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

It's what happens when you let your wife go to car shows with you. Whenever I see crybabies,stuffed animals or toy cars on air breathers, I see a woman siiting next to the car in a chair.

I think they should be set on fire, then kicked across the lot. Anger issues? i guess so. either way they are dumb as shit and should be destroyed!!

 

nevermind.

 

I've got a '66 Coronet Wagon... you should hear what they say about the 318 Poly!

"Oh yeah... it's an experimental Hemi!"

~Jason

 

Guy walks past my 5 window Hi-Boy shakes his head and says "Nice fenders dude"
without missin a beat i answered back "Hey look a talking pussy. Let me borrow that for a minute" He kept walking!

 

Okay so this guy comes to my place to check out an O/T car he wants to buy. He's got quite a mouth so he starts talking cars and stuff. I'm not really listening, but he was going on and on. So then at one point he wags his finger at my truck parked nearby and says, "..you know it ain't nothing like that Chevy you got there..." and then continues rambling on.

Mind you, this is the angle from which he could see the truck:

 

Thats one hell of a random and stupid thing to say in my book I would gave him a kind slap across the head..

 

Yet another testament to our educational system

 

"Is that a Nomad?"

"I know what that is! It's one of those cars... what's it called?... they take dead people to the cemetery in."

"It's like a wagon version of Christine."

"Ya got a little rust problem."

The 289 Ford always throws them off.

"That a 318? Or a 383?"

But I got this one the other day, absolutely cracked me up.

"I knew it musta been a Chrysler cause they was always UGLY."

(I couldn't help but laugh)

 

Buddies at the car show laughed their ashes off when an old geezer approached my A roadster and asked if it was my dad's car. I guess I age well.

 

just about to write the exact same story (51 minor -sidevalve engine)
i even get it when im working under the hood

 

Along the same lines as that, yesterday as I was coming home from a swap meet a minivan was following behind me for quite a few miles. He finally pulled up beside me, rolled down the passenger window, and yelled out "what year is that?" He's not the first to do it and he won't be the last. The stupid thing is this is what the back of my truck looks like when you follow me down the road...

I guess the lettering could be made a bit bigger and easier to read from a distance.

 

hahaha. Shoulda stayed in Alberta!

 

I get mad at know it alls, but then I find I'm a know it all sometimes too. Hate when I'm wrong, but it's okay if the company's genial.

 

If the person is ignorant but interested, and is willing to learn what's really what, then I agree with you completely. If he's trying to impress his girl friend (or, worse, me) with his incorrect knowledge, I won't hesitate to correct him bluntly. And if he's obnoxious to boot, he deserves whatever he gets.

 

"Ya know,.....When you get one of those things over 100MPH,......the back end comes right up, off the ground." Yeah,....Sure,.... If you have enough to drink first.

 

And driving it in reverse at 100 mph. LOL!

Funny, that when you point out to that guy that that very same '59 or '60 Impala body ran in NA$CAR at over 140 mph plus...funny they didn't suddenly take flight! And the '59 Daytona photo finish at speed...didn't see that car flying through the air!!! Too stinkin' funny there!

 

homeless dudes love my "36 merc"..........

 

"Hey..that's the car that Dean Martin died in.."

Dean Martin...er..hmmm..
Mine is a 53 Gray Jaguar..mind starts extrapolating..translating to human speak..synapse de-engineering..reconstruct..relate 50s trivia..

"Uh..James Dean ?" " Uh..silver Porcshe..

"Yeah..that's the dude, Died in your car ?"

 

My wife has had people ask her about her Nomad (71 VW Squareback).
I have a bastardized VW Beetle cut into a pickup. I had someone tell me they had the exact same Bug pickup that they bought new from the dealer.
Of course, I think everyone here has had a run-in with the guy with the Olds 4-4-2 with the "original" 442 cubic inch engine.

 

I went a house party last year in my '55. Lots of guys were there with tuners (really nice for what they were, really fast peices) One bro walked up and asked me to pop my hood, so I did. He saw the 235, "dude sick flathead!" I just walked away with a big smile on my face.

 

I have one just like it at home except its a..............

 

i confuse tuners, quarter century old tuner car with an engine they have no idea what it is, if it doesn't say v-tak they are lost, and 1972 dual sidedraft carbs on it.makes for some head scratching, the ones who will listen i explain it to them,the idiots i shut the hood. I always get the" duuuuude you should throw that motor away and get a v-tak, or some nooooozzze," No thanks, I like it the way it is.

 

Had a guy standing behind me at a show once say that the side windows at the windscreen pillar on the peirson bros. coupe were too tight of a radius..

I looked at my dad, and we were both like w.t.f.

 

I always like when you drive your hotrod or kustom somewhere and you get the old lady that's telling you how her dad or brother is into "HotRods" and how they just fixed up '65 mustang "hotrod" and how she loves "hotrod" camaros and chevelles. Some people just don't get it! You'd think the whitewalls would tell her she's talking apples and oranges!

 

"It will never move again on its own" and " you could probably get a junk yard to take it off your hands"... Thanks it is now my daily driver.

 

I once had an older man tell me that his son was 'conceived' in the back seat of a Chevy just like mine. Quickly to be 'corrected' by his wife's open palm on the back of his head

 

Had a guy ask me the other day if my 48 Plymouth coupe was a Morris Minor, becuase his grandpa has one too.

 

Not my car that get's an expert opinion here but I find it kinda funny so here goes.

When I was at the Bilsport Performance Show & Custom Motor Show this easter here in Sweden I encountered a pretty funny statement from an "expert".

I was standing and looking at this pretty rad looking Rod, lowered, painted in a green flake if I remember correctly, wide whites and everything. But what cought my attention to it was the black painted Cadillac V8 Flathead it had in front. First time for me to see one up close for real!

So as I was standing there and looked at it a group of people comming from the tuner part of the show stopped and looked at it aswell. Then one of the guys says "Nice looking Hot Rod, too bad it ain't got a V8..."
I looked at the guy for a moment and was thinking, if he says something more I'll correct him, eventually they moved on and I stod there shaking my head.

 

Man!!, I woulda' paid to see that one.

Not much mind you, but paid nonetheless.

 

gee thanks, I feel so much better now...