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

Flip side to this. Guy walks up and asks my buddy " You going to leave it stock?" My buddy has a '31 Model A Sedan with an injected SBF...

 

I've been on the flip side of this with an OT stock trailer, I'm a younger guy and had someone actually call my house and asked to buy it, when i said no they got pissed and said, " Why not you dont have animals!" I told them Yeah I dont at the moment but i do have the trailer when i go to get some, and hung up.

 

the other day i pulled in to get gas.the guy next to me looks at my back tires on my sedan and says, damn u need to get some new rubber on there, the tread is about gone!....ha! the people u can meet with cheater slicks

 

I was at the Street Rod Nats. one year, when there was kids riding bikes through the cars indoor. I stopped one of the owners of a car and asked him about it. He said " Look at this!" Pointing down at a foot long gouge in the paint. Right height for a handle bar. WHAT THE HELL ARE PEOPLE LETTING KIDS DO!!!!!

 

I heard two of them at a car show in Williams Arizona this weekend:

While looking at a 1970 Chevelle with a blinged out big block- polished carb, the shiny finish edelbrock intake, big fuel pressure gauge chrome everything and even the billet valve covers with the blue and red heartbeat of America decorations:
"That car is 100% stock. They knew how to make engines look better back then"

As a 1963/4 Mercury 4 door sedan with the breezeway rear window goes by a different guy says: "That's a '57 Thunderbird- The first sports car ever made"

 

Dana heard one over the weekend in NH where we were showing the 67 Camaro (Promod) we did

someone was talking to their buddy and said(get this
wow- they made anew Camaro look old and even managed to chop the roof.
WTF?

dos this look like a 2010 with a chopped roof?!LOL and yeah Im well aware it isnt a traditional ride...thanks

 

WOW you even made the license plate look antique LOL

 

How do you see at night without headlights? he he.

 

the old standby myth, I came out of advance with the battery for the minivan, set it on the asphalt, and some guy getting into his truck freaks out and says, man thats going to kill your battery!!!!! I asked him how the ground is going to suck al the current out of the battery,when it's in a plastic case, which doesn't conduct electricity. the case is not suddenly going to start conducting electricity. if it did every battery ever made would be dead. I think they also did this one on myth busters, of course it proved the myth was false. basic electrical laws will tell you that much. he insisted every time he set a battery down it went dead right away. I think the myth started up north where garage floors were always cold in winter, if you left a battery on a cold floor all night of course it's going to lose some charge. but the laws of physics are not suddenly going to warp and make the battery case conductive. here's the snopes thing on it. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=12018

 

my favorite is "you'll have a nice ride when you finish it"

 

had a guy at a gas station ask me if my 47 ford sedan was an old VOLVO? says ford right on the nose

 

I had an A/C repairman do some work at the house. He saw my 62 invicta wagon and said "I saw a car just like that on Barrett-Jackson the other day......except it was a chevy........2 door.........ribbed roof..........from the 50s."

 

I was showing my 28 roadster at the Pleasanton Goodguys show a few years ago. I thought a very decent car. Along comes Boyd Coddington and posse and Boyd comments, "Not bad for an amatuer." Pissed me off to no end.

 

"Are you going to paint it" when referring to my model A with 80 years of Patina

 

Well, I guess he's dead now so you don't have to worry about that anymore...

 

Mother in law last asked me... why not sell it and buy a newer car

 

My Dad owned a nice 38 Chevy streetrod and had it in a car show when a old geezer came up as he was wiping it down and looked the car over, then looked it over some more and finally said to my Dad "is this yours?" my Dad answered "yes" The old guy says "AW! you ruined IT!" My Dad says "What?" and again the guy repeats "YOU RUINED IT!! My Dad then ask the old guy "you don't like it?" The geezer says "NO!!" My Dad then yells "THEN GET THE F**K AWAY FROM IT!" the old guy drops his jaw and walks away!! Cracks me up every time I remember that day! Mel

 

At the Sunoco last week:

Dumbass Kid: Are you sure it's not a small block chevy?

Nurse pumping gas on other side of my pump: It says M-E-R-C-U-R-Y on each side in big red letters.

I figured she made him feel dumb enough so I just told her thanks.

 

My wife used to speed around in her VERY modded but OT Mazda RX-7.
Best was when she pulled into the local fillup station and the tech on duty(I think he was trying to pick her up) commented that her valves were in need of an adj. and he could do that for her for a great price!!!! Keith

 

I was asked why I cut the nose off my pickup? What kinda drugs was I on to cut the roof off my van, and the best one yet is "My uncle had a Ford just like it." I rarely go to the local cruses anymore., lately my reply to stupid questions; "If you divorced your wife will she still be your sister?"

 

I was out last night bombing around in my buddies '38 Chevy when a guy told us "nice Ford!". We told him it was a Chevy and he told us "well my buddy over there says it's a Ford." You would think the builder of the car would know the what the hell it is!

 

On a recent trip in our '63 Tempest Ragtop, my two sons I and our camping gear had the car riding a bit low on it's I.R.S.. At a Diner in Ohio a couple of cute waitresses came out and were making a fuss over the car in the parking lot. Then the busboy comes out and in his best hot-shot, know-it-all manner announces to everybody "I hope you don't have far to go - because you have a bent rear axle on that car!". After the laughter and snickering died down and comments about getting Cousin Vinny's Girlfriend to explain it to him he still didn't get the joke.

 

I ran to the hardware store one day last year, leaving my 12-year-old stepson in the truck. A couple of local hillbillies stop and are talking about the truck between themselves, and decide it's a '47. The boy pipes up, tellin them it's a '55. "No, it isn't, it's a '47." This boy has helped me with the truck through hours of work and ridden countless miles in the passenger seat. He knows what it is.

I also get guys who know what it is but ask me if it has the original six in it (I'm still running the 265). I guess Chevy was bullshittin' when they put the V8 emblems on the fenders.

Worked for a guy who's a gearhead, has a mean blown 355 in a '55 Nomad. His son-in-law comes by the shop to get balljoints put in his Blazer, and he's looking at my truck. "What year is that Ford truck?" It's a '55 Chevy. "Why is there a bow tie on the hood?" Because it's a Chevy. It says CHEVROLET across the tailgate too. "I thought it was a Ford." You're an idiot. (the last statement being his father-in-law).

I tolerate the guys that call my '55 an Apache, since the '58-'59 Apache was a very similar truck. I gently correct them and go on.

But my favorite is when someone looks at my girlfriend's red and white '59 Ford Country Sedan and says:
"Look! It's the car from Ghostbusters!"

 

I bet he was willing to throw in a free lube job too...

 

Just got that one the other day about my '55 Ranchwagon...

 

Hope it wasn't me... I do strange things when other people get drunk... Anyone I know?

 

Get the guys who ask "is that original paint?" with the original-color MAACO yellow starting to flake off and showing the olive green underneath. No, the paint's about 25 years old, my dad had it done in the original color. "Damn, it's held up nice!" If that's "held up" over 25 years, how would 54-year-old paint look? The few spots that show the original paint look better than some of the other areas on the truck, I must admit.

 

My next door neighbor had a 48 Edsel convertible just like that one (Referring to my radical 48 Dodge Convertible), I will give him this though. It ran an Edsel grill shell!!!!
Stupid people.

 

I was getting gas once in my late '67 Cougar and all the attendents gathered around it. A kid said he'd bet his Mitsubishi could beat my Charger.... i figured to him it must look like the Charger in "Fast and the Furious" because it was black and had hideaway headlights, so i told him no it's a Cougar. He said to me, "then why do the tires say 'Kelly Charger'?" Haha the funniest part was the look on his face when he said it, like he'd just made a fool of me.

 

In fairness, other than different trim around the headlights the Ford van doesn't look a hell of a lot different from the Dodge. Neither does the Chevy flatnose van. If you painted "Saltines" on the side they'd look like a box of crackers.