Best friend could not believe I did not get violent

It's kinda funny something about unusual cars really sets some people off. A guy I worked with had an O/T car, and one morning when he went to starbucks some guy said great kit car(uh...its obviously not a kit car) and he just nodded and went inside...then when he came out the guy ran up to him waving his check book saying he could buy 3 of those cars...my co worker said gee I wish I could...and drove off.

Anyway that car would have an effect on people.

 

Some years ago I rode a Yamaha two stroke twin to work. I was stopped at traffic lights and a guy pulls up beside me, winds down his window and tells me my exhaust is smoking. I'm thinking "Duh, Its a two stroke". Then he says he knows about four strokes and I need new rings and a rebore. I said its a two stroke. I get a blank look. I say the motor is pretty worn and I'm down to two strokes but I'll be getting work done soon. He was happy with that explanationl.

 

what i really liked, was the guy that walked up to my ride and started tellin' me how fast his broinlaw's camaro is while showing me the bowtie tatooed on his arm so i'd know how much he loves chevys...even old 'uns like mine. my car is a 59 ford!

 

that is funny!!!

 

In a slightly different mode. I drove a nice old 48 Plymouth Coupe daily for sevral years. I went to a convenience store for some milk and when I got back a bum was standing next to my car on the passenger side. Since it was summer the windows were down so when I got in he asked if I had any spare change to help him out. I looked overand said "If I had any spare change do you think I'd be driving a car like this?". He looked around inside the really nice original interior, shrugged and said "I guess not. Thanks." and walked away.

 

Um you've just been cased bud. Who carries a real camera around now days? Cell phones have cameras for quick shots when needed. Did he go to any other houses nearby or just disappear? Make sure to lock up good and keep an eye out for things out of the ordinary, suspicious cars, people, maybe warn your neighbors to keep an eye out. Can't be carefull enough when it comes to keeping/protecting your property.-Weeks

 

im at a red light in my wagon, a guy pulls up next to me and asks, whats in the motor? i said 10/40. he then got a very confused look on his face.

 

at leats the guy showed interest and wasnt looking at you to go tell the cops to pull you over or somehting nasty like that.

 

One day I'm listening to a guy sprouting about his new T bucket which he just bought, and how the motor was a Chevy V8- trouble is it was a sidevalve Ford V8.
When I'm driving my Caddy, I get the "What kind of motor is it, mate?", and I say that it's a Cadillac 390, next I get "Is that a big block Chev?"
I just say Yeah, keeps both of us happy.
Some people don't know a turd from a tomato.

 

Built a 32 Coupe a couple of years ago with an LS 2 in it, fab'd a cover for the top to cover the pelumn and coils.
Guys would look @ it and ask "What kinda engine is that?"
My remark---- "It's a Flathed"
Their usual comment-
Oh yeh - I remember those from when I was a kid.

 

You get a great atta boy on that one!! It does no good to have a confrontation over someones yapping about your ride and being way in left field. I chose not to upset them or myself, like when last week at the gas station when a guy told me he had a Nomad just like mine- a 56 Plymouth Suburban wagon. As several guys said it just was a source of delite among the knowing!!~Sololobo~

 

One thing that nobody has mentioned so far is kids who show an interest in our cars. Be patient, take time to talk to them, be polite, keep your language clean around them, and answer their questions. Open the hood for them. If you know their parents and have their permission, take the kid for a ride around the block. Don't assume that only boys can be gearheads (one of the best automatic transmission gurus I've ever known was named Sue.) Car guys who had time for the kids are part of the reason that many of us are into this hobby. Let's all remember back when we were 10 or 12 years old, when we didn't know enough to ask good questions, and remember the guy with the really neat car who took time to talk with us and didn't brush us off because he remembered when he was 10 or 12 years old...

 

Amen to that. The late great genius William Burroughs once wrote that the best cover for a secret agent is to be an intolerable bore. If no one can stand to be around you, you'll have great freedom of movement, and lack of scrutiny. Substitute thief for secret agent. I think you got cased, brother.

I cannot understand you guys who just stand there wishin' and hopin' while some stranger prowls through your garage. Homey don't play that here. My garage is my sanctuary, my church, my ... fuck, it's my GARAGE.
And just because the door hole is big doesn't mean it's not a threshold.

I've thrown guys out of my garage, and slid the door closed when shady guys stopped to gawk too long. I never had to get physical but it's on the menu if somebody wants to order it. And this isn't my keyboard getting chesty, it's just a matter of what my limits are. My garage is a sacred place where I go to work on projects that I value. I can get my mind right in the garage like no other place on earth and I need that. It's not a show for the public. It's certainly not an invitiation for Joe Honda to come up and distract me from my work to tell me all about some car he never had, something he wanted, something his neighbor had, what he'd do if he had my cars, or any of that.

Am I rude? Am I a poor ambassador for hotrodding? Just in response to rudeness or predatory behavior. It's one thing to come up and drip dumbass all around my car in a parking lot. It's another thing altogether to actually walk up my driveway to my garage and do it.

 

Now this is some good wisdom. Hot rods are losing out with the "rice generation"

I remember poking around Bid Daddy Don's FED in the 70s as a kid and got the brush-off. It was a downer...

 

couldn't have said it any better.

 

shoulda punched him and took his wallet for more parts........just kidding

 

I had two Kawasaki triples- a 350 and a 750. Heard that all the time. Everytime someone told me my bike was smoking, I would usually reply "I hope so!" But I like your line better.

 

Fogger: A man that weathers the storms of life for eighty years and is only mildly annoying deserves the respect you gave him.

 

Now that's good, I'm going to use that over and over again. Thank you for some new material.


Tim

 

Well, from the ever growing amount of people like this guy I am sticking to my paranoid beliefs that THEY...are putting something in the drinking water........guess I'll stick to bottled beverages.....

You did well grasshopper.

 

If it wasn't for good stories like that, life would be a bore!

 

Alot think my Lark is a Mercedes. I have no idea why.

 

i have a funny story, me and my dad were at a local little car show for fun.
Well, my dad has a '73 duster, his car is completely race, its street legal..barely though haha anyway hes got a 540 ci big block chevy in it,
this guy at the show comes up and says," man, thats the best lookin 440 ive seen in the long time.(note.440s have the distributor in the front, 540 does not...)" i look at dad and he looks at me and we try not to laugh. dad says, " yep, sure is, its a new style 440 with the relocated distributor" LMAO this guy believes my dad,the guy sticks around for a bit talks more, says more stupid things then wanders off to pester someone else haha, o well, some people just try to talk when they know nothing of the subject.

 

The problem is they put stuff in the bottled water too...not to mention alot of that starts out as tap! no they dont go down to some spring to get it...

 

We'll, this post reminds me of the hundreds of people who have thought my chevy wagon was a hearse.. I'd tell them all " No, It's a station wagon" to which half would useually reply; "they made those back then?"
Iv'e had too many people ask me if I was the origional owner of my car. My chevys about 50, I'm 35....

 

like willie nelson said,"if i knew who "they" were i'd shot em a long time ago"

 

Too funny - next time that happens, just hand them a business card, so when they are done with their ride, y'all can go cruise.

 

lmao tell me about, some people just make ya shake your head and think "ughh...what a jackass...."

 

Appreciate what you can learn from these guys.

I didn't know my 462" Buick was a Hemi.


Twice....

 

LMFAO!!!

That is the best idiot comeback that I've heard in years!