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Answers to stupid questions

I don't know how it is for you guys, are "normal" people interested in your car, and do they come up to talk to you about it? Well, when I got my first V8 in 1980 here in Denmark, it was a small sensation and fastest in town together with a Porsche 911. I got a lot of interest from the public, some encouraging, some not. To survive all that I put together a list of Answers to Stupid Question for our US car club magazine Wink:

1. You don't get much mileage, do you?
-No, but I get more smile per gallon than you

2. What's that poking out of the hood [tunnelram]?
-So it can run on natural gas

3. Is it your car?
-No, it belongs to the bank

4. What's the mileage?
-1000 car lengths

5. How can you afford such a car (asked at a car show)?
-I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't spend money attending car shows

6. Is it fast?
-Ask the weeping Porsche owner I met yesterday

7. It can't have 400HP
-How else would you accelerate 1½ tons to 60 mph in 4.5 seconds?

8. What's that colour (about a candy-multi-flake-red custom paint job)?
-Red

9. What do women say to a car like that?
-Nothing, since it won't answer

10. Boy, it's noisy
-What?

11. Is it an automatic?
-I hope so, because I've never changed gear myself

12. How fast is it at the top end?
-Don't know, I dare not drive that fast

13. Do you pick up a lot of women with that car?
-Only if I forget to lock the doors while stopping at a red light

14. What does such a car cost?
-Half the price of a new VW Golf

15. What does this car have that the Golf does not?
-Size, looks, comfort, performance, joy of driving, etc. etc.

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