Don't ya love gas pump car conversations? I had one thie morning - guy pulls up in a beatup Toyota pickup at the pump next to me and says:
Guy: Nice car, 64 right?
Me: No 61 - thanks.
Guy: What's it got 289, 327?
Me: No, 302.
Guy: Oh the boss aluminium one?
Me: Ah....no, just the regular one.
Guy: I had a 64 Fairlane had that aluminium 426 hemi, should kept it it was rare.
Me: Yeah, should have, nice talking to ya.
I dont get the REAL stupid ones with the 65.I did have a Bow Tie boy ask me what size motor I had in it, when I told him 460/535 hp he said "no you dont", and he didnt say it as in, " holy cow, your kidding me", he ment, your full of crap. Ok, whatever. But when I had my 70 Torino Cobra, they came out with some wild ones. More then once I was told "nice Charger"
Sitting at Woodward by Gregs 60 Edsel was always entertaining to say the least.
me: check out my latest video
him: yeah nice..
me: it's an old car, 65
him: I raced a 70-71 Mustang against a TVR
me (thinking): no shit, really ...
me: turning back towards my pc screen while telling him: sorry mate I got some work to do now.... cya
me: waiting at the bus stop
him (same as above): is your car rear wheel drive?
me: oh here's my bus, cya....
I was pumping gas yesterday in my 66 stang....redneck #1 comes over "what year is that, 67"...Nope, it's a 66. "What size motor's in it"....302...."really, sounds bigger than that". Redneck #2 in the background yells out..."must be bored out".. LOL.
had another try to convince me my car was a shelby, he really tried hard....but alas, it was orginally a 6 cyl/auto car.
At the grocery store...."that thing got a hydraulic cam in it?" Ummm...yeah. "I thought so, i can hear it"....Wha????..."got 'bout 500 lift right".....Uhh, .512 to be exact..."yeah. i normally guess on the low side to be safe."
You definitely hear some interesting stuff, but I guess at least they have some appreciation for what they're looking at. Years ago when I was in high school and had my '56 Chevy I had a date (first date) ask me "why is this car so nice?" and I said "because I went through all of it - paint, engine, upholstery . . . " and she cut me off and said "yeah, but why? It's still just an old car, you could have bought something new!" Got her home early that night!
My 64 Fairlane gets called a Falcon a lot. The day I bought it I had it on a trailer and stopped at the Hess station . It didnt take long for some guy to come up and say "What year is that Thunderbird?" I replied "It's a Fairlane" He said "Man I loooove them old Thunderbirds like that" I just bid him a nice evening and went on home.
Here's what I see as the deal viewing it from the *other side*.. . Guys who really don't know sh*t about cars feel compelled to pretend that they do to their buddies, wives or even real car guys, lest they be viewed as "unmanly" or somesuch trash. The dumbassed part is that these 'experts' come off as looking even dumber by being wrong 99.9% of the time.
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While sitting in the Morris in the staging lanes this guy comes up looks at the hood emblem which clear states Morris then gives me a look like I'm strange. He looks at the Minor 1000 emblem on the side of the hood and gives me a puzzled look again. Finally he looks at the Minor 1000 emblem on the trunk then asks me "Is this a Fiat?"
on my 67 galaxie it says 390 on the fender clearly so what do they read? The quarter panel that says 500 and they go "Is that one of them 500 engines in there?" Or "I used to have an impala just like that" and of course I have had a number of women talk trash about my car instead of taking them home I usually have a long night and then never call back cause they talked trash about the all mighty galaxie
This one was not dumb or stupid but did make me smile. I was at a rod run in my 66 Galaxie and this elderly couple(70s) was looking at my car and the woman commented "look Earl, this is just like the car we took the kids to Yellowstone in." When I go to non all Ford events that's about the only comments I get. Since it ain't a Mustang most people just walk by.
I have this idiot loud mouth customer who ALWAY'S calls my '61 Falcon 4 door a friggin '64 Fairlane! even when he's looking at the damn fender emblem that say's falcon! He brought a buddy by two weeks ago adn I pull up to do some reapirs for him and he tells his buddy, "See, it's that bitchin' old Fairlane I was telling you about."
The retard probably thinks the damn thing is a 2 door as well...
I can't match any of those for stupid ... but Rude - I got a million of!
July 7 2007, 9:37 PM
Ever leave your your car to go into a store, come back out to find some A** either trying to open the hood, or sholders deep gawking at stuff? The excuse, " I heard the engine - just wanted to see whats in it".
Now that is so wrong, on so many levels - it ain't even worth talking about. What you can talk about is the weight of the stones he is carrying... In my neck of the woods; a man could easily lose his life doing something like that. I figure its the same as some guy kicking your dog or bumping into you daughter in line at the movie... might be innocent, but sometimes you just don't care enough to ask questions.
No one has ever tried to open my hood on my car granted Most people cant even figure out the door handles let alone the hood guess I am lucky cant believe someone would try to open your hood, makes me think of a funny story a few years back. my folks and i went to the movies we had a BEAT DOWN 1979 ranchero and my mom had the handicapped thing and we were in the last handicapped spot next to the regular spots and parked as far over the left as we could as my mom rode shotgun well we come back and some jackass with a new lexus is how parked so close to our car we could not get the passanger side door open to get anyone in there so my dad gets in and on his way out just happened to drag the front bumper across the side of someones new lexus after that he thought of leaving them note about learning to be considerate and learning how to park but he figured they got the message.
was at the DQ (Dairy Queen) and it was short "Nice Nova, what year?". That was when the car had the cowl scoop. I ordered a Crites teardrop scoop the next day. I used to love the car shows - lots of old ladies would come talk to you because a bunch had 4 door Falcons.
"This is really a nice car. My Uncle/Brother/Cousin/Neighbor/Grandfather/Sister's Boyfriend had one JUST like this except IT was a 427 with two four barrels". Now multiply that by about a thousand or two.............
"My (father, mother, grandpa, uncle, brother, boyfreind...)had a Falcon just like that, and I learned to drive in it."
It always makes me smile, it's part of the reason I have a Falcon, because I learned to drive in my cousin's 63 Falcon in 1966. I really loved that car .
With my 1958 wagon, I don't get "My Uncle/Brother/Cousin/Neighbor/Grandfather had one JUST like this." But I honestly have had a couple of "My grandmother had one just like yours."
. Guys who really don't know sh*t about cars feel compelled to pretend that they do to their buddies, wives or even real car guys, lest they be viewed as "unmanly" or somesuch trash. The dumbassed part is that these 'experts' come off as looking even dumber by being wrong 99.9% of the time. 
