What's the stupidest question people have asked regarding your Mustang or any part thereof?

Here's mine.
So, I'm selling a stock 9-inch Ford rear end on fleaBay and somebody emails me the question, "Is that a 4-lug or 5-lug axle?" I felt like answering, "It's a 4-lug. Ford put 9-inch rears on only the badass inline 6s."

some one was looking at my car one day and asked two questions one is this a ford and second does it have a 350 i was astonished i wanted to say no its a chevy and its got a ford 350 in it

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.

Had some teenager ask me if it had a hemi in it.

ORIGINAL: ideal_mustangs

Had some teenager ask me if it had a hemi in it.


well, it could actually. remember the boss 429 and 427 sohc? Those were both considered hemis. Maybe that teenager wasnt as dumb as you think! :D

I used to own a Rotary engine car, and someone asked me if I had headers. :D

the ford flathead could also be considered a hemi and the first true HEMI

At a goodguys carshow once this guy was trying to bullsh!t with me, he said, "ya I'm big on fords, boy I sure do love these mustangs....what year is it? 63?"

I said no "62 1/2"

here is a 63 its the concept

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A guy asked me if I had a 283 in it. I'm sure he was not a car guy!...I hope :D
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today i had my hood up and someone asked me is that a v8? i told him nope it a i6 then he asked if i had a 289 or 302 in it

Most of the questions I have heard involved Pontiacs, you guys wouldnt get them so I wont go there. ;) I have been told "Nice Camaro" when I am driving a Cougar, ok so they both start with C. Also had someone a while back who swore up and down that the FE engine series wasnt a big block. He said only the 429/460 was and FEs were never big blocks. Its always something like that, people say they have a BOSS 302 and its just a 2v 302 from a Granada, but it is a BOSS.

In the "Strange but not stupid" book, on the "I WISH IT WAS MINE" page, there is a old dump truck with a BOSS 429 in it up here. Yeah a real plugs through the valve covers HUGE engine with FORD on it in a freakin dump truck. He has had it for years, so when the engine in the truck went, he chucked the BOSS in it, since it sorta bolted up and all. Yeah I know what you are thinking... Yeah I need to get some pics, but he wont let me near it again.

Hey Thumpin. That guys name isn't JS or Joe Garrett is it??? I know a guy that has a boss 429 in a dump truck...... Maybe it's the same dude.

Most of the stupidest questions about Mustangs I've heard have been asked by me. Someone asked me the other day (my hood was up and the carb was off...intake exposed) if it was a 2 or 4v. A ricer I know suggested that I put on new carbon fiber panels so that I can street race.

ive had several just walk up at the gas station while im pumping gas and just simply ask if was a mustang.

when im working on my car, people drive down my alley for some reason or another, and 9 times outta 10 i get someone who stops and asks questions about my car. one guy thought it was a cuda![8D]

but the dumbest question i have had has already been said, the guy asked if i had a hemi[&:]

why isn't your hood painted? :D

Just because the plugs are through the valve covers doesn't mean it is a hemi. The hemi has a hemispherical combustion chamber in the heads. The ford flathead wasn't a hemi

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today i had my hood up and someone asked me is that a v8? i told him nope it a i6 then he asked if i had a 289 or 302 in it


LOL even i get that, stupid person LOL

okay i got one for you, okay this...ummm person i know, wants to ask how do i turn the windsheild wipers on in my 68' stang?? i mean common on, who doesnt know that! just to make sure, could someone tell me.....i mean i know but....yeah.....my friend..you know..he he.

turn the knob

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why isn't your hood painted? :D



its glare from the sun...... it doesnt have much paint on it now though...[>:]

For me, the dumbest questions I've gotten were, "What's it got in it?" when there's a 302 badge on the front fender and, "Is it for sale?"... Dorks

"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 ...

I had a guy ask if it had a 460 in it when he looked at the 4.6 badge.

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I had a guy ask if it had a 460 in it when he looked at the 4.6 badge.

Maybe he was from Canada. 460 deciliters would be correct.

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!!!

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.

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why isn't your hood painted? :D



its glare from the sun...... it doesnt have much paint on it now though...[>:]

I think Todd was referring to his car, and that's a question that he's been asked.

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why isn't your hood painted? :D



its glare from the sun...... it doesnt have much paint on it now though...[>:]

I think Todd was referring to his car, and that's a question that he's been asked.


o....[8D]


lol, ive been asked about my hood several times already, i thought he was asking me.

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why isn't your hood painted? :D



its glare from the sun...... it doesnt have much paint on it now though...[>:]

I think Todd was referring to his car, and that's a question that he's been asked.


o....[8D]


lol, ive been asked about my hood several times already, i thought he was asking me.

I guess he could've been but look at Todd's hood in his avatar...it would make sense if he was talking about himself.

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...


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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...

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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...

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

no, that car debued in 1961 at the US Gran Prix at Watkins Glen
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here is a 63 its the concept
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http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/wallpaper/concepts/1038_w.jpg

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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

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.

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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...

This wasn't really a question, but...
When I went to have my '85 GT inspected this March, I was bewildered when they told me there were some problems. Bear in mind - this was an official inspection station. My car has a carburated 5.0, painted the original white with GT markings, and it even has the 5.0 emblem on the sides. The inspectors told me it failed because it didn't have oxygen sensors...
It took me a bit, but then I saw that on the papers they had labeled it as a V6 fuel injected engine...
I simply walked out, and I've never gone back.

well you sucesfully brought this thread back from he dead... Welcome n00b![8D]

As I'm changing the oil at the auto hobby shop on base.....
Random dude, "So what year is that?" (nevermind that my plate frame says 1967 on it)
Me, "1967"
RD, "no it's not"
Me, "yes it is"
RD, "No it's a 68 they didn't make a 302 until 68" (looking at my emblems)
Me, "Crap, guess I should get my money back"
RD, "Yeah, looks like you got taken for a ride, but a 67 boss would be awesome!"

YAY resurected thread! The dumptruck is up here in the UP.. doubt its the same guy.

Speakin of on base, had a kid who ownd a Civic Si and thought it was "da bomb yo" he thought his car would stomp on my 455 urged 70 GTO because it wasnt shiny and painted up nice. At the time it was flat black. He asked what I had done to the computer in it, like did it have a chip or power tune? Then he asked about if it had CAI or the cat removed and said yeah my Civic would tear yours up. mmmkay.. maybe in mileage, 22 vs 30 something sure.. because a mid 13 second car doesnt have a chance in the 1/4 mile vs a 16 second car.

Another episode on base with automotive stupidity was the Neon SRT4 kid who thought he had the fastest ride on the planet. I was walkin into the squadron to go to work, and happened to see him gettin out of his "race car" Neon. I asked all friendly like, "When ya wanna line em up?" First thing outa his mouth was "$500" then he expounded with "I wont race anyone for less than $500 and I wont open my hood for less than $250" Okay so the pretty much stock SRT4 is just so fast it can beat everything in his mind. Meanwhile I have the low 10 second combo in the toy and I figure he cant even beat the stock LS1 I drive daily.

His buddies work in my shop, I am thier supervisor, they say its really fast and one remarks its "ALOT FASTER THAN MY TRUCK IS!" ALways calmly and not tryin to be a jerk I just say, "Its not that fast, compared to a Honda it moves good, but its just a nice car" Fast forward to a nite at the 1/8 mile track. My buddy and I drove the 40 miles to the track, so the LS1 was pretty warm. He hopped out, I put on the helmet and since the staging lane was empty I drove up cleaned the tires and ran an 8.87 et. Stone stock down to the paper air filter, 2.73 automatic car. Well kid comes up after I hot lapped it a few more times running 8.8 each time. He asked "What did it run?" I told him and his look changed. His best was a 9.3 after icing the intake and a bunch of other stuff. I told him how stock it was too.

So then it became about I have a V8 and since he has a 4 we arent in the same class, and I should stick to racing V8s etc etc etc.. That after he gave me the whole cocky $500 to race thing.. to a guy who has street and drag raced since before he was old enough to clean himself, and happens to own a car that is almost 5 full seconds faster than his, but wasnt running it that night. Couldnt even beat the daily driver, but still had his attitude intact..

Stupid... and ignorant.. but possibly slightly better educated

thumpin, what base were you at?

Charleston AFB, Rhein Main AB West Germany, Osan AB Korea, Camp Doha Kuwait, Ryadh SA, Daharan SA, and a couple others overseas on TDYs.. This particular guy was on Charleston AFB.. worked APS. APS is Aerial Port Squadron, we move cargo by air. We also are the people who do Space Available travel on AF planes. One of the most physicaly demanding jobs in the USAF, we still push almost everything and my knees ache just thinkin about it.

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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....................


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I have a feeling my fiancee pulls stunts like that whenever she takes the 67!

As far as dumb questions, people always seem to ask me if it's the Dukes of Hazard car. [&:] Guess it's the color...


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"That thing still got the 404 in it?" as I sit at a light in my 65 comet with the sicks-cylinder in it. I used to just tell them "yes". idiots.

Once a guy was at the same tire center that I was. He looked like Bing crosby, and he even was smoking a pipe. He looked at my car (70 Mach 1) and asked me if that was my "Match 1" lol...Sort of like the folks who say "burick" when they are refering to a "Buick".

Tire center brings to mind yet another case of stupid auto time.. A buddy of mines girlfriend takes his Camaro in to get drag radials put on it. Kid comes out and starts puttin them on the FRONT wheels, she asks what he is doing and he says "Well Drag tires go on the front".. Where do tire shops get help these days?

one of my cousins friend swore to me her dad and brother built a cougar corvette. in high school everyone always told me to take my cats off my 72 cause it would sound even more bad ass. yep like above every one has the boss 302 when they talk to me. and the ricers in maxima couldnt beileve i could turn the tires over for about 3 blocks straight with my cleve:D so i showed them mainly most of the stuff comes from the ricer crowd there just down on there luck cause they are still driving mmoms hatch civic dx with no ac but that cause its got the rare ac delete to make it even quicker

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one of my cousins friend swore to me her dad and brother built a cougar corvette. in high school everyone always told me to take my cats off my 72 cause it would sound even more bad ass. yep like above every one has the boss 302 when they talk to me. and the ricers in maxima couldnt beileve i could turn the tires over for about 3 blocks straight with my cleve:D so i showed them mainly most of the stuff comes from the ricer crowd there just down on there luck cause they are still driving mmoms hatch civic dx with no ac but that cause its got the rare ac delete to make it even quicker


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today this 16/17 year ld kid who lives down the street from me was driving his maxima to the steet through the alleyway. he stops and see's me working on the car and he rolls down his window and asks me if i have a v6 with twin turbo's. i laughed and i said, "i dont need turbos cause i have the proper 8 cylinders." the kid was like "pshhh, w/e man."

any car that truly fast is respectable is alright in my book but if u gotta have a body kit to get attention theres something wrong

What a great string! My best "non-dumbest" observation...I love the little kids in the neighborhood who give me the "hey mister, nice mustang." That says something for the badge when 11-year-olds recognize a 40-year old car. And on the flip side...one Saturday I get the primo parking spot in the parking lot immediatly adjacent to the outdoor bar at a trendy watering hole, literally 3 feet from the tables full of too-cool people, and a 50+, face-lifted, overly tan bic#& gives me this: "great car, I had one like that in college. What year, 63? right?!"

I got a couple moments. Once with my '00 six banger with the CAI. I was getting it checked out cuz the engine light came on(stupid me forgot to flash the cpu). They had the car for 3hrs, then call me and ask me to come in. The tech looks at me and asks what the silver pipe that we call a CAI is? Like so many others, I drove home, reset the cpu, and havent had a problem since.

Another time at Sears, my dad dropped his car off for a simple rotation and oil change. 2hrs later, we're still waiting. my dad asks whats up and the head tech finally comes over and says " We don't know how to take your spare tire off." We walked out and havent been back there either.

Then the other day, one of my best friends, sometimes a blonde though,lol, walks up to the garage. Mind you there is no hood, radiator, grill or even front valance. There is a clear view of the engine. He looks at the car and says, "so, you get the engine in yet?" I looked at him and replied, "Yep, thats what that big blue block of metal is...with all those bright wires on it"

LOL! This one's good. MY friends tho, not mine. My friend has an RSX Type S. HE is drving to school and some guy in a basically all stock neon flies by and decides to park near him at school. Another noob with a slobalt LT also joins the party. They both start talking about his car and are like "hey man, wanna race? you have no chance." As my good friend AmericanMuscle4.6GT would say, "Ya right? What did you do to get your car in to the 16s?

I'm just glad whenever little kids see my stang and get excited, they might not no it's a mustang, but they know a classic when they see one. I was at the comissary the other day and as I'm pulling into a spot the child getting out of the minivan next to me just points with his jaw on the floor, and his dad is like, yeah son, thats a nice camero.... ehhh, at least the kid has hope, or the dad was just looking for a good but kickin'!