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

47 four door?..........I knew a guy with one of those who was told "I didn't know volkswagon made a 4 door"

 

My '59 (english) Ford Consul is my avatar.

"Is that an American Desoto?"
NOPE
"Is it a Brittish Desoto?"
NOPE
"What type is it then?"
Its a '59 Ford
"A Ford desoto then?"
Nope....the wheel trims are Desoto.
"Can't you get wheeltrims that say Ford?"

 

Funny! I was at the Nostalgia Drags last weekend and a VW Beetle and an old Nash Rambler wagon were at the tree. The guy next to me commented on the Beetle racing a Karmann Ghia!

 

let me finish your sentence, make sweet, sweet baby love to that sweet ride. You are talking about your avatar, right? Because, oh mamma that is one sexy lady.

 

A drunk idiot said to me : Nice Cadillac man, but it was a -58 Bel Air. My buddy klaus answered: Thanks man but it's a Lincoln.

 

" that is a nice rat rod"

Dick!

 

I had a guy tell me I drive a 1950 ford.
Also overheard, That's a Chrysler Desoto!

 

I had my cousin ask if my yellow '47 coupe used to be a taxi. Then she asked if it had a rumble seat :-/

She's from the non-car side of the family.


Worse was the time a guy was telling me at a local car show we had at my job about how much it looked like a beetle and how they were designed by the same guy. I still cringe...

 

Oh and I got a LOT of people that thougt that my Ford pickup was a Chevy, even though it's black and has the 8" tall F-O-R-D in white on the tailgate....

 

Guy says to his wife and kids
" I'd have a car like that if I didn't have you goddamn kids"
several replies were :" asshole"
poor kids looked devistated, wife was so ashamed!

 

“You’re going to get real tired of driving that old car all the time.”

-Dave

 

Try to find WWII uniforms in large sizes?
Why on Earth would you ever do that?

 

While waitng to drive into the GNRS some geezer pointed at my 383 chevy "fauxmobile" motor and said " That J-2 with dual carbs is the E-ticket ride! Geuss I did my job. hahahahaha

 

Detroit Autorama this year : Old dude- "What kind of engine is that?" Me- " 55 Oldsmobile 324" Old dude- "No it aint." Me- "Are you fuckin me?"

 

I had a 1959 Caddy for a few years. Visited the local pool hall/bar. Next thing I hear is a some guy talking about this killer 57' Chevy in the parking lot. They start asking who's 57' is parked out front. The bar tender ask me and all I could say was " No, I have the 1959 Cadilac Coupe DeVille".

I have listen to a lot of people say that is the car they made the Batmobile from.

 

Just today some guy asked, "What year is it?"....me, being the smartass that I am, replied....."well,,,it's 2010 !!!! March 26th to be exact"

 

Back when I had my 1941 Ford Tudor sedan. I was at a show and some asshat came up with his wife/girilfriend and was teller her that it was a Volvo and that this one was only sold in America and that why its bigger then the imported ones.

 

Stopped by a local bar last night. In a yard across the street from the place is a '73 Cutlass in pretty good shape. Some guy walks in and says, "like to have that Olds across the street. I'd give the guy $500 for it. Somebody's probably already stuck a 350 in it. If it still had the 442 it would be worth a lot more."

I guess it's kinda like when people ask me if my Rambler really has a 770 in it.

 

I've had around a hundred people tell me Chevy never made a 265 V8. Even if they did, it never came in station wagon. Then they'd proceed to look in my car and usually say "Oh, this is one of those special race editions with the 4-speed in it" Uggh

The best was when I was riding my '68 Harley rigid and stopped at a gas station to fill up. This older guy in his late 80's walks over and says to me "I'm glad to see young men riding American bikes. If all the guys I served with had made it back from the Pacific they'd be ashamed of all your generation riding around on that Jap Bullshit." I had no idea what to say but "Thanks"

 

"Where's the four-speed?" (Automatic car.)

"Where's the automatic?" (Stick car.)

 

" To bad you can't afford a new car" !

 

Goofball; ". . . . that thing will look nice when put some "new" wheels and tires on it. You should get a set of those new Mustang wheels, that's what I put on my '64."

Me; ". . . uhhhhh, yea, I'll get right on that.





Goofball; "was it hard to put the smallblock Chevy in there"
Me; ". . . it's not a SBC, it's a Y Block"
Goofball; ". . . a what ?"
Me; "a Y Block, 292, it's the original engine"
Goofball; "somebody ripped you off, that's a Chevy, Ford never put a distributor in the rear"
Me; " . . . . . (footsteps of me walking away)"

 

Very nice!

 

"what engine is that?
"it's a flathead ford V8...
"why didn't you put a small block chev in it?
"cuz everybody else did...
and here's the good part
"but you gotta admit, the sbc is the only engine you can get 1200 hp from with no bottle or blower

"ah ya...check please...

 

this happened to my old man years ago when he had his flatty powered A on 32's

man with his son walks up to the car

ahh see son it says edelbrock on the heads because edel was fords son!

 

When I moved back to Ohio I learned you had to take your vehicles to a dealer to have the serial number "certified". The Ford dealer really didn't want to do the hot rod so it was tense. When I got to the big old Ford custom farm truck (hot 390) I had to wait quite a while since I was then associated with hot rods.
Anyway, the new Thunderbird was about to come out and I thought it would be neat to maybe own a future classic. The son's owner loudley told me to "forget it because I couldn't afford it anyway". I could not believe it since I'm 60, prosperous-looking and well spoken.
So I bought a new Corvette instead. It's classic and reminds me of the '56 Vette I had in the '60's. Stupid is as stupid does.

 

Once we set up in the swap meet area of an indoor show put on by friends w/a connection to the local Corvette club.One of the Corvette yuppies couldn't understand why I couldn't accept his AMEX card!

 

In the mid 90s I built a Minotti 37 3w glass coupe. While the car was apart a know it all walked in my shop & commented it was a shame I made a hot rod out of that nice old car!

 

You, know, I love the stying of the current Corvette and it is every bit the classic of the '55 and '56. I'm a car guy and just like it for style and I'm 60 so I earned it.
I will add, however, that corvette owners used to be normal nice car guys. Whatever happened since I last looked escapes me but most of the current Vette owners seem to have a lot of unresolved issues and don't even know what's under the hood.
I'd take their credit card maybe but certainly not a check.

 

i was at a car show once and i opened my hood to show off my dressed up 235. a guy walk over and noticed i didnt have an a/c compressor. he asked why i took off the a/c i told him ths car didnt come with a/c. it never got hot in 1954, he said REALLY! i never thought about that...