POLL: If You Could Be One....

[Brian Lohnes]

I'd be in a flopper, livin' it up like Jungle Jim.

Brian

[Mr4Speed]

Road Racer in the sixties. Can-Am, Trans-Am 8)

[TC]

I'm with Brian here, just pure hot rodding being done back then. 8)

[cantvalve16]

Road Racer in the sixties. Can-Am, Trans-Am 8)


I was gonna say stock car, but Mr4Speed one upped me. I'm with him. There would be nothin' like tossing an early Shelby or Cobra around the twisties. Mmmm. That's a dream world I could live in for a little while.

[JeffMcKC]

Other

Air Plane racer from the 2009, been watching this stuff, those guys got balls 8)

[Brian Lohnes]

Good call!

Merlin power for me.

Brian

[Remy-Z]

Trans-Am racer, early '70s. Tell me it wouldn't be awesome.

[stk1697]

Brian, you forgot those of us who'd rather have been racing the factory hot rods of the 60's. That's the era I wish I'd been in.

[Rustang]

Road Racer in the sixties. Can-Am, Trans-Am 8)


I was gonna say stock car, but Mr4Speed one upped me. I'm with him. There would be nothin' like tossing an early Shelby or Cobra around the twisties. Mmmm. That's a dream world I could live in for a little while.


I'll agree with Kris on this one. Rubbin fenders with Dan Gurney would rule!

[BBR]

Without a single doubt in my mind:

Pro motocrosser in the 80's mixing it up with the likes of Johnny O'Mara, Broc Glover, David Bailey, Ron Lechien, Jeff Ward, Rick Johnson, Damon Bradshaw, etal.

http://www.davidbaileymx.com/pages/images/des_nations_hips.jpg

[Brian Lohnes]

Another bitchin' "other".

Ricky Johnson was bad ass in his prime.

[trukluvr]

I'll take other. I wanna be the test driver for the one of the "Big 3" back in the 60's when they were designing the GTO, Mustang, Camaro, and other sweet stuff.

[457Brodix]

I'd be in a flopper, livin' it up like Jungle Jim.

Brian


With Jungle Pam, right?

[Aircooled]

Man this is a tough one!!!
At first I said '60 funny car driver...
Then I remembered that Mickey Thompson did funny cars, rails, Bonneville, Baha... Basically did it all. That was major cool.
But wait a minute, Mark Donohue did the Original Trans Am, Can Am, Indy and F1. That might have been cooler still.
And then the is Roger Penske. He may not have driven it all, but he certainly was at the center of it all.

I think I'll go with Mark Donohue and the 60's to 70's road racer. It was the coolest times. very dangerous, but cool.

[std]

Trans-Am racer, early '70s. Tell me it wouldn't be awesome.


George Follmer told me once"We used to race these things 500 miles without power steering. I don't know how we did it"

[Mr4Speed]

I'll take other. I wanna be the test driver for the one of the "Big 3" back in the 60's when they were designing the GTO, Mustang, Camaro, and other sweet stuff.


"Test driving" late at night on Woodward Avenue!

[JOES66FURY]

I choose "other"


I wana be racing Woodward back in the day with the likes of this

http://pikesan.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/img_4151.jpg

[BlackoutSteve]

Muscle car street racer from the late 60s..

Either that, or an F1 driver from the 90s

[Monk]

Did the moto cross thing in the '70's
Definately would've liked to have done some street
racing with the Silver Bullet

but I'm thinkin.....
running a Hudson Hornet on the beach

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/thom71/sandblasters.jpg

[min301]

I choose "other"


I wana be racing Woodward back in the day with the likes of this

http://pikesan.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/img_4151.jpg


x2 bro.

[yellomalibu]

Other.

Hot rodder/ street racer from the 50's.

When I think of the word "cool" I pretty much think of the cool guys from that era. Grease... American Graffiti...

[tiresmoke!]

50's street racer/hot rodder, but with the knowledge of today...like shootin' fish in a barrel.

[Bamfster]

Other, I would have liked to be in on the ground floor of the fastest street car racing back in the early 90s.

[fahrenschnell]

50's street racer/hot rodder, but with the knowledge of today...like shootin' fish in a barrel.




Me too....

Seth

[Joe Grippo]

I'm thinking late 60's Super Stock/Modified Production guy, eventually morphing into the early days of Pro Stock.

[olbuddybob]

Chip Foose has a pretty cool gig and seems to be a legit cool guy. But to travel back in time It would be hard to beat Mickey Thompson.

[Eagle Kammback]

I'd be Mark Donohue racing the Javelins in the Trans Am series

[66Fury3]

Other - I want it all..... Hugh Hefner is my choice......

[mike343sharpstick]

I'd say Roadracing in the 60's. ;)
Just think beating the hell out of NEW Cobras, Cheetahs, Scarabs, early Can AM cars... along with the birth of the TransAM cars.
That era was setting new ground with each year, inventing new things as they went.
Think of the difference between the caveman engineering of the '50's and significantly modernized 70's technology.
It seems to me the 60's was where many of the 'modern' technology was born. Must have been an exciting time.

In the motorcycle Roadracing world the 80's were incredible, in the early 80's the best sport bike you could buy would have been a KZ1000 with skinny tires and bendy frame. By the end of that decade you could go out and get a fully developed road race tool like a Honda RC30, Ducati 851, etc.

[joebogey]

30's-40's Hot Rodder, when you broke out a welder and grinder when it was time to modify things.

[DanStokes]

The one I'm living right now. I know how precious each day is and I enjoy each one like it's my last. Some ups and downs, of course, but for me, it doesn't get any better.

Dan

[urwurznitmahre]

OTHER
STOCKCAR RACER.. early to late 80's
TO RACE AGAINST
PETTY/ALLISON/EARNHARDT/MARCIS/YARBOROUGH/JAWS/ETC
that be so kool..

[tcbnj]

Street/strip racer from '65 to '75, spending nights on the Connecting, Woodward or Van Nuys ..........the romance of those days = carjunkie

[Blazerteam]

The one I'm living right now. I know how precious each day is and I enjoy each one like it's my last. Some ups and downs, of course, but for me, it doesn't get any better.

Dan


Me too ;).

[98ciHemi]

I honestly cannot think of any better time to live than today, and be doing what I am doing. Since my car is an Escort, I get to do the same type of things a '60s rodder did, though in a different manner. I have the ability to communicate with the various people who know what they are doing through the internet. I can go fast, slow, I can road race drag race, and go all out at land speed events. I want to be me, in the present day, and just trying to go a little bit faster.

-Walt

[JRoberts]

Now this is a hard one. My first choice was hot rodding in the 30's and 40's or stock car racing in the 40's and early '50's. But I think I would really like to be in the pro rally scene back in the early '60's. I can imagine doing the Monte Carlo Rallye in a (real) Mini Cooper, a TR 4 with a hard top, a two stroke Saab, even a Mercedes or Peugeot sedan. Those were the days.....I think.

[antmnte]

Id have a speed shop/hot rod shop in NYC someplace.And race the shit out of everything on The Connecting or Conner street or The Hutch in the Bronx.

[JOES66FURY]

Chip Foose has a pretty cool gig and seems to be a legit cool guy. But to travel back in time It would be hard to beat Mickey Thompson.


hard to beat until you get murdered...off topic, did they ever officialy charge that douche bag..I saw that they may...

[boxer3main]

what would I be.... ::)
I chose other.

[Brian Lohnes]

Chip Foose has a pretty cool gig and seems to be a legit cool guy. But to travel back in time It would be hard to beat Mickey Thompson.


hard to beat until you get murdered...off topic, did they ever officialy charge that douche bag..I saw that they may...



In prison I do believe.

[antmnte]

You should read the book about Mickey. Very good read.

[67prostreet]

I checked other. It's a toss up between Trans Am racing through the late 60's, or running AA/Fuel Altered.

[Gary 351C]

I voted F1 racer from the 80's, Oh. . and I'd wanna be really, really good. . .like Nelson Piquet good! ;D

[SpiderGearsMan]

would you rather be dale earnhardt or tim richmond in 1986 ?
did tim richmond sell his soul to the devil in 1986 ?

[SpiderGearsMan]

Chip Foose has a pretty cool gig and seems to be a legit cool guy. But to travel back in time It would be hard to beat Mickey Thompson.
at lead east , a friend waited 8 hours for a foose autograph he never got
chris got him one at SEMA

[Shawn Anderson]

60'S Funny car driver, barn storming the country living in a ramp truck :P Fire burnouts, crazy match races, party after the race :) could it get any better than that?

[Blazerteam]

60'S Funny car driver, barn storming the country living in a ramp truck :P Fire burnouts, crazy match races, party after the race :) could it get any better than that?


Probably not ;)

[JeffMcKC]

Brian, you forgot those of us who'd rather have been racing the factory hot rods of the 60's. That's the era I wish I'd been in.


Doc's and My trans man Drove the Kimble Bros Camaro's back then Donny Williams

[Ron Ward]

I voted other.

I would loved to raced a midget at Ascot back in the day.


Ron

[TC]

I changing my vote to other. I want to be like Ron. ;) ;D

[Mr.WFO]

outlaw biker.

[Schtauffer]

I dunno. Other than occasionally wishing I had stayed in school longer, I'm more than content with my life. Can't say I often wish I was someone else.

[dieselgeek]

I voted "other"

I seriously cannot doing any more fun stuff than what I am doing right now.


Spent the day at the dyno shop yesterday on JeffMcKC's car, got the bugs worked out, and the adrenaline hasn't worn off yet! It reminded me why I think these are the best days of hotrodding ;)