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Title: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: TurboDan on May 31, 2012, 12:33:54 PM
This website is a conglomeration of like 20 newspaper statewide, and I guess editors in some areas make their photogs go out and cover proms for some reason. Anywho, they put together a statewide "sweetest prom rides" gallery. I'll reserve my comments for later:

http://photos.nj.com/8001122/gallery/sweetest_prom_rides_2012/index.html
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: TurboDan on May 31, 2012, 12:35:19 PM
For my senior prom, we rented an S-Class limo. People wanted a Hummer, I recall, but I lobbied against that choice and got everyone to go with the Benz.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Laconian on May 31, 2012, 12:40:28 PM
This is not enough horns.
(http://media.nj.com/njcom_photos/photo/2012/05/11107922-standard.jpg)
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: 2o6 on May 31, 2012, 12:45:38 PM
Is that P.Diddy?
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: 68_427 on May 31, 2012, 12:56:18 PM
Uh party bus is the way to go folks.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: MexicoCityM3 on May 31, 2012, 12:57:10 PM
Quote from: 68_427 on May 31, 2012, 12:56:18 PM
Uh party bus is the way to go folks.

Not enough privacy. Back seat comfort is probably THE criteria for a sweet prom ride. Anything else is secondary.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Eye of the Tiger on May 31, 2012, 01:00:30 PM
I went to prom in an '86 Mercury Cougar. Fuckin pimp.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: TurboDan on May 31, 2012, 04:20:12 PM
Quote from: 2o6 on May 31, 2012, 12:45:38 PM
Is that P.Diddy?

I see more Jamie Foxx.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Soup DeVille on May 31, 2012, 04:34:21 PM
Quote from: MexicoCityM3 on May 31, 2012, 12:57:10 PM
Not enough privacy. Back seat comfort is probably THE criteria for a sweet prom ride. Anything else is secondary.

Kids these days have their priorities screwed up. They all pile in together in some awful overs-tretched monstrosity that you have to duck-walk to get into seat in, and then sit crammed in together with 15 or 10 other idiotas.

When, for the same amount of money, they could have gotten a private car for two: and with the double divider wall.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: shp4man on May 31, 2012, 04:36:45 PM
I was with some other people riding around in a '67 Chevelle SS, smoking pot, drinking beer and listening to Hendrix and the Doors on the 8-track, while the whole time being thankful I wasn't at the prom.  :lol: Whose theme was, in the year of 1970, Crystal Blue Persuasion. I remember seeing the girls decorating the gym for it.  :lol:
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: SVT666 on May 31, 2012, 04:37:42 PM
I thought it said porn ride.  :facepalm:

The grads in our town have a parade every year and some of them get to drive their parents' cars.  Last year there were 3 Vipers, a Lamborghini Murcielago roadster, a Ferrari F355 vert, a Ferrari F360 Modena vert, a Bentley Continental GT, an Audi R8 Spyder, a couple Corvette convertibles, an F-350 pulling a 24" Tige wakeboard boat full of grads, and various Porsches.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Madman on May 31, 2012, 04:57:31 PM
My girlfriend and I went in her '78 Chevy Nova (in 1987).  Wow, times have sure changed!
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: MexicoCityM3 on May 31, 2012, 05:03:23 PM
Quote from: SVT666 on May 31, 2012, 04:37:42 PM
The grads in our town have a parade every year and some of them get to drive their parents' cars.  Last year there were 3 Vipers, a Lamborghini Murcielago roadster, a Ferrari F355 vert, a Ferrari F360 Modena vert, a Bentley Continental GT, an Audi R8 Spyder, a couple Corvette convertibles, an F-350 pulling a 24" Tige wakeboard boat full of grads, and various Porsches.

Spoiled.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Gotta-Qik-C7 on May 31, 2012, 07:10:01 PM
I had a 1992 Maxima SE as my prom rental.....But I sent my girl to prom with a friend and went and met another female friend till "Our" prom was over.  :winkguy:
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Soup DeVille on May 31, 2012, 07:31:45 PM
Quote from: SVT666 on May 31, 2012, 04:37:42 PM
I thought it said porn ride.  :facepalm:

Close enough.

Prom: legitimizing teenage sex since 1952.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: J86 on May 31, 2012, 09:06:01 PM
Party bus without a doubt.  Get hammered with all your friends!  Sexy time happens later anyways.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: nickdrinkwater on June 01, 2012, 02:28:06 AM
We had a Lincoln Town Car for ours
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: TurboDan on June 01, 2012, 02:52:14 AM
Quote from: nickdrinkwater on June 01, 2012, 02:28:06 AM
We had a Lincoln Town Car for ours

Interesting, being in the UK and all! Is that a common limo in your area?
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: nickdrinkwater on June 01, 2012, 05:36:21 AM
Quote from: TurboDan on June 01, 2012, 02:52:14 AM
Interesting, being in the UK and all! Is that a common limo in your area?

Probably the most common.  The exception is a few Porsche Cayennes, and funeral cars which tend to be Mercedes or Volvos.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Madman on June 01, 2012, 10:31:56 AM
I remember being shocked by the number of Lincoln Town Car limos I saw the first time I was in London.
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: MX793 on June 02, 2012, 01:18:43 PM
Quote from: Laconian on May 31, 2012, 12:40:28 PM
This is not enough horns.
(http://media.nj.com/njcom_photos/photo/2012/05/11107922-standard.jpg)

Is that a Zimmer?
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Gotta-Qik-C7 on June 02, 2012, 05:31:39 PM
Quote from: MX793 on June 02, 2012, 01:18:43 PM
Is that a Zimmer?
Looks more like a modified Town Car from the green house.......
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: MX793 on June 02, 2012, 05:58:48 PM
Quote from: Gotta-Qik-G8 on June 02, 2012, 05:31:39 PM
Looks more like a modified Town Car from the green house.......

You don't know what a Zimmer is, do you?
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Gotta-Qik-C7 on June 03, 2012, 11:57:31 AM
Quote from: MX793 on June 02, 2012, 05:58:48 PM
You don't know what a Zimmer is, do you?
Yep! I actually thinking about the Fiero based Zimmer tho........
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Madman on June 03, 2012, 12:12:23 PM
Could be a Zimmer Limo.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Wedding_car_in_Tallinn_August_2007_H2093.JPG/800px-Wedding_car_in_Tallinn_August_2007_H2093.JPG)

Yum, tasteful!  :lol:
Title: Re: Sweetest Prom Rides... WTF?
Post by: Submariner on June 03, 2012, 12:16:32 PM
Quote from: 68_427 on May 31, 2012, 12:56:18 PM
Uh party bus is the way to go folks.

Nah.

This:

(http://copleymotorcars.com/uploads/5.5/y3c00adf0x1312db432bdxy7edd.JPG)

Is the way to go.