Oh, I almost forgot this one. Me and Doc were setting up my 31 Plymouth chassis and had the body sitting off to the side. This dude drives up to the shop, gets out and start pilfering around and talking to Doc about something or other on his Model A project that Doc had been helping him with. He is evidently a friend, I gather from the first name basis and general bullshittin thats going on. All of a sudden, he motions toward my Mopar body and asks Doc, totally serious "Where'd ya come up with that Deuce?" I almost strangled on my chewing gum and spit my cigarette out when I tried to keep from laughing out loud when I realized he was dead serious. Doc couldnt hold it back and he busted out laughing. Poor fella is just standing there like a post, and it was evident he didn't get the joke. Soon the apologies began to pour out from me and Doc, sorry that we were laughing at him. You can't blame people for being ignorant when you look at the magazines that have given the whole world the idea that if its an old hot rod it has to be a 32 Ford. it's still funny as hell though
Like the time a Cop pulled me over and asked me to open the trunk. In there were tools and a SBC fuel pump. He asked " are those your burglar tools and where did you get that carburaetor? ".
We must live in the same neighborhood! I get the same thing with my '64 Galaxie. It's gets even worse, the paper ran this contest to ID my '46 chevy. Tom
A number of years ago a friend and I were on a 2 week vacation hitting car shows from California, Washington, & Nevada. I was driving my '58 F100 short/square box, big back window, and my friend in his '58 Impala. We were at a gas station filling up when some guy came up to me putting gas in my F100 and ask me if that was my car (the Impala) I looked at my hand with the nozzle in it pumping gas into my truck!!! The guy says I had a car just like that ecept it was blue and it was a 4 door and it was an Oldsmobile....... I said YEP JUST LIKE IT!!!
If i had a dollar for every 31 model a graffiti clone ive seen.. Some people just dont get it .. They even watch the movie! Dave
At least once a week someone ask me "what year is your car". It has 1951 YOM plates! Do people even now how to read?
I gotta admit, that is one damn nice El Camino ya got there. My uncle's best friend had one just like it but the roof extended all the way back, it had 2 more doors and it was more of a purplish-brown color. Whenever the stories of cars they had or knew of that other people had come out, I try to just smile and compliment them. No need to bust their bubble or put em down... unless they're tryin to show off in front of the girlfriend or wife. LOL
Yeah, at the parts store. me: I need a pcv valve for my '68 98 him: what year? me; '68 him: model? me: 98 him: so is it a 1968 or a 1998? me: '68 him: model? me: 98 him: so is it.................................add infinitum
Six times now I have been asked at the gas station, filling up my hoodless 26 roadster, "Is that a hemi motor?". Billk
When people ask me about my Chevies and I tell them they are Pontiacs they always tell me that they are really all the same.
I was dropping off my son at pre-school in my lifted '91 Cherokee. It's olive drab, 33's, massive fender trimming, beat to hell from wheelin', etc. This mother comes up laughing because her daughter said that I should be on "Pimp My Ride". Here is a shot of it in the new issue of Jeep Junkie. Those pictures are when it was still sorta straight. I guess some people say it's a beat up truck. I say it's a badge of honor.
Dude, pimp my Ride would make that thing SWEET! You could fit like 24's or sumthin' ... and fill the back with TV's! Some crazy paint and you'd be set.... Kamp
I hate having to tell an older guy that he is wrong. It was about 17 years ago and I had an old car-type shirt on and this old dude started to talk cars with me. Some how we got to this topic...he was sure that the 350 Chevy came out in 57. No amount of convincing would do it...I rambled off years when each engine came out. He said I was young and full of shit and did not know what in the hell I was talking about (I was 20 at the time). I just gave up and said "maybe your right" and walked away....with him yelling "damn right I am".
Came out of my local Post Office last year to find an old duffer looking over my bike (A 1986 Cossack 650 outfit in desert rat colours and insignia) , tells me how he rode one just like it in the war . I said "Well you were fighting for the wrong side then mate !" Kept me chuckling for days
i remember when i first got my grand am.. i was flying around the corner to get into McDonalds before they closed, with my ex-girlfriend, and i almost slammed into a curb... She started hoopin and hollerin and i said "dont worry, if i would have hit it, i would have just popped it into four-wheel drive and just run it over" after that she seemed to have a little piece of mind that we definately WOULD NOT get stuck... im sure she didnt understand a word i spoke...
After I painted the lower half of my ex-school bus Suburban with half a can of dark blue Rust-X I had left over, to try to cover the worst of the rust on it, in the street, with a roller, I have been asked some goofy things when getting gas. One person thought maybe it used to be a State Police vehicle. Okay, but the truck is an '89 and the Staties stopped using yellow over blue cars about 1979. I guess I can kinda see that much since Chevy Suburbans aren't much different for 18 years. But so far as I know they never had trucks back then, it was only when GM stopped making RWD sedans they got Blazers and things. Another one thought maybe it was a former Thruway Authority (the toll highway across the state, for those who don't know) or state vehicle. Now my buddy has a 1973 International that was a state truck, and it was all yellow. But she went on to tell a story how her year old '69 Impala got wrecked and her husband replaced it with some car bought from a state auction that was apparently dark blue. Meanwhile, I'm thinking of adding some Dale Earnhardt style threes on it just to see what comments that gets. ..."Yes, it used to belong to the team, back when Wrangler was the sponsor, it's worth thousands..." This despite rusty edges sawed off at jagged angles, rollered on rough paint with cottonwood tree seeds stuck in it, drips, chips, runs, dents, holes, yellow paint touched up (including the entire tops of the back doors) with a brush, hand painted white safety stripes on the back doors, paint spots on the windows and handles where I got sloppy with the roller, etc. You don't have to know anything about painting to tell it's different from most other vehicles.
Thats when I tell them to read my plate! -- see avatar -- But mine is always "wow that will be nice whens its done." Later,Bill
I dont think Ive ever seen a car with the CB antenna on the front. Does it bend back and short out against the hood on the highway?
Desert rat colours( 7th Armoured div.WW2) ,On a commo copy of a Nazi scum bike? he probably was a Desert rat and deserved more than the derison you placed on him. Shame on you chum.
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