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Star Trek n badass CARS!!!

lykumlykum Member Posts: 382
edited April 2013 in Ten Forward
As a kid growing up in the 80's I'll tell you right now I never met a one of em' that drove a cool car and liked Star Trek. Specifically Camaro and Firebird owners (all I had around me) lol. In fact when Star Trek came up as a subject it was always about how stupid the fans were or how TRIBBLE the show was. Keep in mind this was before Next Generation hit the airwaves, not that it changed much anyway. Times move on however and we see B'elanna and Tom Paris smoochin in the holo-camaro and I thought that was awesome, it was just a complete 180 for me. Top it off first scene for ST 2009 is a young kirk flying a corvette over a Cliffside. Just glad to know people aren't as backwards about Star Trek as it once was and it's important you know that.

I'm almost thirty now, own a 68 Pontiac and love it and Star Trek!!
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    lykum wrote: »

    I'm almost thirty now, own a 68 Pontiac and love it and Star Trek!!

    :thumbsup:


    My '91 Nissan 240SX probably doesn't count as "badass" but I am saving up for a late-model Camaro SS convertible. :cool:

    Edit: I also own (but rarely drive) an '86 GMC Jimmy (full size, black paint, brushguard and off-road tires...)
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  • jake477jake477 Member Posts: 529 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I drive an off white Kia Soul which looks like the Type 6 shuttle craft from TNG "Times

    Squared" LOL
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    lykum wrote: »
    or how TRIBBLE the show was.

    Wait, what?
    Keep in mind this was before Next Generation hit the airwaves

    TNG was started in the 80s.
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  • desdinova216desdinova216 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    so, he was talking about the early 80's IIRC TNG first aired in september of 1987
  • abaddon653abaddon653 Member Posts: 1,144 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    All I know is that my folks mini-van made the perfect shuttle.....despite getting yelled at for leaving the van's volume cranked all the way up.
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2013
    I'm disappointed. I expected to see a picture of your 68 pontiac dressed up like the enterprise.
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  • captainbaldycaptainbaldy Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I might not drive an awesome muscle car (although I DID almost snag a 68 Mustang GT a few years back) but I like my Trekfish on the back of my 2010 HHR. My girlfriend's co-workers call it the Trekkiemobile :D

    A fellow SSR DJ calls it the Broton Torpedo :cool:
  • nxnovacatnxnovacat Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I snagged me a '71 Ford Maverick Grabber about a year back. She my first taste of muscle cars, and I love every bit of that rust bucket. She's is a project car at the moment, but the 250 Inline-Six has a hell of a heartbeat.

    I really wouldn't mind that 46 Ford Pickup they had in the Voyager episode The 47's.
  • crownvic2doorcrownvic2door Member Posts: 301 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    nxnovacat wrote: »
    I snagged me a '71 Ford Maverick Grabber about a year back. She my first taste of muscle cars, and I love every bit of that rust bucket. She's is a project car at the moment, but the 250 Inline-Six has a hell of a heartbeat.

    I really wouldn't mind that 46 Ford Pickup they had in the Voyager episode The 47's.

    I'm a Ford guy myself if you havent already figured out by my name, I no longer have that car but I'm looking to replace it with an 86-87 Grand marquis Coupe..
    I'm in love with the Panther chassis and think that anything that has a Body on frame, V8 rear drive, and has two doors is considered "muscle car".
    The panthers indeed have the muscle look...just need to add the muscle power, I like the look of the 88-91 panthers but unfortunately they quit the coupe lineup in '87 so they can be quite rare and sometimes rather expensive for a low miles rust free example.:(
  • sehlatkitten01sehlatkitten01 Member Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    scored me a 1962 4 door nova a few months ago
    194 straight 6 (yep baby straight 6 lol) oh well lol

    bought her from a friend of hubbys family for $650 and working to get it running
    just had the carb rebuilt and now for the harder part (gettin her runin x.x_)

    btw yes im a girl and th wife of novacat yes im a tomboy :P
  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    desdinova216 wrote: »
    so, he was talking about the early 80's IIRC TNG first aired in september of 1987

    I didn't read early 80s in the post. '87 was very very 80s. Heck, October of that year, Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek and Tom Brunansky helped the Twins beat the Cardinals for the world series.
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  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Ive had an '81 280zxt
    an 83 mustang gt 5.0
    a 2001 CVPI
    an 88 plymoth reliant (it blew up just like in the movie)
    a 74 LTD
    and a 73 charger 440
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  • philosopherephilosophere Member Posts: 607 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    I'm disappointed. I expected to see a picture of your 68 pontiac dressed up like the enterprise.

    Here you go Taco.... http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=U.S.S.+Enterprise+NCC-1701-7+Shuttlecar&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=CF3AB99A61B45F58909C0448B86210FCE728760A&selectedIndex=0
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  • philosopherephilosophere Member Posts: 607 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Hit the mother lode here.... http://startrekcars.webs.com/
    Are we there yet?
  • direphoenixdirephoenix Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Here's a photoshop I did a few years back based on Nimoy's pic with his '64 Buick Riviera.
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  • zerobangzerobang Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    I'm disappointed. I expected to see a picture of your 68 pontiac dressed up like the enterprise.

    here you go

    http://www.automopedia.org/2009/05/12/an-automotive-tribute-to-star-trek/

    http://scifiology.com/news/2011/09/18/star-trek-on-wheels/
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  • lykumlykum Member Posts: 382
    edited April 2013
    hell I didn't think i'd hafta go that far lol, great art too guys. might just do it, make it removeable though.. find a few pictures of 80's ST fans though might explain it.

    there's a few details I didn't think I needed to fit in, but while we here. I grew up in a teeny town called culver, ks I was inside near every house in that whether being babysat, friends, abandoned, and whatever. being the boring times they inherently were star trek came up as a topic quite few times if I recall. you weren't cool if you liked star trek simple as that. was before even I started watching, or even really knew what it was! at that time I equated star trek to nothing more than fried chicken dinner time, cause that's what was usually on the stove when ST came on each night around 6p.m. back when original series was the only thing on in a MAJOR time slot! think I was too young to know generations was even on TV as my bedtime was 8p.m. because my schoolbus to the next town came damned early.
    Lyndon Brewer: 20% chance to capture enemy ship for 60 seconds on successful use of boarding party.

    cause sometimes its party time!
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