What's the Most Absurd Claim you've heard at a Car Show, Drag Race, Cruise Night, etc

a few years back there were two supras with over 850+hp running around these parts...damn it they were fast as fuck... one was always over at my friends body shop..not really into jap cars but it was impressive to see the work done on it. tag read V8killr

 

When we had some significant damage to the heads on a Blown Alcohol Altered last winter and I mentioned that maybe this would be a good opportunity to make the switch to nitro, a guy I knew said, "Sure man, you can convert this thing over to nitro for around $15,000".

$65,000 later we are ready for the first passes - tomorrow at Evadale, TX.

I haven't seen him for a while, but he had no clue what this took to accomplish!

 

pomona swap meet; water $4.00

 

Haha had a good time liked the ferreri ..crap cant spell ..story of his was good too lol thanks again for the help..did make it to petes but it started to rain and everyone cleared out early..was going to run the slicks over there but turned out was a good choice not to put them on..
lol have heard and listened to some of those stories lol maybe his speedo was off ....ya thats it....thanks again for the lend

 

Heard when I was in The Marines in '65;

"I have a '58 Chevy 348 with 3 four barrels that'll do wheelstands so high you could walk under it"

 

Don't worry...only people like me, bored at work and reading the whole thread at once, will notice

 

kilroy, please talk About about traditional cars seeing as u know nothing about "new" cars........

 

they r actually surprisingly rare... i hate to say it but these tuners(especially supras) will walk 97% percent of cars, including all of our beloved traditional drag/street cars(especially) on the highways (even @ 5280 ft)............. i hate hearing about new cars on the hamb BTW..

 

i love u sir, one guy that doesn't think chevrolet is the best way TO GOOO!!!

 

Here's a little briefing of the motor, it's wiki, so take it with a grain of salt. 2JZ. I've seen a lot of guys ditch the twin turbos for a massive single turbo, and I've seen guys turbo the non-turbo base engine.

They are pretty rare, to put in perspective, it's like a '32 Ford 3-window of the import world. Although, the body style was in production for 9 years. ('93-'02), but I believe Toyota stopped importing the Supra to the States in '98.

You don't see too many of them, though- because they're in the 15-40k dollar price range. And not too many people want to pay that much for a 15+ year old car.

 

Had a guy at work, always started out his stories with "My Neighbor". Never met his neighbor but the guy must have been the greatest at EVERYTHING!!!

 

Maybe he lived in an apartment complex with a lot of neighbors!

 

Heard at the shop today>

"I don't like to run on the spectator side when there is a big crowd. All those people are sucking up the air and my car slows down a tenth"

 

wonder what he does up here at altitude?

 

"Buy a raffle ticket for just $5 and you could win this car that is being restored"

yeah right, we know that no one is going to win and they are going to sell the carcass to a junk yard and pocket another $200


EDIT: okay, I'll admit it. I bought 2 tickets for the 65 Chevy convertible at the Great American Roadster Show in 2008.

 

The year was 1989, I heard later in the week that they were re-telling their story when some real patch holders who saw them at the truck stop, called them out about it. some of them went to the hospital, and the rest went back to NY. Don't know if this is true or not.

 

I like it when people spill BS. That way you know not to waste your time taking them seriously.

We used to call it Ray and Dee syndrome after a couple we knew. He had an 80s model ranger with a 351w in it. Looked like a POS, but apparently he could use it to move skyscrapers. Everything that they had was better than yours.

I will share one BS story I told, not car related. Back in college I had long hair and a beard. I was at a Mexican eatery here in town when a guy came up and asked me if I was Travis Tritt's brother. I just said yes. I couldn't resist. I always thought I looked more like a slightly smaller version of Dave Waddington.

 

Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to a party at a buddy's place in the '36. Lots of rods there, lots of muscle cars, a little of everything.

We hadn't gotten out of the car yet, when some Ya-hoo comes up, walks completely around the car, loudly pointing out to the guys with him all the flaws he percieves it have, and then proceeds to tell me it's too low to pass NSRA inspection. It IS low, and in my buddy's grassy back yard, it looked like it was setting on the rockers.

"That's below the scrub line", he said pointing to the rockers, "...and your steering arm is too. That'll never pass inspection."

I'm just getting out of the car, and my wife is looking at me, clearly expecting me to unload on this ass-hole. Which is what I normally would do.

Instead, I just said, "Yup. It's pretty low." and walked off. By that time he was laying down, trying to look under it, with his had under the rocker, the steering arm, and checking that against the height of the tire sidewall, while he yelled, "It's really low, that's not legal!"

Must be I'm getting more mellow.

 

kid with late 90s volvo with aftermarket turbo- "yeah i had to find a highflow water pump cause im pushing 300 to the wheels"

me-....*blink blink*....cool dude.......i bet its hard to keep the rear wheels hooked....

kid- oh yeah dude it gets really squirilly off the line.

 

All them police cars came with 426 or 440 hemis...... and could do 150+. I give up listening after a bit...my stock answer now I've had more time in the front seat than you so I should know.

 

ok one more!
i went to a car show and later a kid comes in driving a dodge dart very obviusly stock with the six in it . when some other kids are talking to him i hear him say he has a switch he can hit to make it a race motor but he wont hit it because he dosent want anyone to know what he has ...

 

Like Ron White said " You can't fix stupid"
There's one everywhere you go these days.

 

He doesn't know much about cooling systems. My Volvo is putting down about 500 at the wheels and uses a stock water pump. Having a large radiator is what keeps it cool, not faster flowing fluid.

 

When ever I stop to fuel up and hear "what year is that", it goes one of two ways. A cool older dude will compliment the car and I'm on my way, or I get a jackass explaining how his buddy had tHe same car and raced around town getting laid back in the day. Then I'm at the gas station ten mins more than I wanted. Now I try to go to the less crowded station.

 

As for a story I did know a kid with a trans am who got his car painted and all of a sudden it's was modded, told me it had nitrous. When I asked where the bottle was mounted, he said in or around the gas tank. The body shop installed it of course. Lol

 

JUst like the moparforlife claim a guy asked me the same thing about my dads 35 chevy

 

Last week I heard about this guys 66 camaro and how he bought it for 50k and sold it for 90k

 

Mabye it was my claim that was absurd, but it actually was true the owner just refused to believe it. I had my eye on a swb pickup that would be at a shop/car lot now and then but not for sale. Then one day it popped up on Craigslist so I went to see. The guy who owned the shop and the truck took me for a ride and I was very close to buying it. It had some unique, unmistakable touches. A few months later I saw it at a car show and when I saw this girl and her boyfriend get out I went to compliment them about it and said I wished I'd bought it when I had the chance. They both looked at me really confused, and she said "it's never been for sale, my Dad bought it new and gave it to me for my birthday, blah, blah, blah." I didn't push it, but this apparently upset the boyfriend who started mouthing and then she started backing him so now the two of them are yelling at me right there at the show. Then she starts crying...! I wanted to walk away but since I had been so polite and they were being idiots I decided to rub it in a bit. I starting rattling off what I knew about it - 383 stroker, 4.10 gears, painted just a couple months before and to top it off I named her Dad and the shop. They shut up. NOT MY FAULT PEOPLE!!!

 

They pushed you into the corner on that one!

 

Seen an ad for a 35 coupe, very nice car with a decked out flathead. It came with adjustable valve covers. For sale by a local classic car dealer.