Top 50 "Car Things" To Do Before You Die

Welcome to the wacky world of cars. We - your hosts here at Car Throttle - love the fact that you lust for all things motoring, but fortunately or unfortunately depending on your vantage point, there is far more to it than that. If you want to be recognised as a true car nut to us, here is a list of 50 "car things" to do before you can die a happy petrolhead. Some are as easy as cooking a frozen meal. Others are only achievable with luck and ideally a bit of cash lining your wallet. Print this list off and pin it to your board!

Enter the Mongol Rally from Hyde Park to Mongolia, and survive

Get a passenger ride in a supercar from the 90's

Run out of petrol and siphon from another car

Own an Alfa Romeo

Drive the current fastest production car in the world up to it's top speed

Take your car out in the snow and drift to your heart's content

Play "How We Do" at full volume from your car whilst driving through a dodgy part of town

Perform a handbrake turn, without braking your handbrake

Perfect the heel-and-toe shifting technique

Watch a Formula 1 Race live at the track (if only for the crazy noise)

Crash a hire car and pretend you didn't do it

Do a lap of the Nurburgring. Without crashing

Perfectly execute the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca

Own a car worth £500 or less a.k.a. "a banger"

Drive from John O'Groats to Land's End, UK

Drive abroad, preferably on the "other" side. LHD if you're British, RHD if you're American

Go off-roading/green laning

Enter a Rallycross event with your mates, a la Top Gear

Own an original Mini and customise it

Go Karting Mario-style

Own a 60s/70s muscle car

Enter the Gumball 3000

Do a road trip to the coast and take the obligatory "car in front of water" money shot

Put a big bass speaker in the boot

Make sexy time in your car!

Win a "Top Gear"-style challenge race against your friends

Build a kit car from scratch without injuring yourself...or the car

Be chauffeured in a Rolls Royce Phantom

Drive a convertible with the roof down whilst it's raining

Take your car in the Eurotunnel train

Watch a NASCAR race live from the track

Own a car worth a cool six figures

Take a picture of a rally car close up on the track while it's in action

Do doughnuts in a supermarket car park - RWD only

Enter your car into a concours

Have a rave in a Caravan/Campervan/RV

Race against your mates at a local track day

Ride in the load-bay of a pick-up truck (where legal)

Design your own car vinyls and stick them on (without looking like a fool)

Change a flat tyre in under 5 minutes

Drive around the Evo Triangle (A5/A543/B4501, Wales, UK)

If you are brave enough, drive down the UK's most dangerous road (A537 Buxton to Macclesfield, Derbyshire/Chesire, UK as of March 2012)

Fill a car up to the brim with either petrol or diesel at the most expensive petrol station in the UK (According to the Daily Telegraph: Texaco Chelsea Cloisters, Sloane Avenue, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, As of November 2011 - 174.9p/litre)43

Arrive back to your car just before a parking warden issues you with a ticket

Go on a skydive, with your car (a la Chevrolet Aveo)

Drive the Pacific Coast Highway

Attend a press launch at one of the world's largest European automotive shows - Frankfurt or Geneva

Make your own car rap video and put it on YouTube

Own your own supercar garage filled with priceless exotics

Take a drive in the sunshine on your own; windows down, in whatever car you own, and just enjoy the feeling of you alone with your car on a beautiful day on an ideally empty road. Bliss.

Let us know how much of the checklist you have crossed off and even send us pictures and videos of your experiences. To spice things up, stay tuned to us on our website and our YouTube channel as we tick off the list ourselves. Complete all 50 with sufficient evidence for your chance to win something big. Challenge accepted?