Whats the #1 question that pisses you off when the car was built ?

hahaha...I get that one too. I suppose it's a compliment, but holy shit, I've been working my ass off on a good start??

Gotta love the guys that say "Why don't you ____________?" insert expensive or hideous change. WTF? Fork over the cash or build your own car!

Whew

Bryan

 

I find this irritating.....

"Why are you going to do that? Thats not exactly how they did it in the old days."

As if there is a rule book that must be strictly followed. Im building my car for me and if its not to another guys standards, he can either respect the fact that I built it myself for myself or get bent.

 

Last year at goodguys in scottsdale I had some yuppie in his caddie suv pull up beside me at a stop light.He and his little trophy wife are just staring at my car when he rolls down the window and yells...what year is it?...so in my hang-over stuper I yell back...2006! leaving him with a stupid look on his face and her laughing her ass off at him.....oh yeah I was driving a '39 pontiac

 

I also have a old man uptown that keeps asking me what I'm I going to do with all my old cars? I tried explaining him about them but he never was a car guy so finally gave up and now tell him, he wouldn't understand but I suppose I could sell them all and sit in a tavern and act like a darn fool like him. That usually shuts him up. Steve

 

It does not upset me ... but I always wonder about the older guys who say " I had a Model A just like it " But I have been hearing that for 30 years ... while driving a Deuce.

When I had the 3W at a cruise in, parked next to Hotrodprimer's 32 ... everyone wanted to know
" How much for it " and I wanted to say ... there is no sign on it and it is not for sale but sometimes I believe folks just have to say something to start a conversion ... and something stupid popped out ...



Life is too short to be upset over what someone else says

 

I like to pull next to stock model A's in mine and ask them what kind of car is it.

An 80 something lady came up to me and said " I lost my virginity to a guy that had a model A. It was brand new at the time! I still love those cars"! Made my day

 

People always start telling me incorrect history about Model As, like
"You know the only color they originally came in was black."

I was in a drive through at Burger King picking up some food, and the kid at the window said, "Cool car. Does it run?"

...........No..... I pushed it here and now I'm so pooped I need a Whopper!!!

 

(While sitting flat on the ground) "How do you drive that thing?"

 

"is that a 350?" (could really be a hemi, nailhead, flathead, hell even a 6 banger)....awnser, a resounding NO

 

wheres yer hood?
Are those 1 barrels? ( holley 94s)

 

.............That truck is so tiny inside, how do you drive it?? (30 truck)
It looks so uncomfortable.................

How do you open the doors..............NUN-YA

The list goes on and on,

 

It didn't upset me, but I had a funny question the other day. This guy walks up and says, "Wow, thats pretty cool. Is it fun to drive?"
I tend to be a smart ass so I said" no, not really "and hopped in and drove away.

 

If we're talking of a race car, and the douche knows it's mine. I hate when he asks, who drives it? So my answer-It's like marrying a chick so someone else can fuck her you fucking MORON? Ian Roussel had a hot rod at Paso one year. Some kid asks how fast is it mister? Ian says, i've had her up to 602 MPH. The kid says, wow! I thought that was kinda funny

 

#1 Anyone hurt in that wreck.....?

#2 Who's gonna clean that up?

#3 Your really know Jesse James??

 

Yep...the 2 things I get the most:

1) Who does the mechanical work on it? (when I tell them I do it myself, they laugh. I then proceed to tell them what I have done to the car).

2) Like Robert Jam said; I get that a lot too "I had a friend that had one of these", or "my dad had one just like it" blah blah ....

I think the best comment I ever got was from a cop out here in Burbank. He walks up to me and proceeds to tell me how his old girlfriends brother had one like mine, but it was blue.

He then says that he was allowed to drive it when he was 15. He ran a red light, hit another car, and fled the scene....And I looked at him and said "you're a cop now??!"
lol.


BTW, I love the post above (what did it cost?) The marraige comment. That was cute.
Take care
xoxo
Niki

 

Back in the 90's my good Pal and I took a two week vacation in our old cars, I had a '58 Ford F100 big back window, short fleetside bed and my friend had a '58 Impala. We were getting gas and I was pumping gas into my truck and Bob went into the store for something. The gas station guy walks up to me and asked if that was my car pointing to Bob's car!!! I looked down at the gas pump in my hand that was stuck into gas filler neck then back up to him. By this time Bob was back at his car putting gas into it, I kinda shook my head. Then he says I had one of those cept mine was a 4 door and it was an Olds or Buick something like that...... some peoples kids!

 

i was driving my roadster down to the jalopy showdown on saturday...its pretty much a survivor dry lakes car from the early 40's
this guy told me it'd be worth alot more if i restored it and took out that ratty interior

he said he has a 58 impala and went into al the detai of the 3-2's 350 tranny XXX horsepower(not restored??) and on to mention all the clubs he's a member of and all the shows he "shows" at
i wanted to tell him in not into "new" cars...but i like to just keep my mouth shut most of the time....
never know with these bozo's...they might have some "junk" under the bench that they took off when restoring

by the way....deuce roadster...how much for the 3 window??

 

Me too. Or "I useta have one just like that." Right.

Doesn't piss me off, though. I like answering questions.

 

I just spit Diet Coke on my screen!!

I was at a cruise last Saturday and a guy ask another, How much did it cost? He replied, A TON.

Chili got it right. The questions don't piss me off, they are amusing, accept for the time a guy pulled up to a street rod supplier where I was and ask, What year Hudson is that? I just replied, 51, at which he said, Na I think it is a 48.
It are a 51 MERCURY I said, and walked away.

 

I must remember this one. That's funny!

 

"You ever run for "PINKS!""
Why in hell would I want a car I just beat?

"You ever race that thing?"
Show me what you're driving and I'll let you know how much it'll cost you to find out. That usually puts a stop to your average suv or camry owner.

And number 1 is "You drive that in the SNOW?"
Beats the shit out of walking in the snow, trust me on that one.

Mostly I get waves, thumbs up, or "Nice car, what year is it?" everywhere I go so I usualy don't get too pissed at the occasional morons.

 

I get more stupid comments than stupid questions, but I don't really get worked up about them. Some of the better ones: had a guy at a show insist my underslung front suspension was a kit that I picked up from Speedway; gotten a lot of compliments on my '32 (its a '26); several "ooh look, its still got the original flathead" (I'm on my second, and to my knowledge a T never came with a flathead V8.). The only one that ever got under my skin was more to do with the circumstances than the actual comment/suggestion, and that was when a guy butted into a conversation I was having with another hot rodder to let me know that "flatheads are only good for heating water" and that I ought to put a "real engine" in my car; an SBC in this case.

 

i only got one question but it was the ' it must be for sale cos i wanna buy it' type question. must be cos nothing works as yet

pulling the cylinder head off my yak ( mini moke replica, made of fiberglass, only 150 ever made) this guy and his family walk past. the guy looks real interested soon as he sees my yak but keeps walking.
about 10 mins later he comes back and says,'nice moke' ill give you 25 quid for it' ( maltese liras). hes obviously hoping i dont know what i ve got and will sell it to him for next to nothing
i smile and say 'thanks but no thanks'
anyway to keep it short he kept upping the price till it was at 300 quid which was seriously tempting but in the end i was so pissed off at his insitence i just told him to mind his own business and leave me alone, using some pure maltese words

looked like he was gonna cry!!!!

other than that just the usual ' i saw one of those today' to which i reply 'cant be its the only one in the country' and the usual ' i know what i seen yada yada yada'

not too bothered about that

 

the ones i get the biggest kick out of "answering" are:

"is that steel barrel in the back realy full of gas? that cant be safe!"


"cool truck... i always liked the looks of them old fords"
its not a ford
"oh hell, yur right... i see the body lines on the doors... still a sweet chevy man"
it aint a chevy neither.
"what is it?"
its a willys overland
"Ooooh, cool! um, who made those?"
Volkswagon


"how'd you get that here?"
scotty beamed it over for me (coudlnt stop myself on that one)


"how fast will it go?"
no idea, but i know how fast its been


and my all time favorite being. . .

"you must be having a lot of trouble finding the hood and fenders huh?"
nope, right behind the shop... exactly where i left em

 

Words that make me cringe every time and this questions comes from people who know better.....

"Is that a Chevy?"

I have a Buick dang it........

I also get comments that I feel like slapping people when I hear it

"You should shave your port holes."

 

I had purchased a 52 chevy awhile back from a buddy's father. Not having time or money I was taking it out on a trailer to my grandfathers property to store it.

On the way there we were filling up the truck when this guys sees me as he is drivng past and stops and pulls in to check out the car.

He asked if it was a 52 deluxe, and I didn't know shit from shinola, but the car had a re done interior, from the 60's or 70's and they had used maroon astroturf for the carpet.
So I says yes it's a deluxe, one of the few with the astroturf interior made, real collecters model.

He gets real impressed and says I should take care of her since she is worth so much.
I paid $25.00 for it.

Same car getting gas again once we got to where we were going, and this little old lady gas station worker, comes out to look at the car, and starts telling me about the car, what year what make, what style etc.

 

I've had my galaxie all of 4 months, and I can't take it to the friendly local wal-mart or wack-arnolds without somebody trying to buy it. Before I bought it, I'd honestly never seen a galaxie. Just not many of them around compared to 57 chevy's or camaro/mustang/chevelle-type cars. Don't know why everybody suddenly wants a big red ford boat.

And it's been called everything from a chevy to a falcon(that was a good laugh! Just a wee bit bigger!)

 

I have a 55 Dodge thats chopped and customized. I love telling people and writing the wrong year and make down at cruise nights and such. There is one we go to that always gives cheap ass trophies to muscle cars so 1 time I put down it's some 70's shit box and lo and behold the douche bag gave me a trophy.

 

I just thought of another one. Actually none of these questions actually make me mad, but they are funny.

"Does that have a cam in it?" as the engine idles roughly at somewhere around 1200 rpm in a car that looks like an all out drag car.

The standard answer is obviously "No, it doesn't."

 

Pulled into a service station years ago with a flathead V8 in the bed of the truck. Service attendant, young kid about 17, came out and asked if that was a Hemi in the bed. I was immediately perplexed until I realized that spark-plugs-in-the-middle-of-heads-equals-HEMI. I naturally told him we had just pulled it out of our Willys gas coupe and I was on the way to the engine builder.
Man, he was impressed!