What's the most EXOTIC car you've driven?

[sllib]

I drove a Dino that belonged to my boss, and a 911T for 3 hours after giving a BS'ing salesman a bogus inheritance story. I worked as a service manager for Firestone during the 500 recall, and I believe I roadtested every Corvette in the Washington DC area that had Firestone radials on it!!
Bill Stradtner

[Edley Rondinone]

Originally posted by Spoony


Yeah Yeah I drove .........

The Mach 5
The General Lee
The Mars rover
The Budwieser Wagon
OJ's White Ford Bronco
Larry Dixon's NHRA Top fueler


Yeah Yeah I drive stuff crazy!!!

Dont forget:

The Goodyear Blimp
Angelyne's pink Corvette
Any Union Pacific locomotive with 100-car trains
The Lunar rovers!
The Batmobile
The Munster coach
The 18th hole at Pebble Beach
Miss Daisy
Any of the Thunderbird's vehicles

[flipper35]

2001 Kia Rio. Yeah, yeah, you laugh, but have any of you driven one? (It was me mum in laws loaner)

[Chad Johnson]

1953 Studebaker Champion, straight six, automatic.

[goaztecs]

Also drove a Ferrari F40. 450hp 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Carbon brakes making a ton of noise, completely uninsulated interior. Took my driver's test at age 16 in my Mom's 3.0 litre grey-market Carrera, That car was also a pure blast. Also driven a Ferrari 328, a new 400-HP BMW M5, and several Porsches. My friend's 99 Carrera Cabriolet is flat-out pedestrian compared to my Cobra. Nothing compares to the yee-hah fun of my Cobra.

[TERRY M KRYSTOFIAK]

CSX2196

[Jamo]

Bite us all, Terry.

Hmmm...

My sister's boyfriend's Hemi GTX...I still wonder if my Cobra is faster than that thing was. Memories add speed!

[750hp]

I'm waiting to see Richard Hudgin's complete list of the racers that he's driven over his lifetime. Safe to say that it'll be a pretty hard list to top.....

[svobud]

a concours restored 68 GT 500KR. I refer to the owner as my surrogate Father. He tossed me the keys one day and said; "go drive it". I was so scared of scratching the thing .. I may have creased the seat with my buttocks pucker pressure.

[CSX 4027]

CSX 3002
Porsche 935
Lamborghini Muira
Clark Gable's 1955 Mercedes 300SC Roadster
Siata 208S
Countache
My 71 GTO (in '73) 455HO 4 speed conv w 671 blower
57 Fuelie Vette
Vector

[TimG427]

If going for a ride counts, I have been in a very hi-speed ride in ZL1 Camaro #3. It is a 23,000 mile car that was the featured car in the 1969 issue of Road and Track magazine and I believe Hot Rod Magazine. It was a smokey burnout, 120 mph ride two years ago. The same fellow owns the real 1967 Camaro Indy Pace Car, purchased it from Dan Young Chevrolet two years ago and I was in it in November for a ride. He also owns all three one lap of America Stielow Camaros, the Thrasher, Red Witch, and the Muel. The Muel is the current feature car in the BF Goodrich adds in this months Hot Rod. All three builds were featured in Popular Hotrodding. They are all modern cars that look like first generation Camaros. I have not driven these, just been for terrifying rides in them.

[Nathan Houghton]

TimG427,

I was noticing your cars profile. Is that the same car that was a cover feature in KitCar Magazine a few years ago? Very cool car!

[TimG427]

Nathan, yes. It was the January 1999 issue and written by Harold Pace. Harold was at the Austin event last week and we were introduced by a friend as we are both involved in Vintage racing. Harold asked me if I brought a car and I pointed to my car. As he looked at it he said "I wrote an article about this car a few years ago". I had the magazine with me and he looked at and we were both amazed that we ran into each other.

[Nathan Houghton]

It's not really an exotic, but I did get to drive a white '57 T-Bird that was originally owned by the actress Stephanie Powers. A friend of ours owned it, and gave me a drive one day. I was only 15, but about 2 miles from his house, he let me drive it. It was really cool. Only having a drivers permit, I didn't drive it very fast!

Probably the quickest (and scariest) thing I've ever ridden in was my friends fiberglass Jeep. Around here we have a State off-road sand park (about 5 square miles of beach type sand). His Jeep had an 8500 RPM 302 Chevy (aluminum heads, etc.) and 250 HP Nitrous, 4500 stall converter with a trans-brake. It was 2-wheel drive with 20" wide paddle wheels and no windshield. On a sand flat, he launched it from 4500, and I was holding on for dear life. We only went about 500 feet, but anything that can hit over 100 MPH in 500 feet in sand is impressive. He did take it to an asphalt drag strip once. He was running truck tires, and since it isn't really geared for a 1/4 mile, he hit the rev limiter about 3/4 of the way down the track. He still turned 11.14 @ 117 MPH with it. He was white knuckled when he finished. Needless to say, he only ran it once.

[Nathan Houghton]

TimG427,

I've still got that issue lying around as well as a big poster of it hanging on my garage wall that I got from Hi-Tech back when they were in business. That's a VERY nice car you have.

[Quentin Z]

Not exotic, but I've driven my father's '57 T-bird originally owned by Humphrey Bogart. It has a wonderful little silver Maltese Falcon on the glove box, wings raised with an "H" on one and a "B" on the other.

[Jamo]

Many a wet dream involving the Girl From the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

[aumoore]

Does a 25ton rough terrain FMC Link Belt crane count? Nothing like driving a 80,000# piece of equipment down the highway at about 30mph with a 500# ball bouncing about 40feet in front of you. The Outriggers were electric over hydraulic and if you did not remember to turn off the power the short in the system would start the outriggers while you were driving.

As far as cars nothing more exotic than my Boss 302 stang I had when I was 16.

[TimG427]

I just got out of a pretty rare car, and I got to drive it fairly hard.
A friend borrowed my trailer to haul his car to open track day at Texas World Speedway tomorrow. He picked me up, we got my trailer and went to his house and loaded up his car. Rather than return me to my office with his truck and trailer, he pulled out his 1970 LS6 454/450 horse Chevelle convertible. It is a beautifully resoored and documented, one of 18 built supercars. He and I are hauling it to the Barrett Jackson auction in Palm Beach, FL in two weeks to be auctioned off. He put the top down and told me to drive it a thank you for letting him use my trailer. Who was I to refuse? For those in the Austin area, this car was in the Texas Classic Car Show in September www.texasccs.com
There are some good shots of it on the site.

[dalola]

Does this count?