"That's a cute dune buggy"

Just thought I'd contribute a bump to this pointless & stupid 2+ year old thread- maybe by doing so it'll drag on for another year...

 

everyone always tries to guess everything about my car...not hamb friendly but it fits the thread

"that sure is a nice car, is that a dart/demon/nova/camaro?? "--- " nope itsa duster"
" does it have the 340?"--"nope , 318"
"3 speed?" ---"nope ....... 4"
"positrac"?" -- " ding ding ding !! congratulations jackass you just waisted 5 mins of my life"

then they say , man i used to have a lil hotrod , but i wrapped it around a telephone pole... eveyone seems to have wrapped their past cars around telephone poles ...

 

Yeah, I love the "is it all original?" especially when it's asked immediately after I get done telling them it's a fenderless Dodge-powered Ford that's chopped, channeled and sits on a custom frame. That's actually happened to me more than once... WTF?

 

"Pointless and Stupid"- yep, sounds like you're just the guy for the job!

 

in a high school program right now that puts on a car show every year and and we are looking at pictures of past shows. one comes up of a beautiful corvette. being the car nut i am, i exclaim nice 67 stingray. instructor asks what makes you think thats what it is? i point out the hood scoop, the front grill, etc... all the while hes just smiling, was his car. school year went real well after that. playing with the parts store guys is great with my buddies car. little mazda RX7, with a ford 302--and we needed a water pump for it. worst thing is when the fools are related. have an uncle in law who swore on his life that fiat only made tractors (and they were from spain). other good one is messing with the camaro jocks running 305s. apparently, summit and NOS stickers do a great job of adding a few hundred horses and magically adding 4 bolt mains to the block. that, and everyone says their sbc is either from a corvette or is a bb (when in fact, it is a grimy FI v6!)

 

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74740.asp

Now, that's a cute dune buggy...

~Jason

 

This is funny. I've had my '62 ford called a '57 chevy more times than I can count!

Also had the following conversation:

Dude: '57?
Me: 62
Dude: That the original 350? ( I had my hood up)
Me: Nope. Factory 390.
Dude: Chevy never made a 390. You must have a 383. Those are bad motors! My buddy's got one in a camaro that'll....................

In defense of common people you don't know, a friend of my brother's positively identified my old boat as a '62 and asked where i'd gotten the wheels for it. He was looking at a crappy cell phone pic that even I'd have trouble positively identifying it from, much less deciding that the wheels weren't stock. I've never really met anybody "common" that knew too much about early 60's fords. Most of us are quite rabid about the subject and can easily be identified on sight. Hold up an FE part and we come running.

 

Required answer, especially in the middle of Lost Angeles: "What's a dune buggy?"

 

I usta get the

"Well that's a nice Deuce Model A hot rod ya got there" -a grampa

"you jalopy is too loud and I'ma gonna call the cops on you" -the OLD lady across the ally

both of them were referring to my 32 roadster.

Keven

 

With my '65 Nova, I always get "Nice Dart", or "I had a Falcon just like that".

 

The best one I have heard, A couple weeks ago we went to a show and I answered a million questions about the car and got a reply from a couple old guys from back in the day "Thank you so much for bringing this car and letting us see it"

This has to be the best complement a car guy could get from old time or past hot rodders.

 

The one that really pisses me off is calling the Brookville roadster I'm building a "kit car", whereupon I explain it's an assembly of parts that are duplicates of the original.
And, that since they are being assembled as a hiboy roadster instead of as Henry intended, I have used every machine in my quite complete machine shop to modify those duplicated parts to fit with each other as I want them, and haven't even gotten into the drivetrain yet.
Usually leaves people scratching their heads in puzzlement.
Dave

 

tff!!

I'd take that as a compliment.

 

I took my Dad's '32 Tudor out to get gas. The genius proceeds to give me the "I had one like these back in the day" He was all of mid-30's. We did a little dance over the nozzle (being NJ is not a pump your own) and then he finally agrees to give it me.

Then he does the walk around the car to take it all in and sits his big fat ass on the front right fender.

If I wasn't filling up in the back I would have snacked him square in the face. He thought I was nuts for asking him to get off of the car. He kept telling me to calm down but, never left the fender. I got louder and then he finally got off.

Crazy people out there.

 

UOTE=Hot Rod Packard..;2789331]The best one I have heard, A couple weeks ago we went to a show and I answered a million questions about the car and got a reply from a couple old guys from back in the day "Thank you so much for bringing this car and letting us see it"

This has to be the best complement a car guy could get from old time or past hot rodders.[/QUOTE]


That is awesome.

 

the correct answer would be" junked by some lazy old fuck such as yourself"......sir. who lacked the imagination or desire to keep it running.

 

My 65 chevelle more door has been called :
Nova
mustang
dart
T-bird
Barracuda????

only the occasional low-rider gets the year and model right

and mosta the time all my tickets say shes a 2 door. (rear handles are shaved)

 

I got three good ones recently...we just finished a 68 Mustang Fastback 390 in highland green for my brother. De-chromed it and painted a set of torque thrusts argent silver. It is a dead ringer for McQueen's car in Bullitt. Some guy pulls up and asks "Have you ever seen the movie Bullitt" I even think my brother was sporting a set of aviators and a tweed coat. I respond "No! what is that?" The guy proceeds to give me his 1 minute rundown of the movie and finishes with "if you going to drive that car you should have at least seen the movie". I must have watched the movie a hundred times trying to pickup all the details of the car.
The second one i got in my merc...i come out of a breakfast place and some old guy is giving it the once over. His comment "sure must ride like shit with those metal seats and being that low to the ground"...i respond "sometimes you have sacrifice a comfort for cool". As i got in and getting ready to roll away he launches "When are you going to paint it? and it might be worth something if you didn't cut it up"
And my third and final favorite comment was "Is it for rent?" "we want to have a hot rod wedding but dont know anyone with a hot rod. Can we rent yours and maybe some of your friends for the weekend?"...Sure lady that sounds like a great idea. I am sure all my friends would love you and your wedding friends to drive our cars for the weekend. Nothing would make me happier..."

 

Driving my straight axle '64 Fairlane someone pulled up to me and asked if it had hydraulics. I said sure.

 

There was the time I was looking at a Barracuda -yellow with white interior. Figured some idiot got his idea from tv. So, I make a cute, smartass joke about how it looked like the Nash Bridges car. haha..............turns out, it was THAT car.

 

The first dune buggies look pretty close to a hot rod. I saw some photos recently of some really old sand cars. They were really similar looking to a fenderless model A pickup though the buggies were a lot shorter wheelbase.

 

I've got a '57 Plymouth 2dr wagon with a Ford 289. Nobody ever gets it.

I've been TOLD it was a '61 Chrysler, and another time TOLD it has a 318 in it.

Woman at the convenience store said she knew what it is - "one of those cars they take dead people to the cemetery in."

Old guy was looking it over pretty good and when I came back to it, he said "man, with a little work - you could make it a Nomad!"

Waitress ran out of her restaurant when she saw me getting in it, and had to give me a 15min story about the '54 Chevy wagon her husband is eventually going to restore for her.



I like driving an old car, the stories and comments from the unwashed masses are probably the best part. What do you guys expect - you're working with outdated machinery that is completely irrelevant to anyone born within the last three generations. Just enjoy their reactions.

 

LOL! that's funny, I know its not hamb worthy but my buddy john went to the local Harley Davidson Dealership after the new owner took over,he was on his pan with a sporty tank, you see where this is going. John and Julie (his wife, which by the way would ride on the back of it with a rolled up towel) walked into the dealership and the new owner himself says "Hi, I see you guys are out on the sporty this morning!!!" John said he didn't know what to say so he just agreed and hurried out.

 

I 'love' when morons ask..
Them:
"What year ?" while standing behind my truck.....
Me :
" Oh it's a 39 "....


-41-

 

I used to have a '32 3-window when I was in high school. I never should have sold it, but that was back in 1959. Anyway, I used to get into arguements all the time with some yahoo that would tell me it was a '34 because of the sucide doors. No, it's a '32. I can't be with those doors. Remember, this car was only 27 years old at the time and these were always "older" assholes. You can't win, just agree with them and move on...

 

A frend sayed= You dont mind if I feel your wifes tits do you. You put your hands all over my car samething. sayed by hiboyrodster sr.

 

My father-in-law and his brother's and nephews keep insisting that my '31 Plymouth Sedan is "Pancho Villa's Car". Maybe the bullet-holes when I got it had something to do with it.

Here's a picture of the real Pancho Villa car. It's in a museum in Mexico -- complete with bullet holes.

 

I get a lot of those idiots seeing as I have the same car they used in that "Cobra" movie....

 

Nice. I'm gonna use that one...

 

HAHA!the naighbor guy here asked me if this was an art car!!