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Answers to stupid questions

noquarternoquarterMember
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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deniscdeniscCaretaker of 8MA1244 '70 Euro Mangusta DRIVE THEM, THEY WERE MEANT TO BE DRIVEN, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT ONE, BUY A POSTER!
I've had 3 good ones: - How do you fit in there? Is it a kit car? or the best (at Italian week some spectator talking to his friend: Don't bother with this one all it's got is a Ford engine in the back. I still wonder if I'd asked him what kind of motor he had in his italian car (because he new enough to know it was a midship and had a Ford engine) he would have either replied I have a 900cc in my Topolino or I'm still saving to buy a 308 Wink

Denis
markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
quote:
Originally posted by larryw:
The question I always get is "What is it?", despite the "DETOMASO PANTERA GTS" down each side in big white letters.


Remember the "Joe Subaru" ads of the late 70's? I think when people asked what kind of car it was, his reply was: It's an Alfonzo DiCradenza. I've said that a few times and just like in the ad, people go "huh?" and walk away.

Mark
tomcattomcatMember
quote:
Originally posted by RichardT:
I get two questions, first is it a kit car, second is it fiberglass. I tell no its a Pantera which leaves a blank stare or no its steel see the dents. The oter question you get is where's the motor?
I guess we need to get the cats out more and show more people.
Richard T.


I often get asked if mine is a kit car...I respond "No this a REAL one." Which usually elicits a..."wow"!

I believe most people asking if its a kit car are not serious car enthusiasts and have no idea what it is and just assume that it is a replica of an ultra-rare, unaffordable vehicle...like the Cobra kits they have seen...so I "make their day."

I then believe they go back and tell their friends that...although they can't remember what it was...they saw a REAL "cool car".
markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
quote:
Originally posted by TomCat:
I believe most people asking if its a kit car are not serious car enthusiasts and have no idea what it is and just assume that it is a replica of an ultra-rare, unaffordable vehicle...like the Cobra kits they have seen...so I "make their day."


Too true. People are always dismissing my GT40 as "just a kit-car" (which it is) presumably thinking it is some VW-powered Beetle re-body. 95% of them wouldn't be able to identify the distinguishing factors separating mine from a real one if they were side-by-side. I might just start telling people it's real and that it is worth $2+ Million dollars. Of course, my luck, the first guy I talk to will be a Customs official who will want to try to get me to pay the tax on the $2 Million difference in value between what I declared when I imported the it and what the "real" car is worth.

It is funny when people ask how much a typical Pantera costs. They seem quite let down when they find out they spent more on their loaded Toyota than they would if they had bought a cool car.

Mark
tomcattomcatMember
quote:
Originally posted by Mark Charlton:
It is funny when people ask how much a typical Pantera costs. They seem quite let down when they find out they spent more on their loaded Toyota than they would if they had bought a cool car.

Mark

I gotta say...after a 15 minute conversation in a strip mall parking lot (in San Diego) where I explained that the Pantera was: maintainable, affordable, insureable, and driveable...the inquisitor said...that it might not be so "cool" anymore.
garth66garth66"When speed is the only thing that counts"
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It is funny when people ask how much a typical Pantera costs. They seem quite let down when they find out they spent more on their loaded Toyota than they would if they had bought a cool car.

Too true!

quote:
I gotta say...after a 15 minute conversation in a strip mall parking lot (in San Diego) where I explained that the Pantera was: maintainable, affordable, insureable, and driveable...the inquisitor said...that it might not be so "cool" anymore.

Sounds like he should look for a Ferrari to buy, along with a bunch of Ferrari-logo shirts, hats, umbrella, backpack, watch, shoes, and lots of stickers for his luggage and anything else he can display it on.
hustlerhustlerMember
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Originally posted by garth66:
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Sounds like he should look for a Ferrari to buy, along with a bunch of Ferrari-logo shirts, hats, umbrella, backpack, watch, shoes, and lots of stickers for his luggage and anything else he can display it on.


Heh, these guys always entertain me. They are in love with the brand, not the car.
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