# If you had use of your Daddy's T-bird, where would you cruise to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773 "2016-05-03T13:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/21 "2016-05-03T17:20:47Z")
The hamburger stand. In particular, this hamburger stand in my town: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FV7NFNvEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FV7NFNvEs) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/22 "2016-05-03T17:22:57Z")
I’d probably just get a hamburger, and then hit the highway to hell. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/23 "2016-05-03T18:34:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’ve always wondered why Springsteen has a _pink_ Cadillac. It’s not his, it’s his girl’s. Rumor has it that he’s just using her for it’s crushed velvet seats. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/24 "2016-05-03T19:20:23Z")
Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick? ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/25 "2016-05-03T19:25:23Z")
My Pappy said, “Son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’, if you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot… Rod…Lincoln.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/26 "2016-05-03T19:35:25Z")
T-bird? Cadillac? Pfft, please. I bought a brand new air-mobile. It’s custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville. With a powerful motor and some hideaway wings Push in on the button and you can hear her sing. Now you can’t catch me. Baby, you can’t catch me. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/27 "2016-05-03T19:39:40Z")
Anywhere that’s fun, fun, fun, would do, but I’d probably roll to a surfing spot just to make the point, since my daddy’s dead, the long game doesn’t enter into it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/28 "2016-05-03T20:40:16Z")
You may not have a car at all! But remember brothers and sisters, you can still stand tall. Just be thankful for what you’ve got! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/29 "2016-05-03T20:45:56Z")
I get _my_ kicks on Route 66. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/30 "2016-05-03T20:53:13Z")
I’d fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/31 "2016-05-03T20:54:24Z")
Anywhere… but I just cant drive 55. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/32 "2016-05-03T21:45:07Z")
Hydromatic overdrive, four-on-the-floor, Push-button windows, push-button doors, Double-barrelled carburetors rush you any place But you never can find a parking space…highly illogical. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/33 "2016-05-03T23:39:22Z")
Never, never, never gonna speed again. Slip the blood to me, Bud! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/34 "2016-05-03T23:39:49Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > What, in that Chrysler of yours? It’s as big a whale! Well it seats about 20. And it’s about to set sail! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/35 "2016-05-04T00:33:53Z")
I’ll take my duce coupe, it’ll walk a Thunderbird like it’s standing still. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/36 "2016-05-04T04:40:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I got a Chevy, and I’m taking it to the levee. … > > Damn - it’s dry! When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay. I can lock all my doors. It’s the only way to live…in cars. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/37 "2016-05-04T04:44:10Z")
Down the road in the rain and snow—you’d hardly even see me in all of that chrome! ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/38 "2016-05-04T05:55:00Z")
Its gonna go like greased lîghtnin’! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/39 "2016-05-04T06:01:13Z")
But I just want to go to the library… there’s a burger stand across the street from mine. So there’s no need for an extra trip. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773/40 "2016-05-04T14:00:57Z")
I personally prefer my V8 Ford, the better to keep up with Maybellene in her Coupe de Ville. Particularly when it’s raining. I’m told that the rainwater blowing up under my hood has a tendency to do my motor good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-use-of-your-daddys-t-bird-where-would-you-cruise-to/753773.md?page=3)