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

Some funny stuff on here...

 

I was putting gas in mt 26T coupe=the trunk was open because thats where the gas tank is-----a guy walked up and said I thought all these 33"s had a rumble seat----????????

 

I saw an old 65 nova I had built at the drags one night and found the kid who owned it. It ran 11.10 when I had it but someone had put a mild small block in it for the street. Where this fits into this thread is that he swore his buddy built it and he didn't think i had the right car. Once I showed him where I had invested my 200 or so hours and 20k, he asked me why it wound up so fast and cherped around corners. Thats when he found out that he had 5.57 gears and a spool in his recently purchased street car. Good thing I put in hardened studs.

 

Ok, so this reply isn't for a car that would normally discuss here, but it's still a good story- I took a '95 T/A into get smogged here in so Cal and the "expert" who worked at the smog check station wouldn't pass my car because I refused to install the paper sticker that had the carb eod# onto my exhaust headers. (I had SLP headers installed- they came with a sticker to install in the engine compartment to display the eod#. they weren't stamped onto the headers themselves.) We had a heated arguement and I ended up taking my car elsewhere.

 

Some jump on the band wagon, "greaser" who 3 years ago was into mini trucks. Came up to me last night and said : '' Are you sure thats a 383 or did someone tell you it was"......I have a 1960 dated 383 that came out of a Plymouth Fury with 68 heads, 555 Solid lift isky cam and 2x4's off of a 64 super stock max wedge....that was put in my hot rod in 1964. I just told him he was wrong.

 

I have a 1951 ford sedan no grille no bumpers.
Hey whats that a desoto , No its a ford, oh must not be a popular model.....

Same day man thats a cool car we dont see alot of old MG's around here. Come the fuck on a MG

302s didnt come out till the sixties, your right, why do you have one in that car, I dont, oh what is it, a 383, it doesnt look like a mopar engine, its not, what is it, Chevy, they didnt make a 383, your right they didnt.

 

Started driving my '46 Ford coupe around the last couple weeks. It's been a "stalled project" sitting in a couple garages since around '92 while I was busy playing race car, buying & selling houses, and having kids.

Just decided to take the 90's psuedo-billet crap off and just drive the damn thing in primer - better than having it sit forever. Actually looks fairly normal & traditional now. SBC, whites on chromes, buggy spring up front, but nothing really special. I'll paint it eventually, but right now it looks like I planned it this way.

Nice Arab lady across the street saw it for the first time & asked me if I was going to turn it in for my "cash for clunkers" trade... She was sincere....

 

Steering wheel is on the wrong side. Pedals are on the wrong side.




Oh ho ho .....I just laugh and laugh each (of the 473 times) time I hear that one.

 

IS that a 55? (My freaking license plate says LS56 ) and its a 56 Chevy.

I get a lot of people commenting on the 'billet' on my car when they really mean the chrome. So many people get the two confused its just humorous now.An yeah- I know its not 'traditional' -but I built it from scratch and love driving it

 

I hear you on that one!! It truly shows up an intellectual acuity deficit!

Doc.

 

I think Mark Twain said that it was better to keep your mouth shut and risk appearing a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Looks like it shakes down to a couple of generations of people that have nothing in their lives to be proud of, so they use every opportunity to be a big shot.

 

I drove my 32' Ford into McDonalds about 10 years ago.. As I walked in, a kid moping the floor said...

"HEY YA'LL, COME CHECK OUT THIS AMISH CAR!"

I'll never forget that! We laughed so hard!

Joshua Shaw.

 

So many times I've heard "Oh, that's nice of them to let you polish the car" when I am cleaning my car or truck before a show, obviously referring to my boyfriend/dad/brother, or whatever guy they think owns my car. Just because I am a woman doesn't mean I can't have a sweet ride!

Also, I have been told more times than I can count what a nice Thunderbird I have. It is a 1960 Maserati. Thanks, though.

 

Look at it as the world trying to politely tell you to put your steering wheels where they should be and to drive on the correct side of the road

 

had an incident yesterday at a local show:

Me: minding my own business waiting for the owner of the car is looking at to show up to ask some ques
Old Cocksucker:"hey,they call it a hemi,I've got 3 of them same motors at home.!"
Me:hearing him trying to ignore him,but replied "Yeah,it's a 331"
Old cocksucker:"Do you know how to tell the difference between a 331 and a 392?"
Me:ignoring him at this point,looking around for the owner of the car
Old Cocksucker:"WELL DO YA?"
Me:trying to still ignore him but "YEAH,BY THE SERIAL NUMBERS"(as i pointed to them)
Old Cocksucker:"Yeah i suppose by the numbers,but theres also another clue"
Me:"And this car was also in Rod N Custom MAG a few years back in a feature article that says what's been done to the engine and where it was done!"
Old Cocksucker:"Yeah ok,and you believe everything you read?"
Me:now i'm thinking this guy's a world class fuckstick,pissed off geezer lookin to impress
then he says...
Old Cocksucker:All 392's had extended bellhousings!
Me:then i told him "this isn't a 392 it's a 331,and you're wrong!
Old Cocksucker:Wanders off..

 

I told a guy my engine is a 500ci and he asked how many liters so i told him 8.2 he said they didn't make anything bigger then a 5.0 that was in mustangs

 

haven't seen one of those in a long time

 

I woulda told him to f##k off its american and we use cubic inches!..........

 

That's pretty damn funny...

 

I love going to shows and hearing the car owner tell people about how "HE" chopped the top, but yet I have all the pictures of my Dad or Brother doing it. Cracks me up everytime!

-South End Kustom

 

I just had to suffer about a three day diatribe of emails about how all northeastern cars are shit and should be parted out and how no one starts with a rusty POS for a project.

I guess he wouldn't believe me if I told him just how many rusty POS's I've sold to guys who built them because sometimes that's the only way you can find a particular car at all - is as a rusty POS.

Or how many decent solid cars we have up here, road salt notwithstanding.


But I guess it's fair, because I don't believe a word of all the supposed cars he's worked on that have all won trophies. If I had a nickel for every time someone ran that line of crap by me, I'd be the next Bill Gates. Yeah, sure you worked on them, if by working on you mean pumping gas into them for the owners.

 

Dana (my wife) used to get that all the time -usually followed by some rude expletive from her mouth! I sitll remember the time some guy told her how nice it was that helped her husband in HIS hobby. I thought she was going to deck the guy -she looked so mad.LOL

 

ha ha seen that before..i had one who got pissed when everyone thought her hot rod belonged to me

 

Come e' bello!

 

Coming out of a taco shop,comes this fat bitch stuffing her face with a burrito,looks at my 50 ford and says i love your studebaker,i said its a ford,fat chick says "your wrong its a studebaker"..i said "listen do you really think that i dont know what car i drive,and registered with that state of california,got parts for and built"..she says "Iam sorry its a studebaker".I walk up to her and tell her why you eating chinese food,she says no its a burrito...i said "sorry its chinese,your wrong"...She yells its a burrito!..no no no i tell her its chinese and your skinny too..now fuck off!..she left head down tale between her legs....great moment in customs.

 

was in Pasquagola MS passing through saw a car show starting wife and i drove in to look
They parked me in it
a guy walked by yith a friend and said you cant run 6X2's in the street walked around the truck and said O it takes an IDIOT from Florida to do that
i have had the truck on the road in California since 1974 now in Florida
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ive had this same thing said about my roadster AND my dd towncar needed a started and i was told to just trade it for cash for clunkers

 

Hombres Ruin .... That's to Funny!
I had to shut down my buddy one night in front of all his friends for shootin' his mouth off about my brothers car .... He was acting like it was his and told them all it was a '62 Olds .... I just leaned over and said .... "Dude my Bro's Olds is a '64" .... Kinda put a damper on his Koolness! hahahahaha!

 

You are so right... There was an older lady with an Xj120 or so... sitting on her driveway. Went ask the lady if it was for sale she told me it wasn't for sale, her son was going to restore it when he got back from the army. The neighbor informed me her son had been killed in Vietnam and her world stopped that day. So when someone says something aint for sale, respect that.

The sidebar to this is that these old people sometimes just want someone to talk to, so drop back from time to time and develop a relationship with them and in time they will possibly get off of it. Sometimes they wanna know their baby is going to a good home.

 

That is so true, I have too much respect for the elderly in our society to pester them but sometimes they just need someone to talk to. You wont know just how much 10 minutes of your time can mean to someone.
I learned that in my first year of high school, for history we had to interview a local 'old timer', I ended up volunteering at the nursing home through High School.
I was also given a project car (53-4 Chevy) for the simple act of stopping in to talk to someone.
NeverEnuf, much-o respect man.
Doc.