My son and I were out driving the roadster tonight, just because. We head down main street (you know big plate glass windows in the business district) and I can help it.... yep I am looking at the reflection of my car as we slowly roll along. (no one is in front of me, it's small town Kansas) Gloss black hot rod and the motion of the car in the windows. I use to do this all the time when I was a teenager. You would think a 40 year old would have outgrown it. Vain? Yes! Fun? Yes! Stupid topic for a thread? Yes! How many of you will deny doing it?
Oh yeah...guilty. There is an English import car show on cable called "Wheeler Dealers" where a guy buys an older car (70's-80's)and then his buddy fixes it up a bit, then they flip it. Before they sell it the guy always drives down "to the shops on High Street" to look at his reflection in the refurbished ride. So I guess that is pretty universal.
Was my signature line for a long time... "Someday I'll be shining in the Boulevard windows". I'll tell ya another one and I'll bet you catch yourself... Bikers do it, ALL truckers do it... I'll bet you can't walk away from the thing without looking back.
I seen a guy crash his van doing that. It was great. Knocked both right hand tires off the wheel, then hit a pole. It was an ugly van too.
Sounds like your a habitual offender!!! When I was doing it tonight I told my son to look at the car in the windows, that is when it occured to me, this is kinda stupid but really fun.
oh, heck no i wont deny it...ill add in shiny wheels on tractor trailers too....i guess im going to hell for vanity
I do it to see if all my hubcaps are there. but then i see they are and become vain. yes Chris all two of them.
my shoebox has 51 imperial hubcaps and a buddy of mine on his harley was cruising next to us. I looked over just in time to see him narrowly escape hitting a pickup in the ass. Asked him what the hell happened, he told me he was hypnotized by his reflection in the caps.
Ya get that stretched fisheye effect if the back of the tank is highly polished. I took my own picture in the reflection while I was waiting at a stoplight to make a turn in another big truck. I don't have a digital copy of that but it was cool. There is a famous painting where an artist captured his own image in a convex mirror on the wall behind the subjects he was painting. The concept has always appealed to me.
There is a solid block worth of sheet glass on a building in downtown OKC that is perfect for doing this! I've gone downtown on a Sunday afternoon and will intentionally drive maybe 10 mph by this. A great place for pictures, too. I've yet to do that with my '41, but I might just do that Sunday!
Yep i am guilty . Couple weeks ago a friend and i went on a ride . It was Kool to see a 59 Panhead (his) and a 45 Bobber (mine) rolling side by side in the plate glass windows.
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