I was at a show a while back talking to a guy when this guy with a well endowed girlfriend came up to his car. The guy promptly starts running his hands all over this guy's car. The guy who owned the car turns around and grabs the girlfriend's chest. Her response was "I told you not to touch the car." Priceless!
Oh yeah you get all kind of yahoos at car shows ........ I used to have a 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst..... an exceptionally rare car. I remember I was at a cruise one time , and was BACKING into a parking spot when this guy runs up BEHIND my car dives down onto the ground while Im still moving to see if my Hurst has the correct exhaust tips on it.:idea2: Guy comes up , looked at my 77 and said I used to have an Impala that looked just like that. Really ...... you actually owned one of the ultra rare Buick Impalas !?!? Another guy comes up and tells my wife that he wants to buy her 67 Skylark.Then he wants to see under the hood. She politely tells him the car is not for sale and proceeds to start lifting the hood. The guy then yells at her and tells her she dont even know how to open the hood and she doesnt deserve to own the car , then demands that she sell the car to him. Imagine his surprise when the guy who was parked next to her with the Dodge Dart explained to him that if he didnt quit harrassing the Dart owners wife he was going to get his (pick your own expletive) teeth knocked down his(2nd expletive of choice) throat:af:. And one that used to make me chuckle. My old 72 Dart had a built 340, with all the usual visual touches, factory road wheels, raised white letter tires , duals with tips,and hood pins just to give you the general idea. I dont know how many times people would be standing there looking at my car and then say " My grandmother used to have a car just like this" . Must be a lot of hotrod grandmas out there.:grin: Dan
Just heard these last night at the local cruise night. I had the black 71 there. My car was parked next to my neighbor's 69 SS 396 El Camino. A guy walks up to my car, gives it a quick look under the hood then walks up to the Elky. As he's looking at the big block Chevy, he tells his son "see look how big this engine is! now look at that one (motioning to my car)..tiny. Tiny??? My engine is bigger than his you moron! Its putting out way more HP and to top it off, weighs 120 lbs less! idiot! Guy walks up to my car, looks it over. Looks in the interior to see a bench seat and a column shifter. He say "aah, a bench seat! It cant be a Stage 1 then" Someone else thought it was a 350. Upon hearing it was a 455, he said "They put 455's in these??" uh...yeah Ive come to the conclusion that 99% of the people that look at a GS dont have a single clue what they're looking at. But they all think they're experts on them.
mmmmmmm....so I'm in no danger with a tri-tone pain job of rust, primer and paint...nice...as for the dogs and tires...a squirt bottle of limeaway will make em think twice...
I'm kind of amused by the people who look under the hood and their eyes are immediately drawn to the brake booster...probably because it's the shiniest thing under there
It happens at the partshouse/speedshop too. Last Wed I was out to Speedway Motors checking out a set of rear control arms that they stock for $200. There were 3 people waiting at the counter, Me, a younger guy looking at Ford intake manifolds an another guy in a suit. The suit looks over the the Ford guy and says "Working on a small block chevy?". To which the Ford guy just gives him a disgusted look and says " No FORD". The suit then procedes to pay attention to what I'm looking at and says "Working a Chevelle?" I looked at him and said "No, I'm working on a 73 Buick, There are other makes out besides stupid Chevys you know". The Ford guy looked up and had a huge grin on his face. Granted the suit had no way of knowing what I was working on just by looking at the parts but the fact that he assumed everyone was working on a Chevy just rubbed me the wrong way.
So tonight we were at the local cruise night, and this idiot walks past us and says "NICE BOAT TAIL" :shock: uzzled: He walked by too fast for me to explain to him what a boattail was.......prolly wouldn't have mattered anyway........I guess all Rivs must be boattails. ou:
I try to avoid the speedshops. I hate having to explain why I need the parts I need, but still having to listen to the story of the guy behind the counter who always has some "buddy" with the same combo, only its a different car. ou: then there are the other guys in the store... I'd rather spend my money at summit. no tax, one day to ship, order parts online.
I went to a transmission shop that one of my irrigation customers runs a few days ago, so I could check on having them swap in my new convertor. Their "transmission guy" proceeded to tell me that a 2500 stall convertor was too much for my combo. AND he also told me how his 11 second mustang got slower when he changed to a high stall convertor. As soon as he was questioning MY research on BUICKS, and comparing it to Ford Mustangs, I just turned around and walked out. I was kind of hoping for a bit of a price break, but they were higher than the local Aamco to swap it out. Looks like I'll be doing it myself.
OK, heres my car cruise experiances. Youns know I'm low-buck and kinda just get by. Youns also know how much time and effort it took just to get my Wildcat up and running, even as a rat rod. So...........why does nearly everyone who's see's my car think I'm loaded?!?!?!?!? "I'll get you some 20s cheap, $1500 with tires" "You should add air bags" "You can probably get that seat redone for like $300 bucks" Yada Yada Yada. I swear people assume I just bought it for $10.000 and have another $10.000 lying around for upgrades!! O well........you gotta take the good with the bad if you wanna participate. Cruise on!:3gears:
Here's one I heard just last night at a show. After the awards were over a couple of cars pull out to leave, 90's Mustang first, does a respectable burnout, 90's Firebird TA, tries to do a burnout and just spins the tires all the way through the lot towards the exit. A few minutes later while talking with a friend of mine a kid walks over and bragging about how his brother with the TA just spend $1000 on tires and couldn't believe he was doing that to them. I had to bite my tongue and not tell him that he got a bad deal for $1000 cause those tires didn't hookup for nothing. :bla: :bla:
I almost never go there. They are the only speedshop in town and they specialize in Dirt oval track stuff, streetrods and pedal cars(?). The only reason I was in there was for their control arms. http://www.speedwaymotors.com/p/5518,25_Rear-Control-Arms-for-Midsize-GM.html Summit doesn't sell anything for 73-77 A-body.
You need to make up cards that say, "You are hereby cordially invited to go f*ck yourself!" and hand them to guys like this. Or, "It's nice that you know everything. Now shut the F*CK UP!" Or, "Okay. So your an idiot. Now everybody knows!" Another idea is go buy a few toy hammers, tie a nice bow around them and get some small bags and fill them with sand. Then when these guys come around hand each one a small hammer and a bag of sand. When they ask what they are for, you tell them, "Now you are now qualified and equipped to go pound sand up your own a$$!" Of course, you MUST say it with a smile! I contend that a Mustang would smell like HORSE5H!T inside. uzzled:
