SOTI:
Not even close. Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, by six lengths, with Magnum’s Ferrari 308 a distant second, and Vice’s Testarossa even further behind. All the rest are fugly beyond words
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It would have to be the A-Team GMC. Gone are the days when I could have a quickie in the back seat of a Mini. A Shaggin’ Wagon is the answer.
While I don’t particularly care for the styling, but I don’t hate it, it seems to me that a nearly indestructible car that can hit 300 mph, can print money, can drive itself, had telecommunication and database access in the 1980’s that only seem slightly fantastical today, can do rampless jumps, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember right now, could be… useful.
Of course if we’re just talking style, I’d probably go with one of the late 60’s early 70’s muscle cars above.
Your furrin roots are showing again. For someone who’s a proud immigrant to the USA, you have an unhealthy aversion to our best musclecars. Oh well.
The General Lee is the most instant reflex, but given the state of things the Mad Max mobile might be a better option.
And I probably shouldn’t have any opinion on this since I’ve never driven one, but I’ve read that the DB5 is a real pig on the road. Maybe, maybe not. Given the age, I’d say it would probably be disappointing to put any car from that era up against a modern vehicle.
Had a DB-5 for a week-end, it was sweet – and being a convertible, it really turned heads.
I took a short spin around the block in a DB5 at a classic car rally and almost was caught out by the… drum brakes? Fork. But a definite fluff-catcher.
Now this is a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e60cf8tyCWY
The last of the great interceptors… all the way.
If it has the sheen gunz and all the other associated bling, yeah, make mine the DB5. Make sure that jetpak is in the trunk, K?
At first I had the same top three as you Kim, but the more I think of it the Dodge Charger gets bumped up into the third spot
JQ
I came up with the same three, in the same order. Great minds move in parallel paths and all that…
Hell, I’d go for the A-team van.
Who doesn’t like a mobile love palace?
Is this even a question? One of those allows *time travel*!
Of course this is the choice, and for your stated reason.
With that machine I could pop back to 1965, postpone grad school, go to work at NASA, leave after Apollo, and have great stories to tell the grandkids. Some of them might even be true.
Dodge Charger hands down. Love the styling and the look of the car, but hate the Dorks paint scheme, so it’d head to the paint booth immediately. Probably the van second for practicality, and Magnums Ferrari for investment purposes
Dodge Charger hands down. Love the styling and the look of the car, but hate the Dorks paint scheme, so it’d head to the paint booth immediately. Probably the van second for practicality, and Magnums Ferrari for investment purposes. Honorable mention to the DeLorean, always liked them but found out they were terrible cars.
I need something with enough room to carry my gear to the range and 4wd to go out to set up targets
Where’s the Dodge Power wagon?
JQ
Rick Simon!!
And he carried a big wheelgun!
Absolutely!
Loved loved LOVED Rick’s Power Wagon in Simon and Simon!
But as to the choices in the current list, I am strongly tempted by the DB5, if properly equipped.
Got close to one in the wild last year at Monterey during Car Week https://photos.app.goo.gl/kugAtFay8WuZGBQu7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CncERXQi5WZiigDUA
as well, this gorgeous Muria https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mk391ARSfAZj7MZG9
As a gear head, any of these vehicles have my interest. However, the list is missing the Ford F250 with a real GE jet engine from Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension https://i2.wp.com/www.nowverybad.com/wp-content/uploads/buckaroo-banzai_still51.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1
Ye gods. Nearly everything BUT the Aston is something a 13 yr-old boy would choose. Grownups know better.
“I have a gun. You have a time machine. Let’s go kill Hitler”
-River Song
Only one of those is a time machine. Hopefully, it’s equipped with the Mr. Fusion module, otherwise, you have to get involved with either whacky hijinks with a lighting rod, or Libyans with AKs to power it.
If the Flux Capacitor were somehow irrepairably damaged, I’d have to go with the Bondmobile, because machine guns and Spyhunter was my favorite game from the 80’s.
All the rest are merely automobiles, which is what motorcycle men drive when it snows. đ
Kill Marx & Engles. Hitler, Stalin, Mao might take care of themselves.
Aston Martin for me too. The A-Team’s vehicle would quickly be repainted as The Mystery Machine!
Probably the Aston Martin, however, for a week or two, the Ferrari, which was loaned to P J OâRourke before Magnum ever got behind the wheel: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15142347/ferrari-reinvents-manifest-destiny-pj-orourke-and-a-ferrari-308gts-archived-feature/
The DB-5 with ALL the toys actually working Including the jet pack that somehow into a car that barely held Tiffanys bespoke walnut gun case and has no trunk is a strong candidate, but the time machine wins every time. I never watched Knight rider so I don’t know what it could do. And the A-Team van is useless without the A-Team inside. All the rest are just cars.
Minor point of clarification, friends: The General Lee’s doors were welded shut, necessitating entry and exit through the windows. As I am past 70, that is a disqualifier for me. Ditto the ones you have to climb down into and back up out of. The van’s most likely my default. (le sigh)
Stay safe
It all depends if the movie cars are just regular cars made to look the way they do for the camera, or if they’re actually functional as depicted in the films. If the latter, the DeLorean any and every day. Who could resist the temptation of time travel, provided you could go back with your current knowledge and money)?
If they’re just the cars that were props for the films then the Aston-Martin head and shoulders above the rest. What’s sadly mistaken from that list is the fastback Mustang from Bullitt. I’d take that over the Aston Martin in a heartbeat.
Ghostbuster’s Caddilac Commercial Chassis by far. 500 cubic inch Caddy V8 that could outcruise any of the other cars on the page at 100mph with a load all day long, and the Ecto siren to boot.
Easy win for me!
Ghostbuster’s Cadillac Commercial Chassis by far. 500 cubic inch Caddy V8 that could outcruise any of the other cars on the page at 100mph with a load all day long, and the Ecto siren to boot.
Easy win for me!
When I first saw that picture/meme I thought “I have to send this to Kim”, just never got around to it, dammit. Glad he saw it too and posted it here.
If they were real, I’d so go for the Delorean time machine – it’s a time machine. Second choice, the Ghostbusters Ecto-1. You’re not only making off with the car, but a few proton packs in the back as well. Third choice, Bond’s DB5, with all it’s goodies.