"That's a cute dune buggy"

Where can i get myself a straight V8?

 

Did you not realize she was trying to pick you up?

 

if only i had a buck for each time i got asked if my hudson was a mercury....

 

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A few weeks ago a buddy of mine stopped over with a friend of his, they walk out to the garage and see my 40 chevy (2dr sedan) setting on the stands and his friend asks "Is that a 32 ford?"....ummmm well yes it it and it's very rare because of the long rounded roof and big fenders....

I also have an 81 Ford f100 with a 440 Chrysler in it, I've gone to cruise in's around town where all years cars meet, people walk up and ask " what is that, a 351?? a 429?? ect".....I say "well no it's a 440 Chrysler", they get aggravated and comment " well why did you do that, why didn't you put a Ford in it"?......At this time I'm thinking to myself (because your stupid and I did it just to piss you off!!!)

Another story about the truck.....My oldest brother used to work with a guy that owns a v8 s-10, he was telling him about my truck, he told the guy I put a 440 in it...This guy got arravated and told him, "No way, you can't put a Chrysler in a Ford, it must be a 351M or a 460"..."thats impossibable, can't be done"
I took the truck out where they worked, my brother went in and told this guy that I was there with my truck, he wouldnt even come out and look.....probably felt like a real dumbass..........

 

Holy crap, I can't believe this thread is still going! I've pick up a few new ones. My favorite:

I work in an office tower, in the basement there's a convenience store run by a Hindu guy, sorta our own Apu. He's got some 17-syllable real name, so he goes by "Bob." Real friendly guy, talks with everybody.

Anyhoo, I'm in there with a co-worker talking about my '31 A coupe while waiting in line with my afternoon Cheetos. When we get to the counter Bob says, "oh do you have a fancy car?" So I proudly show him a picture of it. Bob just lights up and says, "Oh very very nice, it is a Nascar!"

Now every time I come in he says "hey buddy, how is your Nascar?"

 

I have one of those dune buggy stories. Only it was told to me by a friend and it involves a hair lip and being told to shove a bottle of brake fluid up his ass. Only I'd need a stage and a couple of beers to tell it.

 

Funny. I had the same thing happen back in the 70's when a lady from city zoning cited me for a dissabled "VW" sitting in my driveway. It was a 41 Ford coupe with no ft clip.

 

I was talking to a guy one day about how little power the 6 cyl in my 66 mustang has, well he asks me, "Well can't you just get a computer upgrade or something?" I stared at him blankly for what seemed like a few minutes, said sure and walked away trying not to laugh at him.

 

My niece was recently at my shop and while looking at the wife's '47 Dodge 2 dr sedan, she asks:

When is he going to be done with the PT Cruiser?

 

First I have to say, that You dont see many 59 ElCaminos and 50 Shoeboxes here around in Germany.

I was at a little classic car meeting with my shoebox Ford a couple of years ago, when I still owned that car. The president of a local well known classic car club, who advertises in local magazines, that he is a specialist for classic car expertises, walks by with a friend and tells him "Thats a Studebaker Commander!", although he must have seen the FORD letters on the hood. I replied:"No, its a Chevy!".....

On an other local car meeting a guy asked me about my ElCamino:
"Why did You cut off the roof of a rare Station?"

What really pisses me of is "This thing takes 30litres gas, doesnt it?"
Usually I say "No, I run it with liquid butter."

But mostly You get nice reactions and a lot of people are really interested........

 

This thread is the best! Very funny stories!

Ive got one that comes to mind:


Back in my early 20's, I was once again at the large Portland swapmeet and decided to take my girlfriend. (BIG mistake on soooo many levels)
HINT: drive seperate cars. She WILL want to leave early.

She was a cool chick. Cool enough to agree to go to a 'boring old swapmeet with old, dirty dumb car parts'.

We were walking around in the outside section and I stopped at a booth that had some cool stuff to look over.

She saw a long block on the ground of this guys stall. She points at it, and says in a rather loud voice, as if to impress not only me, but all the other car nuts, including anyone else within earshot that could figure out she was with me,

"Is that a 350 hard block?!"

She turned to me smiling as if I had just told her it was okay to buy more shoes.

I paused and looked at her quickly. My eyebrows frowning in a look of concern as if she was choking on food. I then, without moving my head, looked away at a few random things (picture Gene Wilder)

I opened my mouth with a *smack* sound, followed by a long inhale

".........yea."

We moved on.


Dont take chicks with you to the swapmeets. Give em money for shoes.


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My fathers 64 Galaxie is at a car show, couple walks by...

Wife: Look at that beautiful old Ford!
Husband: That is not a Ford. It is a Lincoln.
Wife: But it stands "FORD" on the hood?
Husband: There is just someone that have put Ford badges on it. Only Lincolns have this much chrome trim.

Same car at another show (it has the chrome trim on the top of the front fenders), a man walks by and says: "This was a nice car, but it is a pity that the mirrors are broken off".

One of the highlights was when my fathers 1925 chrysler was barely finished, and we took it to a car meet... Keep in mind that we have km/h and degrees celsius in europe. The only instrument we had in the car at the time was the temperature meter. A kid, maybe 6-8 years old, looks very excited until he looks at the dashboard.
"This only only does 110 km/h" he says, and walk away, looking very disappointed.

We didn't have time to finish the welding on the exhaust manifolds, so one guy told me that it was impossible to drive, the exhaust gases will take strange ways so the engine won't run.

At the time we had a 1946 Plymouth, many people thought that it was a VW Bug, Volvo 444-544 or even an old two-stroke SAAB? Hmm, maybe there is SOME differences in both design and size...

Another favourite is when I used my daily driver, only a 73 Volvo 164, to tow a spares car to the junkyard. A young guy, working there asked me what kind of car it was.
"Hmm, it is a normal Volvo 164?"
"Yeah, it looks like a Volvo 144, but, THE GRILLE?"
"It is not a Volvo 144, it is a 164, and they have a different front clip."
"Oh yes...."
"Hmm..."
"Yeah..."
"But... THE GRILLE? Strange car..."

 

We had an all Ford show sponsored by the Mustang club I'm in and a local radio station was there to play some music and broadcast live. It was a hip-hop station, don't ask me who invited them but it didn't fit the demographic and we had to tell them to turn the music down because no one wanted to listen to it. One of the ladies from the station came up and was talking to me about the show. She saw a Model T on the lot and asked if that was the oldest Mustang here today. I couldn't help myself so I told her "Yes, yes it is."

 

my wife went walking our dog one afternoon, came into the garage and said that the guy behind us has a Black PT cruiser just like the one she had only his has a HEMI in it...I looked at her with a raised eyebrow and said oh yhea thats cool (just trying to stop this conversation as quick as possible). About a day or so later this guy driving a Black 40 Ford pulls into my driveway wanting to see what I was working on now. We start talking a bit my wife comes out and say's thats the car, I say what car, the PT Cruiser with the Hemi in it.........The guy has an Hemi emblem on the trunk...........(and yes it has a hemi in it)...

 

i had an older gent start asking me about my car. looked at the beehive and asked if it was an oil cooler. (close enough I guess) then went on to say how neat the old flatheads are, I'm starting to think this guy's not bad. then he looks at me and starts telling me "this car is what they call an old time hot rod" like I didn't know what the hell I had!

 

If my wife did that I wouldn't have blamed him one bit if he gave her a black eye for that little mix-up

 

Everyone thinks if you're into cars, you must love NASCAR. I keep getting NASCAR junk and I really don't care for it at all. My wife even bought me NASCAR Monopoly! I guess it's a little more fun than regular Monopoly.

 

The first time I drove my MGB to school, I was late to class because I had to keep opening the hood for the local ricers.
Kid: "Is it French?"
Me: "Are you high?"
Different Kid: "What's under the hood?"
Me: "One point eight liter." (measuring it in CCs would have confused the hell out of the punk)
I then proceeded to pop the hood.
Kid: "Oh, dee-oh-atch-cee, nice!"

Even at British car shows, surrounded by relatively knowledgeable people, I get asked if I'm the original owner of my MG Midget. I'm eighteen and I look twelve. I usually take it as a compliment - most people go on to say I've kept it in good shape.

However, yesterday I was at Don Moyer's house, and walked into his backyard and glanced at all of his stuff. I had a brain fart and mistook his Rebel Machine for a SC/Rambler - when there was one not ten feet away! I felt like smacking myself upside the head with a connecting rod.

 

I had to bring this thread back, because I have a couple new stories.

Last night I was sitting in my car (1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme) waiting for my friend to get off work...A guy walked up to my window, told me he had a car just like mine that he bought brand new in '84, ok so he was a few years off but heres the kicker...He then proceeds to tell me his was a Caprice, and it was a 4door, oh and it had a diesel...at least he got the make of engine right.

Then a few days ago, I was changing the oil in my truck('94 Chevy Silverado), again not a trad. vehicle, but a fun story. I had the hood open, this older guy was peering down the engine compartment at me. He say's "Hey Buster, Nice Small Block ya got here!" I say "Thanks" chuckle a little bit, and then tell him what it actually is, a 425 Olds Rocket, if he would have stared at the Mondello Valve covers a little longer he may have seen the rocket emblems.

And the last one....

I had my Model A Tudor on the trailer last weekend, I was moving it to the other shop. A guy stops me as I'm leaving the gas station. To tell me, he liked my Rat Rod, and He liked the inline hemi too...I skipped past yelling at him for calling it a rat rod (it's just a primed body on a frame), and told him that my "Inline Hemi" was actually a '38 Oldsmobile Straight 8....I got the whole glazed over WTF? look....O.k. I'm done now.

 

Okay, so this one time back in high school, i had my 55 chevy parked in front of my friends house and this lady steps out of her minivan and starts talking to us. She says something to the effect of, "Thats a really cute car. How does it keep up with traffic on the highway?" I hope the strips of rubber i laid down the street adequately answered her question. My other favorite is "Is that an old taxi?
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Last year I had my Tub in an indoor car show. I started with a '27 Chrysler 4 door and made a 2 door tub out of it. A guy stops at my display and tells me he is working on a project a lot like mine. "I've got a Fiero...", he says. That's when I started backing up verrry slowly.

 

i had a guy at a carshow ask me if i made my roof out of fiberglass.when i told him no it is all metal he said" wow! you made thet out of metal!" i politely told him that it was made that way in the factory, and drank more beer. and this was a car guy, never seen a sedan delivery.

 

i get that alot too

 

had a cool one yesterday,I am selling a spare car,A mercedes 500SEC , and with these cars you get a lot of posers and wanna be chainers comming to look at them. Anyway,it's pissing down with rain so the Benz is in the shed and these two prospects wander in ..first question;
what are doing with the Chev ( bare block on the stand)
me " ah nothing it's fucked.."
buyer,"yes,looks like the headstuds werent sealed and shes leaked badly .."
2nd buyer..." is that a 24 Chev ..(looking at my roadster...)and then proceeds to admire all my junk..'wanna sell the 36 spare wheel cover..'
Me (thinking_) OK,we may not sell the benz today but at least i can talk rods all afternoon, which is what we did ...ha ha ha
Turns out these two have a 32 five window and 32 pickup...such a refreshing change..

 

I had a lady call my T Bucket a "cute little car" last weekend. Like I was building a Lego car or something, but she was nice and meant it as a compliment, so I explained what it was to her and all was good. I've learned to first try and educate before I walk away from someone who says something negative. Some people really don't know and don't know how to ask or say what they feel. As my car comes together and begins to get attention (there are almost NO hot rods in my area), I have gotten a lot more tolerant.

 

My grandfather always had perfect universal term: Hooptie.

He said thats what everybody called their fun cars when he was a kid.
- So, if youre not sure if what youre looking at is a rat rod, street rod, street machine, resto, restomod, cruiser, custom, highboy, lowboy, outlaw, gasser, g-machine, prostreet, street freak, gowjob, bobber, chopper, ricer, fast&furious, or, yes, dune buggy, just remember-

theyre all HOOPTIES.

 

Sounds like G-Dad was a rapper

 

ABOUT 1980, I WAS WITH A FRIEND IN HIS VERY NICE, STATE OF THE ART SHINNNNY BLUE, LEATHER INTERIOR BITCHEN WHEELED 32 FORD ROADSTER.. WE PULL INTO A 7/11 TO GET A SODA.. THIS WAS IN VAN NUYS.. 2 VERY CUTE "VALLEY GIRLS" WALK UP TO THE CAR.. ASK WHAT IT WAS... WE TOLD 'EM.. ONE ASKS HOW MUCH IT COST. MY BUDDY ANSWERS.." I BUILT IT. IT COST ME ABOUT 20 GRAND.. ( THOSE WERE THE DAYS) HER FACE WENT BLANK FOR A MOMENT THEN SHE SAID IT.. " LIKE.. HOW STOOOOOPID.. YOU COULD HAVE LIKE GOT A RABBIT CONVERTIBLE FOR LESS THAN THAT!"..

ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE CAME OUT FROM ERIE, PA. IN HIS 39 CHEVY COUPE.. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE COOL TO GET A PICTURE OF THE CAR PARKED IN FRONT OF A CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY 39 SIGN. OFF TO AZUSA WE GO.. WE ARE SETTING UP IN FRONT OF A SIGN WHEN A GUY/GIRL COMBO WALKED UP TO US AND THE GUY ASKS.. IS THAT A '57?? WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT THE CAR OWNER SAYS.. YES IT IS.. GUY LOOKS HIS GIRL DEAD IN THE EYES AND SAYS.. "DAMN RIGHT I KNOW MY CHEVY'S"..

 

NO NEED TO YELL!