that drove new GTOs that daddy bought them, and then the dung encrusted majority of us that were the progeny of the unionized industrial lower middle class living in the new suburbia paid for by the GI Bill. We drove nothing but on exceedling rare occasions, the old man's 2 door sedan 63 Dodge Dart with a slant 6 (actually a pretty damn fast car for 6 at the time). We were not allowed to have cars. Well all the unionized industrial middle class girls seemed to go for the minority of lads from either end of the socio-economic scale with automobiles. So having a lot of time on my hands, no girls, and no car, I became a hot rodding geek. I memorized all the displacements and horsepower ratings for all the cars (even the torque ratings for the mean ones). I consumed Motor Trend and Hot Rod like a investment banker with the WSJ. That rich kid didn't know the horse power rating of his 389 goat with the 6 pack, but I did. Then I worked in a gas station while I went to college and cars rapidly lost their luster. That 67 Vette was very cool except the powerslide. Well it's oil was just as nasty as that old guy's 58 Rambler. The snow dripping off it while it was on the rack, was just as cold, dirty, and nasty as any other car. Between that and another stint of working on cars in '75 after I got out of the service cooked my goose for cars forever. It wasn't until I got the Black Pearl that I started a minor--very minor--interest in cars again. Something that was a deity in high school, just turned out to be a nasty, dirty, painful business that I was glad to forget.

[Peacemaker1911]

When I was in Palmdale Cali, my boss had a Lamborghini Diablo VTTT. That car scared me. I would definatly kill myself in one of those cars. The launch was unbelieveable! It made my 454 BB feel like a cavalier.

[denzCRV]

Haven't driven anything fancy YET.. Only like a ML55 AMG, Chevy Corvette, and that's about it.. :( Would love to drive the Bentley Flying Spur and Bentley Continental GT that the owners of my dad's office drives lol.. :D

[Craig Sumners]

I am not as fortunate or enterprising as all of you.

My most entertaining ride is my 1980 Mini.
It's a car you don't have to drive fast to enjoy.
Right hand steering position makes it unique on our roads.
With go-cart handling you can get the adrenoline surging through your body when you don't slow for the curves.

Cheers,
Craig

[aslguy]

I drove a Delorean (Back to the Future) in high school; it belonged to a friend of mine's God-father.

They're totally junk, but it was very cool.

[illegal]

GTR,2008
nismo 350 z (not impressed),2007
ferrari 360 or something, 2007,
and a couple 9-10 sec 1/4 mile drag cars. (on the street :) )

[jim.cook]

Many decades ago I drove the Chrysler Turbine Car in Boston. The heat from the engine was spread across the entire back of the car so no one would get burnt.

I've also driven a 1909 Rolls, what a monster. Power steering consisted of making the steering wheel larger.

In high school I got a chance to drive a straight 16 - two straight 8 blocks bolted together. I don't remember who made it. It belonged to Admiral Bird's son (he collected cars and stored them in a very large barn near my Father's house). When you sat at the wheel the hood seemed to go on forever.

[sleeksilver]

I've driven almost every single Mercedes ever produced after 1990 excluding a Maybach and the SLR, but including SL65, CL65 and nearly all of the AMG models.

Driven a multiple Ferraris (550, Testarossa, 360, 355, 328(boring)) and a Diablo for a very short distance (less than two miles).

Driven numerous M5's of almost all generations minus the first. M3's were common.

More Porsches than I can count including a HEAVILY modified 996 Turbo, a 996 GT2 and recently a 997 GT3 RS.

The list could go on forever...



My story? My father works for Mercedes and I own a highline automotive detailing company.

When I was in Palmdale Cali, my boss had a Lamborghini Diablo VTTT. That car scared me. I would definatly kill myself in one of those cars. The launch was unbelieveable! It made my 454 BB feel like a cavalier.

Who did the modifications?