Yeah, Here I Go, Vroom

[filkertom]

Nicked from doctorpinkerton: You walk out your front door, and parked in front of your house are a Delorean, the Mach 5, and the Batmobile - all unlocked, keys in ignition. Which do you choose?

I used to want a Batmobile so bad when I was a kid.

The only reason I'd want a Mach 5 would be if it came with its very own Trixie (preferably the Christina Ricci model).

Nope, no question which one I'd take. Hit 88 mph, go back 25 years and tell myself to stay in shape and lay off the damn Pepsi. And then go forward to tomorrow and get tonight's Mega Millions winning numbers.

And then, knowing me, start playing Lathe Of Heaven/Death Note/Infinity Gauntlet and make the world right and screw it up badly.

You?

ETA: The DeLorean with the Flux Capacitor. The Mach 5 from the animated series. The Adam West Batmobile.

Cripes, you kids.

Comments

[jss]

If it's truly time travel, the DeLorean to go back in time, buy AAPL and MSFT early on, buy GOOG at its IPO and sell when it breaks 700, and so on.

Otherwise, I'd take the Batmobile because of the offensive and defensive weaponry built in and functioning via its Deus Ex Machina generators.

[sdelmonte]

If the Delorean is the modified version with Mister Fusion and hover power, I will take it since it's a time machine, a flying care and ecologically sound.

As much as I love all things Batman, I just can't imagine that most versions of the Batmobile really handle that well. And the MPG - miles per gram of uranium? - must be lousy?

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Hell, if those were the choices, I'd take the Delorean even if it was unmodified. They were cool cars.

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

You can still buy a DeLorean.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Delorean. Hands down.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

The only reason I'd want a Mach 5 would be if it came with its very own Trixie (preferably the Christina Ricci model).
Would Spridle and Chim Chim do? :P

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hm. How shall I put this. No.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

If the choice were between the three cars just as cars? Delorean

If the choice were the three cars with all their special abilities? Delorean

But...if the Mach 5 was not the car from the anime/move, but the magical shapeshifting elvensteed from Mercedes Lackey's Born to Run--I'd take that Mach 5 in a heartbeat.

[wrenn.livejournal.com]

Eh.. the car from 'Born to Run' was an elvensteed what transformed into a Mach 1 Mustang. (the only Mustang I ever liked... Mopar girl that I usually am.)

I'd take the Delorean, perferably with it's special abilities, but even without. It's the gull wing doors. I 'lost' the Bradley GT2 (and a couple of other cars) in the divorce, that's a VW kit car from the lat 70s that also had gull wing doors. It looked kind of like a Bricklin.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

As said by everyone else, no contest.

Destination: 1978ish. "Hey you, take a look here. Yeah. Now go out for track or something. Oh, and here's the winning lottery numbers for six months after you graduate high school. Don't lose them."

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Definitely the time travel Delorean. I'd drop a few copies of 9/11 commeneration DVDs drop them the White House and the FAA on 9/10. I'd also go to Florida in 2000 and tell them because of their fucked up ballots an idiot got elected. Finally I'd go to year 0 with a nuke. Brutal, yes, but when you consider the suffering spared by preventing the creation of christianity and islam, a nuke is a small price to pay. (Barring that, definitive proof the resurrection was faked.)

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

There's been a lot of good done by the Church too though. The abolitionist movement, for example, was largely spurred by Christians who felt that the practice of slavery was a sin against God. There are also the colleges, like Notre Dame, that were built by the Catholic Church.

Yes there were abhorrent things done in the name of God, but please don't paint the entirty of Christians with the same brush.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

The Delorean. I'd gather a group of trusted people and go back in time to the first warnings about Bernie Madoff and make sure something was done about it before all those people and charities lost everything.

THEN I'd go back a little further and insert language into President Bush's torure rules that anyone who was going to do it or approve it had to have it done to them first. I think that might have stopped a lot of nonsense.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

The only problem with the Batmobile would be not knowing if Batman left the antitheft systems activated.

I would have to go with the Delorean. As someone already said, cool car even before Dr. Emmett Brown modified it.

[sophia9847.livejournal.com]

Going with the same no-brainer option:

Time: Freshman year
Place: Comp II, right outside the classroom

"OK, 4 things to cover.

1: When in Scotland next year, DO NOT GO HOME over spring break--you'll get a much better option. And it's OK to think Jacques Derrida is a moron. you'll find out about him when you get there.

2: see that cute, geeky guy over there you can barely bring yourself to converse with? dump the redneck asshole you're with now and start talking to him. NOW.

3: Early 2001, the aforementioned guy you are afraid to chat up now and you will be on a day trip in New York City. You will contemplate touring the World Trade Center, but will be concerned about missing the last train back to DC. Don't worry about the damn train schedule, take a cab over there and go up to the top. Take lots of pictures.

4: Here are some stock tips and lotto numbers, use or not as you wish, money's not your--er, my biggest thing. the issues you go through on that front aren't too bad, and will make you stronger. But I would suggest looking into Library school as a career option."

*shakes head*

[ponderoid.livejournal.com]

http://xkcd.com/102/

*** Ponder

[rivkaesque.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe the delorean - but I'm worried about creating a paradox instead of a paradise. Not that it'd be that likely. I probably wouldn't listen to myself. I'd take the 'batman begins' batmobile, probably, and only drive the motorcycle. For some reason, I do a lot worse with 4 wheels than I do with 2.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'm with the DeLorean too, and I'll tell you why:

Insurance and parts.

Although the ability to put a Sidewinder up somebody's tailpipe is sure tempting... :) Not to mention the Deus Ex Machina generator. But still. You bend it? You're screwed. There are tons of DeLoreans out there, and they're making more.

(Interestingly? They're not all that expensive, as exotic cars go. $58k factory-new, base price...$70k completely tricked out. And every one is custom-built. Used ones can be had for $30k. That's *almost* tempting, in a very real sense. Besides. Two things: Gull wing doors... and just the geek-chic factor of DeLorean. Particularly if you could get 88MPH or TIMEMACHN or some such for your license plate. :)

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

OUTATIME, as I recall.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Whichever I could get the best price for (though the Delorean would be sold un- (or de-)modified, of course, I'm not stupid).

Driving doesn't thrill me that much, and for time travel I'm afraid it's a (classic) TARDIS or nothing.

Besides, I'm tall. Gull-wing doors? Recipe for a bruised forehead every time. Not impressed.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

What, no KITT?

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Must be the original KITT tho, not the new one so much... and while we're at it, what about Bumblebee or Optimus Prime???

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I'd grab the Delorean, go back in time a day or so, park it someplace safe, get a motel room, and then after my orior self takes the Delorean, I'd take the Batmobile too! :D

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Delorean.

I'd tell myself not to loan that money out. Then, I'd do one change that I think would work out well:

"Jim Henson? Go see a doctor. Now. I'll drive you, if you need a lift."

I love your song, but I'd be willing to wait an extra thirty or forty years for it.

[sophia9847.livejournal.com]

Hell Yes.

Batmobile

[ldyerzsie.livejournal.com]

There is a little company is Logansport, Indiana that makes replicas of the original Batmobile. They are expensive, but they are also WAY cool!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Which Batmobile? If it were the '60s Adam West model, I'd love to cruise around in it on a nice day like today.
The most recent one would be handy for crushing Hummers that get in my way.

Mach 5 is tempting, but I'd be afraid to push the wrong button as it's like a James Bond car on acid -- or spraying acid, or whatever. Plus it would make me talk in overcomplicated English which would make my communicating annoying and what's this monkey doing in the trunk with the fat kid?

Still, I'll take Christina Ricci, as long as I can administer some red beans and rice, stat! Girl has gotten too skinny.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Wordy McMotto. She and Jennifer Connelly both need just a couple of French Dips.





Ze sandwiches, mon amis. Ze sandwiches.

[sstaver.livejournal.com]

I'd take the DeLorean, even if it wasn't a time traveling one. :D

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

Back to the Future II Delorean. With the Mr. Fusion!

[hiddenriver.livejournal.com]

I'd take the Delorean, but I'd rather have a Tardis.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

"Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed..."

'Nuf said.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Meh, gimme a couple of hours with all three and a toolkit!

Transplant the time circuits, flux capacitor, Mr Fusion and the hover units from the Delorian into the [tumbler] Batmobile, and then use parts from the Mach 5 to improve that beasts handling and suspension...

and kidnap Trixie.

Then you've got a time machine with off-road handling like whoa! and enough weapons to seriously meddle with the time-line...
and a drop-dead cute geeky girl mechanic to keep it all running.

After which, well...there's a few points in history I'd like to visit, starting with a complete record of the past 30 years, and finding me back in '78. Then I can think of a few historical figures that would have a date with me and a sniper rifle, before they got [in]famous.

Although...I'd still rather have a TARDIS, because lets face it, if the past is another country and the future is the undiscovered country... then it's better to go in a camper van!