[ QUOTE ] WOW i didnt know that there was this many great stories out there. I didnt have the heart to tell you guys how confused they were when i was trying to explain that the transmission was a push button they thought i had hidden the shifter knob. [/ QUOTE ] ROTFLMAO !!! I learned to drive in a 1963 Imperial! Square steering wheel, push button trans and a 426 wedge!!!
Had a bright competition orange S-10 Blazer back in the day. My favorite question to get was "What color is that?" I'd tell them it's green. ... I always had a pic of my T-bucket at the tire store. "I had one just like that when I was your age. Only mine was candy red, small bock Chevy, and had a Jag rear." Ah yes, just like my flathead flatblack banjo rear Bucket, huh?
godDAMN these stories are fucking funny...!! I'll just stick with the stories from my '65 Rivi... I've had people say, "Hey, bithin' Skylark...", "Hey, nice Ponitac..."(..close..?) I had a guy ask about the color too...him- "Hey nice car, what color is that..??" me- "what color does it look like to you.?" him- "I dunno, looks kinda green, kinda yellow..." me- "yep, it's lime-gold" him- "Hmmmm, I didn't know they made such a color..." HA..!! one time a few weeks ago I was parking at a small shopping center and these two teenage girls cruised by on their skateboards and asked, "Wow, how'd you get the glitter in your paint..?? it's so sparkle-y..!!" I just laughed... I have more I'm sure...just can't think of them right now...
How about the guys who walk around with their wives/girlfriends and they try to explain what all the cars are? Thats some funny shit they say. like "Thats a kit car" or "my uncle had a hudson just like this" about a 49-50 Merc. Billy
random kids (maybe 7-9 years old) "what kind of car is that dad?" random weirdo dad (in a very strong and opiniated voice) "Thats a 72 Cadillac!" Me "Actually its a 66 Cadillac." Dad "What the Fu@#? How dare you insult me in front of my kids! I know my cars." Me (with a confused look on my face) "My bad" ... strange stumbling bumb, looked like an OG cholo "Hey man, is that your car? It's fu#@ken cool." Me (in my '63 Cadillac Convertible) "yah, it is, thanks" bumb "Those are some cool Cragars." Me "Theyre not Cragars, theyre Astro Supremes, but thanks anyways." bumb "Arent you mexican?" Me "ummm, yah" bumb "Well, what the fu#@ man? In my days only white guys rocked astros, mexican rolled Cragars. You suck man." Me (laughing histerically) "Sorry to dissapoint you. Ill buy some Cragars as soon as i get a chance."
Some kids pulled up next to my '56 desoto and shout at me "Man that cars really phat!!" My usual reply "Thanks." "Did you ever meet Brian Seltzer?" "I had a drink with Seltzer once!" "was he cool??" Drive a Desoto before you Decide!! That people are morons...
I had a 50 Ford coupe and everytime someone ask what it was I would say 50 ford and they would always say 54 what. Then I had a 37 chevy coupe and went to get gas one night and a young kid pulled in and asked what it was I said 37 chevy he asked if it was and nova, impala, or camaro. I just said yeah and left
This stuff never gets old, and they older the cars get the more it happens! If one more person says "Nice El Camino!" about my Ranchero I'm gonna lose it... There was alos the old guy at the gas station the other day that tried to convince me that it was some sort of custom build 'cause he'd never seen no Ford like that...
best thing we have gotten in a buddies bagged chevy 1500 was "hey boy! yur axle done broke or suttin!" or "hey boy! you done broke your wheels!" (cambered fronts always fool em!) The rednecks and hippies around here are a trip in anything custom. one old guy came up us(id say 65+y/o) and told us that he loved the truck, started asking how it was done, how it worked and all that. I always enjoy the people who are smart enough to ask about how it all works/what it is/how you did it, without telling you what you have, or something is wrong with it! when I used to ride around with my buddies in Orlando in their bagged trucks we would always hit switches for little kids, they loved it. Parents thought it was the devil, but anyone 10 and under went crazy. We got "why not put money into something you gotta push a girl up in to!" We would always respond "because your daughter already falls in to our laps head first!" always made them mad.
i went to the store with my friend and some other guy i didn't know, on the way over he goes "that was a nice nova" i say "that was a pontiac" him "pontiac never made a nova" some people aren't worth arguing with. i always get "nice ford" in my 57 chevy pickup
Back when I had my 1957 Desoto sedan I had people saying all the time "is that a 57 Chevy?" damn thing had fins it must be a Chevy and others did not believe me when I told then it was a Chrysler product. Now I am just asking for trouble! I even confuse long time car collectors. I have a car that was made in 1956 but has a 1954 body and trim. The steering wheel is on the wrong side. It is a body style that was never made in the states and I am asked a lot "who did your cut work?" I tell them "The factory!" It will be even worse when I get the Desoto done! It is also a 56, right hand drive, uses a Plymouth body and is a body never made in the states. once it gets a coat of paint on it people will think it is something I made. At least now with the patina you can tell it has been that way for a while.
Totally Different ... I was coming back to South Carolina from the NSRA Nationals in Columbus Ohio in a 1932 Ford Victoria on I-77 and stopped for fuel in a little small town off the Interstate in WV. It was about 5 miles off the Interstate and looked real old and run down ... stopped at a counrty store/gas station and the attendant walked out while I was pumping gas ... He calmly said ... nice 32 Victoria ... collected the $$$ and went back inside. He acted like he saw 1932 Fords everyday ... I was so shocked I just got in the Vicky and drove towards home ...
A friend of mine had a 59 Chevy Impala, a guy walks up and asked, what year is your Corvette? I get asked all the time in my 26 Ford Roadster, is it a kit car, (pisses me off) how much did it cost, how fast will it go. In my original Mini they ask, is it street legal? Dumb ass, it's on the fuckin street. Or what kind of gas mileage does it get?
When we were still racing dragboats,people would stare at the supercharged Keith Black Hemi and ask "How big is that motor?"One of our rather outspoken crewmembers,having answered the question too many times.would answer (while acting very serious)"Well it's about 3 feet by 2 1/2 feet by 4 feet."Many a blank stare and "Oh,thanks"followed.It was always hard to keep a straight face with this and many other of his sarcastic replies.
I love that, im going to have to start using that everytime somebody asks me what size motor i have in my car. I also love the old, hey what year is that, when the license plate says MY 63CAD
I drove my 62 Electra to work a couple of weeks ago. A guy walks up to me as I am getting out says "What year's your Skylark?" (At least he got the make right). I say "62", then he shows his stupidity and says "my uncle has a black 63 Lincoln just like it with a 454 big block" My car is light blue, a Buick, and Nailhead powered. I don't get it.
Our car club used to put a car show on at an old folks home in town. A little old lady about 90 plus was checking out the cars. She bends down to sight down the side of my buddy's car and says pretty straight. We almost crapped. She must have been a body man in her day. Pat.
I get nice Impala when I drive my Galaxie and have been asked several times in my 29 model a what year model t is it. It is originaly green and get told I thought ford only painted t's black
I had a `81 Ford Fairmont 2dr Sedan (boxtop) that I built up about 4-5 years ago with a Mustang drivetrain. Was sitting at a light one time and the guy next to me is Silverado asked what kinda motor I had in my Malibu...I told him a Ford 302....he got angry and asked why I put a Ford motor in my Chevy!!!
A guy a few years younger than me came into the parts store i work at and definetly complimented me by saying that the duece coupe that im building in my driveway looks awesome and he cant wait to see it done 40 chevy truck.........., good thing his dad is starting a junkyard up, his dad had stopped by a few days after and was complimenting the corvette rearend Frankland Q/C
I was at a taco shop in my home town and this old timer pulled up in his street rod. I said nice hot rod...and he kinda just stood there looked at me weird and said thanks. Then I looked it over again and asked "Is it a Plymouth?" His eyes lit up and he said yes, how did you know? i just told him I'm not sure, I just know its not a Chevy and its not a Ford! I think I made his day.
reminds me of a time my rice burner neighbor took me to get something to eat after giving him a hand, a bunch of kids he knew gathered around and got him to pop the hood of his honda, then one proceeded to vomit out the phrase "whats it got? a 350?" I was amazed!
I don't mind people gussing that my '34 MoPar is a Ford (I get it all of the time). Part of the fun of driving an off make (not Ford or Chevy) is to get the wierd experssions from the people who find out what it is. On ol' guy came up to me and wanted to "pitch" his son's classic Ford parts shop. He was deep in to his pitch and I could not get a word in edge wise. I was trying to be nice and not interupt. When he finally let me talk I tried to kindly say "Thank's but I don't own any Ford's, not because I don't like them, but my car is a Plymouth". He got real angry, red in the face, and stomped off. A good deed never goes unpunished...
A friend of mine had a ford mk1 zephyr [english].Got a parking ticket on it one day.On the part of the ticket where it said make of vehicle,they had written Austin.He went down to the council building and told them" I dont own an austin"and they let him off
I thought the only car built in the 50's was Chevies. Dodge was building cars way back then too? I got stopped right after crossing the MO line, coming back to Ky from Great Bend KS with my blue and white 57 Buick on the trailer (pulling with a black Dodge pickup. Missouri trooper wants to know what kind of car that is on the trailer, I say 57 Buick. No shit, HE ASKS ME IF I'M SURE!. I say yeah, I'm pretty sure since I just drove 14 hours to buy it. He asks if he can look at it, I say sure (still wondering what the hell he stopped me for). He walks around, peeking in the windows and underneath it, while a second trooper swings in and stands behind his cruiser with his hand on his gun. I'm starting to get a bit nervous, you know? First trooper walks back to my truck and says (again, no shit) "I guess it is a Buick. Says so on it. Hmmph...I didn't know they made Buicks back then. I'm looking for a blue and white 57 Chevy with something other than gas in the tank behind a black truck and I thought I had you." Guys, I'm about to blow a gasket after that. I mean, I'm deeply offended that my Buick has just been mistaken for GM's low-priced alternative to a real car. (no offense to you bowtie fans, I just don't share your affection for them). I say (between clenched teeth) "well, sir, Buick was building cars before the Chevrolet brothers even dreamed of building their own. In fact, Louis Chevrolet raced Buicks as an employee of David Buick long before 1914 when he and his brother tried their hand at building their own. I rambled on a bit longer, hitting the high points and gave him a brief lesson on automobile history, and all the while he just stands there with this really oblivious look on his face, then finally he says, "I guess I need to catch up on my cars maybe." He lets me leave, and I laugh my ass off all the way back to Ky. Mistaking a Buick for a Chevy? Yeah, and my son's skateboard is a Peterbilt
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