What did she say when u bought your car?

Well, mine said "why do you want an old man's car" (53 Chev 210 2 door, I was 40 at the time). "why not get something cool like a Camaro or a Chevelle?". Two weeks later she moved out. A couple of months later I got laid in the backseat at the local watering hole by a more enthusiastic lady. "I think my dad used to have one of those"...

 

she said "I know what you're doing, having all your friends come over and tell me what a good deal you got on that pile...."

 

You bought a WHAT??

We can't aford it and you'll never get it on the road!


Well 302,000 miles later she's kinda getting used to it

 

No 'she'. No one complaining...not even me!

Dave

 

Sounds to me like you got rid of an old mans lady and got yourself a young mans goodtime!....Good for you!...You only live once, Do what makes you happy because you can't turn back time and doing it later is running out quick like!

P.S. Got any pics of the car?

 

I tell my wife that I found a? she says, "buy it"
Hey honey I found a........................ "buy it"
You know what I seen today............. "buy it"
so 8 old Hot Rods, 1 Kustom and 2 vintage Dragsters later.

 

"Okay. But if one more comes in, TWO have to go out. Your toybox is full."
Upon me caller her from Kansas and saying "Honey, I just found a '61 Plymouth Suburban 2dr station wagon! My God it's ugly! But I want it!" At the time, I had a '56 Chevy, '57 Chevy and '54 Buick that weren't running.

Well, the Suburban eventually went away (after sitting in storage out there for a year and a half...at least I broke even). Earlier this year, with none of the other cars running yet, I said "Honey, come here and look at this '62 Chevy Suburban I found on the HAMB! It's only $2,000, the guy says it'll make it from Joplin to Atlanta, and I want it."
She smiled and said "Sure...that looks pretty cool. And I know you've always wanted an old truck."

Have I mentioned how much I love my wife?

-Brad

 

Quote "don't we have enough junk in the yard without you dragging more in? you just give the neighbours more reason to hate us"

she's actually pretty good about me dragging "stuff" home

 

My wife is always happy for me, too, as long as I clean up after myself!

 

every one thought i would never finish it or even get started on it... when i chopped it they said i ruined it, now I am almost done and the love it....

 

Actually, she goes to the swap meets with me. Helped me load a '29 Tudor body in the back of the pickup. Makes sure I get a meal when I'm out in the garage tinkering.

In fact, when I recently had a problem with the flattie in our '47 sedan she took care of doing yardwork for a coupla' days and kept telling me to get in the garage and fix the damn thing so we could go to some of the cruises.

God I love that woman.

 

How I got the car... A friend saw it for sale on the side of a road and called me on my cell, I was out of town at the Indy car races in Portland but wrote down the number on my race ticket. Called when I got back in town but it was already sold. A couple of months and another dozen or so cars looked at a friend tells me me about the car he bought, it was the same one I called on. I said if you ever decide to sell it let me know. A year later He called and said He found a bullet nose stude he had to have but his wife would not give up her half of the garage that she parks her Expedition in so he had to sell it. The next day It was in my driveway. He never got the Stude and his new pride and joy is a TR6!

Karma?

 

I already had my 54 when I met my wife, when she saw it for the first time she said "lets name her Elsa" , (cause we had just watched The Bride of Frankenstein the night before), and even though I had never named a car before I felt it was a good response. The last girl totally hated it, and im happy I kept the car and not her, and found a girl who loves the hobby. Shes a pretty big supporter of me and old cars.

 

First time she saw mine she said she wasn't riding in that "bleep" looking car.




Now she gets pissed if I don't wait for her to get home when I go cruising.......

 

When I brought the '41 home about 8 months ago, thought my wife would have a friggin' cow, "That is ugly, needs painting, the interior is junk, barely runs, etc, etc" . So I walked back out to my shop, popped a brew, and commenced planning, admiring and so on for several hours and brews . She always chills after awhile. Still doesn't like the car, but she doesn't bitch about it anymore.

 

" If you don't quit bringing more shit home, you will never have time to build my car."

 

Damn! That's what my first ex-wife said about the cherry old '52 Buick tudor that I drug home one day. "Bye bye, see ya later." (First the Buick, then her.) The Model A roadster that the second ex-wife bitched about made the down payment on the house for the third wife, who is a tad more understanding, and still around, and digging riding around in the '41 Ford tudor!

pigpen

"And that's the way it was, movin' west!" (Wagon Train)

 

"it looks like the batmobile"

(54 ford mainline in black primer with red rims). thought that was pretty funny.

 

She bought it for me!

 

"What the hell is that?"
"That can be rebuilt?"

Now she wants an old wagon or suburban for her and the kids.

 

It was 1985 and I had just bought a '65 GTO. I drove it over to my girlfriends house (now wife). We were sitting on the porch enjoying the evening when she said "I'm going to make a wish" she looked up at the stars and then looked back at my car on the street and said "damn, it's still here". Luckily she was joking and has really supported my habit and put up with all of my junk over the years.

 

That ones got a nice paint job.When ya gonna put primer spots on it like the rest of your multi colored cars!!

 

Got my car in college and HE said... "are you sure? really, are you sure?" And then my parents.... "what?!? you got a what?!?"

~Melissa

 

(my landlord) "how long is that thing going to be here?" Talking about my daily driver...

 

" I think you ought to get it " She just said that about 5 days ago and I did. Now I have a project I have to go get.

 

Wife ???

 

My wife was ready to go with me to West Virginia to pick up the "cool" car (48 Chevy Coupe) and asked only one question, "can we take the dogs with us?" She is actually my main support system in everything I want to do.

 

You paid how much for that ?!!!!!!.......

 

I was intimidated as hell when the Colonel bought the Bel Air(Body roll, heavy bastard, brakes you had to pump, oh my). Took me about four days to get behind the wheel and then I stole it every day to take to work. Now I hate driving anything else because I feel neglected when no one is staring at me.
The selling point for me was when he said "I can work on it myself."

 

well i dont got a wife, but my mom sure didnt like it too much haha

she said "oh my god, your just like your father"... go figure ahah