This is kind of funny. This weekend my buddy Jeff noticed that when I am in my 60 I can hang both arms and my head out the window and be the friendliest mo-fo on the planet because it is in great shape and almost drives itself. If I am in my 42 about all I can muster is a head nod because I don't dare take my hands off the steering wheel. The 60 has a rack and the 42 has a 62 yearold steering box and a bad case of mystery steering!
I think it's ridiculous how little we wave at each other these days. I would like to see more people waving and not just because they think they have something in common. We should wave to our fellow pissers when we're standing in line for the mens room too, but we shouldn't shake hands. We oughta wave at other people who are pumping gas too. In fact I think we need to start hugging each other, waving's so impersonal. In fact I shoulda hugged that bum sleeping on the steps at work this morning.
Yep... waving is good.. even if I don't get a wave back, I don't get discouraged. I ride too, have an Italian bike looks like crotch-rockety but I know it's fuckin' sweet, so I wave at all bikerz.. 95% wave back.. even harley idiots.. and yeah, most of 'em are idiots! Keep the wave alive.. you'll run into more good than bad.
I know the guys, they've been watchin' TLC, Discovery or what ever channel has the ol' car build ups. You see they were the first discover ol' hot rods an customs an since they've been into for weeks now they're ol' school. I cringed when I heard they were doin' ol' car build ups on cable. All the "too cool for school" chopper putzs will be sellin' their bikes an buyin' ol' cars now the writtin' is on the wall. Yech! -HL
Funny, when I drive the panel around I get thumbs up and waves from rice burners cars and bikes, harleys, old cars, new cars, VW's, etc. And I wave to all of them. If they are cool enough to acknowledge me then I make a point to give a wave or thumbs up back. We're all Americans!
I get people rolling down their windows on their brand new Yukons at the stoplights to say "Nice car!" Or "What year is that." Big shit eating grinns everywhere I go. Can't put gas in it without striking up a conversation with somebody about the Chevelle. Don't worry about the occasional snob. Stopped at the store the other night and had a lady with a new yellow SST pickup pulled up behind me and the lady driver standing there checking out the Chevelle. Couple minutes of What's in it, what year is it, how fast is it. etc. and she says I sure wish I had one of those! Man, she could have probably bought 5 chevelles for what she had in that SST.
I drove the back roads coming back from Austin yesterday in the coupe... at one point I see coming at me a rusty white '74 Camaro with a huge rubber rake and Peterbilt-stack sidepipes. The mulleted driver and passenger give me enthusiastic Motley Crue devil worshipper hand signs out the window... I smiled and (somewhat clumsily) gave it back. I'm sure it was a compliment... right?
[ QUOTE ] His girlfriend's Mom loves the car but his 14 year old girlfriend won't ride in it! [/ QUOTE ] i wouldn't consider that a problem at all.... -Tony
[ QUOTE ] In fact I shoulda hugged that bum sleeping on the steps at work this morning. [/ QUOTE ] it's good that you didn't- oftentimes that bad smell is a type of human adhesive. StinkVelcro. your buds at work would have to wedge you apart. you know what I love to do? when I can't get a wave out of Mr. Heritage Softail, I stand up on the pegs and wave like an idiot- HERE I AM! makes 'em mad. I like that.
[ QUOTE ] 4 door ...thats why ...hahahahahahah [/ QUOTE ] That was my first thought too, but didn't wan't to be the one to bring it up...again. UYou gotta take into consideration "car guys" arent usually the typical BMOC. Some of us have a few character flaws. Wife calls the character type "TERMINAL INTROVERTS" They may not know how to respond to real live people in public, or have to think about it so long to figure out what they should really be doing (thinking hard, hence wrinckled brow and frown) that the oportunity passes befor they can respond in a socially acceptible way. I've had people say "I saw you driving down the road the other day and I waved from my Huntoydatsu but you just ignored me!" Of course I was oblivious to them since the only thing that concerns me driving down the street in the city is the tail lights on the car in front, the people pulling out from the sides and the traffic lights and traffic cops. I don't have enough concentration left in my acid and booze fried brain to add looking at and actually trying to recognize people inside the cars. So, if you drive by me and I appear to be off in another little world and am ignoring you, only the first part of that is true. Or maybe they were jealous because you had a cool MERCURY and they had a 4dr Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge.
MY first thought was your car smokes, or maybe one of them just shit his pants. and Nads, don't you see me? I'm waving! Paul
When I brought my Hearse back from Louisianna I had people climbing out the window of their car to get my attention and ask me about it. I don't think I stopped once without striking up a conversation about it. The day after I got it home...the County Marshall was at the door. It seems I had a Junk vehicle in the yard. Damn pesky neighbors. Cops laughed when I started it up and backed it off the trailer. Damn neighbors!!
Didn't mean to bring the 2 door vs. 4 door thing up-I was just stating that thats what they were driving in. As I'm planning on starting a family, They (4 doors) don't seem all that out of the question for me...maybe a Ranch Wagon or the like is in the future..... I was in my '87 Nissan Sentra, thats old if you were born in 1998. Just kidding, I was in my Merc. I'm realize I'm a bit naive, just because we were both in a century old vehicle, doesn't mean we're best buddies. Oh well, Hey-I'm over it. I actually thought it was pretty funny.
here goes some SHARING i should probably save for the SHRINK... at first... many years ago i got into wierd old cars for the same reason i got into PUNK ROCK and SKATEBOARDS... i felt as if i never fit into the "NORM", i was that kid who never got picked for baseball or even dodgeball... punk rock, skating and as i got older, fucked up looking black cars gave me a feeling of individuality. i didn't have to be chosen by a coach or a peer to skate or to go to a show or for that matter to put a different grill, bumper or exaust, skull or some other, what some people would call 'offensive' object on my car. with this i found like minded folks, there was this brotherhood. a lot of the fellas' i run with now have a similar history and we try to reach out and greet seemingly like minded folks.i've learned through expectations and feeling as if i was let down that the only thing we are responsible for are OUR ACTIONS and REACTIONS... we'll keep waving and reaching our hands out to those we happen past and to those BULLYBILLY types i say, better them than me. nic
[ QUOTE ] I was in my '87 Nissan Sentra, thats old if you were born in 1998. [/ QUOTE ] ha ha.... Thats my rule. "The 10 years before your own birthday rule". Hey NADS, I'm waving too. Why are you ignoring us? and by the way, if you want to wave like a madman....Just go to West Virginia. Everyone there waves at everyone else they meet on the road. No lie. Its weird.
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I was in my '87 Nissan Sentra, thats old if you were born in 1998. [/ QUOTE ] ha ha.... Thats my rule. "The 10 years before your own birthday rule". Hey NADS, I'm waving too. Why are you ignoring us? and by the way, if you want to wave like a madman....Just go to West Virginia. Everyone there waves at everyone else they meet on the road. No lie. Its weird. [/ QUOTE ] They are all related....... (It's just a joke folks...) Mutt
funny thing some of the bikers around here will always wave at us in our antique rides, some of the others I don't think have learned to ride with one hand yet and are afraid to wave for fear of laying the bike down.
Dudes on other bikes pass by the opposite direction and look upset when I dont wave back... WTF? I'm too busy speed shifting... i look at em for a half second and give em a quick nod, aint that enough? Dudes on big harleys with fat broads loading down the back dont like it when a $400 POS yamaha smokes them leaving stoplights... People either give a thumbs up or just have their jaw agape when I'm in the copper truck... When I'm driving the blue thing, I cant tell what people are doing, they're too blurry and gone too quick...
Perhaps the reason that people don't respond to me waving is because I accompany it with that simulated giving oral sex to a girl thing that some guys do. Pardon me I have to go sniff a stranger's behind.
The other day my daughter and I were running errands and pulled up behind a nice chevy truck, lowrider project. I turned down the stereo so my daughter could here the truck do "pedos" as it slowed down. We liked the little truck a lot but as we were following it, I noticed the right rear wheel was wobling pretty bad. I know from experience that's the type of thing you don't figure out untill someone tells you about it, so I figured I'd let him know. So I pulled up next to him and rolled down my window. I start to tell him about it and he blows his wolf whistle, I say "heh heh, yeah that's great but your right..." and he revs the engine. I tried to tell him twice more before he just made a right turn and pulled away. He wasn't really a dick but he was playing the cholo-bomber-lowrider-pose pretty hard and I felt like him and his bro were goofing on me a little. His loss I guess and I guess he won't figure out about the wheel until he looses a bearing, but I did kinda annoy me a little. I guess the point is that just like in society as a whole, there's all kinda asshol... I mean people, into old cars. You take what you get and try not to let the dufus' get to you. But just remember that they're the jack-asses. Don't modify your life/personality for them.
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