[FONT="]have you noticed that some cars seem to have a personality all their own. For the most part Ive gotten along with most of my cars but a few seemed to go out of their way to aggravate me every chance they got. Even while being built, some cars almost fall together with hardly any effort while others seem intent on fighting you, kicking and scratching every step of the way. No matter how well things were planned, no matter how carefully things are done something goes wrong. Have you ever seen a grown man talking to a car, trying to explain that hes not the enemy! I know it seems impossible for an inanimate object to have either a good or bad attitude but I swear some cars do. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just crazy[/FONT]
Look to the left of this post...! It's O/T, I know, so I won't tell the story, but that was the biggest love/hate relationship I've ever been in...
Awww, you're just crazy...!!! But then again, so am I... I've had to scold my latest build and threaten it with going back to its previous owner if it didn't straighten up... See my build: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329070&page=15&highlight=the+best+55+caddy+build There's a couple of portions in there about me talking to it... R-
...........Well.......Speaking of a man who has (2) ex-wifes and many anrgy girlfriends......I've come to the conclusion that some women are just like my Hotrods............."They just don't like me".......no matter how much I cuss,drink, kick the tools around the shop and driveway..............I always come back for more.........Do I need help.....Yep...My girlfriend just came into the garage laughing with a handful of tools that were in the driveway
The 48 definitely had/has it's own personality along with being a one man truck. My 71 GMC daily driver is often more stubborn than my wife and that's pretty bad. The two of them don't get along at all and she swears that the truck hates her.
i don't say a word to her . I just pop another brewsky & go on . but when i turn her on , i want her to do the same to me. "and the bowtie rolls on"
I'm certain my car has a personality to her. Even my new ones. I'm 100% sure they don't like my ex on top of that. My nova sure didn't want to work with me when we were together, and the first time my ex and I hung out after I bought a new car it broke down as we were driving back from the bar (within the first 5 minutes of her ever being in it). My nova hasn't had a problem since her and I broke up and goes together like a snap now. Maybe she's just jealous, or hates a deep distain for my ex.
had a ford bronco that hated me, and a honda crv that tortured me, both beat me up physically and monetarily . my driver ['39 gmc] knows me. ok i'm crazy too.
Don't know if this is pertinent to your post, but my current project ('63 Chevy Biscayne) seems to really like me. Every bolt & nut I have removed has come loose with absolutely no problems. The upper back shock bolts, top nuts on front shocks, grill removal, seats from a rusted floor, and so on... It just seems to cooperate with all the changes I am doing...It has been a real pleasure on this project. Have not used the torch, or sawzall on anything yet. This car did come from MO, so maybe that has something to do with it, unlike our rust heaps up here in the winter states... And best part is I am almost done!! Cheers, Bob
oh yeah I have trued to have one of my rides demons removed soon it left my hands it was all smiles for the next guy. they are like dogs they sense things
Interesting, I'm not alone Sometimes the car likes how you're dressing her, but sometimes, she lets you know she ain't happy.
I have a car thats not hamb friendly but i must tell the story the car has 1600 miles on it yes you read that right 1600 miles and its been written off 3 times each time bought back and rebuilt I call it the "devil car" the car was a dealer demo when new, it made it 3 weeks till it was on a test drive and T boned another car and caught fire. insurance wrote it off the first time. a felow here call jimmy the greek bought it and welded a whole new front end on the car from the firewall forward and resold the car. the new owner owned the car for about 3 months before he was hit on the drivers side rear quarter, again the car was wrote off and again it was rebought by jimmy the greek he spent the winter putting a new rear quarter on the car and repainting it this time jimmy himself drecided to drive the car for awhile and as things would go jimmy ended up hitting a rather large woman and had her come over the hood and through the windshield. insurace payed jimmy to fix it a third time he then sold it to the owner before me who never drove it it was left in my friends driveway till i bought it for the price of fixing his tr6 project i have owned it now more than 20 yrs it has only driven around my parlinglot and been to one car show on a trailer i'm afraid of what might happen it i actually take it on a public road I painted it from brown to silver about 2 yrs ago the car is imaculate and totally rust free the only rust i did find when i painted it was in the parts that had been replaced even the original vinyle seats are in perfect shape anyone that knows british cars knows they are the first to go the car never fought me one bit in repairing and repainting it does this mean it likes me or is it suckering me into being the next victim ? Paul
Uhhh.... I try not to post unless I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about....and you'll note... I am posting. Cars do not have feelings. Or brains. Or sexual organs. They are chunks of metal. They just don't give a shit. About anything. At all. The insecurity you feel when you wake up in the middle of the night....wondering... did I REALLY tighten that fuel line sufficiently, is really just YOU...telling you that you DIDN'T. Trying to find yourself in an automobile.... or telling yourself that your bad workmanshp is anything other than bad workmanship is girlie-shit, just nonsense. Cars have never, and never will....given a shit. You can yell, threaten to leave them, put you hands on your hips, call your ex... or whatever. A cross-threaded bolt is still and is JUST a cross-threaded bolt. YOU fucked-up. Blaming your car is welcomed on day-time TV shows hosted by black women and gay men. It sells. It's a lie. DO NOT fall for it. This board is dedicated to the men who freely admit it when they fuck-up. They laugh about it, drink heavily.....and fuck-up again. Rinse and repeat. Blaming a chunk of metal for your own shortcomings sucks all the life....and indeed the alcohol right out of it. Please desist. And please drive thru...............
Reminds me of when I was a teenager, working at an autoparts store. This fat slob guy, reeking of beer, his butt-crack hanging out of his jeans and with dried mustard on his jowls asks for wiper-blades. I go out to measure them, and he's driving a '71 Vette LT-1convertible,...white on blue on black. I, being a teen, am suitibly impressed. Fat-boy notices my gaze, rips a fart and, with beer-breath,says: "Like it, huh, kid?... Well....'farts', you are what you drive!" At that moment, it hit me: You are NOT what you drive. At all. Fat-boy would have liked to be that LT1 Vette, but was, instead, his mom's "74 Vega. We would "like" that stripped bolt to be the cars' fault...but it's not. We drive cool cars because we like cool cars. We are not like cars and cars are not like us. We have penises and our cars have points. Let's do our best to keep that in mind.
Cars a somewhat like members of the opposite sex. Some are more difficult than others. But in my experience the difficult ones are usually the more rewarding in the long run.
"But in my experience the difficult ones are usually the more rewarding in the long run. " Not at all my experience...are we still talking about cars??? I agree that our cars are just inanimate objects, but with most of us being as passionate (yeah I used "that" word) about our hot rods and daily's as we are it is hard not to interject feelings into them. That's where I stop, our rides are what we make them, they don't make us. Now repeat after me... " Hi, I'm a car junkie and I have no hopes to recover..."<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
Yep I know what you mean .....Its called lemon builder law ,Some cars act like lemons, I had a 74 elcamino that I purchased once ,Paid 1200 for it ,Did the bodywork and paint and blew the motor following week ,Dumped the car for 125 the following week ,Then I spent a year redoing a 72 chevelle and the frame cracked ,Sent it out and had the frame fixed kept cracking ,Car sat in my driveway for 5 years until I pulled it apart and started driving the elcamino for 10 years,Without problems....My first car gave me the most problems with carb going out of whack and crashed it 3 months after 2 year restoration .....+2 different motors
The doctors said that when Moose gets like this it's best to just humor him, until the meds kick in. So, just play along guys.....
Well, I must need the same meds as Moose then - I've had several cars like that - ones that no matter how, when, or where I drove them something would break, go wrong, it would strand me in the middle of nowhere, etc. Once I got to the point that I was no longer happy driving them, off they went, sold them, got rid of them. What's really funny is how they com in 3's - I had a 39 Chevy phantom sedan cabriolet, great looking, really unusual, something broke every time out, gone for a 34 3-window Chevy, another great looking car, but windows fell out, stuff quit working, stranded me on more than one cruise, sold finally for a 57 Chevy 2-dr Belair HT - great, great "looking" cruiser, 2-tone blue and white, but something was always wrong with the car - not bad, just nit-picky things that were more of a PITA that anything else. They came, all 3, in a row. The 57 I finally traded for a 40 Ford p-up w/rumpety rump 327, gear drive, ran like a raped ape, a super nice truck that I drove all over. The present owner is none other than Jerry Berger of Street Rod Builder fame (as well as sme other defunct mags) that he even did a few tech articles on - I wish I never sold that one but the funds went to complete my avatar. It's "good car karma" seems to have transferred to the new ride so no worries at this point!
Some cars are lemons. My take on it is that all cars occaisionally have problems it because they want attention. I talk to mine and have for a very long time. But as has been mentioned many times by people that fit in I'm not normal.
Oh, thank God! What a relief. Now I don't have to worry about turning into a purple HHR. (Not that I drive it more than I absolutely have to, anyway. It's my wife's car, but who knows how much exposure is safe. I mean, it's an HHR. And it's purple.)
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