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

My Vietnamese neighbor likes my Model A, but insists that it's French.

 

boosted from somewhere on the HAMB!

i had many strange comments like.
why that color?
why that engine choice?
why that wheel choice?
you know kinda like the HAMB only with bermuda shorts and ugly fuckin shoes!

 

I've got a 32...This guy tells me how he's got a T Bucket just like mine.

 

Gald to see the rest of you, have delt with the Tard clan, too.
I posted a comment made about my SOHC motor, when a passenger in a hopped up Nova asked, "What, do you got a big cam in there?" and I said I got 2 big cams, and he turned and told the driver, and they both started to laugh. Or the man at a show who asked me, "Where did you get those cool valve covers, for that
Hemi?".
How do you answer that?
Eric

 

At the first T Bucket Nationals I was told by an "expert" that my old 283, even though it was cammed up & had a tri-power, it didn't have enough power to "get out of it's own smoke"......He, of course was a genius, & had a Chevy small block 400 with a Weiand tunnel ram & 2 Holley 4 barrels;...oh yeah, it also had aluminum heads, & a Turbo 400 tranny backed by a 4:10 10 bolt Chevy. To this day, I wish I had run him for an 8th mile. I've got a feeling he would've been really suprised to see how well my old school 26 T could "get out of it's own smoke"! There's always at least one in every crowd!

 

overheard a guy say to the group he was with how stupid somebody was for putting the mirror on the fender of a 64 gto

 

Local "expert" told me that he had been building Y blocks for 40 years and he knew my stude engine was a y block.

 

We drove the Lil T P/u to the mall. When we were getting out a lady stopped and said "Wow thats really old.. Does it run?" I told "No, we pushed it there". (Here's yer sign) Then she about shit herself when I blew the train horn.

 

So we are sitting at a show with my pop's '54 Chevy Truck and some guy comes up and is like "hey man I think someone bent you one mirror! Its all out of wack compared to the other".... Uh no

 

I get it all the time. Thats not a Caddy engine it's a Chevy with Cad valve covers. Thats not a traditional hot rod, I said really it was chopped and Packard grille done in 1948, still has buggy spring suspension, early cad engine and Olds. rear. Or that flame job don't belong on that old rod, when it was in primer for years all I heard was when you gonna paint it, now you outta primer it for that old time look!!! Or get rid of those wheels, when I had red 50 Merc. wheels why don't you lose them for mag wheels!!! Or lose that rolled and pleated bench seat for bucket seats, now you outa but in a bench seat!!! I tell ya I don't fit in nowhere, maybe I'll just stay in bed today, ha ha.

 

Not just once, but MANY times...........

What year is it?

'33

No, that's a '34

I 'think' its a '33

I'm sure THAT's a '34

OK, its a '34


And, the 'other' one.................

I didn't know the back window rolled down in a Ford.

 

This post is really funny. Some of the stories are just radiculous.

 

There's a flip-top Tr#umph TR6 gas filler lid in the bed of my M5 truck to fill the Must#ng gas tank between the rails.(Both were on totally thrashed cars that had no hope of restoration).
During a tenure at a monument company,I etched the old Studebaker logo and "ogee" into the flip-lid.
It's some kind of cast stuff;won't polish like aluminum,so it's old timey looking.
At a local show a guy argues me that these were installed on "Super Hawks" and "Super Larks" at the factory and how rare it is.I try to tell him its pedigree and that I modified its appearance for fun.
"Oh no,no,no,it's a Studebaker factory performance piece!!!"
"Is that right???"

You just never know?

 

I have a nicely built 361 engine in my O/T (barely) '66 Coronet 500. The car also has "361" numbers painted right above the factory "V-8" emblems. I've had the Mopar "experts" say:

---"Chrysler never built a 361, are you sure that is a 383, instead?" (It's a 361. Last year in cars).

---"A 361? Are you sure you mean 360, don't you?" (360 is a small-block, Nimrod!)

---The best one is "WOW! I've never seen a Hemi with air conditioning before!" (WTF?)

---"My Dad had a '66 Coronet R/T with that same set-up in it!" (No, he didn't. No R/T until '67, and then only with a 440 or a 426 Hemi, Einstein!)

NOn-Mopar "experts" chime in, of course...

---"361? How come you have an Edsel engine in your Dodge?" (Edsel? Just because the cubic inch displacement is the same, does not make it the same engine, Numbnuts!)

---"361? There's no such thing!" (You are looking at one, Bucko!)

---"Is that a big block or a small block?" (It's a Slant Six, OK?)

I can't wait for the comments about my '56 Plymouth wagon, once I install the 440 in that baby!

My '37 Terraplane has had all kinds of comments about it, like:

---"Cool looking Ford/Chevy/Studebaker you have there!" (It says "Terraplane" on the engine head, hubcaps and the decklid emblem. Reading is not taught in schools anymore, I am firmly convinced!)

---"Who makes a Terraplane, anyway?" (No one, since 1938, but they were built by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Not really a stupiod question, but always asked)

---"WOW! I bet it's a PITA to find parts for that!" (Not really that hard. The Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club and its membership is one of the best sources anywhere for these cars!)

It's all fun, I guess. Up to a point, then it's just tedious.

 

You get all kinds owning a Studebaker. Every coupe is a Hawk, they all used Chevy engines, Avantis used Chevy 327's, etc. I've been told my Stude engine is a Hemi, the "experts" mistake the valve cover studs for spark plugs. I guess I did a Hell of a job hidin' the plug wires.

The most common one is when they ask what engine it has and I tell them it has a 289 out of a '56. I get the You're a dumbass look and a snicker and "Ford didn't make a 289 in '56"......... Damn it! Busted me again........

 

My truck ia a flat/satin gunsmoke grey. Ive been asked over and over "what color are you going to paint it" or "that will look great when you paint it".

 

That is priceless.

 

"You might want to consider the 350 option."

"It'll look nice when you get the interior done."

"I had one just like it except mine was a convertable"

"I know a guy who has two of those."

 

We shaved the door handles on my truck and used a bear claw setup with a mechanical release.
When an "expert" sees the absence of door handles they'll usually comment "See Thelma,Studebaker was so far ahead of their time,they didn't use door handles."
Comes with the territory,huh?

 

Let's see, someone asks a question that irritates us, even to the point of someone wanting to knock their teeth out.
Then we gather as a group and we all say the same things so we can say we are irritated.
About four posts up, he has come up with a cute response to all the questions he has ever recieved.
The ones he can't think of a response to, he has the traditional "WTF!!!" response.

 

I run a small blok 400" in my '40 Stude coop...I have finned Edelbrock valve covers on it, I removed the Edelbrock logo by filing it out and putting in a gold colored piece of aluminum with "Avanti" lettered on it...even other Studebaker owners want to know why I took a perfectly "rare" Avanti engine and put it in my old coop...or the fact that I kept a Studebaker "all Studebaker"...sometimes it does not pay to even converse with them.

R-

 

I'm assuming you are referring to my post, and yes, I've been asked those, and yes, I DO remember stupid-assed questions like those. I've got tons more, if you'd like. Problem?

 

"Why'd you put a Chevy in it?" Because that's what I wanted to put in it!

 

A few years ago I was at a big weekend car show in Ohio with my 63 427 hi-riser R code Galaxie. A crowd gathers around it and one guy tells me "Cool car, but why the Chevy engine?"...BKH

 

i was cutting up in reference to that comment,i really am a nice person and i patiently listen to people "who know more then me" about the car i built, even though they have never probably never seen one except in passing, but i can't stand people who walk up and make random rude comments like that guy had said. it's like if you can't say something nice keep your pie hole closed.

 

The kids next door to my shop have an SBC with Edelbrock valve covers on it, they insist it is an "Edelbrock motor" and they're looking for the right car to "put that Edelbrock into". I don't bother to correct them.

Another guy stopped by my shop, at the time I had my '70 Cutlass convertible and my '60 Fury in there, a few other things. He informed me that it's not worth fixing these cars up because they aren't worth anything. I asked him why he thought that. He then explained that he had restored a '74 AMC Matador 4 door in tan with a red stripe (?) and then donated it to a car museum. The car museum couldn't sell the car for $1000. That's what he based his belief on.

I live for that kind of shit. Nothing is sweeter to me than hearing someone spout off some ignorant bullshit that they made up on the spot. I'm never mean to anyone and I rarely try to argue with or correct anything. It's just entertaining to listen to.

If anyone ever gets on your nerves, just ask them "so what do you drive?" Or more specifically, if you're at a show or event, or even at the grocery store, ask "what did you drive here?" I never ask it sarcastically or mean spirited, I just ask as if I want to know. Those will be the most entertaining answers in the world. It's never anything good.

 

Bwah HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

You should hear the comments when a Mopar displays the factory "383" emblems on it, and some Chevy guy comes along and says "You put a SBC in that or something?"

OK...

 

the answer is..."No, it has a real 383 in it!" The owner of a paint-n-body/ rod n custom shop was lookin @ my '48 Sedan. Said he had one like it but there was something different about the roof. I'd seen a '48 coupe sitting @ his shop.....

 

A local guy runs a repair shop. He ,out of the blue, informs me he knows how to fix a 289 Ford to turn 10,000 rpm. I said BS and thought he was just kidding. He said he really knew and was going to tell Carroll Shelby but thought he should keep it a secret. OK,I say whats the secret. He says, set the valve clearance to .100 and it will go right up to ten grand. I say what about the rotating assembly. He says, No problem!! Yea right.