How many of you guys with primered cars get,"Nice car, it'll look really good when it's done??" Some people just don't get it.
I love it. It makes you wonder how these yokels would do on a History Exam.... OF THE 20TH CENTURY!!!!! Now a little background here. On the EDSEL lettering on the side of my car I rearranged the letters to say SLED. So, I am gassing up in Scapoose one night in the Sledsel. The attendant is looking the car over and says to me. Him-"Ya know they sure did a good job on these back then." Me-"Yeah, I like 'em alright" Him-"What year is it?" Me-"'59". Him-"Yep, I always liked them Chevy Sledges."
"Hey, nice Torino." "It's a Galaxie, dude." "No it isn't." Or like Hooligan, "What year Impala is that?" fools...
Ha ha ha, I like the old guy got talking to me at a swap a couple of years ago, yup I had a car jsut like this way back when.... and on for about 10 min including I think I still got some parts for it, by this time I'm pretty excited wo hoo Olds parts are like gold dust over here..... turns out he had a Chev !! My other favorite was a group of guys looking round the car for about 10 min, eventually one asked what it was, I took him round the front and showed him the inch + letters in the grill O L D S M O B I L E, his pals thaught it was pretty funny
I get that crap too. "Hey, what year is your Cadillac?" "It's a '98." "That car ain't no '98." "This car isn't a Cadillac." My other favorite answer is, "It's a '43 Henway."
at a swap meet a couple years ago I pull into the car corral to try to pedal the Stude. first guy comes up and wants to know "how much for the Rambler Lark?" .. my own dear old mother still reminds me when she and my dad were young they had a Chevy Nine Ford.
Probably the best one ever was the guy looking at my 31 and he says: <font color="red"> What year's yer DEUCE? </font> I used to have a deuce coupe just like that... It's a 31 roadster How come your plate says 1931? The car's a 31 No shit???? My dad has a Model A (From a kid about 20) He does? Yup, Still has the origional stereo... Kid to his Grandpa looking at my roadster outside the cafe as I'm comming out the door... You ever have a deuce like that grandpa? Nope, That's not a deuce, it's a model A... Pause... I drove a Deuce and a half in Korea back in 50/51 tho... Me... Hey mister, wanna take a spin in this one... We do a benefit show every year at the old folks home. They bring the residents out to check out the cars. One old lady asks me... "Is that your car?" "Yup, Would you like a ride?" She slaps me! "What was that for?" And the old lady grins and tells me... <font color="red"> I got married because of one of those damned things! Now I've got 18 grandkids! I shoulda slapped George back in 55! </font> Then she grins again and says..."Let's go!"
"I got one just like that. But it's a 4 door, and it's blue. And it's a Ford, but it's just like that." Back when the new beetles were new, people would stop me and ask if mine was one of those new ones. It's a '69. -Bugman Jeff
The funniest one I ever heard was when the guy working at the 7-11 up the street asked me if my '56 Buick was a Firebird. I told him that it was, and he smiled and said "NIIIICE!" Curt
i went to buy a breaker for my house in my '34 Ford Coupe the other day and this guy said 'Nice roadster.' I told him it was coupe, not a roadster. Then he tells me 'Back in my day we used to call 'em roadsters.' I gave up trying to explain it to him. The nicest compliment I ever got was when this young couple offered to pay me money to make out in the back seat of my '54 Chevy. i told 'em as long as they didn't spooge on the seats they make out for free. They took me up on the offer.
Now here come imports into the game. I had a '55 Chevy in the driveway some years ago and was under the car to fiddle around with U joints. Heard the neighbor say to his brother "Ich habe auch schon lange keinen Opel Kapitän gesehen" ("Didn't see a Opel Kapitän for a long time"). That was so depressing I left that damn U joint alone and got total drunk that day.
I had a car show official wanted to know why I'd gone to the spectator's gate for the GM DAY car show (about 2 years back).... in my MUSTANG!!! Nothing really surprised me after that one.
how many of you have people just blurt out what year is it? I am always happy to inform them 2004 , maybe they got hit on the head and fergot . The best one i had was a mom and her 2 small children at a local show.She said see thats what takes you to get burried when you die .Then she asked what year my "HURST" was .I said well its a 1959 ford station wagon , moms got food in them, many years before the SUV .I don't think she got it cuz she still asked where the casket goes ."i had ta laugh"
For a couple of years,I took my deuce roadster to the all Ford picknic near Houston. I thought it was OK because the body and frame are Henry's. It's actually for Fords powered by Fords. The roadster has a red ram hemi with Edmonds valve covers. Everybody kept asking flathead questions and I don't know squat about a flathead.I did my best thou. Somebody finially asked what year flathead it was. I told them it wasn't. They told me it was and was one of those ardan conversions. I said it was no conversion. they said it was. I finially said it was a pretty complete conversion to get the distributer in the back and a fuel pump on the front cover. They admitted it was a pretty complete conversion. They still wanted to know who made the Edmonds conversion.
Guy: A nice Ford Capri you´ve got there...must be 20 years old... Me: It´s a 62 Impala Coupe. Guy: I had one just like that, strong 4 cylinders they built back then.. Me: Yeah, it´s a Diesel. .... Guy: It´s been a long time since I´ve seen such a beautiful Opel Olympia!! Me: Sorry, that´s a 56 Bel Air. Guy: I didn´t know that Opel made a car named Bel Air!? Could write a book about that. I ´ve given up on explaining how much HP, how expensive, how much fuel consumption. Let them hear ,what they want to hear: 1,5 Gallons per mile, 1500 HP and 150000$.
this is some FUNNY shit!!! how do you argue with the old guy who says "back in my day we called em ALL roadsters."? i mean, you could be a dick and say "well, then you were WRONG back then too.". i hate to be that guy.unless i'm really provoked, then IT'S ON!!
I had a guy try to rent my car once. He wanted to take his wife on a date in it. Ida let him if I had better insurance.
hey, we only know what we are exposed to. it's environmental. a few years ago my own daughter turned to me and said "daddy, did they ever make a car with only one carburator?" I just "not in my world sweety" Paul
In my 56 plymouth i used to get, nice 57 chevy !all the time too.In my 57 chevy wagon i allways got ,nice nomad !,and even what kind of car is that?, is it a 76?It was a red 57 chevy wagon!In my old 70 chevelle and my 70 lemans I used to get nice nova !all the time!Some people have no clue!
WOW i didnt know that there was this many great stories out there. I didnt have the heart to tell you guys how confused they were when i was trying to explain that the transmission was a push button they thought i had hidden the shifter knob.
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