What is your stupidest car superstition?

I do the same. No OCD ... I just don't want to be "that guy" who is continually looking for his keys.

 

Mike51Merc wrote: Green Cars: I had a great uncle who's green Ford Fairlane was hit so many times he painted it Hunter's Safety Orange. Never was hit again.

N'yah-ha-ha. Best laugh I've had all day, Mike. Hunter orange would WORK, thugh!!! Your story takes the cake. Just my 2 pennies, buddy! -- Jimi

 

I have to admit, I'm like RustyNewYorker, in that I talk to my car, pat it, etc. Okay, I'll admit I've slept with her, too (oh, the shame!).

And yes, when she busts my knuckles, I have been known to call her awful things, LOUD. But after I cool down and put on a BandAid, I ALWAYS make sure and give her a nice, COLD quart of Wynn's Start-You-*******!

It always makes her fell better.

 

No grey cars..ever..ever again.

I had a 2 tone grey long roof that got nailed when the previous owner had it..
i bought it, and it got nailed 2 times.
sold it to a friend of mine..it got nailed again when he had it..

Nothing grey again
since i sold that car i've not been hit.

1st person said to me.."I didnt even see you"..How the F that could be? i have no clue..the dam thing was a boat..Caprice waggon!..he tried to drive thru me!

 

never let your girlfriend drive it, it will seek revenge.

 

My '48 Plymouth proudly wears a completely flattened left rocker from where the last girlfriend decided to "scare the valet parking guy" at the valley's highest end shopping mall. She meant to squeal the tires a bit in a covered parking area to "set off some car alarms", went to WOT side stepped a bit and hit the valet stand. Imagine getting THAT phone call when your 2500 miles away from home! Sometimes I wonder why I let her go......... Oh, thats right SHE WAS CRAZY!!!!!!! The new one is sensible enough to be afraid of my cars!

 

My car supers***ion? That I can actually MAKE money on an old car sale. I've heard tale of such supernatural occurences but have yet to experience it...

 

Do NOT buy it if the gas gauge don't work

 

I always talk dirty to my cars when they won't start all cars and trucks are girls and they like the nasty talk. At least thats what works for me

 

There was a older fella who had a Ford pickup, he never washed it, ever.
He worked across the street from my shop, and I had to look at that poor dirty truck.

I would always ask to wash it for him, but he always said, "If you wash it........then its gona break down on me". I figured he was just not willing to take the time to wash it.

Well, one day he left for lunch with a friend, and I washed his truck. Thing looked bran new....... and you guessed it. The ****** went out that weekend.

I still feel bad.

 

Now is this a true story? Cause if it is...

 

Your post made me think of something like that,which happened to me.

I used to deliver parts for the parts store I work at. i was on the highway on the way to a delivery,and for some reason I was thinking to myself how much it would **** to get a flat tire on the highway. I got off the highway soon after and about 2-3 miles down the road I notice the truck is a little hard to turn,I find somewhere to pull off and sure enough,the right front tire is flat. Would have been back on the road in no time,except there was a cheapo spare tire padlock under the truck that was so packed with sediment and ****,using the key was pointless.

Come to think of it,every time I've ever had a flat tire it's been the RF tire.

 

Its true, everyone called him Old Joe.

 

Supers***ion = Religion = Supers***ion = ...
I'm Agnostic.



A gynecologist is just a spreader of Old Wives Tails..

 

When I was racing I never said "good Luck" or wanted anyone to say it to me. JUST " Have a good run" .

 

Ha Butch 27, I just tell 'em "Let's go show 'em how it's done. I can't stand the "good luck" thing either.

 

Heh heh, Me no like'm red ones.

 

Cash, maybe??

 

No red cars. They break down on me. I dent them, crash them, the motors blow up. Green no problems.

Also if you don't bleed on it when you build it, you will bleed on it later. Call it an offering to the car gods.

 

I agree with not talking sh*t on your car. I talked about trading mine, and then the stering went out the dat before a show I was wanting to go to, then the master cylinder. Now, I talk nice to her and run my hand down the side everyimte I walk past her.

 

I won,t get under a car that is on a jack....regardless of how safe it looks.

 

the only supers***ions i believe are do not paint any thing green. my buddy had a 65 plymouth that we painted just the intake green (kind of as a joke and to see how it looked) got every thing put back together and the motor siezed up after a 2 block test drive. the other is more of a prayer, the macanics prayer, if i drop a tool or parts under the hood of the car i always say "please fall throgh please fall throgh"

 

True story,, and remember.. the truth is always stranger than fiction !
I had an o/t car (still a"hot rod" though ! )
I bought it used.. Got it home and proceeded to do my thing,,,paint,exhaust,fill a few un needed holes,ETC..
In the process I discovered 2 new rear quarters had been grafted on it. GM parts tags still stuck on the inside. HMMmmmm.
2 months later, my oldest son gets rearended by a 2 1/2 ton truck on the freeway.
fix it up ..3 months later the wife and daughter get rearended while out christmas shopping...fixed once again...3 months later ( no bs ! ) gets backed into in the parking lot @ autozone...Yep hit in the rear !
I spent several days looking for the magnet in the rear end of this car..never did fix the last damage cuz i sold it quick..did not want to have to repair this thing every 3 months..
I still miss it !
Dave

 

Every time I street race I have to straighten my devil head that hangs from the rear view mirror.....

oh wait

that is not me

that is Richard Grieco in Born To Run

 

I keep tools in them, an adjustable, couple of screwdrivers, and pair of plires. no matter what!! cuz every time I dont somehow the car knows when there are no tools and it ****s me out in the middle of nowhere, on the side of the raod in the dark!!

 

I Agree with the GREEN Cars being Unlucky, If it was born GREEN no color change will help ya !! Also Everytime I talk about selling my Vehicle it starts AKTIN FUNEEEEEEE

 

I guess I shouldn't mention my "guardian tree frog" that rides up on my tach mount on the dash. Just a small rubber child's toy that the girlfriend and I found in a parking lot one day. But just let the the Plymouth see that it is missing........Stuff goes bad real quick!

 

i friend of mine's dad is cursed with selling cars. every car he's ever sold or let anyone borrow was totaled. he told me a story of when he let his sister borrow his cherry '58 chevy...she brought it back with a crease down the whole p***ender side. after he bought his sister (same sister maybe) a brand new '68 cougar, it was totaled not two blocks from her house when she ran a stop sign. he also said after he sold his javelin in the early seventies the new owner was t-boned in an intersection later that day. he must've mentioned at least three or four instances like that.

 

Who me afraid of my car, no way!

CRUISER

 

Oh,
NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER use Ford Blue paint on a GM product.
I have an '85 El Camino. The intent was to make it blue.
I traded with a guy to do some engine work for me. We decided that a blue motor would look good so he painted the 350 we installed Ford Blue. BIG MISTAKE.
1. After 600 miles it ate a cam shaft lobe. Replaced Cam.
2. After 1300 miles we found out it had bad rod bearings. Replaced short block. Forgot to strip and repaint oilpan.
3. Had to reinstall rod between distributer and oilpump with engine in the car.
4. Backfire melted Edlebrock foam air cleaner.
5. Oilpan gasket slipped inside oilpan during re-***embly. Had to remove and replace.
6. Got it running only to have the positive wire from battery to starter melt on the header and short out almost causing an engine fire.

I'm going to replace the battery cable and poull and repaint the pan.
LESSON LEARNED.
I hope the car is not permenantly cursed.