Folks Of Interest Quirks or superstitions

racecar spelled backwards is............well you know!

 

I dont talk about my car breaking down in front of my car.

Wont own or use a white Bic lighter.

Always step into a plane or boat right foot first.

Never eat anything bigger than my head.

Never eat the last deviled egg at a picnic.

Chappy

 

wasn*t jimmy clarks indy lotus green?

 

My Dad would give a stern look if i sat a battery on the ground when i was kid. I still put them on a board out of respect for him. May he rest in peace.

 

How about the whole family, perfect for a wagon...that could possibly get you protection for over 100mph.

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My Mom and Dad were close friends with Ralph Earnhart, and one night when they went to watch him race at the Concord Speedway (dirt track in NC) Mom was wearing a green shirt and Ralph made her change into an old dirty work shirt of his, "No GREEN in the pitts." She looked at my Dad and he said, "thats the rule" so she changed shirts.

 

Hahaha!

 

Well I got a plastic Virgin Mary right here..and a no longer a virgin Mary also...

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I always talk nice to my car even when she is having problems. Happy car happy life. (I don't have a wife)

 

Green M&M's make you horny!

 

I always pat my car on the dash after I comment on how good it is running. Kind of like knocking on wood.

 

My grandmother was incredibly superstitious.

Never wear something new on a Friday

If you put your shirt on inside out it’s bad luck to change it

Don’t start a meal with a spoon

Don’t put your hat on the bed




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Does anyone still throw salt over their left shoulder after they spill it at the table?

Don't pick up a found coin unless it's heads up.

 

I have a couple of magnetic Saint Anthony's (patron saint of hot rodders I was told!) which have been transferred from car to car since I was 16. They were given to me by my grandma, to keep the car and occupants safe. They were always on my grandpa's cars. I'm 56 now, and they are still doing their job.

 

My buddy and I were unloading truck loads of equipment at a construction site. We were walking back to work after a break. I dropped a little change. I picked up everything that was heads up. Left two pennies, tails up. Buddy asked why I didn't pick them up. He had never heard of the superstition. I told him about it, then he picked them up and put them in his pocket. Five minutes later, we were back unloading and he was on top of the truck and fell off. Hurt his knee pretty bad. He is a believer now.

 

Don't drive a car with a nice paint job …. somehow, something bad will happen to it within 3 weeks of my ownership.

 

I'm not superstitious. I have a positive attitude, I'm positive something bad is going to happen.

 

After getting home from a long trip in my hotrods i always pat them on the dash and tell them thanks for getting us there and back.
I know its kind of weird.

 

Cannot stand crap on the floor of a car I'm riding in. Makes me crazy how people will drive with trash under their feet.

 

Used to be "Don't pick em up if you can't pick em up". Now I like them chubby.

 

I try to never walk under a black cat.

 

Damn, I though I was the only one that done that, have ever since I was a little kid and that was a loooooooong time ago

 

This was probably not too well known outside of the PNW but there use to be a thing about the labels on Olympia beer bottles; there were a series of dots on the backside of the labels that identified the line it was bottled on and the horndogs of the time came up with a rumor that if you found a "four dot" label and got a girl to sign it then you were assured to "get lucky".

 

Ever notice in old movies the driver often gets in on the passenger side and slides over? I never did that, even with a bench seat, column shift and traffic whizzing by. Was that just a movie thing?

 

Yeah, bucket seats spoiled that.

 

I don't know the exact when, or where but I was told long ago that in the 1920's and 30's the law was you had to enter from the sidewalk side and not walk into traffic. I know for a fact that all Willys-Overland cars up to 1936 used a key lock cylinder on the passenger side outside door handle only so I've always considered it could be true.

 

My dad always said that about the peanuts. Definitely forbidden!

 

That was a must in Dad's shop also! Always said it would drain the battery if setting on concrete and not on a piece of wood. I still do it too.

 

Doesn't work, at least not for my wife. Believe me I've tried!!!

 

My Grandfather always said, "Just be sure to turn it over to heads before picking it up". You know the depression thing, needed every penny you could get ahold of.