Top 100 car related activities to do before you die
 

Just thought id start a lil topic to see if we could make a list of the 100 most "important" car related things car enthusiastics should do before you die. (Probably would be best if you limited each activity to one post so they're easier to count) Ill start the ball rolling:

1. Beg, borrow, steal, hire, or buy a plush GT (preferably and aston) and cruise through France to watch the Le Mans 24 hour.

Its gotta be done, and i WILL be doing doing this sometime in my life ;)

2. Lap the Nordschleife, even if only with a Lada Niva!

3. Make a (Tiff Needel style) powerslide with plenty of tyre smoke, preferably in an awesome sounding car!

That's a picture I would to have hanging above my desk

4. Go to the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

5. Go and see all of the Grand Prix's one at a time and the Indy 500.
6. Drive the fastest production cars on the unlimited north end of Australia where there are not any speed limits and no traffic

7. Drive an F1 car.... kinda pricey, but no doubt unbelievably worth it ;)

8. Visit Marenello

9. Do all the above and more, at no out-of-pocket cost to myself. :)

10. Rent a ferrari 360 modena and get some laps in the Suzuka racetrack

11. Come to Switzerland and drive on the finest mountain passes this planet has to offer :)

11. Buy a massive ranch, build yourself a mini-Spa karting circuit in the back and stage an annual race with invites going to Schumi, Kimi, J Gordon, Gronholm, Solberg, etc.

12. Drive a Mclaren F1 (the road going version)

13. Be driven around the F1 circuits at a cracking pace by Schumi in a Ferrari 360 6sp Manual

Might be helpful to specify "get" :wink:

Agree. The Evo article with the Maranello and 360 was taken in the Stelvio pass I think - slobbered all over those pics

14. buy a shitty car for a couple hundred dollars/euros, build a ramp, and huck the car off it until i breaks :D

Little detail: the Stelvio is an Italian pass :D but still yes, the Alps in general, including France, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria have some mighty roads :)

15. Try to get an F1 car, drive through New York, and get arrested by a hundred cops that would be chasing me.

Own a Ferrari and goto a mountain pass and have a great time.
(plan B: if can't afford Ferrari, rent one)

Drive an original mini.

Oi! Stop laughing. Until you've driven one, you won't understand :).

17. Drive Leguna Seca
18. Drive down the PCH in California in a 355 Spider.
19. Compete in a Gumball race
20. Go to Monaco.

To own a Ferrari, compete in the Gumball, buy a place in Monaco

you guys have to put numbers next to your ideas, also i alreay stated gumball. so now we are on 23.

In addition to that, one should start with that GT in the UK somewhere, and drive it all the way across Europe hitting as many GP circuits as possible, as well as going on autobahns and definitely the Alps.

23. Try to take Spa's Eau Rouge Flat.
24. Do a burnout.


I'll add more when I can think of some more, haha.

How about we go back to the basics.

25. Know how to drive a manual. Including heal/toe, double cluthing, etc.
26. Participate in local driving event: autocross, drag, etc.

27. Change you're own oil.
28. Modify/repair a part on you're car youself.

why would you ever double clutch? Dude F&F is not real.

If you drive a classic car you do. BTW that should be on the list too.

and then go to the back of the car and fuck

Reach a speed above 200 mph.....in a car of course

29.drive in the LeMans
30.drive a Rally Car in the WRC

i think we have to be at least slightly realistic here... niether of those will ever happen to any of us most likely.

Maybe

29. Drive a car around le mans
30. Drive a rally based car (scooby, evo etc) on a rally based surface

29 could be "drive the mulsanne straight" as this is a public road when not actually being used for racing.

Actually, i think Spa is also a public road (eau rouge?) Anyone know?

Obviously, monaco is public road (drove this myself a few weeks back :D)

30. Lap 'Mt Panorama' -Bathurst- in New South Wales, Australia

31. Rent an Enzo for a week and go to all beautifull places in Europe
32. Do it again and again

34. break the top production car land speed in a konigseggggssgggg yourself..... :D

21. Go to Monaco and pull a gone in sixty seconds

Have sex with 100 different women in back seat of a car.

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..no,

35. Crash a Porsche Cayenne and make the world a little bit less ugly that way

36. Crash into (the person who you hate the most, Michael Moore, Olivier Panis, Luc Donckerwolke etc...), preferrably with with a Porsche Cayenne

Being the CEO of Ferrari or Lamborghini!

Or even better, be the next Sultan of Brunei!

37. Sell everything you have and with that money, buy the most expensive car you can afford and live in it.

(honestly, i hope to do this one tme in my life, and the forementioned)

38. Climb Pikes peak in a Suzuki Escuido
39. Go to Monaco in a S7 and laugh at all the losers in their ferraris and lamborghinis, proceed to do donuts in front of them.
40. Get a fine for disturbing the peace by revving your S7 outside of Monaco cafes. ( It sounds like a fucking Nascar car at idle alone) If you never heard an American V8, think of it ass a demon chasing you. If you have, think of the sound as a Cammed LS1, then x that by 5.

I think parts of it are public road. But you can definitely drive on it. I know someone who has. The way he described it was kind of funny. "It's not too much. You turn in, the tires scream, and that's it." :lol:

We never did get to 100 so...

41. Visit Modena

Nr 42. To Do, Vicky Butler Henderson 8)

43. Personal tuition from Tiff Needell in the great art of powersliding!
44. Get RUF's test driver 'sideways Stefan' to drive you around the Ring.
45. Drive flatout on th German Autobahn.
46. Drive flatout in Australia's Northern Territory (no speed limits) near Ayres Rock.
47. Drive flatout at the Isle Of Man (no speed limits outside towns)

48. Drive Route 66 from Chicago to California with a few friends
49. drive a classic American Muscle Car
50. Buy a car you can't afford
51. tour the world going to every major Auto Show with press passes
52. visit the Corvette museum in Kentucky (it's amazing)
53. Visit the Peterson Museum in California

54. see the Porsche and Ferrari Factories
55. Destroy an S4 in a M3

56. Go to the Autostadt (Volkswagen and Audi's city where it manufactures its car, and where the famous Glass tower is)
57. Drive the beutiful mountains roads of the french riviera visiting Nice, Monte Carlo and Monaco in an exotic.

58. Drive in an autobahn in germany of course
59. Visit BMW's 4 cylinder building in Munich
60. Drive a car with F1 style shifting
61. Drive a convertible at speeds over 250 km/h
62. Drive in Fiorano test track
63. Get inside ferrari's factory
64. Help a hot girl change a tyre

re-live the ford GT40 wins at lemans in 1965-1969.

drive a f1 car 200mph on public road.

65. Remake the short movie "Rendez Vous" with a Lotus Elise/Exige, car mounted camera, at dawn in Paris. The original author was arrested and released, so expect to be arrested, also. Don't forget to distribute the video in the Internet.

66. Drift anywhere and everywhere

67. Do the 1/4 in reverse then compare it to a ricers time ( you should be surprised )

68. Destruction durby with a rental ( be sure to have bought insurance!!! )

69. 69 in back seat
70. Pick a chase with a cop and get away, GTA style.
71. Get serious air and live to tell the tale, (see avatar left for serving suggestion)