Seeing your favorite type of car and getting a chance to look it over and/or talk to the owner, don't usually mind if the guy thinks he's an expert, I expect that nowadays. But looking at things that knowledgable owners would have addressed and dealt with as a matter of course just plain ignored does irk me. Falcons have a known well documented cowl rust issue; untreated, it's a virtual death sentence for a Falcon because it spreads across the cowl and the toeboards and down the firewall into the support structure. Anyways: I've seen too many shiny painted Falcons with cowl cancer no one wants to deal with correctly. My actual "pet peeve" right there.
The " how much do you have in it" inquiry is followed by pulling the change out of a pocket and start counting. I tell people "keep the receipts, but don't ever add them up, you'll get depressed. As to how fast? "The other night, the GPS read 148 mph on the freeway." They usually walk away without making further eye contact.
Robertson or scrulox fasteners belong in wood and HVAC ducts, not on cars. Unless it's a super correct restoration of a canada Model A
People who answer questions here on FB or anywhere else without fully understanding the question and then researching the answer if they don't actually have a lot of experince and real time knowledge on the subject. All too often suggesting a vendor for something a person is looking for without actually taking the time to personally check and see if that vendor actually sells and lists that item. Then there are the clowns who go off on what total changes they would make rather than answer the actual question in a helpful manner. If you don't think swapping one six cylinder in place of another one and the only fix is a V8 and the guy is asking about sixes shut the fuck up about swapping in V8 engines. He didn't ask opinions he asked for productive answers.
My pet peeve is when someone is selling a car and states "no rust" when you can see it everywhere in the pictures! I realize they may be trying to say "no rust through" indicating no holes all the way through... I dunno, just bugs me.
One thing the gets me is guys describing their 37 Plymouth sedan and say it's "real steel"... like anyone has ever made 37 Plymouth bodies out of fiberglass.
My Deuce highboy roadster cost just under 50K to build in late '09. When someone gets nosy about its worth, I just tell him 145K and that ends the conversation. Wannabees can really be crass.
WOW ! I'll get back to you in a few days after I hopefully digest just what the poster posted ! I just applauded Ned. This kind of exchange is what makes being a HAMBer so KOOL !
Texas requires 25 years before licensing your 'classic', 'antique', or 'vintage' ride. I prefer YOM plates.
...or they leave a couple of dirty towels and a McDonalds bag strewn across the interior before taking the pictures.! Don't they know anything about merchandising?!
What really grinds my gears....I ask a simple yes/no question online and out of the twenty-plus responses I can only use maybe two. All the rest are someone asking their own unrelated questions, someone taking the moral high ground and telling me that I need to repent of my wicked ways because they wouldn't use the part that I did, or someone has to tell me a story about their buddy who did the same thing 150 years ago to their car
You can stop that by posting at the end of your question that you don't want any answers , that'll stop ' em !
The case of " I need help figuring out,,, ( A ) what this or these are from, or ( B ) How / Why this setup will / won't work. See pictures. AND We find no evidence of extra ( sufficient ) light source.
Giving someone a different perspective they may not have considered is terribly negative. Got it. Sorry that personal experience of spending many hours and many dollars on a six only to find the car was WAY more enjoyable with the obvious option that was being avoided was so triggering for you. From the same guy that has defended the same behaviour in the past, no less.
Not every brand and style locking and limited slip differential is a "posi". A spool is definitely not a "posi". Please stop using that term for everything that is not an open differential. That is my pet peeve.
Cars doing a “lap” on a dragstrip. That’s a “run” – “laps” are what races do on road courses, roundy roundy tracks, Indy, F!, etc
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