Bucket Lists

[Bill Howell]

This topic has come up alot lately. I know there is a thread somewhere about it, but I can not find it anymore so I thought I would start another one.
Bucket list is that list of things you want to do before you "Kick the Bucket". We all have one, some more ambitious than others, but all important to each of us.
I will start, and yes, fortunately, I have been able to check off several.

1. Experience Bonneville during Speed week there - check, thanks Bob Johnson
2. Fly an airplane (solo) - Check, even though I crashed before I got my license, I managed to live though it.
3. Own a magazine car - Check, in fact, I have been lucky, done this one twice
4. Buy a motorhome and travel around the country on a six month cruise - Still waiting
5. Do something in a foreign country for the good of man - Check, helped build a church in Brazil
6. Attend a F-1 Race in Monaco - waiting
7. Go to Sturgis and Daytona for bike week - check, several times
8. Visit all the National Parks in the US - about 1/4 of the way through this one
9. Run for Public office - Check, did not win, but great experience
10. Own a 1970 Superbird, original 426/four speed blue



These are in no particular order, but all have been on my list for many years. I am working my way thru pretty good.
This is harder than you think, try to list 10

[parsonsj]

1. Build a car from the frame up. Check.
2. Have my car featured in a magazine. Check.
3. See the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series one more time. Things are looking up, but no joy in 2010.
4. Pay off my mortgage. No check. No way.
5. Take my car on a road race course. Check, check, check, check. More checks coming.
6. Have my way with Ellen Barkin. Uh, no chance.
7. Learn to play the guitar. (well enough so the dog doesn't run and hide). Maybe that's the key to number 6?
8. Retire from my mind-numbing corporate gig with my wits and health intact. Still possible. The health part anyway.
9. Work on a car project with any of my kids. That's a negative so far.
10. Own a Ferrari or a Ford GT. Maybe someday.

jp

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

1. drive my camaro in the Minami Alps of Yamanashi japan(my other hometown.)(this will be soon.)
2. Finish tattooing my whole back in teboori. (this will be soon.)
3. race a "supercar" on the streets of Tokyo.(this will be soon.)
4. teach my kids to drive their camaros on a roadcourse.
5. punch a child molester in the face, or Tom Cruise.(this will be soon.)
6. beat Mary Pozzi on the autocross.. well we can dream right?
7. beat Finch on the autocross.. still dreaming.
8. beat Stielow on the autocross.. more dreamin.
9. tell Steve Dulcich you are one ugly mughtafuka to his face. man is he hideous.
10. Race my sons in MY camaro against THEIR camaros.

some are jokes.. some are dreams.. some are realities..

[shortrack]

6. Have my way with Ellen Burstyn. Uh, no chance.
jp

Uhhhhh, hey man.....dont know you but you might have a chance...I hear she's in to younger guys.....

[critter]

I've never made one. But I came into this life naked and screaming. I'd like to leave the same way, preferably with a Swedish girl named Inga!

[absintheisfun]

1. Own a farm and ranch
2. See Asia again
3. Finish My Camaro
4. Finish my Wife's 63 C10
5. Build a 69 Roadrunner
6. Drive a car 0-100-0 in less than 8 seconds
7. Own a Mclaren F1 LM--yea right!
8. *Borrowed and embellished* beat a child molester, or Tom Cruise so badly they can't enjoy solid foods. straw.
9. Drive the N-Ring
10. Trans Siberian Railway from start to finish.

[parsonsj]

Ellen Barkin (not Burstyn...) :

[MrQuick]

1. see the space shuttle take off and land during the same mission.
2. spend a month exploring the Teotihuacan pyramids of Tula, Mexico.
3. Extreme sky diving with a wing suit (free flying) over the Nazca plains in Peru.
4. Visit Rome.
5. shoot a zombie in the head.
6. build a house.
7. invade a small country.
8. build an empire.
9.Retire
10. hold my grand kids
11. Watch my wife change my diaper and smile.
12. Kick Tito Ortiz in the nutz.

[formula]

Become a serious player in the automotive aftermarket.

Push the industry in directions that noone else has imagined.

Make that paper. Invest it successfully.

Retire with my health and build my dream house--half downtown penthouse, half high-end race shop.

Own a small, successful winery in italy. Run a small hotel onsite. Serve dinner to the hotel guests each night, family style. Have at least one travel magazine declare it "One of Italy's Best Kept Secrets!"

Build my own airplane or sailboat. Or both.

BUT FIRST:

Finish getting my masters in automotive engineering at one of the nation's premier automotive research facilities. One semester left 'till this one gets a check, at least!

[protouring70]

Wow, these are great lists, I will have to think about mine.

[SLO_Z28]

1.Fly a plane.
2.Race in the Targa Tasmania
3.Hit 1:30 at Sears Point in...anything :D
4.Trap at over 250mph in the 1/4
5.Skydive
6.Design and fabricate my own chassis from scratch
7.Design and fabricate my own firearm from scratch
8.Fly into space.


lol @ shoot a zombie, thats pretty funny :D

[Flash68]

1. drive my camaro in the Minami Alps of Yamanashi japan(my other hometown.)(this will be soon.)
2. Finish tattooing my whole back in teboori. (this will be soon.)
3. race a "supercar" on the streets of Tokyo.(this will be soon.)
4. teach my kids to drive their camaros on a roadcourse.
5. punch a child molester in the face, or Tom Cruise.(this will be soon.)
6. beat Mary Pozzi on the autocross.. well we can dream right?
7. beat Finch on the autocross.. still dreaming.
8. beat Stielow on the autocross.. more dreamin.
9. tell Steve Dulcich you are one ugly mughtafuka to his face. man is he hideous.
10. Race my sons in MY camaro against THEIR camaros.

some are jokes.. some are dreams.. some are realities..

5 and 9 are classic bro. LOL

[sittingonacouch]

1. Build a car and drive it in the OUSCI
2. Get a pilot's license
3. drive the Nurburgring in under 9 minutes.
4. Buy a house and build the ultimate garage
5. See Clemson Tigers win a BCS championship
6. retire and become sheriff

[Derek69SS]

1. Compete in OUSCI with my Chevelle, finish in top half.
2. Build competitive SCCA C-Prepared 70-73 Camaro
3. Trophy at SCCA Nationals
4. See one of my sons become an SCCA National Champion
5. Go 200mph at Bonneville
6. Own enough land for my own personal shooting range
7. Grow all my own food.
8. Own a Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifle
9. Be 100% debt free, while still managing to do all this stuff.
10. Prepare for apocalypse

[XLexusTech]

1) Teach a child something that they keep with them forever
2) Go to a Jets super Bowl / or just one in general as a plan B
3) Do something that makes my time here on earth have meaning..?
4) Drive across the US in a muscle car, then up the PC highway
5) learn to Fly fish
6) participate in an adventure race (like the Eco-Challenge)
7) TARGA New Foundland
8) TARGA Tazmaina
9) GumBall 3000
7) Die happy

[JEFFTATE]

1. Pay off my mortgage. ( I'm close on this one )
2. Build my garage , with a lift, etc.. ( Getting close , after the mortgage)
3. Build a self sufficient , earthen home in the Smokie Mountains ( Never , need millions )
4. Take a lot of High Performance Driving lessons.(This could happen someday.) And thus, learn to drive like Danny Popp or Alan McNish.(probably not)
5. Attend the Monaco Grand Prix.( Once again , millions )
6. Attend the 24hrs of Le Mans ( see above concerning millions )
7. Take a long , slow drive along route 66. ( this may happen )
8. Visit Ireland and Scotland. ( This could happen on the cheap )
9. Learn to design suspensions and weld. ( this may very well happen )
10. Do all the Pro-Touring events.

11. Attend the Monterrey Historics , or whatever they are called now.
12. Attend the Can-Am Reunion at Road America.
13. Sit in (or get a ride in) a Porsche 917-30KL , like the one Mark Donohue drove in the Can-Am series in 1973.
14. Attend a space shuttle launch.

[RS_Customs]

9. Drive the N-Ring

I really like that one! As for the rest of a list, I will have to give it some thought.

Robert

[Rhino]

14. Attend a space shuttle launch.

If you're really wanting to do this, you may want to start planning now. There are only 2 launches left.
It's on my list as well, and trying to make it happen.

Date: Dec. 3 *
Mission: STS-133
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 2:52 a.m. EST
STS-133 Description: Space shuttle Discovery will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4), a MultiPurpose Logistics Module (MPLM) and critical spare components to the International Space Station.

Date: Feb. 27 +
Mission: STS-134
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 3:35 p.m. EST
STS-134 Description: Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver an EXPRESS Logistics Carrier-3 (ELC-3) and an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station.

[dodge29]

pretty short list i guess, i actually feel pretty good about where i am in my life, im sure there is a few things that i'll figure i really need to do before i bite it, but for except one, i'd be ok with it

have one, one big one, really working on it and making huge progress towards it

break the 200 mile an hour average speed over a short distance, 90 miles to be exact, dont want a trophy or anything else for that matter, dont really care about any of the glory......i just want to be able to do it absolutely wide open....

[SLO_Z28]

Not to depress anyone but just to make you think about this, 7 months ago my mom was in good health at only 49 years old, 4 weeks ago we found out she has cancer. I just got a call from my dad its stage 4, in her colon, lymph nodes, liver, bones, basically all over. The doctors give her a year to live at best. She did have a bucket list, and was living it out, but she will fall short by a lot, found this out a week before SEMA, where she had planned to buy a 2010 SS Camaro in silver with black stripes and drive it to the show.

You never know when your time is up, live life to the fullest every day. Act on these dreams.