So like in 'Life on Mars' you go back in time, but in your

So like in 'Life on Mars' you go back in time, but in your

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Vaud

50,741 posts

156 months

Sunday 5th January 2014
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walsh said:
What was the fastest car on uk roads in '64?
Series 1 E-type Jag?
Mark 2 AC Cobra?

Talksteer

4,915 posts

234 months

Sunday 5th January 2014
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This sounds like a lame verson of hot tub time machine.

I think that unless you are careful you will be assinated, lynched or find yourself being anally probed in a government research lab. One of the first things you would want to do is hide your massively conspicuous 21st century car.

Practically speaking you will find yourself without food, water accommodation and no paperwork to establish your existence. You are going to need some allies.

My suggestion would be that the best person to get on your side would be a top academic physicist, they would be far more likely to accept your story/be convinced by your evidence. The car actually offers some pretty conclusive evidence that you are from the future as the date the steel was smelted can be determined based on the levels of radiation from atmospheric nuclear testing deposited in it.

You effectively have two strategies either attempt to hide the fact that you are from the future and by betting and playing the financial markets become rich then set up a record label to become a billionaire or offer your future knowledge and technology to the government to vastly improve decision making. Personally I suspect the best approach would be to start off as a secret policy advisor and then move into the roll of record company owner (which would be a good cover to allow you access to decision makers.

If you're going to engage government it would probably make sense to have some "time bombs" which will reveal your existence to the world if you dissappear set up to aviod the anal probing in area 51.

aeropilot

34,798 posts

228 months

Sunday 5th January 2014
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Vaud said:
walsh said:
What was the fastest car on uk roads in '64?
Series 1 E-type Jag?
Mark 2 AC Cobra?
Yeah, 289 Cobra, Ferrari 250 GT SWB or maybe an Aston DB4GT....??


beko1987

1,638 posts

135 months

Sunday 5th January 2014
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I get looks in my XM Estate now, 1964 would flip out if it saw one I think.

Can't think of much to add to the aboves, apart from maybe stash a few 'cheap' cars of the day away and 'discover' them as an old man when I get back to 2014. Would involve finding somewhere that still exists today though...

belleair302

6,859 posts

208 months

Sunday 5th January 2014
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I think my Lexus would be somewhat large and parts plus tyres would be impossible to find and probably manufacture. Re a career quite possibly because I would be at the cutting edge of sports marketing and could make a killing from the World Cup soccer team and Formula One TV rights. Move over Bernie!!!

DervVW

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2,223 posts

140 months

Tuesday 28th January 2014
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Yes your future knowledge would help!