What's the Most Interesting Vehicle You've Been In?

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 02/27/2020 at 21:36 • Filed to: None

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I’ve yet to rid in a single engine plane or helicopter, so my “most interesting” vehicle would have to be this, which I worked out of for a couple days on a very large claim.

Other than that, the hot lap in a Lotus Elise would be up there.

With all the veterans and people of different walks of life, I'm sure people have interesting answers.  Vehicle is anything that moves.

TheJWT > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:40

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Mercedes 300SL and a couple of private planes

And yet I’m still poo r...

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:45

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1934 Packard V12 Phaeton sedan that I drove on a couple of occasions. 

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:47

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I flew in a Beaver. That was pretty cool. There was a plate on the instrument panel that said “no stunts”, so I feel like there’s a story there.

Other than that, the Cletus-vette.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:48

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My teammate’s turbo Elise (300whp, 1900lb). That thing is 600cc superbike fast to 100mph!

MUSASHI66 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:52

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MRAP for SWAT duty. I got to shoot a rifle from the turret on top. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:52

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A cigar boat from the late 80s with 4 marinised Lamborghini V12 engines...fast, loud, excessive, stupid, hilarious, wonderful. It even had solenoid driven gates in the exhaust system so that the exhaust gas could either be directed out below the waterline (sort of quietly) or above the waterline (cacophonous)...what a noise!

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:54

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Probably a tie between a hot lap in a works Group B Metro 6R4 and my 1975 Case 350 bulldozer. For very different reasons: the Case is interesting in many ways, most of which aren’t good....

BeaterGT > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:54

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Because race car. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:55

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I haven’t gone for a ride in much that was too interesting, sadly....I guess it would either be a ‘70s Cessna 182 single-engine plane my best friend’s dad took us up in once.

Either that, or I guess the same dad’s 2006 Subaru Impreza STi, which he let me take for a spin once? :)

Nibby > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:55

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2016 Toyota Camry LE

Just Jeepin' > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:56

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Virtually nothing notable. An old Unimog, probably 70s vintage but I don’t remember anything about it. An MG of similar age .

David Tracy’s currently -defunct CJ-2A.

SiennaMan > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 21:57

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 Mine to date are pretty pedestrian, a toss up between: a cruise ship,  an ambulance, a tractor and a canal boat.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 02/27/2020 at 21:59

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Sounds like a drug runner boat from the 1980s in Miami.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:02

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Probably a Radical SR8, out at Spring mountain motorsports (just outside Las Vegas). We hit 140 mph, and at one point on the track, almost got airborne. I was only riding as a passenger, but it was still fun.

For driving, I'd say the most fun I've ever had was my friend's 4 stroke go kart.  So much traction with sticky tires.

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:06

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I’ve been “in” a Concorde, a Tu-144, and kind of “in” the Soviet BURAN shuttle.  None of these were flying of course, all in museums.

TheRealBicycleBuck > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:07

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Hands down, a Cirrus.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:07

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A private p lane of unknown vintage a long time ago (I couldn’t see out the window ‘cause short) or my friend’s 1.5 gen Mustang convertible.

Really, I’m pretty boring.

gmctavish needs more space > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:12

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An Austin 7 Brooklands Supercharged. Owned by the dad of a friend from high school. He says it’ll do 90mph. We did 55 in it, and that felt like the fastest I’ve ever gone.

sony1492 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:21

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The remarkably cramped back seats on o ne of these bad boys

George McNally > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:27

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Years ago I was a passenger in an 8.90 fuel coupe during a 1/4 mile run at Maple Grove. It was pretty violent and since it was an Opel GT it was damn scary.

OPPOsaurus WRX > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:32

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i got blocked in and had to relocate Orlove’s beetle

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > BaconSandwich is tasty. 02/27/2020 at 22:33

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Does doesn't it! Sadly no. It was owned by a very well off resident of Sydney, Australia and was, at worst, used to annoy the shit out of anyone living around Pittwater on Sydney's northern beaches.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > sony1492 02/27/2020 at 22:33

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Uh oh!

Longtime Lurker > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:37

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Combine h arvester.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:37

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I’ve been up in a two-seat plane.

Oh, also this:

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Longtime Lurker 02/27/2020 at 22:39

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Regional stereotype checking in!

Longtime Lurker > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:45

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Lol up. Hard to remember details from nearly 2 decades ago but it was a school field trip to someplace hosting a “farm days” event but they had a combine on a dirt track giving kids rides.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 22:56

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Airbus A380.  The thing was HUUUGE... 

CB > sony1492 02/27/2020 at 22:57

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I’m familiar. Backs of police cruisers, ranked:

1) F150/any pickup

2) Tahoe

3) Exploder

4) Taurus

5) Crown Vic

(All with cages, obviously)

WilliamsSW > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 23:02

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A lot of airplanes, Cessna 172/182, a Maule MX7, and a few of these. 

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 02/27/2020 at 23:03

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And somehow I managed to forget a vehicle which trumps them both on the “interesting” front: my Hudson Kindred Spirit kit car. Renault based, 3 wheels, 1 seat,   engine sit ting between your legs, only 50hp but only about 800lb.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 23:06

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BaconSandwich is tasty. > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 02/27/2020 at 23:15

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Probably for the best.  If it were a real drug runner, it probably would have been impounded and destroyed, or something like that.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Snuze: Needs another Swede 02/27/2020 at 23:25

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One ping, Vasili. One ping only. 

someassemblyrequired > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/27/2020 at 23:29

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Car: Only ridden in the really cool stuff - a S1 XKE coupe and a 2003 Model T (yes that is not a typo) would top the list.
Boat: USCGC Polar Star, USCGC Eagle, 1950s Chriscraft Yacht (driven), 47' CG Motor Lifeboat (driven) - no points for guessing the wife’s job
Plane: Air Canada’s L10 Electra, various weird combis - 737-200 Quebecair, 737-400 Alaska, 747-400M KLM

Clown Shoe Pilot > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 00:28

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My Power2Fly Fenix p aramotor trike.

I’ve only flown it 4 times (including tonight) so I don’t have any pics of me in it yet.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > sony1492 02/28/2020 at 00:44

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I also once took an involuntary ride in one of those.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Longtime Lurker 02/28/2020 at 00:46

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I rode in one too back in my prairie days. I'm originally from a farm

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 01:03

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Purple Manx beetle supped up driven by an 80 year old German guy.

205 souped up driven by a Dutchman

Lincoln continental around the Nurburgring 

SmugAardvark > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 01:38

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Probably an Extra EA- 300L aerobatic plane. It made me turn green within five minutes of the initial maneuvers.

Not me in this one (thankfully) , but same make/model aircraft.

Jim Spanfeller > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 01:50

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I once got to ride in a beautiful replica Mercer Raceabout that the owner had built by hand in the 70's. I could tell that a lot of care had gone into making it true to the original (W ith the exception of the engine, which was from a Ford Pinto. B ut to be fair, how are you supposed to just build a homemade Mercer engine in your garage? ) After I had spent some time chatting with the owner, he offered to take me for a spin in it. I agreed, and pretty soon I was sitting in the little bucket seat, marveling at how there was absolutely zero bodywork preventing you from flying out. The owner had added a seatbelt, but I hung on tight anyway. As soon as he pulled out of the parking lot , the thing just up and took off. I was about to yell at the guy to slow down because it couldn’t possibly be safe to go 70 on that road, but then I looked down at the speedometer and saw we were only going about 30. It was then that I knew I loved that car. As we got onto the main road, it felt like we were just flyi ng along. The lack of bodywork combined with the basic suspension and burbly engine noise all came together to form the most wonderful sensation of speed. We were only going 35, and yet it felt like we were easily going at least twice that fast. And the car’s top speed is 105! So yeah, that’s how I fell in love with antique sports/race cars.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > BaconSandwich is tasty. 02/28/2020 at 05:02

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I may have been a lot younger then and not the narcotic type (then or now) but there’s no doubt there were trafficable substances on this boat back then...

Captain of the Enterprise > sony1492 02/28/2020 at 06:14

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I got dropped off at college in the back of one of those after my car accident. Can confirm the tightness. 

Captain of the Enterprise > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 06:15

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Lamborghini Gallardo that I drove on an airport runway was cool, I also sat in an 05 era Ford GT once. 

Fuckkinja > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 06:52

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Helicopter up from the bottom of Grand Canyon. 4 seat cargo plane to a private island in Lk. MI. Snowmobile trail groomer. 71 Chevelle drag car. 426 Roush Mustang track car. 45’ Cigarette boat. Monster mud truck. 2 prerunners at the dunes. Every kind of tractor farm and excavation. Every kind of orv and road bikes. My homemade jet boat is the scariest thing I have been in.

Sadly no Miata yet.

Long_Voyager94 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 06:53

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Ridden in: 1998 Dodge Ram 2500, Cummins/6-speed combo. Truck was modded heavily for drag racing and would run in the 9s. He left my driveway with a cloud of smoke pouring off all 4 tires and I was pinned to the seat.

Driven: 1979 Chevy Malibu Wagon, built 502BB/4-speed manual. It was a friend of mine’s brainchild after a few too many one night. He stuffed his drag car’s engine in this 6-cyl Malibu wagon he had in his shop. 6 cyl brakes, 6 cylinder suspension, rear pan cut out to fit wider rear wheels/tires. The car would pull the nose off the ground when it hooked, it cornered like utter garbage unless it was sideways, and the brakes were pretty much useless. I drove that car for 2 weeks and to this day it’s one of my best car memories.

shop-teacher > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/28/2020 at 07:10

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Why did this have no stars before I got to it? What the hell is wrong with you tonight Oppo?!?

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/28/2020 at 07:44

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I’ve never seen that movie.

I lived it for a few years, I figure that's enough. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/28/2020 at 07:49

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That is so cool!  Tell us more!!!  Were you sitting up front or in back?  

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Long_Voyager94 02/28/2020 at 07:52

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That Malibu sounds a bit like my Uncle’s Chevelle. Its a 68 with drums all the way around, a welded carrier in the back, and a TH400 with a manual valve body but still uses the column shifter. But its got a STOUT 406 SBC making something in the 500-550 HP range. Its a redneck rattletrap but its fun as hell in a straight(ish) line!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > someassemblyrequired 02/28/2020 at 07:54

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So your wife must be pretty tall if shes a Coastie. Gotta be able to walk back to shore in case the boat sinks! =D

TheRealBicycleBuck > Snuze: Needs another Swede 02/28/2020 at 08:10

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The flight school I went to has a monthly appreciation party and they try to bring in an interesting aircraft in as a center piece. I had a chance to take lots of pictures and sit in all the seats. It was like being a little kid again. I can only hope for a flight in one someday.

There are a lot of interesting aircraft at that airport, although I see most of them from afar.

This is another Cirrus in the school hangar , although we didn’t get to open it up.

This is a Diamond DA-40 that I can rent.

A Texan.

Lake-230 (I think).

And my favorite little plane:

Snuze: Needs another Swede > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/28/2020 at 09:02

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That is so cool! I was working on a private pilots license at one point, I got about 16 hours in my log book, then I ran out of money. Now I have the money but not the time.

Milky > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 09:08

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Its still a car, but I should get rarity points.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Snuze: Needs another Swede 02/28/2020 at 09:15

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Thanks! Money is definitely an issue when it comes to flying. I set aside enough to get my PPL, but flying regularly is becoming a challenge. As for time, I finally found it when I was put on a long-term travel assignment for work. I was bored in the evenings, so I started ground school. Most of my flight time was on weekends when I didn’t go home. I would schedule time for Friday night, Saturday morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning. This probably wasn’t the best way to go about it since it would be at least a couple of weeks between flying weekends, but it worked!

Pickup_man > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 09:23

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I can’t really just pick one but I’ll list a couple favorites.

Piper Comanche (?) I know it was a late 60's Piper single prop, four seater, wing under the cabin. It belongs to my cousin and he took me out for a short ride and let me have the controls for a little bit, that was pretty cool.

1950 Willys CJ3

40's John Deere Model B

ATC 350x

Duck Boat

Those are all things I’ve driven. Everything else I’ve been in/on but haven’t actually moved in/on

USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)

Big Boy steam engine

This wild ass twin super charged chopper thing (sorry for the horrible picture, phone camera lens was cracked)

And a replica Chaparral 2E in which I did not fit, not even a little .

There have been a handfull of other fun ATV’s, bikes, boats, combines and large tractors, but those don’t quite make the cut of most interesting. 

someassemblyrequired > Snuze: Needs another Swede 02/28/2020 at 09:28

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So the fact she’s 5'5" why they keep sending her to icebreakers.... I guess you can always walk back to shore in the ice.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 10:42

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Nothing super crazy, probably a Mercedes CLK63 AMG Black Series (one of 350 in the US)

or an Airbus A380

Jesus Arias > Milky 02/28/2020 at 12:02

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Its beautiful

Hamtractor > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 12:41

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1) A laundry list of Mack, Pierce, Seagrave, Darley and American LaFrance fire apparatus, everything from a 1948 Mack open cab (no cab, lol) parade engine to a 105' tiller (exactly the same as the one Kramer drove in Seinfeld) to an Oshkosh ARFF rig

2) CAT heavy equipment, ranging from a 335 excavator to a 930 Loader, D5 dozer, (and a bunch of Komatsu, Volvo and Kubota stuff too, I guess)

3) 1977 Chevy Monza drag car good for a sub-10 quarter mile

4) Class A motor coach RV (it was a $690K RV, granite counter tops, white leather couches, TVs and stereo to blow your mind) more like a VIP tour bus, really

5) Unimog rockcrawler

6)  Best for last...  a Spruance-class destroyer, the mighty USS Hewitt DD-966, a 564 foot long warship propelled by four GE LM-2500 Gas Turbine engines producing 80K shaft horsepower.  The biggest thing I ever drove, lol...

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/28/2020 at 15:37

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I got to drive a monster truck once. Like 20ft but still drove it.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > someassemblyrequired 03/01/2020 at 09:04

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I did some design work on the replacement for the Polar class ice breakers. Very interesting ships, and a lot of unique challenges from a marine engineering perspective. I also did some work on a design for the new medium endurance cutter, however our design didn’t win the contract. It was still a good learning experience for me as a young marine engineer.

I’m a Navy man, so I have to rib on the Coasties when I get the chance. But its all in good fun, and extend a thank you to your wife from me for her service.

Out of curiosity, are you also CG?

someassemblyrequired > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/01/2020 at 09:42

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Cool, she has a bit of a running PR joke about how many things in history have happened since Polar Star was commissioned. Will be interesting to see how long the replacement will take.

Well you couldn’t call yourself a Navy man unless you hassled the Puddle Pirates. Will pass along (and thank you as well ) . Not CG but I was engineering faculty at Coast Guard Academy while she was stationed there.   

Snuze: Needs another Swede > someassemblyrequired 03/01/2020 at 16:47

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Thank you. My father-in-law was a USCG Academy grad back in the mid-70s. He went on to fly H-3s as a search & r escue pilot. I was stationed just across the river when I was in the Navy in lovely, wonderful Groton. 

someassemblyrequired > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/01/2020 at 17:58

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Ah cool, I wouldn’t be surprised if I had run into him at one point, we used to get a lot of former pilots through to give talks to the engineering kids.

I hated that area at first but actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit, we were right on the water in Gales Ferry a little bit past the north gate, and we had a lot of cool neighbors. It was fun having NYC/Hartford/Providence/Boston close by.

Groton, well, that’s a different story - here’s a c omprehensive list of good things in Groton:

1. The O.G. FCP Euro (now long gone)
2. Wicked Chicken at Sneekers
3. Chester’s BBQ
4. Lee’s Toy and Hobby
5. Paul’s Pasta

Snuze: Needs another Swede > someassemblyrequired 03/01/2020 at 18:18

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I learned in the Navy that life if what you make of it, so I managed to make a lot of my own fun in Groton. Lots of young, stupid fun (hooning sport bikes, getting drunk, casinos, getting thrown out of casinos, etc). But you are right on the short list of good things in Groton . I do really miss Paul’s Pasta. My mother in law is from New London (they met when he was in the Academy) and we go back about every 2 to 3 years to visit. Did you ever tour the Nautilus while you were there? I may be a bit biased but I send everyone to check that out.

someassemblyrequired > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/01/2020 at 18:51

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+1 for making your own fun. It really is the best attitude if you move around a lot.

Paul’s is great, it went kinda sideways for the last year we were there, but has since recovered. 

Yep have been on the Nautilus a couple of times, and we used to send visitors there all the time as well.   I don’t think I could hack it for 6 months in a stretch though...  

Snuze: Needs another Swede > someassemblyrequired 03/03/2020 at 08:30

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My wife’s aunt worked at Paul’s for a while and really dislikes Paul so she won’t go there anymore, so we have to keep it on the down low when we go.

6 months is a long time to be underwater, fortunately you turn into a zombie after a while and don’t even notice.