Dumbest thing an "EXPERT" has said about your ride?

"were ya able to get big rear rubber on the car?''(uh, you're lookin at it????)

 

i have the other side with my '60 el camino.

 

Rancheros get it in spades, and not just the El Camino thing. I was at the drag track with my '65 Ranchero several years ago, when this mealy looking guy approaches and tells me how nice it looks. So far, so good... Then he asks me if it was one of the Rancheros that started out as a two door wagon. Excuse me?

"Oh yeah, about half of the Rancheros were originally 2 door wagons, because Mountain Bell ordered like 30,000 of them, and then cancelled the order. So Ford had all these wagons that they couldn't sell, so they were all converted to Rancheros so they would sell."

Now, I'm not going to step one toe into this one, because pointing out all the dozens of things that make this story impossible would have taken up more time than I had in the staging lanes, and I was coming close to my next run. So I just said, "Really? this is the first time I've ever heard of that! Gee!"

So the guy walks off all happy that he informed me of this, and gets into his race car about five cars in front of me. It's a 70 Mustang fastback in about the same shape as Joe Dirts' Daytona, with a 351 Cleveland, tunnel ram, two 750 double pumpers, nutty cam of some sort, open headers, 4 speed, and who knows what gears.

He goes for his run, launches like he's towing a trailer, and runs a 13.90. My converted 2 door wagon with it's '70 302, Edelbrock heads, Comp 268H cam, and C4 with 3:25 gears runs a 13:45 while the expert is watching from the starting line. Then he asks me what he should do to make his car faster. I tell him to ditch the tunnel ram and use one of his Holleys on a single 4V intake, and he gets all huffy about how he tried that, and he picked up 3 10ths with the t-ram. So I told him I didn't know much more that that about Clevelands (which was sort of true) and to ask the Cleveland guys that run in the 10s with goliath-sized '71-'73 Mustangs and Torinos. Doubt he ever did.

-KK

 

The radiator "cap" on our "A" has been referred to as a duck many times. (quail)

Once in high school we ran across a car my dad had built and sold before I was born. Started looking at it hot and heavy since we hadn't seen it in roughly 20 years. Guy comes over kind of pissy for our looking at it. Tells us his best friend built the car 5 years ago and he's the second owner. We keep looking and telling him dad built it.
Sealed the deal when he told him how a few pieces used to be when he had it, guy who owned it now admitted that we were correct. He was then pretty pissed off at his buddy when he found out how old the car was.
Exciting to me to see the rod my parents built in a trailer house and 8x10 shed. They had to cut the end of the shed off to get the car out when done.

 

my car has 35-40 yrs of laquer paint and has all the spider cracks that come with it. well this one guy and his wife came by at a local cruise in and said I must have a lot of kids to scratch my car that much. stupid(rude people) piss me off,lol

 

another time years ago,at a show this guy began walking around my car and stepping back and looking..very puzzled look on his face..I walk over and he asks.." how did you stretch the roof like that to put the back seat in there?" its a club coupe, i said

 

see, here's the catch. he didn't say how many times it would do it, or for how long.

I figure it might, with enough nitrous....at least once. we can try it, but You gotta pick up the pieces.

 

I had a guy tell me my Comet was a "sweet Mopar".

 

way back in high school there was a guy who drove a brown 1937 ford coupe. this was like the day after "California Kid" came out on TV. some numbnut insisted that the car in the movie was "just like his".

 

I had my '56 Merc at the local car show. I started the 312 y-block which had a street/strip Isky cam. Guy sticks his head in and says man it runs rough. I think you really need a tune up. These used to run very smooth. I told him it had a cam and he repeated his advice. I put it drive and left.

 

I did a chevy showdown here in town a couple of weeks ago with my 56....had a guy and his buddy ask if its safe to race a car that sits that high???...........being the smartass I have always been I said "Hell yeah,Its a mudbog racer"

 

I got the cardinal sin comment last night... "You're working on a nice rat rod there, those wheels would look great red...

 

I had someone come up to my '40 sedan at a show and say how his grandpa built "this very car" (and he was positive it was it) back in the early 60's and how he coulda ended up with it blah blah blah.... I sincerely apologized and told him I built it and pulled the body out of a field in 2002; the last license plate that was on it was from '54...

 

I have had this happen, i Had my 27 T Coupe at the Autorama World of Wheels in Calgary Alberta, i was there a total of like 20 some hours over the course of 3 days...i heard alot of good storys from oldtimers but one guy starts sayin that he is building something like my T......a 4x4 s10 blazer????WTF does that have anything to do with my Chopped Channeld T Coupe...i just walked away

 

Are you goin to make that a rat rod.....

 

"You gonna build a rat rod out of it?" No a gasser. "you should make it a rat rod"

"What kind of bike is that?" 72 ironhead sportster. "Aren't sportsters a girls bike?" What do you ride? "Honda Goldwing" cool

 

Yeah, that one gets me the most. That and telling me directly to put in different seats or some other crap. I don't go to a lot of shows anymore because the mean free distance between idiots is way too small.

 

Had someone say they'd never heard of this make of car......

 

^^^^That's funny!^^^^^

 

My Cousin has a 1968 Dodge pu that he put together when he was 16. After he painted it, he wheeled it outside so it would dry faster. Some guy stops and wants to buy the seat out of it. Here the truck is, sitting here with wet paint and a freshly recovered seat and he thinks he is going to get it. By the way, The guy thinks this place is a salvage yard just because my uncle has a few cars on his place.

 

At a local cruise night many years ago with my chopped and channeled A coupe. A young boy is looking in the car and says to his mother "Wow it's small in there." The mom replies with authority; "Yes, people were shorter back then."

 

Not really a dumb thing but I used to get "Is that a clone?" a lot when I was showing my '66 GT 350H Shelby. Or why do they call it a 350? Is that the engine. Just uninfromed.

 

I had a guy standing looking at my doors with a puzzled look on his face for about 5 minutes. He then told his wife I must think its a damn general lee with the doors welded up. I have poppers that are electric, keypad. He was looking down the door line telling her, look in there see the welds, WTF. I hit the button and popped it open on his forehead.I figured he'd get mad, but I'm 6'4" around 300, and he was smaller then my 12 year old. LOL.

 

"yer gonna warsh them cylinders with all them carbs son"

"better check it for fuel dillution"

 

had an old guy at a gas station,say nice 54 .i say no its a 53 .then he gets all bent out of shape telling me that MY car 53 ford is in fact a 54 ...
the guy next door says ""that car looks just like christine" ...

 

I have a primer color 40 chevy. Everyone wants to know what color am I going to paint it? I tell them I am thinking about flat black. Always get a weird look.
My buddy has a nice 40 ford sedan. People ask what kind of car is that? He says its an orginal PT cruiser. Amazing how many people belive him.

 

OK.. I have the dumb person EVER talk to me however it wasn't at alllll car related..

some back ground info, Im from alaska, play hockey in college and was well known....

at a party a girl comes up to me and says, "your levi from the hockey team right", "yes" I reply.. then she says, " Your from Alaska right....?" yes I say... (realizing I get STOOPID alaska questions allllll the time...) THEN she proceeds to say this....

"Why is Alaska SOOO cold if it is off the cost of california between california and Hawaii?" (think weather map.....) I Had NO responce none. I set my beer down and left the party... Yeah a college kid set down a beer..... Thats how discusted I was... AND come to find out SHE was a polysci major...

 

Hey Kona, I think you missed a very easy opportunity there.

 

I don't want to even remember how many times some expert has called my car a "32 roadster".

 

NAH.. one, she was a butter face, Two, she was the GF at that time sawhority sister...