What's the Most Absurd Claim you've heard at a Car Show, Drag Race, Cruise Night, etc

Get a life dude. You sure you're not French?Wha has Canada ever done anyway? We have guns because we can. Get over it dude you were born in the wrong country . It's not our fault

 

My dad has a 40 Ford, that for some reason people like to call it a VW bug. I dont get it

 

A few years ago a Buddy of mine had a clapped out 68 Fairlane with a 390 in it.We re-built it under a shade tree in my dad's yard.After that I overheard him telling a bunch of locals how the motor was balanced and blueprinted and made about 550HP.Said it would get into the 9's easy if he could get it to hook up.I just looked at him and said "motha fucker please" and walked away.

 

maybe he was talking about he 1/8th mile.

 

Had a 72 Chevelle 454 SS that we would show all around East Texas. It was red w/ black skunk stripes, high dollar paint etc. You would not believe how many people had one "just like it" when they were in high school! Every Chevelle produced in 1972 must have been red/black with a black interior. and a 454 to boot.

 

1) When I was in high school (admittedly back in the 70's) a buddy of mine claimed that his brother built a Mustang that had so much torque that when he revved the engine at the dragstrip once that the car flipped over onto its roof!

2) A guy that I worked with found out that I was a Mopar fan, and insisted that his '69 Charger (that he had sold "way too cheap" years ago, of course) had special "police" suspension and brake parts on it from a big Monaco or Fury on it. Problem was that I had worked for a Mopar restoration parts supplier for four years before that and KNOW that C body stuff WON'T FIT on a B body!!! After a few weeks of me telling him to shut up, he quit telling me that story and started into the one about his brand new 1974 Firebird having a "special" engine in it that had "accidentally" made its way to the local showroom and how GM's lawyers had threatened to sue him if he didn't return the car. Of course, it went 160 mph with NO modifications and would run 10's on street tires, etc.... He even claimed to have hidden the car every night so that they wouldn't take it from him.

3) EVERYONE has heard the one about "the little old lady with the (insert favorite muscle car here) in the garage that her son had bought before he went to Vietnam. He was killed a month after buying the car, and now she won't sell the car because of his memory..." I figured out the BEST response for THAT one though... I ask them a lot of questions about the car (like color, options, etc.) and then get a really surprised look on my face and then tell them that "Yeah, I ended up BUYING THAT CAR and it was FLIPPIN' SWEET and I SOLD IT for $20K more than I had bought it for!!!" and how the lady was really glad to see it going to someone "who'd really love the car and "would keep it nice"" and how sweet and nice that she was, and that I reminded her of her son... It's AWESOME to see the look on their face, because THEY can't call "Bullshit" because you can call "Bullshit" on THEIR story!!!

4) A while back a buddy of mine up north did some rust repair and a quickie paint job on his winter-beater Cordoba and thought that it'd be funny to put the old "R/T" emblems on it that he had taken off of his Charger when he restored it. We listened to COUNTLESS numbers of people who swore that they "had one just like it". Of course, we can't resist agitating them and telling them that they "should NEVER have sold it! Man, do you realize how RARE these things are??? I've been offered huge $$$ for this thing and WILL NOT sell it!!!" The look that they'd get on their face was priceless.

 

HAHAAHA. Kinda stroke a chord with me... My Impala's got a Saginaw 4 speed because I'm broke, the junk-assed 327 I bought years ago that is still laying in the barn was out of a trashed 68 impala (I still run the 283), but by god, my car DOES have corvette paint. 1971 War Bonnet Yellow. Poor man's bright gold metallic right there (compared to Pagan Gold). Just got a laugh out of that.

 

I feel much safer up here, and your logic or lack thereof still mystifies me. Remember, we burned the Whitehouse down in 1814.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington

Don't get me wrong, as you already have, while America is a great country and the dominant military force in the world, if you don't look at yourselves in a critical light you are doomed to join the Roman empire in history.

 

My favorite is when the chevy and ford guys bow up when some smart guy says all top fuel class cars are mopar including forces mustang . But chevy and ford based aftermarket engines dont count .

 

ajmopar, I have worked with the Canadians on and off for many years. Could you please drop the "we are better than you" complex Canadians have seem to have gotten over the last decade? You have less crime because no one lives there. I am happy that you are glad to be there. You should know Americans are proud of ourselves. Your are stirring shit on purpose. Please hope we don't go the way of the Romans, I figure if China wants you resourse and we are gone, your 32 ship Navy couldn't really stop them.

 

You make some good points, I was not stirring shit on purpose, just get a little tired of the wrapped in the flag superiority complex from south of the border. Anyone who points out a flaw is treated as the enemy, which speaks to insecurity at a basic level. Canada has huge flaws and always has had them, but we at least laugh at ourselves.

Thank you for an intelligent response, not just telling me to get a life because I am not American.

I will make no further comment on this point, let's get back to cars.

 

Let's just drop it eh. The subject is absurd claims.

 

Burn it down now! Please! I would love to see it. You are right. We are going to face the same demise as Rome. Rome decayed within.That is what is happening now with all the Government ran B.S. that is being forced on us. The only hope we have is that we still can revolt if neccesary, why, becuase we have guns. Our right to have guns isnt to protect ourselves from other people ( we can use them for that though) but protect ourselves from a tyranical government which is where we are at. I dont look at red blooded Americans in a critical ligh but our Liberal socialistic sorry govenrment. I guess we agree on something. I'm sorry if I come off like a jerk but I wouldnt trade this land for any other.And just how is that illogical?

 

So, I'm at my buddies house.. cadillac sitting in the driveway, me inside of it installing a cd player in the glovebox.

late 80's or early 90's Corvette guy lives next door, comes over to inspect the 57 chevy...

I tell him its a 58' cadillac, upon closer inspection he agrees with me no argument.

Asks me what motor i've got in it. I tell him the original 365. He tells me chevy / gm only used 283's or whatever blah blah in all their cars and I don't know what I'm talking about. I tell him, 'it's a cadillac, not just a chevy. The motors are different.' He tells me there is no such thing as a 365, or a 390 for that matter, after I rattle off the years they used 365's and switched to the 390's and blah blah blah.

So I get sick of arguing with the guy after about 20-30 min. Pop the trunk, dig out my service manual, flip it to the engine section page where it says: Motor-365 cid

He shakes his head, mumbles and walks off.

 

dude the dam thing is made of stone...and the last time i checked..its still there.( so somuch for it being "burned down").and we came back over and kicked your ass for thinking you could tread on us..so..and were you there in 1814?
and last i checked..we were supposed to be good neighbors..so lighten up francis

and dont paint us citizens with our government brush...we can think for ourselves..and a very large percentage of the USA citizens would stand up and defend what we feel is the true american spirit. And help out our neighbor to the north as we have many times..so back it down a notch or 2

oh and your getting off subject and dragging this thread down

 

Wow, at some point, that same guy must haved lived here in Illinois...

 

I hear the same thing at car shows about my car. How many yellow '57's have you seen? Check my signature.

 

he prolly still had 4th, just didn't know it.
that's what happens when you clean the teeth off the input shaft....
been there....

btw, i was with a guy that lost all forward gears in his 61 chevy wagon and we DID go home backwards....
young and foolish but we wern't drunk.................yet

 

A while back in the Springs we had a guy who was Mister Greaser...
8 inch cuffs, really tall hair...Claimed to be from So Cal....moved out here with his mom or so he said.( I shit you not) to open a rockabilly only club in Colorado Springs...hehehehe....He spent all night correctin my 51..I guess I built it wrong.
He claimed to have all kinds of cars, 50 merc, chopped, some sorta roadster...etc etc... a 51 like mine with all kinds of extra parts he'd give me...the usual dude, call me I'll give you this part and that part...running boards offenhauser stuff etc etc...he had a list of cars he either owned or his friends owned...you know the usual rodders wet dream list of cars... yet he never drove any of them out...EVER...always claimed our little town was too rough and he did not want people stealin his rides....he disappeared and well, that club, never opened...

 

Being told my car does not have the original grille or that its a Mercury.

The best is being told that I don't deserve to have that car/part/etc.
Wow, that one just blows my mind. Always comes from some pissy rat faced wanna-be.
Thanks Gangster, I'll remember your face/persona if I ever sell it.

Owning a '54 210 sedan can be more of a bastard than it is of a car
Removing the grille while parked in the driveway just brought more 'nice Merc' compliments. Better than every other Cholo from Seattle to San Diego asking if I want to sell my grille. Flipping her around and displaying the PowerGlide emblem just brought those in the 'know' around. 'Powerglides didn't come out til '62' Sure Bubb, whatever you say.

I'm often told I ruined a perfectly good Grand National by replacing the engine with a Pontiac V8 and Olds 'ralley' wheels.
*Usually at a gas station while checking the oil under the hood of my '87 Cutlass*
Why do people want to talk to your ass when you are underhood anyway? I didn't think I was that ugly
'The last year of Rwd Cutlass' was '86.' Sorry Gangster, Just cause*insert rappers name here* said it does not make it truth/fact.

And one I get with both my '54 and '87.
"I'll buy/trade your front clip"
How 'bout you make an offer on my car as a whole and I will think about it.

This hit a chord with...

Oldsmobile did indeed have a 307 built in the '80s. Not to be confused with the original ROCKET engines; 303-324-371-394.
The '5.0L' 307 was of the '64-'90 'SBO' family. 330-350-260-403-307. All featured the same stroke, just different bore sizes.
The 307 had the same bore as the Buick V6s, rumor is they used the same bore size to reduce machining costs.
The 307 is found in all makes and models of GM of the '80s. Buicks, B bod Chevys/Pontiacs, and Caddys. Often mistaken or called a 'Pontiac' due to the 'PMD' casting on the heads, or people confusing it for the '4.9L' 301 Pontiac.
Another useless tid-bit, the later '85-'90 307 7A head cars(not to be confused with the 7a heads of the '72 350) did actually come with 'headers' from the factory. They are made of stainless, you can identify them as they are a log tubing with three ports to match the heads. But I would not consider them performance for anything except economy.

 

Overheard this weekend a few cars down from me:

Owner: ...and I've got an 8-71 blower on it.

Guy: 8-71? Is that like the compression ratio or something?

Owner: Yeah, um, I think it's 871 CC's of pressure.

(At that point my head hurt too much and I stopped listening. Sad part was, it actually *was* an 8-71 blower, and this guy really did own the car. Idiots.)

 

Regularly seen in Hemmings, Old Cars Weekly, etc. for sale ads: "Ready for restoration". Translation: sat in a swamp for the past 30 years, rust holes half way up to the windows and missing most of the hard-to-find parts and the title.

 

"It's got the ORIGINAL 440 Hemi still in it!"

 

heard that one many times, even before Stage IV's conversion heads came out.

 

I bought my Ranchero from a guy who insited it was a "late '57"
It has the front sheetmetal from a '57 on it.
It's a '58... just a plain, old '58...

 

its funny to see this thread, i live in southern oregon and we have some awesome, gas station attendents, that always seem to have the greatest stories, heres my favorite, im driving my 79 malibu with a stock 305 with headers and flowmasters, i pull up to pump attendant says, this thing sounds healthy, i just say thanks, he then goes on to tell me the greatest tale ive ever heard about a bitchin camaro he owned back in the day when he lived in the midwest, him and his buddy put a "TITANIUM 350 you know nascar motor" in it, that is exactly what came out of his mouth, i didnt even know what to say, i just paid for the gas got in my car and drove away shaking my head

 

without France's Financial, Material, and Military aid, we would still be a British Colony. France gave us so much support, they damn near bankrupted their own country, and effectively sacrificed themselves as a world power in helping us in our liberation.

Good thing you're nothing more than a Barcalounge General.

 

When are you going to finish it?

 

I once saw “Yeah, it’s got a Hemi” painted on the tailgate of a ‘50s Dodge pickup. I looked under the hood and saw the distinctive scalloped valve covers of a Polysphere. I think I would have swapped the engines before I painted the brag, researched my ‘50s Mopar engines better, or chained the hood shut.

-Dave

 

Well,,, since the new hemi is actually a ploy, doesn't that make the old poly just like a new hemi? LOL