I walk by a Pantera and hear a lady asking the owner about his car.

Last night at the weekly meetup, I was taking a picture of this VW.


082711 Kemah Saturday Meetup by r0ckstarr, on Flickr

A guy to the right of me, points at the air tank (under the hood) for the air bag suspension and tells his wife that the car has been converted to electric and then goes on about how cool it must be to not have to buy gas anymore.

:shock:

 

I love this thread! Anybody got any new ones to add to it?

 

A couple weeks ago while towing taulbee2277's skylark back from paint, we're sitting at a stop light and a group of guys on the sidewalk were looking it over pretty hard. We hear one of them go "nah man, that's a 69 charger!" His buddy yells "Sweet!" That was a new one on us, hadn't heard it confused with a charger before...

 

Pulling up to a local car show in Georgia in a '70 Stage 1

Him: Are you putting this in the show?

Me: Yes

Him, over the roof of my car shouting to another show "official": Where do I put this 4-4-2?

 

I went to a car show a few weeks back and if you brought a car made before 73 your got a discount on the breakfast. Someone who was handing out the food vouchers was also writing down the make and model of the cars, and he wrote down Malibu. When i corrected him he said "wow did i really miss that?"

On the flip side one time i was sitting at a stop light and a motorcycle cop pulled up next to me. I had my window down and he looked over and said "Nice Buick!" I just said thanks and he goes "Surprised i didn't say Oldsmobile?" I laughed and the light went green and away he went.

 

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@ The Rolling On The River Car Show today. There is a great looking 60's Toronado there with some wild orange paint and it's slightly customized (read no door handles, newer style mirrors, and aftermarket wheels).

I hear a guy just as old as me (50ish) ask the owner if it was "...some kind of Cutlass kit car?"


WTH. There was a pause and then the owner answered his question in a very straight fashion. I would have been, and I hate to sound judgemental, a little less smooth with the fellow.

 

I've been told I have a nice GTO. o No:

Dave

 

You can picture him walking in the door later and saying to the wife, "I just saw this really nice 442 at the gas station today". ou:

 

I own a '66 Toronado (pic in my signature) and most people have no idea of what it is, who made it (despite the large O-L-D-S-M-O-B-I-L-E lettering on the nose...ou, or even or on what decade it was made. But as long as people are polite and appreciative, I don't mind answering any questions.

 

i was sitting at a cruise in a few weeks ago when a bunch of teens and their girlfriends started badgering me about my car. they then proceeded to argue about the car for 10 mins on whether its a cutlass, chevelle, or gto. I finally have enough of this and say go look at the damn badges. They look around the car and say that its a fake buick and that its a rebadged chevelle. :blast::blast:at that point these two older gentlemen come up to the conversation and say "well ill be its a skylark. Very nice. its a 1972 correct?" i tell him it is and he turns to the kids and says "you kids could learn alot from this guy. he knows when to save a piece of history." needless to say i was happy someone knew my car. i finally got the teens to leave me alone after i showed them the engine and the paper work for it.

Jeez. i can handle a little bit of not knowing what a car is, but this had me pissed off.

 

I went to the grocery store the other week and as I'm coming out, I see a guy looking at my car and this conversation follows:

"What's it go in it?"
"A 455."
"Is it a Super Duty?"
"No, it's a Buick."
"Is it a Ram Air car?"
"No, it's a Buick."
"You want to sell it?"

So let me get this straight, you have no idea what this car is, yet you want to buy it? It probably wouldn't hurt if you didn't look like you had about $10 to your name while you're slinging out several thousand dollar offers.

Then he looked square at the large cap GM HEI distributor and said I should convert it to electronic.

 

I would have told you to convert it back!! LOL :eek2::Smarty:

 

A slight variation on the theme. I went to get my 73 Centurion inspected and the old mechanic tells the newest grease monkey to do the inspection.

The roof was down so we could see him trying to work the blinkers, tilt column lever and shifter... trying to turn on the headlights. I gently pointed out the switch and he got the lights on. He then went back to the column to try and find the high beams. By this time the old mechanic is laughing hard enough to start a coughing fit. I show the poor guy the floor switch for the high beams. He pushes the button, with his hand. I told him it's meant to be stepped on. He sits back and gives it a try. His face lights up and he says, "wow, that's a really good idea".

It really shows how conventions for controls have changed.

 

I was at the car show with my '69 prostreet, shaved without emblems. These dudes run up to the car and say "That's a bad...um...(looking around) Bad ass....um..." "It's a..It's a bad su'm bitch". :laugh: