"That's a cute dune buggy"

i love this thread its so damn funny, i was at a local little cruise night with my 32 pickup with 351w with open headers and this lady and kids comes walking by as i was getting something out of it and she said i sure would like to have one of these but with a cd player, i said i dont have much use for one of those she asked why, so i started it up and reved it pretty good, she jumped and im pretty sure pissed her pants but her little boy just stood still with a evil smile on his face, i really liked that little kid.

another time i was getting gas and some crackhead looking dude comes rolling up on a bicycle and says nice truck you wanna trade for a shovelhead, im thinking if hes got a shovelhead whys he riding a bike, i just said no thanks buddy i dont fit on bikes well.

 

this thread just won't die


check this out... kinda cool actually... I see some hot-rod stuff in here fo'-sho' http://www.bob2000.com/dunebug.htm

this is a hot-rod?

 

I was recently replacing the interior of a '57 fairlane 500 and behind one of the quarter panels was a car show sign that said "an old car is like a friends wife, look and admire all you want but don't touch"

I have a story that isn't as good as some stories but it's the most current thing I have in my brain.

One guy asks another what model of Bentley he's working on (a '25 3 litre)...and he answers..."I don't know"

There are some people that really shouldn't be allowed to work on certain cars

 

Where I come from there are VERY few Traditional Hot Rods. Most guys I know are your typical billet pro street kind of guys. I was telling one of my buddies that I was getting my coupe ready to go up the the Jalopy Showdown soon in PA and he asked " you trailering it up??" and I looked at him and smiled and said " man, if you see one of my cars on a trailer you better call the law cause the son of a bitch is stolen!" and he laughed and said : "oh yea you guys drive where ever you go." I wont even get into the time I had to chew on his ass for refering to my car as a "Rat Rod".

 

Actually considering it looks like they cut up a jeep at least for the side sections of the body (the back looks like it could have been made from a jeep hood, too), maybe it IS a dune buggy.

 

The crow sitting on the windshield looks a little confused about what it is too.

 

and thats why i left my last boyfriend.... it happens.

seems once you get the boys started talking about cars they forget about sex...

but anyway i always hate the "hey its the ZZ top car" comment. but that might have something to do with my dad being around with his long grey hair and ZZtop length grey beard.... still, i'm not a ZZ top fanatic.. it just happened this way...

 

And I was thinking that I was the only person who was asked this question! Also, how can anybody think it's a VW when the engine is hanging out front? But it happened-more than once to me. Thank goodness for the internet. At least I know that there are others like me out there.

 

I had a fun one this weekend and just had to share this with everyone.

My friends and I were all out for a cruise friday night and we decided to stop by our local cantina just because the parking is right by the door and we can all sit enjoy a frosty beverage and stare at our cars. Well for some reason these people always b-line right for me because my car is the only one that is still in primer I guess. I knew his type before he even began to speak, you know the cool guy that just finished reading the newest issue of ol skool rodz, spent 2 hours styling his pomp and picking out his "rockasilly" outfit before he took his brand new prius to the bar. He comes up to me and the first words out of his mouth are "that is a sick merc what year is it" god I hate it when people say this shit I kindly reply with its a 53 Ford Customline, not a merc. Then he goes on and on about crap I hate hearing, how its cool the way it is don't paint it. When all I do is dream about freaking finishing this beauty and making her nice and shiny. Well then he begans to tell me about his 63 Impala that he bought that had a 10,000 dollar flake paint job, hydraulics and wire rims, and he hated the way it looked so he put the stock suspension on it, cut the coils, put it in flat black primer and put red rims on it......WTF?? Ok so then he tells me how he's going to chop the top on it and make it a sick sled. At this point I am doing everything I can to show my pure disinterest just short of telling him to FU@$ off. Oh wait it gets even better. He then starts in telling me some outlandish story of how he was in the back woods somewhere and ran into some old farmer who has 3, 1920, Model A, work trucks, with the original Flathead v8's in them ( I am not going to even began to tell him all the things wrong with this, at this point I started to find it fun to feed into his bull shit) so I agree that he has found these "unicorns" and then he proceeds to tell me that the guy is selling them at 300 bucks a piece and he didn't have any cash on him, he then tells me he is getting the cash together and is going to go there, he pauses and does the well not this weekend or next but.... Then looks at his girlfriend as to drag her into this web of shit and says "when are we going baby, oh yeah the following weekend". The most priceless part of all this crap was the look his girlfriend so subtly gave him as too say "oh christ please don't drag me into another one of your stories".

I don't know how these people find me or why they do but WTF is wrong with them. Is t.v. and off shoot crap magazines destroying peoples minds or am I just an asshole.

 

Been there done that!! I had an idiot argue with me that my 27 T was an A model with an A sitting right next to it. Some people are just phuking idiots.

 

from American Graffiti: Carol: "Your car's uglier than I am!" [She turns back to Milner] "That didn't come out right."

 

Wonder if a dune buggy has ever been accused of being a T?

 

I was at a show with my '55 chevy 1st series stocker truck and a guy came up to me and said that's a nice '59 Apache! When I corrected him, he told me I was wrong. Lucky for me there was a '59 Apache at the show. I said "Go over there and tell that guy. He thinks he has a '59 Apache. You better set him straight."

One time (I hope it was only one time), I was the clueless asshole. I was showing pics of my '37 chevy I hadn't picked up yet at a cruise-in. As I repeated the engine specs of my purchase and came to the Carter AFB, a knowledgable guy, looking at the engine pic, said that's a Holley. I argued with him 'cause I knew I was getting a Carter. This is dumb because I know what each carby looks like. Later when I looked at the pic closely, it was clearly a Holley. The pic had been taken before the builder had changed carbs. Boy, did I feel like a donkey dick. At the next cruise-in a week later I saw the guy again and immediately apologised to him.

 

If i had a dollar for everyone that asked me if im gonna put a 350 in it............

 

I've got a '27 T body, a dropped tube axle front end, and four tires. I'm cutting the 2x4 for the frame. My old boss never fails to ask me "How's that kit car coming?" I quit explaining it to him after the third time.

 

A friend of ours just picked up is 37 Ford sedan as he pulled into the driveway and into the garage some of the neiborhood kids walked and said "We like your PT cruiser". When he told you couldn't do anything beside laugh.
On another ocassion I drove our 27 T Touring up to the elemetary school for my daughters class to look at. As I pulled into the parking lot beside the playground I heard some of the kids say "Man.. Look at that old car it must be from the 80s"

 

I have 2 Rancheros and get tired of people saying "Nice ElCamino" i was so tired of it, i went to the area craft store, picked up some vinyl lettering and now across the top of my rear window it says "This is NOT an El Camino"

 

Down here in the Islands, when (they talk about my Pk Up, 1929) Its almost always, My dad had one just like that, is that a 62 or a 63. Never fails, almost every guy thinks its a 62/63 cause so & so had one just like it. Ice man

 

I was filling up my 47 ford at the gas station,the guy next to me ask's "what year is your caddy",he was looking at my hubcaps...i couldn't help but laugh

 

Other day I was driving my 48 chevy 4 door and a guy ask"is thst one of them old roadsters?"

 

(hope I'm not repeating this..)

...older guy standing on sidewalk looking at my hot rod,

"What ever made you think of doing a thing like that?"

 

Great stories here, i'm laughin' my ass off...

I had a really nice SCCA prepped Triumph TR6 a few years ago and had a cute girl ask if it was a Cobra while I was filling it with gas. I was feeling pretty spry and told her it was (kinda jokingly, kinda not) and proceeded to get her phone number... well... her dad walks out of the gas station and spots me talking to his daughter... "NICE TR6 MAN!"... the girl looks back at her dad and says "no dad, it's a COBRA..." ...

Good lord... first and last time I ever did that...

 

I have a '28 Buick 4 door, box stock with wooden wheels. When I drove it to work one day a guy asked what kind of truck is that. When I took my 49 Buick to the DMV to get the VIN checked the lady went to the back of the car to get the make and promptly wrote down "Dynaflow". I love to go up to my firends cars when they are totally restored and ask "was anybody hurt?"

 

when i was in high school i had a black 4-door post 57 chevy, i took this girl for a ride and she looked around kinda un-easy and said "how many dead people rode in this"? I was thinking??????????? then she said "wasnt this thing a coffen carie-er" i couldent convince her you couldnt fit a casket in the trunk!!!!!!!! I guess she thought they rode in the back seat!!!!!!!!!!

 

HA!!!----All good----But, check this one out: NSRA Nats in 1975--Memphis--After the event, going down Natches Park Traceway, raining like hell, driving my 32 hiboy, 4 rooster tails,---Gas getting low, pulled into a station, weeds & goop running off the chrome exhaust side pipes, guy in bib overhauls comes out & says :nice lookin' car!--not driving it are you? After gulping 2 times I replied "Naw,the trailers just around the corner"---Then continued South to New Orleans in the rain again, with 4 more rooster tails!----Made it back home to Los Angeles the next week----NO more RAIN!!!-------------Don

 

My wife calls anything pre 50's a Dick Tracy car, Im just happy shes noticing cars and pointing them out.

 

After fueling my '67 mustang (daily driver) the twenty something gas station cashier told me "Hey thats a nice car, did ya buy it new?" I told him "Sure you still have the new car you bought when you were ten...right "I must be looking older at least to younger people I hope the same thing doesn't happen while driving my '46 coupe;(

 

A couple of years ago we had some street rodder friends over to the house. Showing them the then in progress '51 Pontiac Tin Woody wagon, one of the guys wives said, while rubbing the woodgrained quarter panel, "What kind of wood is that?"

"It's not wood", I replied.

"Knotwood", she said, "What kind of a tree does that come from?"

When our son registered his "new" '62 Impala in Nevada a month ago, a clerk at the motor vehicle dept. asked him, as part of the process:

"How much did the car cost new?"

He of course had no idea, but guessed 3500 bucks. She went and got a FORTY YEAR OLD KELLY BLUE BOOK out and looked it up. It was actually 3,900. Then she asked him if he bought it new. He's 30...

I've gotten used to people asking goofy questions after nearly 40 years of driving "old" cars. Most of 'em are genuinely interested and like them, they just don't know the specifics. If it makes somebody smile and remember good times, it's OK.

Brian

 

this is what my truck gets called.

question asker - "What kind of car do you have again?"

me - " It's a 36 ford pick up on a custom z'd frame, i'm pretty much making everything myself."

question asker - "Oh so it's like a rat rod, i love rat rods!"

and then i turn and walk away.

 

when i was in high school i was drivin my all original 53 chevy, i had stopped ata a gas station and my buddy and i had gotten out, we were both all greased up, rolled up jeans and all that shit, this beat up ass honda with about 4 tweakers in it yelled "welcome to 1997!! hahaha!!!", i responded, "its 2004!, you twat!"
thats about the best one i remember. or just the usual, "hey look its grease! ha ha"