What car?


Actually, I really like your car. I had a 76 Cutlass Supreme Broughm with that same color combo back in about 84.

 

My neighbor's kid saw me out in the driveway with it one day. He commented "Looks just like a Creamsickle on wheels" I guess it does!

 

Classic example of a quick response from a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about so he sounds like he knows exactly what it is without even thinking. Classic "impress your chick" move. What would have been better is if she had known what it actually is

When I first bought my car my dad was hassling me about the size of my car. He said it would never fit in my garage. I'm a pretty good judge of lengths, and I ended up with a whole 3" to work with split between front and back in order to get the garage door closed. Next garage I own will be at least 24'.

 

When someone calls my 69 Hurst/Olds a 442 or how does the motor run? Come back it has a 455 engine, I don't think they make extension cords long enough for a motor to run as far as I drive.

 

I live 15 mi from the Clemson campus and my son goes to daycare in Clemson.

My car is Flame Orange.

The one I hear almost every time it's out is some version of:

"Nice car, you must be a huge Clemson fan."

I'm actually a University of South Carolina fan (huge state rivals). They ask why I didn't paint the car garnet (Carolina's primary color).

So...... I explain to them Flame Orange is the factory color and I wanted to keep the car original.

I think I need some flyers printed up stating all of this so I can quit repeating it

 

Either that, or he's really dumber than dirt!

Ralph

 

my tags say 70 hulk on them and a guy asked what year is your 70 hulk and what does the tags mean

 

When I was in Illinois I would always get odd looks from people trying to figure out what my plates read. I had to take them by the hand to get them to figure it out.

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people read my tags that says 70 hulk and ask what year is that 70 hulk

 

Last weekend my 3 year grandson was over,and we were playing with some diecast cars.There was a red GTO convertible,and I told him he could play with the GTO.Later we went outside,and he said he wanted to play in my 'GRL' ???HUH? He headed to the garage ,to the '442' Red conv,3 letters/numbers.Makes sense,but I had to correct him anyway.You have to teach them about Oldsmobiles early. ---bil

 

I used to get Monte Carlo a lot on my '86 442. I almost always respond, "oh, that would be the cheap, imitation 442!"

 

OK, it wasn't about my car, but I had to share...was at an all-GM show last weekend by the Jersey shore, and a guy next to me had an all original '60 Corvette. The car had tired, and in some place even flaking paint, still a very cool car, but MANY people aked him why he didn't paint it (his typical answer was that he'd had it over 20 years, and that was the way it was staying, he liked that it was unrestored, etc). One guy said he really should paint it, since he could see the metal showing through where it was flaking. Owner explained that the car was make of fiberglass. Spectator said "are you sure?" Owner said "no." Spectator goes on a bit about how the car would really benefit from a nice paint job, and I couldn't resist chiming in, "yeah, and a metal body".

 

When at a traffic light a guy yelled "Nice Electra drop-top!" "Does it have a 442 in it?"

The best one, though, was back in the day I was walking up to my 1948 right-hand drive blown MG-TC. A little boy asked his mother "what kind of a car is THAT?" She looked down at a knock off hub and said "It's an Off Side Undo!"

--Don

 

years ago when i had my 68 delmont 88 convertible (which really was a POS...)
i was cruisin the local waterfront strip, top down. Sitting in the long line of stopped cars this guy in a big lifted Hummer pulls up next to me & says "hey nice car- i could paint it for you" I said, no thanks just enjoying crusing it- he tries again "seriously, for $500 i could make it look like new" I respond something along the lines of if i had it painted i'd want something nicer than a $500 job... apparently he didn't like that- just as the light changed and he pulled away he goes "eh- i wouldn't paint that thing anyway, its a jalopy"

I sat there for at least a few seconds dumbfounded. While it most definitely was a POS- i have never in my life heard anyone actually use the word Jalopy in real conversation- even to this day, that was the only time i've every heard someone use that word.

And no- it wasn't an old guy either, probably late 30's dude.

I still get a chuckle out of that guy calling my car a Jalopey

 

This goes back a long time but here goes. I had recently installed a Pete Jackson gear drive and I drove to the store that day. As I got out of the car an Old Timer came up to me and told me I better check my transmission because the front pump was whining. I explained to him my car had a gear drive and that was what he was hearing. That's when I got 'The Lecture'..........."Son I've been working on cars all my life and that is your front pump. Oldsmobiles don't have gear drives. They have a chain like everything else!" At that point I figured I was better off giving into him so I politely thanked him for the information and went on my way. I'm lucky he didn't beat me with his cane, lol.
Last week I got this one: Got a Rocket 350 in that? No it's a 330. Damn, why didn't you keep it original? !!!!!!!

 

I guess I got 2 funny comments this summer over my W-30.

1) At a show a man was admiring the car. He then turned to me and asked why they put the oil weight on the fender.

2) A reasonably young woman was looking at my car while I was in a store parking lot. She asked "Oldsmobile, is that an American Car"?

There is probably one other question I get quite frequently....not sure if it counts as funny, but it is: Why don't you have mufflers?

 

so yeah i finally got my first mistaken of the car like 5 minutes ago... usually i get 442 which is cool with me (even though its a hurst/olds). but today i was talking to a guy about his buick grand national for sale and a guy walks up to him and asks "is that the car out in the parking lot is a pontiac tempest?" the guy i was talking to: no, thats an olds. and me right after that... "no sure you would be wrong that would be a 1969 hurst/olds"

come on people a tempest?????? needless to say i did not punch the guy for his retardedness lol

 

Once as I was leaving a show two guys where sitting watching all the cars leave.One guy said that's a nice Omega to which the other replied(It's just a rip-off of a Chevelle).I could never understand how the pontiac version of a Camero dosn't get the same reputation.

 

Good One!

Go '*****!

--Don

 

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A tempest is not that bad its in the BOP family at least and its a A BODY
and I have one I have from pictures only I have got "does it have to have that scoop "



QUOTE=sicky olds;199618]so yeah i finally got my first mistaken of the car like 5 minutes ago... usually i get 442 which is cool with me (even though its a hurst/olds). but today i was talking to a guy about his buick grand national for sale and a guy walks up to him and asks "is that the car out in the parking lot is a pontiac tempest?" the guy i was talking to: no, thats an olds. and me right after that... "no sure you would be wrong that would be a 1969 hurst/olds"

come on people a tempest?????? needless to say i did not punch the guy for his retardedness lol[/QUOTE]

 

when i had my w30 on the road people would always ask me why did i paint the inner fender red.

 

My 68 442 is about as close to original as you can get. It was garage kept for the majority of its life and looks really really good. It is a one owner and between my Grandfather, My Father and Myself we have done all the minor restoration work. My Father and I always get a chuckle when an "expert" comes up to the car at a show and starts pointing out everything that is wrong with the car. It is truly classic when you tell them that the car is probably 98% correct.

 

It wasn't about my car but I got a really good laugh this past weekend when I was at the Canadian Oldsmobile Nationals. There was a father walking around with a group of kids and one of the kids asked:

 

I got a great one recently.
An old timer tells me he had a car exactly like mine. He bought it brand new in 1953.
I said "you had a 1956 Olds super 88 in 1953?"
Yes he said...I asked again...A 1956 Olds in 1953?
Yes...
I asked him if he worked for GM's design team? He didn't get it.

 

Got that one this weekend. The 'know-it-all' Dad telling his son that 442 meant 4-speed, 4-bbl, dual exhaust and since my car was an automatic, it wasn't a reall 442! Also get asked if I have 'the 442 engine', I say yes the 455 and then they get all confused

 

not a comment but the most disrespectful thing, a buisness card that said we buy junk cars top dollar paid left on my windshield

 

I recently had a kid in my car who said to me after I got on it WOW does this have a 442 in it! I told him no its a 455 and even if that FI Camaro crap your racing is faster this is what made GM Performance!! And this is a kid that builds cars!!

 

Ouch!

 

then again it looked like this at the time

 

Aliens post above reminded me of the time I was in Florida talking to a guy while leaning on a Toronado. He said, "uh, oh" and we watched the Corvette owner from across the street come to us and say "whaddaya think?" Having been prepped, I played stupid and asked "about what?" He said, "the Vette" to which I replied, "its OK if you can't afford a metal car."

Typical questions:
"Is it real?" No, its a hologram.
"What kind of gears/ cam, etc." Metal.
"Its got a good third gear [after I pulled away from him in third]". They're all good if I can get traction.

And, recently on another Olds forum, a guy born 15 years after my car was made posted: "Why cause he painted some bs on the side of his car?" He had brilliantly noticed the lettering I had meticulously painted to complete the re-creation of the Rund race car.

 

With the Delta, I haven't had anyone mistake it for anything but a Delta so far. But I have heard:

"I didn't know that Hurst made a Delta" - in reference to my Hurst Dual-Gate on the floor.

Person "I had one JUST LIKE THIS."
Me "Wow, you had a Holiday 88 too?"
Person "Huh? What's a Holiday 88, mine was a 4 Door Buick with a big comfy bench seat"

"Why would anyone want to put bucket seats and a console in one of those things?"

The best one was heard while "evesdropping" two high school girls.
"See, I would never date a guy with a car like this, it's just junk, that means he doesn't have any money..."
I just laughed thinking about all the work I've put into it, how far it's come since it came home, and the nice polished, shiny Mustang sitting at home in the garage....

 

i am sorry to hear that you have a mustang in your garage

 

I was leaving a parts store and a tweeker in the parking lot was jumping up and down pointing at me
Tweeker: Hey man sweet car!
Me: Thanks
Tweeker: Do a burnout!!!
Me : Uh, no thanks
Tweeker: Hey man F---k you!

 

"Nice Cadillac"
"you should tow a gas station"
"how much gas does it need?"
"36 years olds, REALLY?"
"And it has 5.7 big block??" <-- is what i love most
"does it have 6 cyl or 8?"

 

I love when kids ask, "What size engine is that?" You tell them its a 455 and then they want to know, "How many liters is that ?"

 

Just tell them to divide by 60. Their cell phone will probably have a app for that.

 

I loved this conversation between myself and a fellow competitor:

Guy: Nice leaving car.

Me: Thanks.

Guy: Big Block Chevy?

Me: Nope Olds.

Guy: 468?

Me: Nope small block.

Guy: Bullshyt!

So I take off the hood

Guy: Well I'll be damned!

 

A guy once asked me what size engine I had, I said a 455. He said, Ill bet that thing will pass anything exept for a gas station!

 

Once upon a time in a far off car show a older gentleman remarked.

Bet you have more invested in that 55 than it cost new.

Caught me a little off guard and I paused to reflect for a second, I then replied.

I have more invested the front and rear bumper chrome than what this car cost new. He walked away shaking his head, most people have no idea what it costs to put a car back correctly.....Tedd

 

People just don't understand us. It takes another car guy who's in it for the love of it to understand.

Mine is always the same. Is that a Buick, Pontiac, Cad, never ask or guess Oldsmobile