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HAHAHAHAHA...Miss those days alright. You musta been that kid who beat me with 15' of air at the YMCA track in OC when did our American "tour" in '85. Tired a local kid's 20" last fall. Sore for days. Broke 4 Profile frames before I was done. Headtube and caliper mount everytime. That's when I learnt to weld. Old man refused to fix it anymore.
Back regularly scheduled hot rod talk.

 

Something wierd always happens to me when I drive my Lincoln. First people ask me what it is.... next they proceed to tell me all about the CADILLAC that their brother/father/uncle/buddy owns and how much they dig old Cadillacs ... WTF

Half the time I think they start rambling on to hide the embarassment of not being able to read the LINCOLN script on the side. The other half of the time it's becuase they assume that I had to SETTLE for a Lincoln because I didn't know that Caddys were "way cooler". WTF

 

common comment when filling my home made extended cab 59 chevy pickup at the gas pump: "We had one just like that when I was a kid"

Common comment when I had my 39 Chevy FOUR DOOR street rod: "is that a kit car?"

I sometimes tell wannabe gearheads the blown big block in my 55 is a tunnel ram 283 with a gear drive.

Sure was fun driving gear jammers 31 chevy around today! straight pipes behind a cammed 235....

 

One of my very favorites............. At a swap meet my buddy and I spot this primo '53 Buick hardtop. It's all stock and very nice and just one dufus hanging around it so............being the nice guy I am I tell my pal to go with me and we saunter up to the Buick and give it the quick looksee. Then I say just loud enough for the dufas to hear...... "How come they put Mercury side trim on this Buick?" Dufas nearly jumps out of his shoes hollering "Ain't no Mercury side trim. That's all stock Buick". So my pal and I have a conversation 'bout every 49 to 51 Merc I ever seen came out with that side trim stock from the factory and by the time we were done gassin this guy up he was beginning to believe that it was Merc trim.
Mike

 

One time my dad and I were driving somewere and stopped to get something to eat. We get out of the car, and this lady is like "Are you Garth Brooks?" to my dad. Hes like "no" shes like, well can i get a picture with you anyway? Hes like "why" and shes goes "Cus i just saw Garth Brooks in concert last ngiht and your car looks expensive and you look like him so i thought you were" The funny thing is, my dad looks absolutely nothing like Garth Brooks.

Since that first one didnt have to do with cars, this one does. My dads car is red with ghost flames and people get there face literally, 1 inch, from the paint to look at it, its so funny to watch. One time this kid was showin off his automotive knowledge to his buddy and this is what he says.
Smart Kid-Hey, see those flames

Other kid-Ya

Smart Kid-This car used to have flame decals on it and the guy peeled em off and i guess he was too lazy to repaint it.



Nick

 

LMAO. The one I hear way to often is: "What did that use ta be?" I guess it depends on the day or the question askers attitude, but an honest answer brings more smiles than a wisecrack.

Charlie

 

dude, you know "the real' mccoy?

 

Hard to drive around so-cal in a chopped car with tattoos and not be mistaken for jesse james... most people are stupid...

 

They ask - What kind of car is it?
I say - It's a '40 Ford.
They reply - A '44 what?

Now I try to speak more clearly.

 

I get the Corvette thing all the time! I always just tell them it's a special Corvette Tudor made for the nuclear family.

 

ha ha, punk-ass kids...you and your fancy frames, why back in my day, the only frame to have was a stingray, cause the fucker wouldn't fold in half when you jumped it.

handlebars were made by stomping 'big bike' cruiser bars flat, and getting the guy at midas to weld a piece of bar stock in as a cross bar. get over to the husky dealer for a set of grips (lots of electric tape for the right side), cut off the top bend of the sissy bar, move the tubes to the inside of the bannana seat, throw away the fenders and mount a rear tire on the front wheel. now you've got a 'motorcross bike'....

i've got my roger decoster and my ashtabula hanging up in the garage still. i kept collecting bike shit 'til last year. they were always good for instant gratification- you can finish a bike project in one afternoon

 

Why the hell do I want to ask you if you can get me any cool shit?!!! I have no concept of the passing of time and my own decay.

I'm way too old for that stuff now and in fact as I type this, my sciatic nerve is threatening to make me an invalid, and yet I still feel like I should ask you for something. It's like I never grew up or something. Like I'm still bunny-hopping over trash cans and shit.

This post is making me nostalgic for the smell of brand new vinyl-covered foam pads, and vans.

My favorite comment when driving my 49 Ford? "Sweet Studebaker..."

 

I bought a 57 Ford 2 dr couple years ago and stopped at walmart on the way home. a guy probly 35 was trying to impress his female friend by telling me what a neat 57 Chevy I had, i just told him nope its a Ford and drove off while they were standing there. How hard is it to see the difference?

 

i had a 39 chevy 2dr sedan ,with shiney paint to boot, anyway had some drunk ass ask me when i got mt PT csuiser. i was like WTF dude are you stupid. thats like callining his kz750 a moped. i know we all know the diference cause we eat sleep and drink hot rods but PT cruiser.....i dont get it....

 

but isn't everything with a fin a 57chevy?

 

I had an 8 foot long Triumph bar racer. "What kindda Harley is that??!!!"
Son that's "Vertical-twin Harley"

I ustta have to take my arm outta the window in the chopped Merc so they could see me yellin 'DIE YUPPIE SKUM!!'


Have you ever noticed that you have to answer them or they KEEP ASKING?

AND yes.... Byrd is eating a Chicken foot!!!

 

My crestliner has been called everything including a rambler. I guess because of the factory continental. Most of the people that reconize it as a 50 ford think it is made up with the vinal roof and exta chrome.

 

LOL, a Vette? Damn there are some truly ignorant people among us.

I'm a young guy, but I've always been really good with years / makes / models. I knew a Falcon from a Fairlane, a DeSoto from a Chrysler, a Deuce from an A, a '39 from a '40, and a Charger from a Challenger at an early age. I remember being in first grade and getting pissed at all the "idiots" calling that car the General Lee when it was obviously a '69 Charger.

I've already gotten the "Ecto" bit with my blue '57 Plymouth 2dr wagon. assholes...

 

Hutch factory! Cool! I remember them having some hopped up Mercedes at ABA Nats. And I thought, when Profile gave me a jersey and some hubs, I was king shit.
Man, sooo many stories. Haven't thought about bike days in YEARS! Those guys were my heros back then. RL Osboure, Eddie King, Harry Leary and on and on. Grimlok, you're alright! Thanks for bringing up the memories

 

So my dad and I are at this show with his 34 truck. Its got a Judson blown four cylinder in it.

Some mullet headed, parachute pant wearin' fool with a butt ugly stick of a girlfriend hangin' on his arm walks up and says "I just hate it when these stupid people think that they are building a traditional car and then they go and put air conditioning in it". His freak-of-nature girlfriend says "Giggle, giggle........How do you know it has air conditioning?" His reply? "Well look, the compressor is hangin' right off the side of the motor. He could of at least tried to hide it or something."

Gee, it never doned on him that there was a CARBURETOR mounted to it.

 

That four banger kicks much ass. And I'm still chuckling at the Camaro owner's comments.

deductive reasoning based on equal parts mullet, skinny/ugly girlfriend, ignorance, and arrogance

 

I had a Schwinn Spitfire that I bobbed, took the fenders off, got a smaller rear tire that was a knobby off of a smaller bike, put on ape hangers and a springer seat off of something I found in the trash. The garbage was where I shopped, I think the only new parts I ever had were tubes. I stored that bike away at my parent's home but they did some spring cleaning and didn't tell me.

I rode that thing everywhere.

 

This is turning into BMX thread. Ah who cares...
My VERY first bike was a RoadKing that I trashed jumping trash cans and other kids. Think little Dave Sobetski STILL has tire marks on his forehead over that one. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Dumbass was stupid enuf to lay down if front so you get what you get! HAHAHAHA! Think I jumped 8 kids before the "accident".
Then it was a motocross wanna be (1975?) with a plastic tank and shocks. I could do HUGE air on that thing. Fucker just coming back for more. Finally gave it away. Then BMX days started.
If you guys could see the smile I'm wearing!!! Great memories for sure. Made my day! Thanks.

 

Yeah the
'"what did it used to be".... is one I hear a lot....
One time I was at a local show and I drove the 58 El Camino....
I parked it and after a lot of looking and walking around on a hot day I plunked down in a lawn chair off to one side of it about a car length....

A young fellow and an older "mentor"-type walks by- the young guy looks it over as they pass-never breaking stride.... said "I didnt know they made one like that"....
The old guy says"Oh,It's not original-Its just an add on"........
Made my day!

 

Wait a second!
Isn't that where it get the air to make it cold?
Uhhh, uhh, are you SURE it isn't for air conditioning?

*grin*

I had a guy at the Pep boys tell me ALL about flatheads when I was getting cherry picker to get one out of my truck.
The guy had to help me get it to the truck so he could show off.
When he saw the thing, he said it wasn't a flathead.
Said that "back in the days" they called them "V8s"!
Said a flathead was a big 8 cylinder engine, all in a line, and not one of these engines.
I asked him if he meant a straight 8?
Said yes, but we never called one of THOSE engines like in my truck a "flathead"!
Told him I must have made a BIG MISTAKE, since it looks just like all the pictures in those books I have at home about rebuilding "flatheads" and as soon as I got home I will have to write to all those lying son of a bitch book authors!
And that bastard who sold me the engine is in for BIG trouble too!
Thank god he works in an auto parts store.


I have yet to get more than two guys come up to my 1966 Mustang and guess the year within 3.
Guess I should buy a 1969 Mustang fastback so people can call it is a 1966.
Then I'll have all the bases covered.
At least they knew it was a Mustang.


Doug

 

Thats what I get man!

Stranger: What kinda car you got?
Me: A 1950 Ford
Stranger: A 1954 what?

I have to say it slow everytime or they never get it.

 

There's a guy around the corner who loves my "Deuce Coupe". When he was told it was a '30 Model A he said "It's still a Deuce to me".

 

Fuck, you think YOU had it tough...back in 81 I built a low buck BMX bike out of my Sears Spyder...it was kind of a heap, but I built and fixed it (often!) myself and learned alot about bikes doing it.

My Grandma saw that I was always working on it, so she surprised me with a brand new Open Road (Montgomery Ward!) BMX bike...complete with the old METAL five spoke Lester mag wheels! That bike weighed as much as a Buick, jumped like a hippo and broke in three places on a jump that the Spyder had landed several times before!

It was no different then, as Grimlok says...people used to call my Spyder a Stingray (well, I did have a "Team Schwinn" pad on the v-bars!), and my Open Road just got called a Boat!

Bringing my 49 Chevy home a year and a half ago prompted all sorts of commentary from the neighbors...

"Is that a Hudson?"
"Bet it's got a flathead!"
"Are you gonna restore it?"
"Jesse James has one like that!"
"Hope it ain't got a Powerglide...those are SLOW!"

For the most part, it's kinda fun!