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

"When are ya gonna polish it"?
"That would look better chromed"

etc. etc.....yada, yada

 

Put up a sign, "please don't touch". So you can say to the sour faced ninny. " And what part of do not touch" do you NOT understand".

Carrie

 

And there you have a guy who has more money than brains! Anytime anyone starts talking how much they payed, right there they are telling you that they have no friggin clue about the car or how it got that way. That's when you don't walk away, YOU RUN!!!!

Carrie

 

I've had people at the gas pump bitch me out for making a Pontiac out of a chevy...it's a freakin' '56 Chieftain for cryin' out loud!

they'll really hate it when I get it finished...I'm seriously contemplating having a quote someone mentioned earlier written on the car...probably engraved in the damn valve covers, "Of course you would have done it different!"

 

Correct response: "Hey, you're just an old lady, but I would still ask your husband before climbing all over you."

 

I had a daily driver '62 vette in the late 80's ....... that ...... I drove daily ....... I had it MANY years & drove it all over the place. Every time I stopped someone would say that they either had one or had one & just got rid of it. They must have made a million of them. I never saw many on the road though.

Ratty 46

 

My 57 Olds super 88 2dr ht with a 455 Olds engine and tubo 400

Had one just like it but is was red, had 4 doors, was a 98, went faster, had nicer interior,looked better, blah, blah, blah, blah...........................................

Nice 58 chevy did you put on the side chrome and install the funny looking dash

What modle of cadillac is that

on and on and on

Mostly I just smile and turn the tunes up

 

When I got my 38 chevy coupe it was a rust bucket with everything stripped off it but the doors and trunk lid & they would probably have been gone too if they were any good. The dash had been cut out with what looked like a air chisel. I got it running and drove it everywhere primered and the first thing I was asked is when ya going to paint it. Now that its painted, I have had a quite a few people asked me why I made a hot rod out of such a good car. This is when I go after them & tell them I wanted a hot rod and not an original car. Then it always leads to "money" that it would be worth a lot more original. I then tell the experts that If I restored it it would take a lot more money and would be worth less than it is now & also I don't care what it's worth since it wasn't built for profit or resale. I tell them go look at 38's for sale and see what is worth more original or street rodded and that's when they usually shut up. I haven't had one come back to me yet with an original 38 coupe that would sell for more that my hot rod.

 

"They never made a '59 El camino. That's a wagon with the roof cut off isn't it?"

 

Dad and me went to the exhaust shop to get a suggestion how to quiet down the 58 chevy truck with a 235 straight pipes with running lake pipes. Guy there goes well there is nothing i can do to quiet it donw u need to buy some corvette pipes to get it quieted down.

2 weeks later we put in some cherry bombs and 2 baffels on each side to quiet it down.

Also my friend was trying to tell me his dads 58 chevy truck was a 57 even though 57 had a single headlight and 58 had duals

 

At a car show, some porkhead bends down and tries to peel off the whitewalls on my Plymouth. "WTF are you doing? Get your hands off!" I say. He says, "I used to sell whitewalls you can stick on and I want to see if that's what these are". And he says it like the fact that he used to sell something entitles him to do whatever the f he wants to anyone's car. I sent him packing. BTW my tires do not have some cheap-ass stick-on whitewalls.

 

"When will it be finished"?

 

So that is why they are so damned hard to find!

 

Stopped at the local gas station today in my truck. The old hag that works there was standing infront of the station suckin down a carton of smokes as i pull in. I walk into the store, get my shit and leave. As im getting into my truck she asks "is that your fathers?" I told her that its all mine....."Well, did your father build that?" No, I did. He helped though........"Oh, you didnt build that"

The dumb bitch saw that i had my fathers old shop logo painted on my doors, and seeing that it looks old there is no way that I could have built it. Like im some punk kid, Im 25, and i look like im in my 30s. WTF

 

...you know, those black rims should be painted, or try to get some hubcaps with the white walls. This car just doesn't look right with those plain black wheels.

 

Was told an awesome one last night at work!! Someone asked me to show them a pic of my old 38, so I took one in. One of the Surgeon's leaned over (Classic car, classical music type, very upper class) and says,
'Oh, dear. Those cars didn't come with wheels. They had spokes'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could understand if he said, 'didn't come with THOSE wheels'.
So apparently spoked wheels are not actually wheels? Not to mention the 38 never had spoked wheels anyway!

Doc.

 

Hmm, that sure would make a funny sound goin' down the road.

 

now that's funny right there

 

I had my Plymouth up at the bar a few weeks ago and was showing someone my engine (stock flathead 6, nothing truly spectacular). Some chick (who had a boyfriend) walks up and starts telling me that I need to have everything chromed, and that some engineer at Nasa designed universal fuel injectors that will fit my engine). She also informed me that I need to put some big ass subs in it and cut up my dash for a CD player.

Another guy, who is a shade tree mechanic type, and I had this conversation:

Him: Why are you sinking so much time and money into an old fourdoor?

Me: It belonged to my great grandfather and I'd like to hand it down to my kids one day.

Him: Well, then you need to chop it, weld the back doors shut, (it has a six month old paintjob on it) and drop in a 350.

Me: Yeah, I was thinking I'd just drive it.

John

 

The classic one that threw me for a curve was when I drove my 51 Ford to the store and as my wife and I were getting out and walking in this really nice looking older lady said to us "I lost my virginity in a car like that" and without thinking I asked her if she was "ready for round two". Needless to say she and my wife had a look on their faces that was priceless.

 

"Ya know that's not origina.. blah, blah, blah"

 

IS THAT LEGAL?

 

I get asked what year Mercury my 52 buick is.

 

well how was the threesome in the back of a 51 ford

 

It took me a while to figure out why everyone liked my "1963" el camino, 'till i looked at my YOM plates, in WA they never made a '64 plate, its a '63 with a tab

 

The best answer (depending on the age of the "old Geezer") would be "Your daughter", "Your Wife", "Your Momma", or "Your Sister"! haha

 

I get that in my O/T '68 Mustang. "They never put a 302 in the '68." Well mine still has the orginal engine in it and if you decode the vin it is a "J" code which means 302 4 bbl.

 

Was the "chick" and boyfriend willing to fork over the CASH for said chromings? With all that NASA background, she should be able to affrod a couple of grand. I didn't think so!!!

Same for the "other" guy!!! Where DO these idiots come from? I'd say the Homeless shelter's lost and found. (like THAT exists!!!)

Carrie

 

Amen brother.

I have people come up to me all the time saying "That will look really neat when your done."

I am done jackass.

 

i get that one everyday...