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

unknown barris car? post it up!! I would really like to see some pictures of the progress, start a thread, A lot of people would like to see this. wild custom there!!

 

Two guys looking at my car. One says to the other, "Look, it's got a dash just like a '56 Ford!"

I say, "It IS a '56 Ford."

"But it's got Mercury taillights."

"Yes, it's a '56 Ford with Mercury taillights."

"How did that happen?"

 

I have a photo posted on another thread but here it is.

 

where is the thread at?

 

Hehe,

Yea, someone dropped me an email, to the effect of that because I have a 71 Nova, I dont belong on the HAMB....

 

Can you post a rear shot? Is that a hamburger mounted on the rear???

 

My car has been called just about everything, and rarely does anyone ever get it right. It's a PONTIAC, not a Chevy, Ford, Mercury, Dodge... or even a Studebaker (I have no idea how that one even got in there)

I also get that "That'll be a nice one when you're done with it". Which I haven't quite figured out yet... are they telling me it sucks now?


Dave

 

My avaitar: "Is that a Bubble Top?" Yes. "What year?" '61." '62's are better."

 

So wait, who's dumb here? The guy with the blatantly unfinished car or the people who wonder if it'll ever be done. Ron

 

Whoa, WHO said it wasn't done?? Lighten up Dude...

 

had a guy tell me that there was no way that my 55 Pontiac was a 55 and that it was a 57.

 

Yeah, its a hamburger and I hate it. It mounts with a piece of 4" or so pipe and one thru bolt so my thinking was to remove it and build a shorty pickup bed to hold the Moon gas tank thats inside and make a padded bed cover over it. This way I can revert back to original one day if someone wants it with the burger and in the mean time I dont have to look at it.

 

Does your coolaid smell like almonds to, or is it just mine?

 

but it's an original, if anyone asks it's an original barris, I kind of like the burger personally . since Barris made it,would it be a traditional burger?

 

GUY AT ALOCAL SHOW HAD A 19??? DODGE SEDAN CUT INTO A TUB. SO I ASKED HIM WHAT YEAR THE TUB WAS, HE REPLIED -with major attitude-"UH, ITS A COUPE! NOT A TUB! I THEN REPLIED "BUT THERES NO ROOF, AND ITS TOO LONG TO BE A COUPE," CUZ I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING!
HE THEN REPLIED "I SHOULD KNOW, I JUST BOUGHT THE THING OFF CRAIGS LIST LAST WEEK, THEY TOLD ME ITS A COUPE" THEN HE GOT UP AND WALKED AWAY.
HUUUUUUUHHHHH?????

 

That thing has a bad water pump........ NO Thats a gear drive....

 

Studebaker didnt make a v8.
Didn't Studebakers use chevy frames and engines?

COPPERKRONE: "Does your coolaid smell like almonds to, or is it just mine?"
now thats funny. I might need to make that my signature

 

I was in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles the other day, and the CHIEF of that office asked ME (!) what the code "55 DeS" meant.

I was stopped dead for a second, then I told her it was a DeSOTO! Heck, she sure LOOKED old enough to remember a DeSoto. So much for "expertise" !

 

"where's the hood?"
"nice Studebaker" it's a 46 Ford truck.
" if you paint it you might get $5000 for it"
"where's the radio?" it doesn't have (or need one)
"nice car" it's a truck....

 

I had a(60) Buick that I put a later model (67) engine in to replace the blown up nailhead. I listed it on Ebay. A dude emailed me " Way to go, you ruined two cars" The parts car was a clapped out four door, and the nailhead was junk. Go figure

 

had the 56 at a show saturday,this guy and his female were lookin at it then when I walk up he asked me..........so why did you put your car on a truck frame??? so I told him well the numbers on the old frame came up hot so I had to use this frame,

 

Several years ago, I brought the '68 GTO I owned at the time to an all Pontiac show. While the car was on display, I had a nitwit come over and ask if I wanted to sell the rear bumper off of it! I looked at him in disbelief and said, "Excuse me?" He says, "How much do you want for the rear bumper off this? I'm redoing one and I need a bumper." I stand up out of my chair and say, "Does this look like a FREAKIN' parts car?!!!" The guy says, "Well, mine will be a lot nicer than this one when I'm done." I took one step towards him before my wife grabbed my arm, which probably kept me out of jail that night. Through clenched teeth, I said, "Go get yours and meet me in the street in front.... if you can beat me, you can HAVE the bumper!" Needless to say, he never showed.

The second picture was taken the day of that show. Some parts car, huh? By the way, despite how it looked, it was FAR from stock!

 

Definition of expert...

X.........an unknown quantity
spert....a drip under pressure.

 

Studebaker did use Chevy engines in 65-66. Usually though it's guys who hear "Stude 289" and try to tell you that's a Ford engine.


I think I would have just told the GTO bumper guy $10,000. I mean what the hell, if he's that stupid maybe he'd pay it... I'm sure they can be bought a lot cheaper. It's not even that a guy like that just has a lot of gall to ask, it's that they don't give a shit about anyone or anything but themselves and as a result every other car they look at is junk, even if it's restored better than new.

Tell people it's a new protoype for a safety device in case people are tailgating you....

 

"no,,that won't work like that"

 

Thanks for the support , somehow there are still people out there that will never understand that flat paint and an indian blanket interior is just as "finished" as gloss paint and sewn leather . Way cooler too .

 

nice little nugget the other day.
Pops got a for-sale sign in the 51' just for kicks, my Cadillac is parked nose to nose with it, i just have it sitting untill i can find a place to store it.
Well a guy stops and is looking at the ford for a bit, then notices the cad and starts looking at EVERYTHING on it, under, over, tires, interior, so i decide to go out and talk to him to get his mitts off my car.
Me: How are you doing, interested in the ford?
Him: how much for the cadillac.
Me: Its not for sale, its mine.
Him: Well then why is it for sale?
Me: its not, its just parked in front of the for sale one.
Him: Well i want the cadillac, i'd have to fix a lot of the things you fucked with but your just a kid.
Me: well your a grown man who put fake fender vents on a cobalt, who's the one who screwed up again?
He left.

Not gonna lie i get real tired of dealing with people on this shit, but i also get ticked a bit too easy i guess.

 

Where did they make Kaisers?

Is it an american car?

 

LOVE IT !!!!!!! HA HA HA HA.

Id have done the same buddy ........

 

At Bonneville Speed Week and World Finals -

2 people ... out of 9000 plus racers and spectators

1 at speedweek :" You really should paint it ! "
1 at World Finals :"You ruined a perfectly good Buick"