my favorite, my buddy and his wife at a gas station in WI in their PT cruiser right after they came out. guy say's to my buddy's wife: How do like it? reply: Up the ass! and they drive off laughing their asses off.
I used to have a 55 that was bright yellow. MAny idiots thought it was a taxi. Yeah, a 2 door 30 year old taxi. When I was a kid my uncle had a dodge with gigantic tailfins and push button tranny. I thought it was from outer space. The chrome letters also said OODGE, not Dodge. When asked, he always said it was an oodge. Then you get the know-it-alls who mix up the chevy 302 and ford 302. "yep chevy used to build the 302 but they sold it to ford". One guy real argued the point so I brought positive proof they were 2 different engines, and he turned to his wife and said "See, you were wrong". What a butthead.
Must not post when pissed Meant Africa Corps colours , apologies . Would look odd with Rat insignia wouldn't it ?
HAHA Awww man i was thinking the same damn thing!!!!!!!! I love these stories.. at a family bbq a couple of years back my cousin was checking out my other cousins 66' rivi and he turned to him and blurted out.. " what is it like a fiftysumthing..".. and my other cousin said, nah, its a 66 dude, to which he replied...'' fuckin bad a!!".. we still quote him everytime we see a 60's car in the street, ha.. -Anthony
Apologies accepted on behalf of my uncle John who served alongside them in the long range desert group.
That reminds me of this guy telling me once that Pontiac made Cadillac 500 engines before Cadillac did. He was trying hard to sell me one. The same guy had taken a cherry '63 Ford 4dr hardtop and hacked a subframe into it to put a Chevy motor in the car. At least that's what I was told. I did see the Camaro he had torn all apart trying to put a Ford 9" rear in it. He barely had room for that car at his parents house and was trying to swap for something else - with no place to put it. Same guy had me come look at an Olds minivan his dad wanted to get rid of.. said the junkyard wouldn't take it because the body is all plastic.. I get there and look at it figuring I'd get it for scrap price and it's way nicer than junk, come to find out his dad wants like $2000 for it. Some people are just goofy -
I had a guy at a show tell me man your car is looking good. Lots of hours in it? I painted the engine the rest is over 50 years old.(rust, wore out interior, no grill) Another guy swore to me my 69 Torino fastback was a 69 Mustang and Ford didnt build Torinos! A neighbor asked me if I sold my 51 F1 and bought a new one, its recently painted. Its the same one!? she said...
folks always told me i had a nice '55 (or '57) chevy...I drove a '56, with 1956 on the plate! and of course everyone gets the "had one just like it when I was your age, but it was a ford and it was blue"..sheeesh. Used to have a shaved and lowered '61 impala 4dr and folks always told me that it sure was one wild thunderbird! Was at a gas station with same car one day and I was coming back out to the car after paying and this old guy was looking at it and said to me "I think your springs are worn out, might want to get some new ones!" lol... and then there is the: what color is that? would be nice if it was a 2 dr! how do you get in? (no handles.....riiight, like I'm going to tell you) why would you do that to such a nice car? when are you going to paint it? nice lowrider! etc etc
I got pulled over for speeding on Union Av. in Memphis, cop took my lincense and went back to his car. Then he started walking around my ride, he made about 3 laps around it, looking for an emblem. I was just sitting there grinning, knowing what his problem was. He came up and said "I give up, what is it?" I just smiled and said, "1972 Suburban"....he didn't have a clue!! Once at the local car was a kid came up and started talking about how much he loved my car, he was going on and on about it. Then he dropped the bombshell on me "What is it?" I looked at him like he was an idiot "It's a '55 Chevy" Kids these days needs to get their heads right and learn something about real cars and not some of those rice burners that they think are the greatest thing since canned beer!! just my .02 worth Dave
I've had a number of people over the years ask if my 57 Olds was a Chevy. Not sure why, they don't really look anything alike. I had so many people either ask me what kind of car my 34 Plymouth sedan was or run their vehicles right up to my rear bumper staring at the car, that I got one of those magnetic signes for the back that says "It ain't no friggin' Ford". Followed by a 4" PentaStar. Now they just ask what year Chevy is it.
People ask me what kinda car is that? I used to say 40 Ford, then they say 44 what? I say if it was a 44 it would be a jeep or a tank, They say What? It got real old real fast, now when asked I say it's a Ford 1940. leaving a cruise night a couple in a PT cruiser start honking and waving, they think my 40 tudor is a PT cruiser. My next door neighbor spent a lot of money putting a split rear window and teardrop tailights in his PT cruiser, I haven't the nerve to ask him why he would take a car backwards after he told me he couldn't afford a real 40. My friend in Idaho bought a finished 40 tudor hot rod for a lot less than neighbor has in his PT. When he told neighbor what he paid for his 40 PT went into garage hasn't come out for 6 months.
I dont get it ?? You have lost me .... 69~75 novas look so close why would a random guy know the difference ? Hell, I prolly wouldnt even know the diff ....Its just a Nova..
True, there is a difference .... But about as much as the difference between 55~56~57 Chevys But the average Joe would possibly never know. & the difference in a 73 & a 75 are slim
got many folks come up and ask what year my truck is, and how they have one just like it with a shitload of parts i can have, everyone asks "how much" so i say "is there a sign on it??" i swear, people think when any old car or truck comes around, they automatically think its for sale, next time i'll just throw a high price on it, say 70 grand?
"But the average Joe would possibly never know." We must pity the uninformed and ignorant because they are legion.....Soon as someone starts talking about cars to me and its obvious they don,t know jack shit I stop them. I just say if you want to talk cars come back when you actually know something. They leave me alone after that.....
I just got some of the fancy little factory Peterbilt emblems. They are the same size and shape as the "Ford" emblem on my '29 Coupe. Then there's the Pontiac Big Block/Small Block argument. I can't wait for the confused looks and/or comments. (My first name is Peter so I guess it really is Peterbilt)
hell I was told this was a chopped, channeled, sectioned 62-65 Nova I laughed so hard my guts hurt..joe
Had my 29 roadster at a local show last year," Mr. Know everything in the world about old fords" Comes up to me and reads the resistration deal on the windshireld , and tells me i have the year wrong. I say "well it could be a 28 with 29 doors but its titled as a 29", He proceeds to tell me its a 34 roadster and gets about half pissed off about it when i tell him he's nutz.... Friggin Jerks !
late one night the boyfriend of a neighbor down the road was taking a walk and saw the open garage. This boyfriend, who was black, asked me what year my Cadillac was...I told him it was a 55 Pontiac..... Im sure most of you reading this will get it......
It's even worse in Mexico. While there I went to check out a '57 Chevy listed in the paper. Turns out it was an Oldsmobile and the seller didn't even know his own car.
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