Saw something funny at the parking lot

so COReY HART was wrong....you cant 'wear your sunglasses at night'
i know ..gay 80's reference...so....
dont mess around with the guy in shades o no!!

 

So I go into In and Out burger,get my food,walk outside and start to get in ANOTHER chopped,flamed,lowered,shoebox.NO JOKE! There was a car show at John Forces shop and this guy had the same idea as me! Never thought I would confuse another car with mine! Not exactly like my sons '49 but I wasn't paying attention.DUH!

 

We were getting in the car at the Pileup last year and seen this traditional chain drive hot rodder getting his camera & junk out of his hot rod electric Toyota.

 

This type of problem has been going on for ever? Blame Henry Ford. When Model T's came in "any color you want so long as it is black" people got confused also. My Dad told me about one night as a kid in Detroit, watching a couple come out of a theater to a line of 3 or 4 T two-door sedans all black and all looking alike. They were confused trying to figure out which car was theirs. They tried their key in all four and it fit and worked!!! Henry only had about a dozen different keys for the cars. With as many T's as he produced what were the odds of four in a row having the same key? True story and Dad "never" lied after a few beers.

My truck will NOT be like anybody else's. A**hole cars are exactly that, all the same because every a**hole has one. I have to be different.

 

I like the fact my cars don't look like anyone elses. I drive the cars I drive because I like them not to get attention. If I was into 90's Hondas thats what I would drive but I like old cars a lot better. A lot simplier, everything is mechanical and fairly cheap to fix.

Pulled into the local Dahls Foods with my Cadillac a few days ago next to a big stupid Hummer on 22's or something. Came out and had 2 guys talk to me about my car. Its not even that nice, paints faded and smokes but its a classic. Best part - mid 1960's Cadillac - $1500, 2005 Hummer with extras $40,000 (no idea might be high or low).

I find myself doing this all the time. Old car (nice or beater) and I spot it a mile away and am staring it up and down. Nice expensive new car with 20's and a system dont even care and hardly even notice.

 

Have to share, just read the highlights of this thread to the Colonel earlier today and what happens when we go to the store in the Bel Air's Bitch? He points out the car next to it is the same thing as we go in and when we come out of the store, he walks up to the other 93 Buick turd. I didn't even say anything, just laughed and when I could talk again told him I was going to have to share it on the HAMB

 

i watched an older lady walk out of a store once and try the passenger door on a silver cadillac, which was locked. she just stands there until a silver monte carlo rols up and she walks over and gets in. i know monte carlos were called "arkansas cadillacs" , but i wasn't even in arkansas.

 

I worked security in a mall and I had to call the state police when an older lady told me her car was "stolen." While waiting for them to arrive I asked what she drove and took a tour around the mall, found her car at the anchor store at the opposite end of the mall. Her reaction (I $hit you not) "why would somebody move my car?"

One batch of old ladies asked me to get there keys out of their locked car. I told them we can't do that, call triple A. She asked me how long that would take, I told her probably a while. She said we have been shopping for 2 1/2 hours already. I said "so?" She told me the car was still running!

Hoof

 

Oohh!!! He has tatoo's, he's scary!!......Lame

 

We did the wrong car thing, the daily is a 97 Camry. Out of the store and we went to the first gold Camry, started to try to unlock the door and noticed it had only 1 baby seat, otherwise it was identical.

Yesterday I saw a work van, new plain white Chevy with a roof rack and a ladder on it, but the 22" wheels were funny on it.

 

At one point in time I had a bright red '90 VW Van. Deb had taken it up to the local mart with a large parking lot and after doing her shopping she went out and got in the van. She just happened to notice a priest just sitting in the car in front of her and started to put her things down. As she did this she noticed a bible sitting in the rear seat. She looked around more and realized that this van looks a lot rougher than our van and is not our van. At this point she got out of the van, locked it, walked over a few more spaces behind a big truck and found our van. Really creeped her out and I'm not sure what the priest had to so with it. That was the only other van that I had ever seen just like mine and who wouldv'e thought that it used the same key.

I also prefer to drive my '60 Fairlane but I've been getting spoiled with the A/C and auto in the cheap BMW I bought recently.

 

ha ha ha ha ha

there is some truth in that somewhere...

-W

 

My friend Dave lives in the city. One night he drove to the corner store to get butts. Next morning he gets up and thinks his car had been stolen. Then he realized that he had walked home last night and left his car at the store..

 

Ha!... I've spent 35 years as a passenger, how long do you reckon it'll take to break THAT habit?!

 

When I was a teen we would cruise in my friend's truck. Sometimes there would be three of us, and I always sat on the passenger side. When we'd pull up next to people. I'd duck down out of sight so it'd look like my two friends were cuddled up next to each other! That started a lot of rumors in a small town!

 

Nothing scary at all. I've been a car guy for 65 years and all this late model shit looks the same. probably because I don't give a fuck and I sure the old broad cares even less than me. My late model driver is an 82 Buick estate wagon that costs 60 bucks to fill the tank. but I bet my gas bill is still less than your car payment. so quit making fun of us old fucks, we were here first dammit!!

 

My dad was traveling on business many years back (maybe late 1970s) and had a GM rental car. He stopped in a grocery store to get a snack. Then he got back to his car, unlocked it, and got in. He looked around inside the car and noticed that the stuff he had in his car was gone and in its place was some other stuff. After a half a second of concern he looked over and saw his REAL car parked near by. He quickly got back to his own car.

Funny coincidence. Same car, same color, same KEY.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxH2JrFrcuw

 

If you do it right, you NEVER have to own a Honda. My *other* car is a 1931 Ford. and my *other* car is a 1939 Ford and my *other* car is a 57 Chevy. and my *other* car is a 1959 Ford, I have other older running cars too because I havent wasted my money on a honda.

 

Well my Altima was a gift from my parents. They wanted me and my son in something a little more safe and reliable. (Mostly they wanted something with anti-lock brakes, air-bags and more then lap belts.) So I haven't wasted a dime on it. And like I said, I can't afford the gas to drive something that doesn't get half way decent gas mileage everyday, and with all the shitty drivers and traffic, I do feel a bit safer in it as I'm following yet another drunk going home. I also used to commute 20+ miles to get to work. So while having nothing but old cars may work for some, it's not practical for ALL.

That's all I was saying, don't judge a book by it's cover. I've met plenty of knowledgeable real hot rodding guys in their everyday driver Honda, and plenty of people who would know a spark plug from a torque wrench in their 54 Chevys. I was just trying to say, if you see a guy who "looks" the part, don't laugh if he gets in a Honda. It may be all he's got while finishing up some bad ass ride.

 

its even funnier if the key fits, i worked at a ford dealer in high school, had to bring up a escort, and i found it, put the key in, and drove it up, they were like..."no"... seems two escorts were service tages close in numbers, like 869 or 896 kind of thing, and they had the same key, and were the same color... scary...

 

had a friend who drove halfway out of a parkin lot in a newer chev truck when he realized it wasnt his!!..he was told that if the trucks came from oppisite coast that the keys might work...dont know if thats true but thats what happened..

 

Done the wrong car thing.... put the shop owner's silver BMW on the rack and pulled the muffler off. Not the customer's silver BMW... no shit.

In my defence, he usually drove a Subaru - I didn't know he even had a beemer.

And I think it's funny about judging people by what they drive. I used to drive a lot of 'HAMB-cool' iron ('54 Dodge P/U, '49 Plymouth P18, '50 chev 3/4T, blah blah blah). At least with my Toyota p/u I don't have the "cute dune buggy" conversations...

-bill

 

Just my humble opinion, but transportaion is transportation, point A to B. Your CAR is something else. Something fun to toy with.

 

I drive a 67 mustang. A while back I parked beside another 67 mustang, it was just a slightly different shade of white. Thought it was good to mess with the owner's mind. I've seen at least 4 white ones here in the desert, one even had the same shitty wheels as mine.

I've rented a couple of new cars in the past couple of years, there's something to be said for nice seats, A/C, and a good stereo. I put a bunch of work and money into a 79 malibu just to make it handle as good as my parent's 2000 malibu.

 

my girlfriends parents did the "gift" thing too, gave us a "reliable" 95 s-10 blazer, what a shitbox it was, i sold it after a couple of months and used the money to buy more old cars.

the guy who gets into his honda may be a badass...but he ain't cool. i don't NEED to laugh at him, the look you get from those guys as you cruise by in your hot rod or custom daily driver says it all.

 

this whole mixed up car world..
have you ever looked over a parking lot from a upper floor of a building?
all white or silver cars ....
the other day on the freeway 11 yes eleven cars passed us in a row all silver / grey few other colors

thank goodness our 99 burbon is bright yellow...
it has been hit alot lately cuz people don't notice it I guess..
paperdog

 

Yor not the only one. Been there myself. LOL.

 

I have recently overheard that NEW fords with remote entry key fobs can be overridden by pressing a series of buttons on any remote fob something like 11-15 presees will get you in .... a tow/repo man stated as such he love's towing new mustangs!
paperdog

 

If I lived in Texas, I could do that too. You can turn a good solid car into a pile of shit by salting it up in one Wisconsin winter. That's why I have a $325 auction car with a quarter million on the clock to drive around. And you can guess what it is.

I have to agree with Paperdog on the all cars are grey thing. Black, white, grey, and that champagne gold-grey is on freakin' every car out there. Even when they have colors, it's blue grey or greenish grey. Very few late models out there with any real color on them anymore.