Dumbest thing anyone has ever said to you about your car?
 

I love cars, I love people willing to talk about cars, I love the fact that I can drive something that effects someone enough to approach a complete stranger and ask questions. All that being said, you do have a few people who are unbelievably bold and ignorant. So, what is the dumbest thing anyone has said to you about your car?

A few examples from myself:

At the local drugstore:

Idiot: Cool car, what year is it?
Me: 69 camaro
Idiot: Are you sure? It looks like a mustang?
Me: Nope, it is a 69 camaro, see the emblem on the front?
Idiot: Well, those can be changed.
Me: Yeah, I guess your right, I better go check the title again.

Or another

Idiot: Camaro right?
Me: yep, 69
Idiot: Cool, I had a 64 when I was younger.
Me: Are you sure it was a camaro, they didn't start making those until 1967.
Idiot: Nope, I am positive, 64 camaro, They started in 64, not 67, Don't you know anything about cars?
Me: Oh, I am sorry, I will try and read up on them some more.

I am never mean or condescending, I just find it funny how sure people are of themselves. Anyone have any others? Hopefully I am not the only one.

Darren

when i was driving my grand national/hey what year monti carlo is that/

when i was driving my viper/why does the hood have speakers in it/96 gts coupe.they were vents/lol
many more i just cant remember.i just couldnt stand hey how much was that/

The dumbest and unexpected Question
 

When I was 17 I had a 69 Z/28 . That was 1972 . I got a recall on the car to put the stop lift cable on the engine. I went to my Chevy dealer and was giving the servise manager the information. Then he asked Me What engine do you have in it? I say 302. He says What? I say it again He says 307 ? I say 302. He says we don't make a 302 . I argue with him for about 20 minutes. Finnally he say s I'll bet you my pay this is not a 302. I said yes it is your on. He calls the head mechanic and says what engine is in the Z/28 he says 302. I said keep your money I'll take a set of factory headers. I never got the headers but he did have the body shop detail the car for me .

We are in IOWA at the GOODGUYS show right now and someone just told me I have a 1967 Chevy Tahoe not a Blazer. I was not aware that the Tahoe was out in that year. I better do some follow up

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This kid was convinced that the little 302 in my 1978 Granada was a big block. Couldn't do much to tell him otherwise, so what the hell?:thumbsup: :rofl:

An idiot insisted that I put a 283 into the Camaro because he had a car with a 283 that ran strong.

Thats funny, I always get, "Nice Gran National!" :D

My ex's brother always swore that I had a 350 big block too.

Chris,

How about last year at Columbus when the lady said you couldn't park your "TAHOE" there when the air bag blew. She just didn't want to hear that you stopped right there on the thru-way. Not to mention she was just another spectator! LOL. Some people.

I get Why isn't your car finished? What's so hard about it? :rofl:

I got the "I had a '66 Camaro that I restored and sold recently." I told him he should have kept it cause those are realllllly rare.

"Nice Mustang", then wanted to argue about it when I tried to explain it was a Camaro...

Was told my old '65 GMC 4X4 was a nice Ford. I was not nice about the reply because he had a '69 Chev truck and should have known better.

I had a guy ask me how much I had in my Nomad... I said he should take a guess... his guess he said was probably "high" - and that I must have had maybe 10 Grand in it!

My reply was -- that wouldn't cover the shortblock....

LOL

Just today one of the co-directors I sit on a board with says to me:

BM: "So how's your musclecar coming along"
Me: "Yeah really good, should go to paint in July or Aug"
BM: "So how much will you have in it by the time it is done"
Me: "More than I planned and I planned $150K, but I don't have the skill nor time to build it the way I want so it's getting professionally built"

BM: "Wow, so you don't have the time to build it, oh well what a waste of money as you therefore won't have the time to drive it"

At what point did you knock him to the ground?? LOL

About my 80 trans am with the biggest bird every offered on the hood: "nice camaro"! I don't even bother correcting them anymore.

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that's a great one Ron!

Darren

"That thing gotta HEMI?" when the hood is popped open and the skinny valve covers from a 440 look very much like the ones on a 426.

This one from a ricer kid: "Nice turbo, what size is it?" when he's pointing at my alternator. I just look at him and walk away shaking my head.

I was at a gas station filling up my brothers 1979 Volvo 240 when the guy at the next pump started staring at it. After a while he goes "Man that's a great car, I used to have one just like it. Except it was a Datsun"

wow... lol

My sister looks just like Cindy Crawford. Except she's shorter, and her face is different.

lol Bernie, I get the same thing only they always say.
"Why did you pull the turbo 6 motor out?" I always just point to the bowtie under the hood and say...its a Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS.

I have an F3 Procharger on the race car and I had it at the GG show in Pleasanton.

Old guy walks up to it, doesn't know it's mine, and looks at it for awhile. He looks over to his son-in-law as says "Damnation, that's that biggest dam airconditioning unit I've ever seen, and look at the belt he has to use to turn the damn thing."

I can't resist---"Yeah, well my wife is pregnent (she was with our first), and I had to install that to keep her cool.

Old Guy--"Man, that thing must blow ice cold when you get it going"
Me, "Yeah, it puts out quite a loud whine as well"

Son in Law never says a word.

"Is that a DeLorean?" --Toyota MR2 w/ 'lambo doors'

"How loud is it?" -- Every person who's ever looked at my stereo...

I've got a ton regarding my stereo but some are those 'had to be there' type of situtations...

Best one though; "When you gonna finish it?"

Everyone knows a project is never really finished...

Oldsmobile
 

Olds owners just ask for stupidity. Now of course most of these are normal, we just ask people to not be so persistant. Like the "Cutlass" and how our '68 isn't one, its just a 442, they keep arguing...

"You got the orginal 442 in that?" (Arguments rise, now we just agree and say yea)

"Nice Chevelle, Buick, Pontiac" etc., (Had Charger once)

"What is it!?" (Other times, people will ride our ass just to see the tiny letters on the chrome strip that reads "Oldsmobile" beings its the only place its written.

"Is that the rocket engine? or just the regular??"

"I didn't know Olds made a muscle car"

What I like the most is when I was still in High School, friends would ask about Dad's '68, they would look down upon the word "Oldsmobile"....untill they heard it!

I can't wait to get my 69 done...no emblems what so ever...

As a Mopar guy I love these. People who swear they had a 383 Hemi in there 65 GTX. Or prople that say they bought new in 72 a Hemi Cuda. Got to love them all.

I'm sure ANY Mustang owner can relate:

Random idiot: "You should build an Eleanor"
Me: "No, it's an '69, Eleanors are '67-'68s"
Random idiot: "So?"
Me: "No body panel is the same!"
Random idiot: "Eleanor is cooler than your car."

You should put mud flaps on that thing to protect the fenders. :rolleyes:

Happened yesterday in my new car.

Random guys: "Man that car is sexy"
Me: "Thanks I just got it"
Random guys: "Can I drive it?"
Me: "Um...Sorry you'll have to get your own..."

Or driving the 69 in highschool I gave a friend's friend a ride.
Him: "Man I love this old car."
Me: "Thanks I love this car as well."
Him: "I've always wanted a 69 Fastback just like this"
Me: "This is a 69 camaro"
Him: "Really? Are you sure it's not a fastback Mustang?"
Me: "Uh...yea, pretty sure."

I had one yesterday. I was at the gas station.

Dude: Nice Camaro, I had a Z/28 I bought new.
Me: Really? That is pretty cool
Dude: Yep, ordered it with the 454.
Me: Wow, you should have kept it, it would be worth a fortune.

i had a guy tell me i had a nice mustang once, clearly its a chevy nova, i guess the bowties on the cowl hood didnt give it away.

At a car show one time some guy offered my friend $4,000 for his completely restored 1967 Shelby 500. I went to to say that his car was worth more around 80-100k His reply was, why its an old used car. I stoped my firend from replying, so is your wife.

Yesterday i drove my 67 to practice..

Theres some guys well known in atlanta called "shawdys"
(random shawdy image..)
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this shawdy walked past the camaro and asked

"whos car is this?"

"mine"

"wanna sell it?"

"nah.."
(started to get on my nerves.. this was during practice)

"why not?"

"it isnt in your cash bracket"

"what?"

"..."

"what kind of car is it?"





".... a Volvo."


he walked on..

My 69 camaro is sitting there outside while me and some buddies was working on rides. The 69 is complete with new paint, new motor, New wheels! It was before I ripped it apart for the big build and it was road ready! A guy up the road had just bought a basket case 69 without a doghouse, drivetrain, or glass. He had the gall to ask if I would sell him the windshield out of mine!

At a car show with my corvair I had a guy run up to me screaming for me to call the cops. My motor was gone! I used to put the hood(front) up about a foot and the back all the way up! Always brought these questions!

I have a 69 chevy 4wd on 44s and diesel! The question come quick when you pull up to the wrong(to them) pump!

This happens nearly every time I drive my GMC Typhoon:

"Nice Blazer. Where did you get that body kit?"

I just say thanks and tell them to look up 'Typhoon' and see what they find.

Gets old real quick.

I took my 69 Camaro to the local Chevy dealer (where my friend worked) when I was moving to get his help changing the TCC valve (to use the lift...etc). I had to check it into the service lane.

The cute young girl came out with the plastic for the seat and note pad. She took the info from the car then filled out the form.

When she printed it out and handed to me to sign it said.

1969
Mustang


I didn't even bother to have her change it!

That's great!

Good one! ,...........but
I didn´t know FORD made Trans Am cars in 1980! !............and shouldn´t there be a horse on the hood?! :rofl:

Flathead or Hemi
 

My buddy has his old ford flathead motor in the bed of his truck taking it to the shop to get it built. He stops for lunch and this guy and his girlfriend walk buy his truck and see the motor, this guy tells my buddy nice hemi. He told the guy is was a flathead ford not a hemi. The guy looks at his girlfriend and says that dude doesn't even know what kind motor he has.

I recently bought a 69 Firebird in Cali, towed it to Portland where I bought a 68 which I drove home to Idaho while my buddy towed the 69. Crack heads were coming out of the wood work everywhere we stopped. I don't mind talking about my cars for a min but it's constantly people saying the dumbest stuff. I try not to get annoyed but it's almost enough to make me not even want to drive my cars.

I have to update mine. Recent developments have eclipsed all stupid comments made about my wagon in the past.

When we were returning from the Sandhills Open Road Challenge in Nebraska (awesome event, btw..www.sorcrace.com), we stopped for breakfast/fuel at a Sapp Bros. truck stop (highly recommended for breakfast, by the way...). While my partner was filling up the tank, I went to have a smoke by the front door of the restaurant. This particular raggedy ass piece of white trash joined me, and as the wagon rolled by on the trailer, he saw it with the race numbers affixed to the doors and said "Well, I guess they're gonna demo derby it. Too bad- its in pretty good shape..."

I know you can't technically spit up cigarette smoke, but that's pretty much what I did...

Best one two that I have heard:

1) toward a friends 64 Farilane Wagon - "you know when we first looked at your car we didn't like it, but now that we've had a few drinks it looks pretty good."

2) towards our Corvette with the as-bought resale red paint that was bubbling on the hood.
(old guy) Hey, that's a nice looking Corvette, but its a shame that there are all those rust bubbles on the hood.