I forgot about this one. One time, my parents and I and some other people went to get some food next to all these antique stores, when we came out of the restaraunt all these old ladys were looking at my dads 41 Ford Convertable and the other guys 47 Ford Convertable. And one of em says "wow! these are the nicest beetle bugs i have ever seen!" Nick
Ya, I remember leaving a restaurant one night and an elderly couple were walking past the back of my chopped model A Vicky and he said to her "Yep ,had one just like it, 34 Dodge " Another time a woman came out of a store carrying her toddler who said " mommy look at the nice Jeep"
I had the Pontiac dragster on its trailer at a local big box store. A guy and his girlfriend stopped to have a look and she asked about the Offenhauser name on the rocker covers. He told her, "It's an Offenhauser V8....they were quite rare !" She was impressed with his automotive knowledge.
It doesn't even have to have fins on it, My dads '32 Chevy sedan has been called a '57 Chevy TWICE! WTF!!??!?! My Studebaker always gets called a Ford, then I correct 'em and they say "A what?"
a few years ago this girl was looking at my wagon and said, "I thought hearses were bigger than this?" So I told her it was for babies and if you wanted to haul adults you had to cut them up first...she didn't like that answer much
I had a smart car guy come up & talk to me about my "Dodge" truck I'm working on. I tell him its a Studebaker, not a Dodge. He then proceeds to tell me that Studebaker didn't make trucks & that its a Dodge. So I walk around to the back of the truck, look at the tailgate & say "thats a funny way to spell Dodge. s-t-u-d-e-b-a-k-e-r". Then he proceeds to tell me how rare of a truck it is & must be one of only a few from the factory or maybe even a prototype. BTW, I rode Huffys religiously. My buddies all had Haros, GTs, Redlines, Mongooses. I got a lot of crap, as you can imagine.
I can't believe it took 3 pages for that response. My 57 Ford ALWAYS gets called a Chevy. So did my 55 Olds, and my friend's '54 Olds 98...everything is a 57 Chevy. One of the best parts about owning a '57 Chevy was that I didn't have to explain. He's another classic..."Nice old police car", referring to the dummy spots. Who has ever heard of a 2 door police cruiser? "Did it come with no door handles from the factory?" Some people have a genuine interest, and I'm happy to answer their questions truthfully. Others are just clueless or want to bust balls, asking why I did what I did. Ed Roth said it best..."If I gotta explain, you wouldn't understand"
Hey grimlock there is a red satin embroidered HUTCH jacket on ebay right now, look under vintage 70's bmx bike...I don't know how to add link. kinda funny....
You guys need to stop talking BMX on here, your making me misty eyed.I used to spend every day on my bike, you could'nt get me off it in the summer.I would get up early take off on it then come home for lunch then get back on it and not come home until dark.Then they started building houses on all my favorite riding spots and neighborhood tracks. Back to cars. I drove my Nova to work one nice Friday in the summer and blew a header gasket on the way. My car sounded like a damm tractor. After work a bunch off us were going to go hang out and get some shakes at the local Steak & Shake and then go cruising. So I had to get the gasket replaced as fast as I could. I pulled in to my apartment took the hood off and started to work on getting the header loose when one off the neighbors comes up and starts asking me about my car.I could tell wright off the guy was an idiot but I'm a nice guy so I tried to answer his questions while working on the car.My favorite question was " Is that a 69 or a 75". I can see someone asking is it a 68 or a 69 or is it a 73 or a 74 but 69 and 75, the two look nothing alike.I was so happy when I got the new gasket on so I could leave.
.......So I am filling the slEdsel up one morning here in St Helens, right? And I am standing close by because most the time the morons who attempt it spill gas all over and just are plain careless. I am milling around and the guy takes note of the Impala taillights he casts a glance at the side and sees SLED in chrome letters. "Yep", he sez. "You Don't see to many of these Chevy Sledges anymore." Chevy Sledge. Amazing......
My daily is a 1970 coupe de ville(matt black 'n' flames) ,I get the opposite ...like..."dude what year is the lincoln" and " does it have the suicide doors" I usually don't even correct them and tell them its a '70 continental'
Have you taken it off any sweet jumps? I always get 'When you gonna put some 15's in the trunk?' But I'm a bald Mexican driving a lowered Impala so I guess that's par for the course...
Going with a guy to a truck show somewhere in the O.C....... "Studebaker, is that Chevy or Ford?" Fairly regularly in my Pontiac (which says 'Pontiac' twice on each hub cap, on the trunk, on the hood, on the dash....), "what kind of car is that?" or "Is that a Caddy?" Outside a club by a friends chopped shoebox, "My friend and I have a bet, that's a Merc, right?" My car has shaved door handles.."How do you get in?" or "How do you lock it?" There is a 12 volt battery in the trunk to run the fuel pump, and I took the back seat out because it gets wet in the rain, so you can see it through the windows... "Look, there's a battery in the trunk!" or "They must have hydros, man!" Then the hood ornament "Is that stock? Cool! It light's up!", the Indian emblems on the rear fenders are always being picked at by people. I wonder what they'd do if it actually came off? I get a kick out of parking in in Old Town, sitting near by, but out of sight, and listening to the comments and watching their faces.
My favorite when I have my 74 GTO out is, "did you and your dad cut that hatchback in it?", that or, "Nice Nova" that one really irritates me.
BMX was fun...lots of chicks. Should go race again, They have a seniors class now. hahaha My '36 Chev was always a Ford, Stude or Dodge "like my grandpa had". The best ever is not really hot rod but when I bought a Pantera in Boston and drove it to Vancouver in 5 days(that's another story...150mph on cracked P7s). Anyways, stop for gas in Asscrack, South Dakota. This guy hops out of truck followed by 7 kids (riding in the box. no shit 7 of 'em!) and his wife. He smiles this one tooth grin and says "DAMN son! Dat der is the hottest Lambergennie I ever seen! Can my wife touch it?" My pal laughed so hard he spit orange juice out his nose all over his drawers. Still laugh about that one.
My favorite was when me and my buddy were in the grocery store parking lot in his 54 Chevy and we stopped at a crosswalk for an old lady and she said' "Ohhhh, can I look in your car?" and my buddy said "Sure". And she responded while looking up at the headliner, "Yep, that's the one...I lost my viginity in one just like it." *I went home and scrubbed the back seat of my shoebox with 409*
Funny shit..... my car is a 2 door and I still get people coming up to me and asking if it's "the one with the suicide doors?" YOUR STARING RIGHT AT THE CAR!!!! CAN'TYOU SEE IT'S A 2 -DOOR!!!! WTF
The comments I get... "What year Chevy is that?" Usually people who want to act like they know something about cars... "It looks just like that car in the Autozone commercial with Jesse James." - Usually people who know NOTHING about cars "Did you shave the door handles?" - Can't you fucking tell there are no handles? "Look Dad! It's the Jesse James car!" - Usually 6 yr old kids leaving Wal Mart "Orale Mang, sweet wheels esay" - Usually the vato in the Beretta or Regal at the stoplight. '54 Ford Mainline
i've got a 67 mustang, it's weird owning a "popular" car. Most people guess it as a 66, which is pretty good in my book. Most people who talk to me about it either owned one, or wants one. I really like talking to the people who owned one when it was new, there's usually a couple good sotries involved. I worked with a guy who owned a 68 coupe with a 390, bought it new when he got out of the service... like he said "if I only knew then what I know now". On the other side of the coin, me and my girl was walking around a show once, I stopped to check out a 58 chevy with a fully detailed w-block. I made the comment to my girl about how I really like those w-engines, how i'd like to have one in a a-sedan someday. The two guys sitting beside it start snidely laughing. What the fuck? I'm not stupid, I don't know everything, but near as I can figure I didn't call it a olds slant 6 or something. I was about ready to ask "what's so funny chuckles?", but instead I made polite conversation. I think a lot of these guys use their cars as a way to have one up on everyone else, and to look down on them if they're not fully "in the know"...
Very funny, guys. My favorite is when people argue with you about what year the car is. "What year is that?" "It's a '51." "No, I'm pretty sure it's a 52." ????? WTF? It's my car dipshit!!?! One of my other rides is a Lancia, I get all sort of wacky guesses and lots of "a what?"
Did everything the same, but used a ten-speed seat, and the front forks, and then made motocross "fenders" buy cutting the shape out of the sides of Rubbermaid garbage cans. I used mine when we went camping (Holly Hills Campground, MI) and put a schwinn "Pixie" front sprocket so I could climb hills and coast down the other side.
I have a 73 Gremlin street machine'yeah laugh away' and i ALWAYS ALWAYS get the fuckin heeey its the Waaaynes world car party on when Wayne drove a Hidous Pacer Not a ugly Gremlin also i found these primo F700 emblems in the JY one day and slapped em on my rusty but trusty 77 F100 and you shoulda heard the questions i got like 'How'd you put small wheels on a industrial truck?or howd your get a shortbed to fit on that industrial truck and they never thought i just stabbed a couple of emblems on a F100.
Back in the days of being a young pup I rode a chopped 750 Honda, and you'd s__t if I told you how many times I was told"Nice Harley!" At first Ipointed out the letters H O N D A on the side covers. After awhile I just said "Thanks!" I even picked up a real bimbo that said she wouldn't ride anything but a Harley,rode all of three days to a run in Okla. before someone told her!(Funny!) AL
Comments on my tunnelrammed smallblock powered Morris Minor seem to fall into two groups. Clueless: "That's one badass VW!", and clued-in but not paying attention: "How much boost ya running in the blower?"...I get a surprising number of people who know what it is, but every one insists on telling me their Morris story - usually how four of their buddies rode to high school in one every day. Sometimes I'm in the mood for these people, and sometimes I'm not - but I always try to be pleasant and patient with them.....
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