Had one guy come up to me and tell me that he test drove a car just like mine (IS300) and that he flipped it, totalling the car during said test drive. I think he was bragging 
Had one guy come up to me and tell me that he test drove a car just like mine (IS300) and that he flipped it, totalling the car during said test drive. I think he was bragging
In reply to DuctTape&Bondo:
the car prolly deserved it....
In reply to yamaha:
Cold hearted.
SilverFleet wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: If you'd been wearing Monster Energy flatbills and had plenty of stickers on the car he would have said "Yeah you guys are gonna win for sure!"Yep.
It's "sponsered", by the way. At least, that's what I've been led to believe from the approaches we get here...
yamaha wrote: 2-"That thing has a v8 in it doesn't it"
To be fair, the 2nd Gen SHO had a V8 and was a pretty well known car. It's not too much of a jump to think the 1st gen was a V8 as well.
Appleseed wrote: I can't count the number of stories I've heard that have, "It had a Hemi in it."
My Corolla had a hemi..
I have had a little fun with the Abomination and the Jensenator. Engine compartment open to prevent hot soak, people wander by, at least two or three people will look at the rotary and say, after a few minutes, 'Uhhh... what is that thing?' and I say something like 'Top secret, on a need to know basis', 'nuclear reactor' (a couple of people jumped back a little), or 'pony keg'. Or something smart alecky like that.
I heard about this C4C Jaguar that lasted over 4 minutes without oil.
Anti-stance wrote: I like this thread. I know I have heard a ton of these kind of stories, I just can't think of any right now.
Get something rotary powered. You'll get people to tell you how they had one that would rev to 12,000 stock.
Speaking as someone who has broken not one, not two, but three engines by taking them over 8500 ONCE... no. Just, no.
Anti-stance wrote: I heard about this C4C Jaguar that lasted over 4 minutes without oil.
I had a Chrysler that lasted two weeks without oil. I was trying to kill it. You can't kill a 400 by depriving it of oil, you only annoy it.
Anti-stance wrote: I heard about this C4C Jaguar that lasted over 4 minutes without oil.
Ahahahaaaa!!!!
If I only told you half of the Jaaaaaag stories I've heard this year... 
Keith Tanner wrote: Everybody loves a classic Mini. Everybody. If you want to make friends at the pump, get one. Bonus points for RHD.
This is the truth. Wednesday I drove the Mini to work and on the way home I stopped for gas. It is always a production.
SilverFleet wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: If you'd been wearing Monster Energy flatbills and had plenty of stickers on the car he would have said "Yeah you guys are gonna win for sure!"Yep.
AA sponsors don't count.
A kid I worked with at the tire and lube supposedly worked for a BMW shop up in PA before he moved down here for school. He then proceeded to argue with me that there was no such thing as an awd (ix) e30
I always love to see how slow most older "performance cars" and "out of the box race cars" are in real life, compared to an econo box.
This is why it's always fun to take the kia to the drag strip.
First off, you get the laughs from the people who didn't actually drive a car to get there. They just hang out.
Then you get the SOOOPER QUICK 305 camaros and v6 mustangs that run the same time or slower in the 1/8th as my econo box DD
THEN you get the awesome kid who brought out his v6 eclipse spyder to the track and just knows he's going to annihilate all the mustangs out there because his dad told him his car's light and sooper powerful! (these cars weigh roughly the same as a gt, if not more. Same kid with the spyder, when asked if it was an automatic or a manual, said "Both"
The aforementioned coworker has an EXTREMELY clean foxbody GT. I was in love with the car. He bragged about it all the time, how quick it was, etc
He took it to the 1/8 strip and laid down a BLISTERING 9.90 ET =] =] =] =]
He denied the validity of my time slips when the stock kia ran 10.50 lmao
I always love the honda and veedub kids with their super fast f22's, d16's, and 1.8t's
Not to say these cars don't have insane amounts of potential, but a mostly stock 1.8t runs mid 13s in the 1/8. I've seen it a dozen times. lmao
And these kids are almost always the ones running stock cars (but it's got a giant exhaust, laundry hose intake, no filter to increase the flow, and a little stuffed animal hanging from the bumper!+2000 kilowatts mate!!!1!!!!!!11!!!1!!!111!)
I think I'm tapped out for now, but I have alot I can't remember from school.
Trans_Maro wrote: I -love- Chevy guys... -EVERY Chevy V8, big block, smallblock, etc for sale is a "Corvette engine" -They think every GM offering had a Chevrolet engine in it. I love having to explain how the world worked before the corporate engine program, no, my Pontiac has a PONTIAC engine, not a Chevy.
My Dad's Chevy wagon had a 307 Olds. I'm pretty sure in the early 80's GM just dropped whatever they felt like making that week into everything. The most frustrating was my grandmother's Impala. It had a 229 6. For some reason the countermen at Auto Barn thought the catalog was wrong and would use there superior knowledge to give me parts for the 231 because they can't both be 3.8s. .
In the early 80's they used whatever passed the sniffer test.
Once they got things ironed out, a few engines became standard.
The V8 applications were handled by the Chevy small and big blocks and the V6 was handled by the Buick 3.8 and Chevy 4.(something). The 4-bangers were Pontiac Tech4s.
When I DD'd my 1970 Impala sedan I always got the "My aunt/uncle/dad had one" stories. Better than half of those mentioned being a kid and laying on the rear package shelf for road trips while watching Dad keep it in low triple digits all the way to Florida.
I get the stupid racer boi stories while driving my Mustang. I try to humor them, but only for so long. Then I just leave. I'm embarrassed to say it's usually from guys driving Mustangs......
I wasn't there for this, but my dad once had the Delorean at a car show. An older (70s) woman comes up and starts gushing all enthusiastically about the car. Telling stories about how she used to have one, she and her husband used to take trips to the Outer Banks in it, how she never thought she'd see another one but here it is!, blah blah blah. It was actually pretty nice. She even got dad to take her picture with it.
Then she says, "but ours was painted. It was bright orange!" --- uh oh.
Keeps talking for a bit, and then comes out with, "yeah, and they were made here in Canada too! Did you know that?"
Fffffaaaaaccccceeeeepppppaaaaallllllmmmmm.
She was talking the whole time about a Bricklin.
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