View Full Version : What do you think it would be like to take the 8 and timetravel to the 50's


nomopistons
09-25-2005, 09:04 PM
Just think of the looks you would get pulling up to the drive in, or driving to high school when everyone else had ratty 40's cars or t-rods. Please feel free to expound and daydream and let us know.

Nemesis8
09-25-2005, 09:12 PM
Kind of like the Philadelphia Experiment

Davey's RX-8
09-25-2005, 09:20 PM
1.21 jigawatts

nomopistons
09-25-2005, 09:26 PM
We wouldn't hide it like they did the Delorean in "Back to the Future"- we would drive, drive, drive.

theCATALYST
09-25-2005, 10:24 PM
I think any car in this day and age would be viewed as pretty weird looking in that time period. I think you have to be slowly conditioned to certain styles before they begin to look right.

I can remember when certain mini vans aired on car&driver, they where hailed as very "Futureristic" looking, but now-a-days they are hideous.

Nubo
09-26-2005, 10:17 AM
"Crazy looking thing. What kinda mileage you get with that?"

"Um, around 23-24 mpg on the highway".

"Whoahh!!!"

TownDrunk
09-26-2005, 10:30 AM
Kind of like the Philadelphia Experiment
Are you thinking of The Final Countdown? Where the aircraft carrier went back in time to 1941 @ Pearl Harbor? That was one of my favorite movies...

I wonder what people back then would have thought about our car. The might not have liked it aesthetically. I'm sure they woul d have liked the performance though.

abbid
09-26-2005, 10:31 AM
Try getting warranty work done :P

TownDrunk
09-26-2005, 10:33 AM
Try getting warranty work done :P
Or finding the right oil.

Magic8
09-26-2005, 11:03 AM
Most likely they will laugh their heads off when they find out the car is assembled in Hiroshima and designed by the Japanese with German engine technology!

Sea Ray
09-26-2005, 11:14 AM
Those old V-8's would leave us in the dust, until the road turned. :)

Razp3wton
09-26-2005, 11:17 AM
I think it would rock to be able to travel back to the 50's. That way, I could watch myself being born. :D



wait.....that sounded sick......I retract my last statement.

Imp
09-26-2005, 12:48 PM
Whatever you do, you only have 250 miles to do whatever you're doing... when you run out of UNLEADED gas.

Razp3wton
09-26-2005, 12:52 PM
Whatever you do, you only have 250 miles to do whatever you're doing... when you run out of UNLEADED gas.

The man's got a point.

Feras
09-26-2005, 12:53 PM
bah, remove the cat and retune the ECU and it 'may' run on leaded...maybe even be more powerful...well definitely louder. Besides they use leaded in japan.

therm8
09-26-2005, 05:10 PM
I'd hate to have to buy tires...


Or gas for that matter... DingDing "Unleaded please" ... "Huh??!!?"

Aratinga
09-26-2005, 05:40 PM
You'd never have a chance to go to a gas station. The military would surround you and you and your flying saucer would be whisked away to Area 51, never to be seen or heard from again.

moRotorMotor
09-26-2005, 05:45 PM
Gas prices would not suck!