This exercise was actually more fun with a 57 Chevy I used to own!!!!! The gas cap was in the the Fin.

 

I love when "car guys" try to convince me that my 98 shares the same sheet metal as a Coupe DeVille. Given, they're both full sized GM and there are obviously carry over parts, but there is not one body panel that they share. If these guys knew anything, they'd know that the Electra is actually the sister car to the 98. Again, different sheet metal but they do share a roof panel and quarter windows. Buick and Olds were always more closely related than Caddy and Olds. The reason they think what they do is because the '71 - '76 Ninety Eights were such strong competition to the Caddy's. Way classier in my opinion but I am a bit biased lol.

 

Is that a Cutlass???

 

I think it's funny when people say my car's safe.

 

I get that one too, along with, that car's a tank! They don't make 'em out of steel like that anymore, you're well protected!

 

They refer to it continuously as a Mustang.

 

ive had people rubber necking as they go by almost running off the road trying to figure out what kind of car it is , because I removed all the badges on it.

 

our olds are double the size of those little pony cars!

 

Maybe someone else already posted one similar to this, but at the NW Muscle Car Show last year, some guy was looking all over my car, and was trying to impress his friend, and I overheard him say, "I used to own a Chevy Cutlass in high school." And he was so proud of himself. I just stood back, never said a word, and looked at my buddy and we both just shook our heads.

 

I know, but the Mustang is unquestionably the stereotypical 'muscle car' (we call them American cars over here) over here, so for someone who's never seen a 'stang up close, much less any other classic American car, my Cutlass apparently looks like it.

 

20 years ago when I had my W30 a guy was looking at it and asked me if I made the vents on the hood, then he asked what are they for?

 

I always hear "my parents used to have one just like it."

I also hear "does that thing have a rotary engine in it?" about my mazda 626

 

What I hear most is it's a still chevy engine.When I say no it's completely different,I get that what a dumb a@s look.Like they're so sure that a chevy engine and a Olds is the same thing.
railguy

 

Well at least they didn't say grandparents, LMAO!

 

what i cant believe is how many people say" I HAD A CAR JUST LIKE THAT" ONLY DIFFERENT

 

totally true!!!

 

One day I was driving my 1971 cutlass 4 door and someone asked if it was a 442. Another one was when one of my friends told me I scared him when I started up my cutlass.

 

I was once asked if I had a 455 in my car, and if it was a 442......... When I told him it was just a 250 inline six, he wouldn't believe me until I popped the hood, and then told him to look at the F85 badges on the quarter panels. Though, he was driving an 80s Ford truck lol

 

No matter if I ride my 60's 2-stroke Vespas/Lambrettas or the Cutlass, I get told "You stinker, does that really need to be?"

I usually say "Yeah, scrap old cars, burn old books, tear down old churches and kill old people - like you. Does that ring a bell?"

 

Had a guy in a parking lot going nuts over my 1967 Toronado. He turned to his girlfriend and told her it was the nicest Lincoln he has ever seen! Didn't have the heart to tell him in front of his girl friend that he was wrong. Figured she might be able to read the badges on the car herself...

 

i sometimes get ''thats a nice 455 high output...had one just like it except mine was a different color''

 

That's actually not funny at all.

(I would suspect that the German word you translated as "stinker" has a somewhat different meaning than that word does in English - "Stinker" for us is a somewhat archaic word, last used commonly in the 1940s or '50s, and last seen in comedy television or cartoons, usually not intended literally, as "one who produces an odor," but rather in the sense of a sore loser ["schlechter Verlierer"?] or someone who doesn't play along well).

- Eric

 

wow man what is that thing.... is what ive gotten everytime i fill it up, or the does it have a 442 in it. i just smile and say nope 455 you would think they just saw a ghost. holy F a 455...... YEP

 

Well where are you supposed to put your two gas caps?



"I parked at the grocery store and a 71 cutlass parks next to me a nice little old lady gets out and walks over to me and my buddy, looks at my car says " nice olds wanna run for slips?"... funny thing is I'm pretty sure she was serious, I got ribbed about that for a long time"
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But, what if you don't wear the same size slip? [undergarment]

 

Right.

That's what I meant.

Good German!

OK, another thing learned. Stoppend paying attention in school somewhere at "for I am he for whomst thou seekest"

 

It would be "... for whom thou seekset" (or would that be "... for whom thou dost seek?").

Funny, actually, because most English speakers don't know when to use the objective case (the difference between "who" and "whom"), or how to use the second person familiar (thee, thou, thine, ye, etc... [or the distinction between "Ye" and , for that matter]), while German speakers would be unable to communicate without them.

The hardest thing about learning English is all of the idiomatic expressions (such as "stinker") that would seem to mean one thing, but mean another, or that, literally speaking, don't mean anything at all. It is hard (difficult) for us to write a sentence without using at least one, and impossible to speak a sentence without one, without sounding like a computer or a crazy person.

I gather that it is impossible to speak Russian in a way that sounds normal without using profanity in every sentence.

- Eric

 

Eric, I'm convinced I "misplace modifiers" more often than place dem properly.

 

As long as you can find them when you need them...

- Eric

 

Back when I had the Cutlass I drove it to work with the top down and the
WRX/Civic crowd at work asked if I felt like a pimp driving it.
Same day someone asked if I had to have a fog horn. LOL

 

Best I've heard was just today at a local show about my black 98..."I'd trade my wife in for this car". That is going to be hard to top for me lol.

 

I had the 442 at a show yesterday and 2 guys in their mid 20's, I would say were looking the car up and down and one of them said " What model is this car?" I said a 67 442 with the Track Pack. Then he said wow, I bet it really gets up and goes and I said sure but I never really tested it. Oh he says you never ran it at the track? I said no. He then said well if you need a driver for it he could help me out.

 

i keep getting "nice Cadillac" about the '72 delta 88.

 

Lol...thats funny

 

'You should put some 26's on that.'

 

I used to get that all the time about my 77 toronado that people were convinced was an eldorado...and what pissed me off is when i told them it was and olds...they looked dissapointed...to each his own

 

Apparently there were a few Chevy cutlasses back in the day there was an ad on cl fir a Chevy cutlass steering wheel, well after a few days I can't take it anymore and I answer the ad and ask for pics, well no working camera

Ok describe it to me 4 silver spokes and the Chevy emblem right in the middle black rubber outside....the girl is in the next town over so I bite she says meet me at the local store near the cigarettes, ok so there I go and meet her and she pulls out a near perfect 15" sport steering wheel she said they took off there Chevy cutlass many years ago...I bought it and it's on my car today....the price? About what it costs for a carton of smokes in NH!!! and yes it was the olds emblem on the wheel

 

Well yesterday I went to the local Mayberry HS auto tech club annual car show. I drive up and park and this kid (mind you he's in the club) walks up to me, in almost a Rev. Jim kind of voice and asks... Wow, what year Mustang is that. Listening to these kids yesterday and how they decided which cars were more interesting than others and why..., lets just say their teacher should be taken out back and subjected to a slowwwwwwww painful death.

 

Let's see (all cars from my past) ...

My father's (later my) 79 D88 sedan - a very unexpected & totally out in left field - "Nice Cadillac".

Both my 81 & 84 Cutlai' - multiple annoying but predictable "Monte Carlo" remarks.

Both my 72 & 75 Toronado's - multiple annoying but predictable "Eldorado" remarks.

Both my 81 & 85 Toronado's - same deal as the 72 & 75 Toro's.

My 70 D88 sedan would always get "grandma/pa" derogatory type remarks ..... at which point I would usually leave a cloud of tire smoke that would pretty much shock & shut the mouths of even the biggest critics.

 

A lady pulls up to me while I'm sitting at the pump and shouts, HEY is that a GTO?? I'm still waiting for someone to get it right..I reply No, it is a 1968 442. I was 13 in "68" but I had A LOT of fun in the back seat of a GTO when I was younger. Then she took off as fast as she pulled up.

 

My original engine 1985 olds 442- "I like these Monte Carlos".
Its also been called a grand national, funny because it had one red pinstripe dividing the paint scheme instead of the triple gold so it actually resembled an 83 hurst/olds. I've also been asked if it had a four forty two in it and of course I said yes.