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

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by SOHC427, May 8, 2009.

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  1. George
    Joined: Jan 1, 2005
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    I was @ a show recently. 2 guys were walking around & every time this one guy would see something big like a caddy or wagon, regardless of the fact they were bone stock, he'd point out the "lead sled". Guess he thought it meant big & heavy.
     
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  2. hillbilly4008
    Joined: Feb 13, 2009
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    from Rome NY

    I had my buddy painting my shop name on the doors of my pickup. My cousin strolls in and spends about 10minutes looking over his shoulder before saying "why dont you just do it in vynel?" Some people just dont get it. Next he'll ask why i dont have LEDs.
     
  3. i have a chop, slam to the weed, long 1928 sedan,

    that most question i get "are you going to turn it back to stock "
     
  4. Side
    Joined: Feb 28, 2009
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    from Berlin, OK

    "You know removing those Chevrolet emblems and filling the holes significantly devalues your truck."
     
  5. 55courier
    Joined: Nov 22, 2008
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    more than once I have had someome come to me and say that is a nice GTO what year is it? I tell them if it were a GTO it would be a 68' but it is a RoadRunner.
     
  6. tfee
    Joined: Oct 10, 2006
    Posts: 140

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    Some kid asked me if I was a Mormon last week. In his defense, I have a Mormonesque beard and I was driving a wood car wearing a black coat. He made me laugh a bit. Most people ask where the radiator is or want to know if I've oiled my carbs lately.
     
  7. Is it a REAL S###BY ??? >>>>.
     
  8. sixdogs
    Joined: Oct 11, 2007
    Posts: 635

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    Wait a minute... a wood car, mormonesque beard and and wearing a black coat. There must be more here than meets the eye. What is it that you are driving?
     
  9. 067chevy
    Joined: Sep 18, 2005
    Posts: 2,073

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    You have your spindles on backwards.
     
  10. 067chevy
    Joined: Sep 18, 2005
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    A work in progress?
     
  11. Painter D
    Joined: Jan 9, 2009
    Posts: 277

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    from DFW

    I couldn't tell you how many people have called my Riviera an Impala. I have no idea why that is, I see no resemblence.
     
  12. Was going to a carshow in Southern Missouri & stopped to get gas. The wife walks out to get back in the car laughing her ass off. I asked what's so funny, & she tells me that some guy inside the gas station said our car was a "chopped, channeled, centioned & lowwered" early Nova. I looked at her & asked how did he come to that when the tags read "ITZA VW" and it's a 65 VW Notchback...joe
     

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  13. EV34
    Joined: Aug 29, 2008
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    this is some good stuff.....i used to have corvette valve covers on my 34 and for a while i got the oh cool a corvette motor than it got to where i couldnt help my self and started tellin them that it came factory that way....... then it takes forever to get it through to them what it really is

    also we were on our way back from ks with a bucnch of people and i was puttin gas in my dads 48 ford and this guy comes up and is like nice 57....nope 48....oh well that one over there is a nice 57.....nope thats a 35 ford he went on to every car in the lot just knowin he would find a 57 lol
     
  14. A Rodder
    Joined: Jul 13, 2008
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    I had a guy stop in at my shop today. He was really interested in my 30 sedan, said he was building one with his dad similar to mine, but his was a 28. He also said his was the same as mine, you know a three on the tree. I thought that was interesting, maybe he thought that is what I was running, maybe he had that with a cool y block or something, nope running three strombergs. You know three on the tree. Then he preceeded to tell me that it is a build more for his dad and he has a model A T bucket. He will learn, I did appreciate his enthusiasm.
     
  15. Edsel58a
    Joined: Jan 17, 2008
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    I was asked why I chose a Chevy small block for my 1954 Ford..... It is Y Block powered....
     
  16. 31fordV860
    Joined: Jan 22, 2007
    Posts: 864

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    My 31 A has Gray Primer Patina/ 3"Chop/ dropped front axle/ Flathead...
    Primer was from mid fifties....

    Question always ...what Color are you going to paint it ?..

    "Aint gunna du it' ...i always say..
     
  17. evolvo
    Joined: May 18, 2009
    Posts: 144

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    from Seattle

    I was at the Cruzin Colby in Everett, Wa on memorial day. Guy starts asking ? and tell me he loves the car. "What kind of tranny you got in it?" T5 I says. "Thats cool, at least you don't have to shift all the time" HUH
     
  18. 6berry
    Joined: Apr 12, 2009
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    my friends used to always tell my dad his '71 chevelle was a sick mustang
     
  19. 34dodgehemi
    Joined: Jun 27, 2007
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    I've got an all steel 33 chevy coupe, it's done in in semi gloss black. The first night I drove the car to a local cruise spot some guy trying to impress his girlfriend (Ugly Bitch) asks, "When did they start making a fiberglass 33 five window" I responded "I dont Know, I've never bought one" Not satesfied he asks "then where did you find this fiberglass body", I told him it was 100% steel, He says "there's no way, this thing still has the gel coat on it". I explained to him it was a semi-gloss paint. As he was walking away he told me I need to find a new painter who know how to wet sand and use a buffer (He wasnt kidding). I laughed it off
     
  20. VA HAMB
    Joined: Jun 14, 2006
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    I think we have a winner!
     
  21. mtpockits
    Joined: May 20, 2009
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    All your answers are correct, we have all herd someting werd about our car's, i myself can't beleave the people that think my 49 nash is ugly.:p
     
  22. slysball
    Joined: Aug 29, 2006
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    I was told one time " That is a nice Volkswagon your are building there"........It's is a 1947 Chevy Fleetline! Moron!
     
  23. I think these are the reason that the greaseslapper will probably never see a car show. Provided I ever get it finished!
     
  24. Went to have the front end aligned on my lowered 66 Chevy wagon. The guy said, "That thang thar needs some new sprangs. They saggin'. Yep, that's what's wrong wit it. Don't need no linemint."

    Mikey
     
  25. mart3406
    Joined: May 31, 2009
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    from Canada

    A few years back I built a '74 Pinto ''hot rod". I know it's not a 'hot rod"
    according to HAMB criteria but it's what I wanted at the time and
    with a 5-bolt 9 inch rear and Maverick front disks, lowered suspension,
    15X8.5 and 15X7 Torque-Thrusts, some tasteful 'aero' body mods and
    a built, 350-plus hp 2.3 Turbo 4-banger and 5 speed from a T-bird TC
    it meets my personal criteria for a 'hot rod'! Anyway, my first night out
    cruising in the Pinto, a couple kids about 18 or 20, in a late model
    Honda Civic with all the goofy stereotypical "rice racer" mods - ie -
    8 inch fart can exhaust tip, 18 inch wheels, rear wing, neon lights etc.,
    etc, ad nausium) started following me through the city trying to get a
    look at the Pinto. Everytime they'd get close, I'd give the throttle a
    little tap and shoot away from them.They finally caught up to me at a
    redlight in an industrial district and the passenger rolled down his window
    and yelled over over at me, "Hey! What kind of car is that??" I yelled
    back "It's a Pinto!" Then the driver yells over and says "Cool! Who makes
    those???
    ?" I yelled back- "Nobody!They don't make Pintos anymore! This
    car's older then you are!
    " Just then the light turned green and while they're
    still staring at my Pinto and tryng to figure what it is and "who makes them"
    I brought the revs up, dropped the clutch and left them in a cloud of rear
    wheel tire smoke. <LOL>

    mart
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  26. allstarderrick
    Joined: Jul 23, 2007
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    We were chatting with a guy recently at the Syracuse Nationals with a cool little Lakes Modified. Lot's of fabbed parts, quickchange, flat motor, a nice, finished car that happens to be painted flat black. As the owner was talking to my buddy, myself and another friend were in front of the car and a husband and wife walk up, probably in thier 50's. The guy points to the car and says " this thing here is a RATROD, it's made with junk and painted with spray cans" and walked away. My friend and I just looked at each other and laughed, knowing that correcting the guy would do nothing else but waste my good time. They proceeded to walk around a car that resembled a 37 Ford (and smelled like resin) for the next couple of minutes. I wonder what he said about that one?
     
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  27. mart3406
    Joined: May 31, 2009
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    from Canada

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    Man, what an idiot! That guy surely missed a golden
    opportunity! 'Ol' Carrol would've paid a fortune for that
    guy's "10,000 rpm secret"!!! :D:D

    mart
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  28. I was at Vatozone picking up some spray paint (only thing they're good for anymore) and as I'm opening the door to my 62 Corvair, a guy exclaims from across the parking lot, "Hey look a Corvair." I always enjoy talking to people that have experience with these things, so I waited for him to come over. His next statement amazed me, "You know, the engine's in the back in these things!" No shit? I've been lookin all over for it, thanks for the info!
     
  29. mart3406
    Joined: May 31, 2009
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    from Canada

    15 years ago when I put a dual-quad 401 nailhead from a Buick Wildcat into my
    '64 Buick Special, I had idiots constantly asking 1) "How come I put a Chevy
    engine in it?
    " and 2) "How come I *didn't* put a Chevy engine it"! I
    also had "experts" tell me that "Buicks never came with dual-quads"
    and that the engine was really 'an Olds', 'a Cadillac', 'a 427 Ford',
    etc., etc.

    mart
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  30. From a certified street rod "expert" when looking at the 20" wide slicks on wide 5 floater hubs on the back of my V12 powered bucket... "You should never mix street rods and race cars" HUH?!

    I about shit...
     
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