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

Well yesterday I had a guy come in the shop and ask if my truck(94 Chevy 1500 W/T) was for sale...since it has been sitting for a minute or two, He goes that ol' chevy out there for sale, been sittin' for a while...I say "nope I've got big plans for it...."


Biggest bullshit story ever!


P.S. I actually told him I was in the process of putting an Olds 425/TH400 in it told him what I've done to the engine...blah blah blah...Guy goes well I'm a not a Ford man and walks out the door....

 

that's to prevent rear squat..not uncommon of FWD drag cars

 

If You had any idea how many people have insisted My Cutlass is some type of Mopar product......


and how many time I have been asked if it has a "Hemmay" in it....

even though it clearly says "oldsmobile" front and back.

makes me want to come out swinging every time.

and the supposed Oldsmobile guru who was just positive my 330 was a 455.
Because there was "no way" a 330 could run as fast as it did.

 

Saw some guy standing next to a car that I built and sold him telling someone else how he built it...

 

It's the shackles that make the diff man. Gosh!! Idiot

 

I was listening to this crazy ass story this cat was pumping at a car show. Something about him owning a 1/2 ton Pontiac Pick-up Truck. Seems he tells everbody It's Canadian LOL !!! >>>>.

 

For sale: 1930 model A 5wd coupe..........

and Ford flathead engines with headers on them "Oh, a V6!!!"

 

This isn't that absurd but pretty typical. There was this airforce kid when I used to cruise Wichita in the late 70's. Me and by buddies rode bikes a lot but also had some desent cars. He had a Honda 500 I think. He claimed to have an 11.00 sec street '64 Galaxie with a 390 "back home". Now I was a BIG Ford/Mustang guy back then but even I found that "rather hard to believe". Come on! a 390 pulling two tons!!

 

.....speaking of V6s, I bought a nice pair of Hooker tubing headers for Chevy 230-250-292 engines at Englishtown for $10 last spring. The vendor I bought them from sold them so cheap because "they're for a V6, I guess, but they're both for the driver side".

 

I once had a guy argue with me for 20 minutes over my engine. He Was 100% sure it was a four cylinder because it only had four ports. Didn't care that it had six plugs.

 

Around here, the popular nomenclature for the 30-30 cam was "it's got a pink dot in it".

 

When I was a kid, a slightly older guy was telling a group of us about a van (it was the 70s) his friend had with a 427 in it with six lights in the console that lit up as each of the 6 cylinders fired. I wish I was better at calling "bullshit". I usually just switch off or leave.



They use to do a lot of wierd things in the 70's including drugs! lol

 

I did not know that...

But this didn't look like a drag car to me...

 

Yup, you don't get many things that look this goofy

 

I went to drafting school in my early 30's . Most of the students where younger. Teens and 20's Some "old geezers" like me.
Me and this kid named Dave got to be pretty good friends. He was a motor head too and was on the level. His dad was a car guy too. One of the other kids would hang out with us. He always had a better story or more what ever when we'd talk cars.
Before I started school I had a '89 LX 5.0 Mustang. 5 spd, Dark blue. A nice sleeper.
When I mentioned it the BSer said his dad or him or somebody had a GT with 350 hp or some goofy shit. Usually I'd just think whatever. This time I said that I had one and they only had 225 HP, GT or LX. Same car just less BS on the outside.
He comes back the next day "my friend said he's was a specialy build GT."
Yeah, like Fords going spend extra money to build seceret special editions and not advertise it.

 

This is sum wild sh*t.
They are among us though.
I just humor them.

 

1975 ~ A guy is telling me how he went for a test drive in a new Porsche Turbo 930. Now it's highly unlikely that any dealer is going to let a 22 year kid that looked straight out the trailer park even get in one but I digress. He says "yeah that thing was really flying when i shifted into 5th".
First generation Porsche Turbo's were 4 speeds

 

Walking down the street a couple of years ago and this guy was walking with his girlfriend and down the street comes this real piece 'o crapmobile, and old Datsun 240Z that some joker painted dark blue with two white racing stripes down the center. The guy turns to his chick and says, "Look, a Viper".

 

Like I said
"They are among us"

 

That's one facet of this obsession of ours that make it so "interesting". There's no shortage of Crap merchants.
I particiapate in "Back to the 50's" here in St Paul every year. I overhear some pretty amazing statement and misinformation just strolling around the cars. Ya just shake you head sometimes.

 

So I'm driving down the road in my beater 36 Ford P/U when a guy yells over to me "that's a nice 34 you got there" I say "thanks but it's a 36". He yells back "not with that grille in it. It ain't!"

We were talking about cheap paint jobs and one guy said he did all his own prep work, sanding and taping. Then he took it to Maaco to get them to squirt it. "Lyin' Ed" pipes up... Never take it to them. They use gasoline to thin the paint. My aunt had one painted there. It had a big bubble on the door. She drove it down town. When a guy walked up with a cigarette. The ash fell off the cigarette, landed on the bubble, the gas exploded and burned the car to the ground.

I hate liars. I hate the fact that they think I'm stupid enough to believe their shit.

 

Isn't that the truth. If a guy knows he's lying, then he thinks your stupid enough to believe him.
If he is just repeating someone else's bullshit, then he's just a retarded parrot.

 

They may not have made any El Caminos, but they made a shitload of very weak Diesel Oldsmobiles, to the point where there was a very high demand for decent gasoline motors to get them on the road again.

 

I just read all 144 entries in this thread (obviouslyl a slow day at work) and I'm looking at a business card some body gave me once. It reads as follows "I am somewhat of a bullshitter myself....but occasionally I like to listen to a real pro ...please carry on."

 

Most of this stuff is true, just like the guy that told me about his buddy strapping on a rocket engine on his car and hauling ass between Nevada and California. CHP and Nevada State Troopers had to give up trying to catch him!

Why would he bullshit me!?!?

Did I ever tell you about the time I put a Ford manifold on a Pontiac, they are the same pattern, really!

 

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Ya need to be real careful around those cars,

My son has a (OT) WRX STI turbo with 625rwhp-all wheel drive thats craze fast....

With just moderate bolt ons and chipped and big down pipe...........

 

Jeez, I know it's tough to fill up Joliet, but that spectator turnout blows!
haha...

 

I was looking on Epay for a non HAMB vehicle. It had a SBC in it. The seller said it had "Hemi cut heads". I asked what he meant. He gets all smartassed and says, "In case you don't know".....and goes on to give me a semi correct lesson on what a hemi is. Again I ask how do you turn a SBC head into a hemi. How do you change the angle of all the valves, how do the rockers work, how do you not cut into the water jackets? He says, "We got an ol' boy down here that does it all the time.". I told him that I would come, with tools and a head set, and give him his asking price if I could pull a head and have a look. He told me to go f*** myself. I considered it, but all my good porn was at home.
Why is it that nearly every BS story starts with, "We got an ol' boy......" or "Mah deddy tol' me....." ?

 

Young man came to one of our club meetings back in the early 1960's with a decent sounding 396 Chevelle. When asked what he had in the engine, he replied "three four-barrels, and fuel injection". He had the funniest look on his face while we all rolled on the floor laughing. Turned out to be a really decent kid once he found out he didn't have to impress everyone.

Jon.

 

Did he sit in it and make Vroom! Vrrooooom!! noises?