Jealous "Car Professors" who try to rain on your parade

[AKcharger]

I've always had pretty good experiences, no one has tried to "dump on my car. Closest thing was at Carlile last year a little kid say "mom look that car is from Alaska" and the mother said "No they're lying, they didn't come here from Alaska" and walked away... how Odd, I wonder what she was thinking?

I've always been spring loaded for someone to say "they didn't have "500" stripes in '70"...my retort is "it was dealer installed"

[Chargen69]

Funniest one happened to me just the other day, this guy asked all the dumb questions, and then asked drivetrain ?'s like, does it have a 350?  oh 383, really? is that a big block or something?  what about the trans, 727?  Is that an automatic?


when he asked if it was an auto, I really had a hard time not laughing my head off.

[Bandit72]

there used to be a kid with a 70 charger at my school, and i overheard a kid ask him if it had a 350 in it..well the guy with the charger just laughed and said, no it's got a 383...the kids eyes got as big as my fist and just said "wow...it's got a STROKER!?!" I busted up laughing and walked off...

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[69_se_ron]

The scenario nowadays is the preppy guy with the sweater IS the Charger owner who knows nothing about his own car. lol

...I ran into this exact person.  I asked him a couple of questions about his '69, he told me that he had only purchased the car so he and his "fiancee" could go to car shows.  I shook my head and started to walk off.  He asked "where 'ya going?", and I just said "I'm going to talk with your Charger".

[hemihead]

The scenario nowadays is the preppy guy with the sweater IS the Charger owner who knows nothing about his own car. lol

...I ran into this exact person.  I asked him a couple of questions about his '69, he told me that he had only purchased the car so he and his "fiancee" could go to car shows.  I shook my head and started to walk off.  He asked "where 'ya going?", and I just said "I'm going to talk with your Charger".

And coming to an internet near you !

[PocketThunder]

In my last neighborhood i worked with the garage door open all summer and by the end of the year i had every kid on the block interested in Chargers.  They would stop by on their bikes asking for some air to pump up their tires. 

We have since moved and just this Saturday a little girl was walking her dog past the door and she yells into the garage. "Cool Car"!  So, i think i've got another group of kids ready to start learning....  Its gonna be a fun summer..

[austinpalibroda]

wow try driving a muscle car to highschool. 93% of the people dont know whats going on.  i've had dozens of people say stuff like, sounds like it needs a tune up, doesnt idle good, sounds like its gonna die, etc. well thats how a cammed out muscle car sounds! either they love it, or pick it apart cause they're jelous.  either way it didnt bother me, i knew what i was doing haha.  its also funny when people ask if it has a 428 hemi, or some other made-up-on-the-spot engine.

[Mike DC]

         
Yeah, teenagers and old cars . . . they poke fingers when the car is raggedy.  It's because people are raised to think that new=good and old=inferior these days.  TV also makes them think any decent mechanic should be able to "Overhaul" a car with a full resto in a week or two.

Wait until it's restored & awesome & you've got years of history with it.  Then they'll be full of nothing but jealousy.

       

[austinpalibroda]

i wasnt saying my car is raggedy.  to the average person it looks really good, and it does run great even though it wasn't a full restoration. i was saying it runs and idles differently than a brand new civic or something, some people just dont understand and think its running bad. which was the case when i was in school. thats what i meant, sorry

[Ponch ®]

...and isnt it amazing how Joe "I used to have one just like that" 's car always had a 440 or a 340? The one that his uncle had had a Hemi too.  They never had 318's or /6's.

[hemihead]

Just like today when every Charger is a " Musclecar" and every car is rare. 

[Johnny SixPack]

...and isnt it amazing how Joe "I used to have one just like that" 's car always had a 440 or a 340? The one that his uncle had had a Hemi too.  They never had 318's or /6's.

Where's all the "74 /6 Scamp owners these days?

Oh yeah, how silly of me to have forgotten... they really all owned "70 Hemi pistol-grip Superbirds.

Scamp, Superbird... I can see the confusion. 

[CaptMarvel]

A few monthes after I bought my 68 R/T, I was dropping something off at a friends house & a former employee/punk kid walks up & says he wouldnt take my car unless it had a 426 Hemi. Mind you, my Charger isnt the prettiest yet (stock faded yellow/peeled vinyl roof) but it does have factory R/T designation & 440 Magnum & it sounds great. What a little #%*$@!. I guess no-one would want a car like mine "sniff" 

[Chargen69]

had another one today...   Guy in a FURD van comes up to my '69 and says "Hey, what year Charger is that?  a 72 or 73?"

[Ponch ®]

the kid a taco bell once asked me if it was a Nova.

[TK73]

the kid a taco bell once asked me if it was a Nova.

Why are you driving a Nova??

[derailed]

I can recall talkin to a few braindead genetic defects  about the motor in my pontiac Lemans. I would open the hood and tell them it was a Pontiac 400 and they would swear to me that it wasnt and that it was a small block. I said why is that? and he was positive you could tell by looking at it. He was so dumb I think I had him convinced at the end that it was a big block with small block heads on it.

[Silver R/T]

ha ha this stuff is too funny.

[Sweet T]

Some great stories here.  I haven't run across too many morons yet.  Pulling my Charger out of a seven year slumber last summer it wasn't looking the prettiest and was in need of some major body work as the fill was cracking and the rear rails wear less than weak I hit a few body shops.  I stopped by one I had dealt with in the past.  Probably not one that I would bring the mopar to, but at least it would give me a low end price expectation on the repairs.  The owner came out and gave the car a look over.  Listening to him most people would have probably sent their car to the crusher.  Another customer was listening to this and took this as his opprotunity to ask "You want to sell it?"  After thinking for a minute for a smartass remark I replied, "Well, it really isn't for sale but I might consider $50,000."  He didn't see the humour in it.  Imagine that.

[SeattleCharger]

This isn't a Charger story, but I drove my '75 Toyota Celica GT to Saginaw, Michigan in 1990,  well, because of it being a GM town and not many Toyota's sold there in the seventies or early eighties, somebody there thought my Celica was an old Camaro.  I was a little surprised at this. 

[Mike DC]

             
Sorta like when Luke Skywalker goes to Vegas & finds his "Corvette" on display but it's actually a Datsun . . .

       

[Darkness]

Not a Charger story but, when I first picked up my Challenger I had some youngs kids say "Wow, is that a Camaro?" Then I told them it was Challenger. They were impressed with it. 

[Crazy Larry]

             
Sorta like when Luke Skywalker goes to Vegas & finds his "Corvette" on display but it's actually a Datsun . . .

       

Ha! That's a good one - I never did like that custom front end of the 'Vette in that movie. Very gay if you ask me so when it was mistaken for the Datsun, I had to laugh.

[RT DAVE]

I don't drive mine much, but most of the comments are positive ones.  I guess you gotta take the good with the bad.  You have to accept the fact that you're going to generate interest when you're driving a bad&*! mopar nowadays.  When I bought mine back in HS in 1992, everybody thought Mopars were jokes.   

[Bandit72]

lol, afew hours ago i just had a guy tell me his father-in-law owns one just like it except bigger    lol

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