# The IMHO Gumball Rally! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112 "2000-09-14T02:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 14, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/1 "2000-09-14T02:06:34Z")
Within the next hour I will say the word “GUMBALL” in one of the IMHO threads. At this time, and not one second before, post your name and the vehicle you’re driving in _this_ thread. Posting too soon will disqualify you. Posting twice will disqualify you. Last one to post will recieve the title of **Official Slug of the IMHO!** ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/2 "2000-09-14T02:44:43Z")
Um, Nora. Ford Taurus. Do I win something, or am I just drunk? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/3 "2000-09-14T02:45:29Z")
But, slythe, I’m not driving any vehicle **in this thread**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/4 "2000-09-14T02:46:43Z")
Actually, I am definitely drunk, and no I’m not driving the vehicle at the moment. You may disregard this post or not, as you wish. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/5 "2000-09-14T02:51:35Z")
I always thought that Silver Fire would cross the finish line in a Rolls Royce _Silver Ghost_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/6 "2000-09-14T03:08:33Z")
Ish Kabibble. A 1948 Buick with mud flaps and a chrome duck on the hood. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/7 "2000-09-14T03:16:46Z")
I just GOTTA ask! 🙂 _Why a duck?_ ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/8 "2000-09-14T03:59:04Z")
Ooh! I found the gumball! Lauren, and a magic futon. It flies and is comfortable and lets me stop and smell the roses. ---
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/9 "2000-09-14T13:56:53Z")
Found it… Gas me up a Dodge Viper, and throw in Captain Chaos as my co-pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/10 "2000-09-14T13:59:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slythe \* > \*\*_Why a duck?_ \*\* You HAD TO ask, didn’t you…? It’s an obscure quote from an old underground comix series by Foolbert Sturgeon, entitled “The Adventures of Jesus,” specifically the long and hilarious episode “Jesus Goes to the Faculty Party.” A bunch of pretentious academics from some grade-C university out in the cornfields somewhere are getting drunk and sloppy at the social affair, and one of them proposes the “If You Were a Car, What Car Would You Be?” game, and one guy refers to another as “a 1948 Buick with mud flaps and a chrome duck on the hood.” I’ve always thought it was a magnificent description of the ultimate Sad Sack ride (I should probably update it to a 1978 Buick…the story was originally published around 1966), and I try to drop it into my conversations, oh, four or five times a year. Some day, I hope to own one! ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/11 "2000-09-14T15:10:05Z")
If you really want a chrome duck **Ike** , I think I’ve got one in a big box o’ hood ornaments. Sorry I don’t have a '48 Buick, though. I love those beautiful, bulbous Buicks. ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/12 "2000-09-14T16:47:21Z")
Gumball! Yipeeee! Clutching my plastic jesus, slipping behind the wheel of a silver boxster. Placing said plastic jesus upon the dash. Check. Top down. Check. Ummmmmmm, where ARE we going?? (if I were sitting in a handbasket I know the asnwer to that question). ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/13 "2000-09-14T17:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Placing said plastic jesus upon the dash. ::sings:: I don’t care if it rains or freezes… ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/14 "2000-09-15T01:44:30Z")
_joins in_ Long as I got my plastic Jesus… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/15 "2000-09-15T01:55:15Z")
D’oh! (note to self-look at the date of the post before trying witty consecutive posting!) OK I’m in the car that I _will_ own: A FIA 289 Shelby Cobra, viking blue with all the correct racing stickers and stripes ohh yeah baby! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/16 "2000-09-15T02:00:06Z")
You collected Hot Wheels when you were a kid, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/17 "2000-09-15T02:10:33Z")
I have a display case on my desk with 30 of my favorite Hot Wheels in it, plus the Daytona Cobras on the monitor and the Viper GTS on the CD rack. I love the old Can Am racers and the Shelby Cobra (17 of the 30 are different variants of the cobra!) all hail Carroll Shelby! yeah it’s a geeky hobby, but it’s probably the closest I’ll get to some of them! it is reliving my childhood and my four year old loves them too! He knows not to touch “Daddy’s cars” though! ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/18 "2000-09-15T02:14:17Z")
/shameless plug/ If any of you wonderful people out there have your old Hot Wheels (late 60’s- early 70’s), and want to get rid of them, get a value, or sell them, LMK as I do collect them. I’m in the process of getting the exact set i had as a kid for my son, but it’s 'spensive and frustrating! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/19 "2000-09-15T02:31:52Z")
deb2world I am current driving an UNIX Solaris, the PC is parked down the hall. Had the MAC taken from me, loved that machine, it was locking up on me, asked for and got gobs of ram and rom so it purred like a kitten. Gosh just remembering that MAC makes me teary eyed. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112/20 "2000-09-15T04:31:28Z")
My two favorite Matchbox cars (I was too elitist for Hot Wheels as a kid; I outgrew that): Red 1979 Lincoln Continental with white top, and a lime green 1980 Mercury Marquis station wagon(with a rear doorgate that actually opened). My life has been downhill since I lost them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imho-gumball-rally/33112.md?page=2)