Art & Inspiration Odd reactions to your daily driver

From the other side of the windshield - I'll see a HAMB-friendly car 5 or 6 times a year while driving my O/T pick-up (stock and clean). I used to give them a friendly wave or headlight flash but never got any kind of acknowledgement back so I don't bother anymore.

 

From there, there is no point in talking to that person. Like explaining the color blue to someone that has been blind from birth.

 

you'd get a confused look from me...I'd wonder which of my friends it is, and if I could catch a glimpse of you, I'd not recognize you, and wonder what you're doing.

But if you took the time to open the window and poke your hand out with a thumbs up, I'd smile and maybe wave back

 

My father never put the chrome back on ours after having it painted about 40 years ago. So I always get nice. Is that a 150?
People always ask me what year it is too. It really blows my mind I mean I thought the 57 Chevy was like the one car that you could not mistake for anything else.


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I dated a girl from TN a long time ago when I was young, she was from Columbia TN. I helped her find a '65 comet up here in Boston with 13,000 original miles, parked in a garage all it's life driven on Sundays. We drove it down to DollyWood, Memphis, Nashville, I loved it down there, people were awesome, definitely culture shock for me, she had to translate a lot because people talked so fast and mumbled. I looked really young for a 23 year old, and when I met her father for the first time he turned bright red and flipped out; " deebeedatbo cainbe modain sistyasowed!" (She translated: "Dee Dee, that boy can't be more than sixteen years old!")

She was cool, and a firecracker of a different sort, if this were a different sort of website I could tell a few stories.....

 

If you really want to mess with people. Build your wife a big orange international pickup. NOT a scout.
Since international made the last scout in 80 and the last pick up in 75 nobody really knows what they are anymore.

Most common comment. Nice scout man my fill in the blank had one.

But my favorite is what is it? Well it's an international Harvester. Yeah but I mean like who makes it? Is it a Ford/Chevy/dodge?

And Jess herself has tons of stories of every old guy in the nearby area gravitating towards her when she's driving it lol




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I once came out of the grocery store to find a guy laying under my Studebaker Lark, looking to see what was in it. I said "I hope you weren't here when I pulled in." He just wanted to see the belly button SBC in it. Now the car is in Australia, I don't know what people think about it down there.

 

shit, the only time I get wet panties thrown at me these days is when I accidentally mix the reds with the whites...

 

I don't daily drive my unibody, but drive it a lot.
They always have a relative who had one just like it, and then ask how I welded the cab to the box. Cant get gas without someone talking about it.
Now that its got tuck n roll upholstery maybe ill get more ladies talking about it than guys.

 

Odd reactions to your daily driver...
Here's one for the books. I have a thousand mile round trip that I make 2-3 times a year back to the old home place that includes 7-8 hours on a major interstate. On the way back home a few years ago I was 'cruising heavy' in my '49 Chevy 1/2 ton, '56 235, Fentons, dual Edelbrock 2X2 Holley-Webers, '69 Saginaw-Borg/Warner 3sp+od, at a good pace 72-75 miles per hour in a quite desolate stretch of Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania. I was completely lost in thought, listening to the tunes when I spotted the familiar flashing blue lights of a 'Plain Brown Wrapper' in my rear view mirror. Like anyone I quickly scanned the speedometer which read closer to 75 mph, in a "What was it, 65 or 70 mph zone, I don't know!? What the hell is he stopping ME for?! There's nobody out here!!"

I pulled her over, I'm pissed, I'm already talking to myself, "Damn, don't act pissed maybe he'll just give you a warning, again, Why the hell is he stopping me?!" He walks towards me and I can see he's smiling which only makes me think the guys thinking, 'Gonna make my quota of tickets with this one!' Me, I'm all 'ten o'clock - two o'clock, don't make any sudden moves, show respect, call him 'Sir' ( I have a beloved nephew in New York law enforcement so I show my respect naturally and truthfully). He reaches the door and I nearly soil myself when he says, "Hey Cosmo, how the hell are you?" I step out of the truck and he introduces himself, a Pennsylvania State Trooper. Turns out he had recognized my truck from pictures I had posted on Stovebolt.com, was on his way to a seminar, had to say 'hello' as he recognized the truck.

We kicked tires for a few minutes, I showed and explained a brief history of the drivetrain, and we were both happily on our respective ways. Small world, and a great world at that.

See you out there in my dd/only vehicle, Cosmo in the '49.

 

That's a nice clean Cornbinder! Yeah, you don't see many anymore. My first 4x4 was a '63 Scout back in 1975. It had a 200 CI 4 banger and was slow as hell but did pretty well off road.

What's the gas cap in the front fender for?

 

I have gotten the "how much is it worth?" question while stopped at the traffic lights (it's easy to talk to the driver next to you when you are left hand drive and they are right hand drive), and regardless of what they are driving, I will say something like "about 10 times what yours cost you", and they drive off suitably impressed. If I told them that I paid the same amount for my car as they paid for a set of their funny rubber-band sized tyres, I wonder what the reaction would be? Nowdays it seems like it's not how good or bad something is, it's how much the sucker paid for it.

 

Almost forgot this one, went to the grocery store in my Caddy (see avatar) and a guy stopped me and says "what year Rolls Royce is that?"...
...So I say 1949, he says, thought so

 

One day at the gas station a lady pulled up behind me in her Asian SUV/cross over thing .
As she walked around the front of her car she stopped and pointed at the master shut off:



"What's that for?", she asked.

"That kills the power and shuts the engine of in case it catches fire or something." , I said.

Looking horrified she asked, "Has it ever caught fire?"

As I nodded in the affirmative and smiled I said, "Sure, all the time!"

She quickly filled her tank and was looking at me sideways when she drove away.

I was still trying to get fuel in my Falcon without soaking my shoes when she left.

 

I get a lot of flack for my old Volvo 122, mostly by old guys, because I made an Era-perfect Scandinavian "hot rod".
The most lame comment I got was from an old guy; how could you do that, you ruined the car!!!
And I responded, 1. It's my car, 2. Did you see it before I started and lastly 3. You and your mates did the exact same thing way back when!!!
And he got all mad and told me; that back then they was everywhere (like a 54/55 Chevy or tri-five, everybody and his dog had one) but now it's and vintage car and they are becoming rare
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I told him 670.000 ish cars was build, and my best gestimate is that 45-55% is still on the road, and I bet 5% is DDs. So he should go yell at the guys who let there's rust in too the ground!! And I love it the way it is!!


I hopped it up, lowered it with a rake (nose down), nosed and decked it, cream reversed steelies with dog dishes, installed OD, and used a US bumpers.

 

The best one, no matter what you drive, is "what if I offered you (insert ridiculous number here) would you sell it to me?"

 

I live in a remote desert area 20 miles away from a small town that is 50 miles away from the next bigger town.
Out here virtually every car or truck that passes on the other lane is waving at me - and I don't know any of them.
Luckily there are only few cars on the road around here, otherwise I just couldn't wave back at all of them, so they don't feel ignored.

Sometimes folks talk to me about my rides and the dogs when I am at the post office in line or in parking lots.
Most of them say they love seeing an old car and truck like that actually driven all the time.
I always agree and tell them I wish there were more on the road.
In town during the warmer months I see very nice restored old cars occassionally, but they are just not often driven sadly.

But one Sunday a 30s Ford car club with about 20 period correct restorations drove through town.
Some wore period clothing and hats, especially the ladies in the passenger seats.
The visual and sound was unforgettable and gave me goosebumps and made my heart race.
I just happened to be waiting at a cross street with my 48 coupe as they passed by and we all had big smiles and waved at each other with thumbs up and all, while the ooga horns sounded.

 

Clunker.I bet you could. LOL. The locals here and local store owners are nice here{I been here 20 years now} the tourists are rude and suck driving.Hey look at that while he crosses 3 lane of traffic with out looking. LOL. Bruce.

 

I drive a later model chevy pickup lowered, a guy watched me parallel park and when I stepped out he said ," I thought you would be a Mexican" I just said "see" .

 

Dave , down here in Sevierville T.N. if I am driving 1 of my old cars and see another one I aways get a wave or I wave to them. I have broken down a few times and within minutes some one will pull over and offer to help also. Bruce.

 

I would love to get an travel all. You don't see them around much any more. Bruce.

 

Thank you!
The 4 poppers were literally a v8 with half the casting removed.
The 152 that should have been in ur 63 was half of a 304 and the 196 4 cyl was half of a 392.
Everything was interchangeable. All accessories and even the heads.

As for the gas cap in the fender. My fenders are from a station wagon(travelall) or a crew cab(travelette)
I have a gas cap in each fender and the one I actually use is up on the passengers side of the cab like any other truck of the era.
It's great for messing with pump jockeys.


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Falcongeorge, sounds like what my wife does to me when I do the wash.LOL.Bruce.

 

Thanks Bruce. This one was just a cab and fenders on a 2wd frame when I got it.




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You tell em.Volvobrynk!!!!!! Bruce.

 

Damn, Bradon,is that a coffin on the 1st truck??????Bruce.

 

Did you buy that truck or just shoot the guy and take it? What's up with the coffin?

 

Lol. No I didn't have to shoot anyone. The first truck I built from scratch. Swapped in an international 6.9 from a ford. Added a turbo.
The one on the trailer was just one I took in on trade.
The one pulling the trailer was intended to be my forever truck. A guy made me an offer I couldn't refuse so I sold it.
The parts truck became the next project.
I left it a gasser auto for the wife. She drives it all summer.
And yes that is an unfinished coffin. Me and my dad collect anything weird. Couldn't pass it up for $79. Even picked it up with a hearse I had.


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My wife and I were sitting at a patio bar in Dallas people watching on a nice spring afternoon. The valet across the street was parking all the exotics in from of the bar. It was the usual north Dallas douche rides-Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, Maserati. So, a young guy pulls up in a C1 corvette (red with white coves) with smoking hot blonde riding shotgun. My wife and I watched people walk by and stare. Seemed like all the "men" loved the exotics, but the women loved the red and white C1. Good women love old cars