"What kind of engine does it have?" (I refrained from saying 'one that goes vroom vroom') I tell him 200 ci. He looks confused, looks at the car, then asked "how many horsepower?" so I tell him 120. "Oh, it's not a muscle car".
Several times I've been asked "Is that a Mustang".
Then there was the guy who asked about my car and told me a long story about his son buying a 1964 Firebird and how he had it for 30 years ...
Had the 67 coupe inspected last year by a relatively young guy. It passed inspection but the inspector told me afterwards that I needed to check out the electrical system because "every time I put on the emergency brake the wipers came on." My son had to show him the difference between the emergency hand brake and the windshield washer pedal...live and learn!!!
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Father and Son '67 Stang Project ongoin' 200ci I6 1v 3 spd
sitting at a stop light with my wife driving....young man and his girl in lowered tricked out civic pulls up...revs the hell out of the ricer and then asked when i was going to fix that "miss" in the motor that is makin' the car giggle!!!! my wife left him with his mouth hanging open in lots of rubber tainted smoke.....laughed so hard i almost wet myself....................
Oh yeah, when I first got the car back (from restoration) I'd been told to use a specific brand of gas as the octane was a little higher (I've since learned it doesn't matter).
So, I pull in and the kid says "where does the gas go?". Next 2 times I go in, the kids ask "does the gas go in the back?"
I always see classics there, including 3 Shelbys, but they are always at the self-serve pump and I go to the full-serve pump, so guess these kids don't get a lot of opportunity to pump gas into a classic.
I have a 1970 pop-open gas cap on my '66 fastback. I added a Cobra emblem to it just to be a bit different. So it's understandable that folks ask "is that a real '66 Cobra." But when I answer that there's no such animal as a 1966 Cobra Mustang, most don't believe me. I get the "you don't know what you've got" expression...
I took my car to work today, i don't generally as my cycle and my car is 5miles from my house, somebody saw the pony and asked if it was a Ferrari, i surpose it has a horsie!!! If I could afford a 65 Ferrari I doubt I would need to work!!! I surpose as they are much rarer here in the netherlands than the US
Well, it was a running joke, but when I used to work as an auto parts counter man, we would have the customers call and order muffler bearings from the new guys. We would all piss laughing when the new guy would try to find them in the parts catalogs and my boss would tell him it was time he knew how to locate this stuff on his own. Sometimes calling parts warehouses etc. The funny thing is that everyone knew it was a joke and would string the guy along telling teh guy that they are obsolet and they would have to have the originals rebuilt. He would then call the cusotme back to tell him. Sometimes the customer would bitch and moan tekking the guy he just got them for another car last week from another source. Sometimes the gag ran for days...
Well, this was not a question but it falls under the "ate up with the dumb ass" catagory. I was looking for new wheels several months ago at a local tire store. The guy asked me the lug pattern which led to his expertise with the 4 and 5 lug differences. He told me that the 5 lugs were the V8 cars and the 4 lug wher the 6 cyl and 4 cyl cars. He then was telling me about a rare 69 Mustang Ford built with a 4 cylinder engine. They were worth their weight in gold. Very rare. They built them because of the gas shortages in the late 60's. What gas shortages in the 60's???? I remember them in the 70's and I also remember this guy was a dumb ass.
I think that he was talking about the E, which is VERY rare, and is a de-tuned 200 with freeway flyer gears...
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my ex-wife asked me to sell my 86......my current wife bought me 24# injectors and a hood
um, I don't see gow it can be since the heads are FLAT!!! to be a hemi head the combustion chamber of the heads have to be round like a tennis ball cut in half. I have built about a dozen flat heads
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my ex-wife asked me to sell my 86......my current wife bought me 24# injectors and a hood
Well, it was a running joke, but when I used to work as an auto parts counter man, we would have the customers call and order muffler bearings from the new guys. We would all piss laughing when the new guy would try to find them in the parts catalogs and my boss would tell him it was time he knew how to locate this stuff on his own. Sometimes calling parts warehouses etc. The funny thing is that everyone knew it was a joke and would string the guy along telling teh guy that they are obsolet and they would have to have the originals rebuilt. He would then call the cusotme back to tell him. Sometimes the customer would bitch and moan tekking the guy he just got them for another car last week from another source. Sometimes the gag ran for days...
we had one guy (new parts guy) looking for a front upper control arm for a 1979 Mustang
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my ex-wife asked me to sell my 86......my current wife bought me 24# injectors and a hood
Right after I got married my wife went to Valvoline for an oil change in her Toyota Echo. I told her to tell the service guy to make sure the blinker fluid was filled up. I wish I had a picture of the look on her face when she got home that day. Priceless......and I had to make dinner.
When clueless people ask what you have done to it I use to say............It's got a rubber bouncing cam, fuel injected brake lines, polished muffler bearings, and the reason why it idles rough is because I only run on 5 cylinders to get better gas mileage.
Right after I got married my wife went to Valvoline for an oil change in her Toyota Echo. I told her to tell the service guy to make sure the blinker fluid was filled up. I wish I had a picture of the look on her face when she got home that day. Priceless......and I had to make dinner.
my wife would have laughed at me before leaving...
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my ex-wife asked me to sell my 86......my current wife bought me 24# injectors and a hood
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