Ever had an automobile "expert" stop at your house/garage?

my science teacher is the same way. he saw me in the school parking lot and said " hey that sure is a nice dodge" then i said that is a chevy buisness coupe and he said chevy never maid a buisness coupe so i brought him my owner's manual and that shut him up for a while

 

As they look at my highboy flathead deuce roadster and they say (Back in 63 I had one just like that? Course it had a steel top and fenders with a 6 cylinder but it was just like it)

 

It isn't easy to maintain any degree of civility sometimes. Years ago, Trans-Am Camaro on an open trailer. Stopped at a rest area to stretch legs. An "eggspert" comes over and says, "Your tires are totally bald". Uh, yeah, they are called slicks. And then he tops it all off by reading the Trans-Am stickers and says, "WTF? This isn't a Pontiac". I declared he was right and I never noticed that and I got screwed when I bought it. Before we left I did ask him if his parents were first cousins. As I age, I lose my patience for jock sniffers. ARRRGGGHH!!

 

I listed a poor quality NORS headlight rim on eBay last year. Clearly stated the chrome was poor and rust was starting to pop through, it was still in the original bag. Sold for the $1.00 starting price. Winner emailed me to bitch that the STAINLESS STEEL wouldn't buff up. Told him it was poorly plated steel, just as the auction discription said. Still didn't get it, and left me a nutral feedback======asshole!

 

i've posted this before,but it's pretty cool. local know it all at the parts store tellin everybody in there that my 59 elky was home built,chevy never made anything like that. i just stand there and listen. my buddy comes from in the back,says hey bruce what-cha doing. i just smile then he ask all the guys in the store what they'er are looking at ,know it all says that "homebuilt truck". thats when buddy turns around and say's bruce they talking about your el camino? yup know it all swears the never made em. there it is buddy!!! everybody in the store looks at him ,finally he say's well i never knew they made those. the guys at the store still talk about it. he is a know it all that don't know his arse from a hole in the ground. but he ain't the only one that knows more about my car than i do! after all i've only had it for 20-25 years

 

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me my name wasn't spelled right or someone misspelled it I could finish every project I have.

I think it is one the rites of car nut passage to have one of the self styled "experts" stop by and bring forth their expertise.

They usually try to tell me that I "ruined" the value of my "rare" truck by chopping the top, louvering the hood and having suicide doors and then they really get pissy when the find that it doesn't have the "original" engine.

Had a few people convinced that the truck was a rare "Australian model for the farmers and ranchers there to be able to get out and open gates easier though.

 

First summer the Deuce was on the road, the wife and I went to a nice little car show, about 115 miles away from Gunnison. A truly interested guy came over that was working on one and had a couple of questions. He ask where we were from, I replied Gunnison, (at this point very few people in Colorado had seen the car), and he walked away with his questions happily answered.

A half hour later he returned with a note-pad and tape measure, said he had more questions and ask again where we were from. So Gunnison was repeated. The response was: "I talked to those fellas over there and they said that car is not from Gunnison, you must be wrong". "Well", I say, "those fuckers must know more about my life than I do and you can ask them the rest of the questions about MY Coupe." At that point, had to walk away.

 

I was at work, and I was talking with one of my co-workers, and we got to talking about cars. He's one of those "I used to have" types that doesn't do anything anymore. Anyway, I was telling him about my '57 Buick, and he interrupts me, trying to look like a smart guy he says, "Oh yeah, that's got a 455 in it." I said, "No, it has a 364 in it." I told him the motor was a Nailhead. He didn't understand what I meant when I said "Nailhead" so he just shut up for a moment, and then proceeded to tell me about the '55 Chevy he had back when he was married to his first wife.

 

Easy on Evan Mecham, that's my wife's great uncle. Don't bag on something unless you know both sides...

 

I've told this story before but here it is again because sometimes it is exactly the other way around: someone can be surprisingly ignorant.

I am sitting at a traffic light in my tub with the 3-97s sucking air and the open lake pipes burbling the sweet sound of a 322 Nailhead. A woman in a minivan pulls up next to me, rolls down her window, and asks "Who makes that car?".

"Mazda", I reply.

She nods her head knowingly and drives away.

Picture of my Mazda:

 

Speaking of name calling!
Whenever anyone asks me how to spell my last name I say
just like it is sounds.
Acock.

 

I'm so old that it was a 5.00 bill that was taped to the dash of a 59 Pontiac Catalina In and around Poulsbo, Wa in 59 and 60. Never got a ride in the car to find out if it was true though. One of m former stepfather's brought home from the bar stories.

 

As long as your parents didn't name you Ignacious Michael I'd say you are doing alright.

 

damn lighten up francis!!! I caught alotta flack when I moved back to arizona because of my name.aint no big deal...............

 

Had a guy stop by a while back he was looking over my 54 Olds came in & ask if that 55 Chevy was for sale ?I told him no I already promised it to Barrett & Jackson he left confused

 

Actually had a local guy that had a $20 bill taped on the dash, taped high enough up on the dash that you'd have to lean forward to get it. You could have it if you could grab it while he was in first gear. It was a '68 Nova with a 427 four speed. I tried once, didn't get it. I was only about 16 at the time, he was the guy that would buy beer for us underage guys at the time.

as for the "experts" I had a guy showing off for his girlfriend; I had a '65 Impala SS, bigblock in it. I had the biggest tires i could fit under the car without cutting anything. You could barely slide a finger between the tire and the fender lip, same between the tire and the frame on the inside. He told his girlfriend that his '65 BB Impala SS had a lot bigger tires on the back.......

 

Well good timing.I just went to the store and as I came out some guy was tellin his kid he couldnt understand why someone would put a fourwheel drive under a 55 chevy like this,the guy ruined a classic car.....heres the fourwheel drive...........I just walked past them and got in and drove off laughing

 

Ha Ha...don't tell HIM that...he's crazy enough already!!

 

I have been looking for a 1956 Chevy BEL AIR BEAUVILLE 9 passenger wagon to build forever. Bel Airs ONLY came in 9 passenger in 1956.
LOTS of people who don't know what they have, advertising everything as "Bel Airs" out there...for years. (But people think BEL AIR is what ALL 1955-57s are called)...but one guy in my town, on Craigslist has a 210 6 passenger "restored" with purple metallic paint, bad velour interior) advertised as a "Bel Air 9 passenger". $15,000. I actually wrote to him and entione if he I.D.'ed it right, a 210 buyer might find him...He told me it MUST BE a Bel Air because a clerk at the DMV had typed it up that way, and called it a "Bel Air"...WOW. And he didn't even know what a "210" term meant. FUN people out there!
Try Finding a 1957 Pontiac Transcontinental wagon, like I did. Interestring discussions with old junkyard owners who "knew" what I was referring to. That paid off though - found one, in the hands of someone who really did not know what it was. Or care.

 

Ever try to help someone out by offering sound advice, only to be told YOU were the one who's wrong? I have and it's always by the same guy. A buddy of mine was building a '67 Mustang (o/t, I know) and was telling me the tire size he's gonna use. I told him there's no way he's getting them under the fenders, they'll hit. He tells me that yes they will fit, because (this is a good one), a buddy of his had the same size tires on his '69 Chevelle and they fit just fine. I about fell over laughing. I tried to explain that Chevelles and Mustangs were different cars and therefore just might accept different size rubber, but he wasn't having it. Now his car is done, the tires hit the fenders on even tiny bumps, which doesn't matter much 'cause he trailers it everywhere anyway. Must be fun...

 

I was talking to a girl once , and we got onto the topic of hemi's . She said her brother had one and that is was a 318la , I calmly said that those engines arent hemi's and explained why . Nope I ended up being told I was wrong and didn't know what I was talking about . I just said that I may not have a hemi but I am not stupid .

The thing that anoyed me was I tried calmely to correct the person and explain how she was wrong but nope in her eyes no matter what I said I was wrong and didn't know anything .

 

Yeah, this post was about sedan deliveries not really exsisting?
I've had numerous people think that my 56 chevy 210 4door wagon was a hearse.
Numerous times iv'e told them that it was a station wagon, and yes I've been asked numerous times "They made station wagons back then?"

I also worked with an idiot a few months back who was actually a chevy service writer. One daY he opened a filter catalog and informed me that my 59 chevy came with a 350. I told him "no, it came with a 235 inline 6. He told me "350". I told him the v-8 back then was a "283" and that chevy didn't even make the 350 until around 1969. He told me "350", and showed me in the book where it noted a 5.7 motor for 59'. At that time I told him of chevys truck motor (the 348) which became the fabled "409" in 1961.
At this point he corrected me and told me that my 59 chevy came with a 350, and that he was sure that the filter catalog knew better than I did!!!
Did I mention that this guy was a chevy service writer??? He also insisted that in 69 they also made chevelle fastbacks!!!
Check my other post for more tales of this idiot!!!

By the way, as far as names go, I went to school with a guy named Mike Hunt.

 

An expert (ex-spurt is just a drip with the pressure removed, right!

 

Ive heard that as....
You know what an expert is don't cha'?
An Ex is a has been and a Spurt is a Drip under pressure.
Well thats the Army way of saying it!
I worked with a woman with the last name of name Gyorgi, pronounced Georgi. Every, and I mean EVERY parade where the nominal roll was called they would get to her name and there would be a pregnant pause and a stammering. Then a HUGE voice from this 4 foot nothing and a half tall woman would bellow GEORGI!

My old 38 Ford coupe was always called a Chev, because Ford didnt make red cars back then!

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Politicians are in the public eye and criticism is part of the game. Just roll with it and do what a mate of mine does,joins in the baggers!
( his grandfather was a knighted politician who nearly became primeminister of OZ but a total prick ) .

 

Hey Speak of the devil.....I went on the old cars weekly website and theres an article on there about sedan deliveries, with a cool picture of a 49 chevy police car special!!

In case your not familiar with old cars weekly, (the weekly newspaper) I would recomend to everyone to suscribe. It's a ton of entertainment and education for much less than a buck a week! Did I mention that it shows up weekly????????

 

I put a '34 Ford grille on my Model A, had a guy almost arguing with me that the car is a "34. He put a picture of it in a newsletter, I ask him why he put it in now. He said I never had a '34 Ford before and it's sharp. He had seen the car with the Model A grille before!

 

I can relate to how to deal with the Know It Alls

My secretary is one of them..she knows Everything..and is the Best at Everything..and doesnt hesitate to make sure you know this..

One day after her working for My Buisness for about 3 years or so, I had about all I could take with her pompus ass know it all shit talking..

I said to her. "Hey Carey I threw out all my Dictionaries and Encylopedias the other day"...she says to me..."Why did you do that?"
I said to her//"because i dont need them anylonger all I have to do is ask you"

seems she knew how to do my job and everyone elses job at my place and do it better than any one else too...wonder why shes still working for me as an office secretary than?...hummm

 

Wait, don't tell me.... she resembles Cal Cowboys avatar?

 

lol..i could probably put up with her shit ..if she did