According To You: Cool Things You’ll Never Do with Your Vehicle

The question we posed to the Hagerty Community last week centered around the limitations of what we can or want to do with our vehicles. As ever, you approached this question from many different angles. Here’s what you had to say:

Just Keep An Open Mind? 


hyperv6: My motto is never rule anything out. I have done things with my car I never ever expected to do. I have been invited to places done things and met people I never thought I would.

I have had more valuable, more powerful and popular cars but my Little Fiero opened many doors.

Take top five at the biggest Pontiac show in the world twice. Run at Indy over 100 MPH, Same Mid-Ohio. Loaned the car to GM for a large display of their heritage cars, been on the turn table in the Summit Racing Retail store at their headquarters. Driven down a carpeted hallway of an office building, Met Don Garlits and NBA player Larry Nance via the car. Best of show and over 100 plus awards at mostly national meets. Beat a Lamborghini at a concours show. Had three magazine articles on the car including one out now.

Best of all met some of my best friends with the car that I would never have known. The door is open and I am just looking for the next opportunity and adventure that may come from this car.

Daredevil Dances

DUB6: I’ll never jump a canyon a la Thelma & Louise or Evel Knievel – but if I did, it’d make a cool YouTube video. It’d probably go viral and make the 9:00 news…not that I’d know!

Burnouts

TG: Buy a high-horsepower vehicle just to do burnouts.

Carolina Squat And Other Modifications

daddy stev: It was probably just due to old/weak rear springs, but my well-used 67 GT500 definitely did have a little Carolina Squat down in back. I sold it 50 years ago, and I definitely won’t be doing that again any time soon either.

George P: When I was young and crazier than I am now, I dreamed of turning an early ’60s Ford Econoline van into a half-track.

AG1962: I’ll never replace the wrecked engine of my family’s first car, a 1948 Chev, with a steam engine. But my pal Johnny and I schemed, drew, and speculated about it all through Grade 4!

Steve P: I will never make a targa roof and install a roll bar for my 66 El Camino, even though the cavity below the cover in the front part of the bed could be modified to hold the roof when taken off. Just a fun idea.

Gary: What I won’t do on my car I might do on someone else’s car.

Long Road Trips

DUB6: I’ll never drive Route 66 in my ’66 car when I’m 66 years old, but at one time (when I was 65) it seemed like a very cool idea. Even had a high school buddy who also has a ’66 who was going to go along. But life has its surprises and it didn’t work out. Now I’m even wondering if I’ll ever drive the Mother Road at ANY age!

Scott: Drive the backroads of America, coast to coast, in my Honda Kei car.

Doing Them Dirty

Stefan Lombard: Wash them.

Dick B: I will never not wash my M2.

Getting Them To Run

norm1200: How ’bout a really cool thing that’ll never happen with ALL of my vehicles?

That’s easy: getting all of them running, registered, and insured. Red Skelton, a comedian of an era long past, had seven limos—a different one for each day of the week. I could have one each day of the month and still have a few left over. Yup, it’ll never happen but it’s cool to dream about!