Most Fun Moment
Discussion
With the spending review and all the gloom and doom - I need cheering up.
So what's your defining "fun" moment in a car - the point where you just had a happy smile, no other worries, or even the point where you knew the "petrol head" was within you!
My two...
Driving an import classic Impreza STI (pre chav) running good power, had a spat with a scary looking guy that was the epitomy of hard core biker - skull cap helmet, big beard and scary boots. We ended up even stevens and it was a safe nice blast - guy pulls up next to me afterwards and I think "oh oh " and with a nod gives me thumbs up and roars off.
The other was the moment I sat in an RS4 and heard it pulling past 3,500 revs for the first time, just music to my ears and re-awoke the passion for me. I was let loose in the car shortly after and can honestly say I was grinning ear to ear and shaking when I got out.
Not very exciting but bored at work!
So what's your defining "fun" moment in a car - the point where you just had a happy smile, no other worries, or even the point where you knew the "petrol head" was within you!
My two...
Driving an import classic Impreza STI (pre chav) running good power, had a spat with a scary looking guy that was the epitomy of hard core biker - skull cap helmet, big beard and scary boots. We ended up even stevens and it was a safe nice blast - guy pulls up next to me afterwards and I think "oh oh " and with a nod gives me thumbs up and roars off.
The other was the moment I sat in an RS4 and heard it pulling past 3,500 revs for the first time, just music to my ears and re-awoke the passion for me. I was let loose in the car shortly after and can honestly say I was grinning ear to ear and shaking when I got out.
Not very exciting but bored at work!
Not a very exciting one from me but:
Just moved to California from the UK, been there a couple of months and had been feeling thoroughly down. Missing England, missing my friends, missing my family.
Went out for a drive with the roof down (Sebring convertible), "Son of a Preacher Man" came on the radio - one of my favourite songs, turned up full, driving through the vineyards of Sonoma County and a massive smile appeared on my face.
Just moved to California from the UK, been there a couple of months and had been feeling thoroughly down. Missing England, missing my friends, missing my family.
Went out for a drive with the roof down (Sebring convertible), "Son of a Preacher Man" came on the radio - one of my favourite songs, turned up full, driving through the vineyards of Sonoma County and a massive smile appeared on my face.
Driving the father in laws Noble M12 round Brands Hatch about 3 years ago. Went round Druids, big gravel trap, first lap, floored it a 'bit' too hard and the back end started to step round.
The most fun i have ever had was watching his face as I hooned past the pits, the b
king afterwards was not fun!!
The most fun i have ever had was watching his face as I hooned past the pits, the b
king afterwards was not fun!!Many a blast in my Corvette C4 in the 90s, removing the smile from the drivers of many a "superior" car including an XJS V12 whose engine actually failed as he despreately tried to pull away and a BMW 840i who didn't have the power he envisaged.
The other was picking up my 4th gen Z28 coming along a dual carriageway and a guy in an roof-off Elise with jewellery and a petite blonde girlfriend decided he was going to blow my car away by changing down a few cogs - which he appeared to do in reverse
The other was picking up my 4th gen Z28 coming along a dual carriageway and a guy in an roof-off Elise with jewellery and a petite blonde girlfriend decided he was going to blow my car away by changing down a few cogs - which he appeared to do in reverse
Mine was my friend taking me out for a blast in his GTV v6 and then letting me take over driving duties. Jesus. The drive hom in the clio was disappointing!
I'm absolutely hooked on the sound of them now, and I WILL have one once my job is secure and things are paid off. I even broke up with my girlfriend who said they were "stupid"....I didn't break up with her BECAUSE of that though.
I'm absolutely hooked on the sound of them now, and I WILL have one once my job is secure and things are paid off. I even broke up with my girlfriend who said they were "stupid"....I didn't break up with her BECAUSE of that though.
Pressing the 'Start' button in a 360 Challenge Stradale. Foot on brake. Right paddle, click. Prod the throttle. Raw. Foot down. Woaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That and being sat in the back seat of this:
At the top of a very, very steep incline. Then being told to hop behind the wheel.
There are many more to choose from though, thoroughly sideways in Evos, handbrake turns in the snow, 4 wheel drifting old Land Rovers...
That and being sat in the back seat of this:
At the top of a very, very steep incline. Then being told to hop behind the wheel.
There are many more to choose from though, thoroughly sideways in Evos, handbrake turns in the snow, 4 wheel drifting old Land Rovers...
This weekend on the way to the Sunday Service.. BMW M5 and a GTR came into my rear view, quite a distance away.
Few seconds later they're passing me, the sound with the roof off was incredible.. The M5 a deep roaring sound, the GTR screaming and wooshing noises.. Excellent. I had to giggle like a little girl
Few seconds later they're passing me, the sound with the roof off was incredible.. The M5 a deep roaring sound, the GTR screaming and wooshing noises.. Excellent. I had to giggle like a little girl
madala said:
......coming off a roundabout in second gear in my 993 with an empty road in front and pushing it to top revs through the next two gears (3rd and 4th) and hearing the howl of the the flat six "air-cooled" boxer engine at full friggen chat....addictive and beyond a simple smile.....
Similar here (except boxster s not 911) we have a large, open, very well sighted roundabout near me and I remember coming up to it at an obscene rate of leptons, heel-toeing two changes and going round at the bottom of the power band, just as the road opened back up I stepped onto the throttle and floored it back through those two gear putting me back up to obscene figures again! The drive out of the roundabout on peak power was sublime, the balanced way she clung onto the roundabout at around 95% grip was almost euphoric. I really miss that car sometimes.
I think a spot of company often helps to really make the moment! The first one that springs to mind is heading back from a friend's house very late at night in the Quantum. Just as I was about to pull away an enthusiastically driven Triumph TR5 buzzed past. I followed him, with the Triumph drifting gracefully from apex to apex across the twisty lanes of Devon and Somerset for the next 20 minutes. We never encountered another car in that time and it was really special blasting along one of my favourite driving roads in unison with the top down and the stars up above.
The second was chasing a big bike along a very twisty section of densely wooded and rather alpine Welsh B-road in the TVR. Initially the bike walked away on the more open section, but he gradually re-appeared as it got twistier on the switchbacks going down into the valley. Admittedly I got a bit carried away and, in truth, it was probably one of my more reckless moments on the public road, but I was buzzing at the end of it.
The second was chasing a big bike along a very twisty section of densely wooded and rather alpine Welsh B-road in the TVR. Initially the bike walked away on the more open section, but he gradually re-appeared as it got twistier on the switchbacks going down into the valley. Admittedly I got a bit carried away and, in truth, it was probably one of my more reckless moments on the public road, but I was buzzing at the end of it.
Being taken out in a TVR Tuscan ranks up there. I knew it would be fast, but nothing prepared me for the sheer savagery of its acceleration, or the volume of noise. Everything about that car was what I'd dreamt of TVRs; the noise, the pace, the sense of occasion, dare I say it that sense of endearing fragility. It cemented my love for TVR well over a decade after I first became a fan and urged the day I got in one.
When I was 17-years-old and learning to drive I went on a drive with my old man. He directed me to what turned out to be the Bwlch y Groes - the highest mountain pass in Wales. It was January, so conditions were certainly interesting! Water running down the mountain across the road had frozen, leaving large patches of ice inches from a serious drop.
The only other vehicle we saw was a car at the car park at the top. In it were two terrified students - they'd managed to get up but didn't want to go back down! I ended up following them to make sure they were ok.
Not sure it helped me pass my driving test (they don't cover mountain passes), but it didn't half give my confidence a boost.
The only other vehicle we saw was a car at the car park at the top. In it were two terrified students - they'd managed to get up but didn't want to go back down! I ended up following them to make sure they were ok.
Not sure it helped me pass my driving test (they don't cover mountain passes), but it didn't half give my confidence a boost.
Edited by Angry Sheep on Wednesday 20th October 14:01
I'll always remember one moment very clearly, drawing up to a set of traffic lights in my Elise, roof down, attactive girlfriend next to me.
Glanced right. Man, similar age to me, but in some stbox people carrier with three kids screaming, wiping things on the windows and generally being unpleasant and childlike while wife-who-is-chewing-a-wasp is banging on about something. Our eyes met. The pleading look in that guys eyes about his life choices made me feel oh so pleased about mine
Glanced right. Man, similar age to me, but in some s
tbox people carrier with three kids screaming, wiping things on the windows and generally being unpleasant and childlike while wife-who-is-chewing-a-wasp is banging on about something. Our eyes met. The pleading look in that guys eyes about his life choices made me feel oh so pleased about mine DeadMeat_UK said:
I'll always remember one moment very clearly, drawing up to a set of traffic lights in my Elise, roof down, attactive girlfriend next to me.
Glanced right. Man, similar age to me, but in some stbox people carrier with three kids screaming, wiping things on the windows and generally being unpleasant and childlike while wife-who-is-chewing-a-wasp is banging on about something. Our eyes met. The pleading look in that guys eyes about his life choices made me feel oh so pleased about mine
Glanced right. Man, similar age to me, but in some s
tbox people carrier with three kids screaming, wiping things on the windows and generally being unpleasant and childlike while wife-who-is-chewing-a-wasp is banging on about something. Our eyes met. The pleading look in that guys eyes about his life choices made me feel oh so pleased about mine 
I have seen the very look. Its a kind of death of the soul look.
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