hey nice car, what year is that?
 

i'm sure you hear this every day.

so a kid comes up to me and says "nice car man; what year is that?" "1971", i replied.
"are you the original owner?"
...sure. i bought it from the dealer when i was 5.

also: do people always ask if your car is a '69? no matter what car i point out or drive, people always say "whats that, a 69?" umm...no.

how bout this one for all you 68-72 GTO owners: "is that a real judge?"
hmmm...does it say "the judge" anywhere?
at least it gets their attention.

Sure, but it helps that the two cars I drive the most are both '69s.;)

....and everybody had one just like it. :rolleyes:

And my favorite - "is that your midlife crisis car" to which I answer, "yea, I decided I needed it when I was 10!" :D

"400?...big block or small block?"
"What's that thing on the hood?"

I thought I would resolve that problem by putting "1967GTO" on my plates om my '67 and "1970GTO" on the plates on my '70.

It didn't work. "That's supposed to have tir-power you know", "those aren't the right wheels for a '65" and....that's not a coreect spoiler for a ...'69.

Lot's of experts out there.

I have personalized plates on my Can Am that read "RARE 77" but I still get people asking me what year is it from time to time. Somethimes they'll also say "Oh I feel so stupid asking you that after I already read your license plate" (LOL).

yes, my local "hot rod idiot" asks: "big block in there?"
i say; "yeah. all pontiacs had big blocks."

I like it better when they ask the year, you tell them, and they argue with you........

"You sure that's a '66?"

Well, I guess during the 8.5 year resto, I ordered the wrong parts!

Happened to my buddy a few weeks ago. We took his 71 Chevelle to an outdoor bar and this guy walks up to us and said "nice car! What year is that, 66-67? What do you have in it?" He then walked away and got in his new SLK.

I've been asked the same things many times about my '61, I was 5 years old when it was built as well.

the really young ones ask 'how many mpg does it get?' and then walk away before you can answer.

question that gets to me is
''hey,wanna sell your car?
and they think since its old,they can buy it for little or nothing

good point: you often see that offer, but what if you came up to someone with a smokin' wife; 'good lookin' broad. will you divorce her so i can have her?'. that attitude is simply amazing.

I've gotten more of the What is that? With this 69 G/P than I have any other car I've driven in ad a guy at church and his dad stop and inspect it when they were leaving. the son was probably 55. As we walked up NICE car I thanked them and had to smile. Once in a while you get a good one.

Drive it to Logansport Sat and had my BIL's SIL's husband ask the right questions about it then dropped the mileage comment. When I told him she probably got 15 he asked how I could afford to drive it. I told him it was cheaper than a therapist.

Mike

When I drive my 70 GP...people say nice 69...I say no its a 70 and they will argue with me...idiots...do they really think that I don't know what year my own car is??

When I had my 54 Star Chief conv, someone asked me if I had bought it new. I was born in 1958! Do I look that bad??

Do you really want to know the answer to that?;)

And I am usually asked if my 72 Grand Prix is a 70. I thought the original 1972 N.C. license plate on front would be a hint. Surprisingly though, the guys who know what it is will ask if it has the 455 or the 400. If they get that far, I know they have some knowledge of Pontiacs.

Steve Recently had a guy, who hung around when I was street racing, ask if my 69 had a 455 in it. Acted disappointed when I told him no not yet! He's turned into a horse person, does a lot of work with disabled kids and I was shocked he remembered my race car.

As I said above some people suprise you pleasantly.

Mike

It’s even more fun when you run into an original owner. Talked to a guy who was the original owner of a 73, split bumper z28. I was 15 when they made the car, and we got into the conversation with me asking if he picked it up on a certain used car lot in ’77, a few months before I bought my first 9. He said that the only work ever done on the car was a paint job, but it was clearly a rotisserie resto pretty much completely rebuild with repo metal.

He was a local boy, but he didn’t seem to recall any of the street racing areas in a fifty-mile or so radius. Everything else was deer in the headlights. When the topic of biased tires came into play, he looked dumbfounded and said he had no idea about what I was talking about as to bias ply tires clacking around as the flat spots worked themselves free.

I didn’t give it a second thought when I asked the guy, “how old are you?” He stuttered and stammered for at least 5 or so seconds, finally blurting out that he was in his mid fifties. As I sized him up for age, something I didn’t pay attention to, he looked to be about my age, making me a bigger idiot than he is because guys who look my age are about 20 years younger than I.

As a 9 owner since ’77, the is-it-a-9 syndrome is a long standing thing, and I have heard it in many other applications. The most amazing thing is that when these people see a 9, at least mine, they always pick 7 or 8, every time. This has gone on for almost 30 years.

And everyone owned one. Just ditched another car everyone owned a Seville STS. The difference is that they ‘left it at home in the garage.’

The one I liked was during a parade: one of two boys about 8 to 10 years old hollered out “nice Firebird,” to his buddy’s amazement. His buddy asked him how did he know that it was a Firebird. Using a matter-of-fact tone, he said “says so on the fender.”

I've heard every comment mentioned here at least once.I have also been asked,'what is it?,oh,we had one just like but it was a Buick'.

I've only gotten that question once, from a kid in his early 20's. I sized him up for a second and told him, "You don't have enough money." He just kind of nodded and walked away with his buddies.

I always get the ".....my uncle used to have one just like this, but a different color and it was a four door...oh, and a different year, but it was just like this."

One guy came up to the 1964 Bonneville, asked what year it was. When told, he said, "No it isn't."

I can't wait to get this stuff with my '68. Heck, I get this kinda stuff with my dad's Model A and '33 pickup. The Model A will be a real fun one to argue with people about.
I think '69 was just a great year for muscle cars in general, that's why people guess that stuff.

Yeah,i get the,'what year is it?' then they ask me if i'm sure.

I have heard all the above myself. I've even been asked if my 71 GTO was a 67. Some people are major idiots but after all the years of being around muscle cars, and cars in general sometimes I have to ask a question or two, and I can just about always tell if someone is trying to BS me.

A few years back I was running Cadillac color matching wheel covers on my '63 Lemans Convt. (Hey, they were forty bucks and it completely changed the look of the car.) I could not believe how many people were fooled. I especially got a kick out of the know-it-all types trying to impress the girl friend by announcing that this was when Cadillac knew how to build cars. I have Firebird Snowflake wheels on it now and 9 out of 10 can't figure out what make or year it is.

My 12 YO niece and her friend are from Sweden and are staying the summer with my mom down the street. My niece loves riding in the Firebird, but her friend has no idea what a classic American musclecar is about. Until Saturday when I took them for a ride to the parts store and 2 people gave us the thumbs up and another was chatting about the bird in the parking lot. They started to understand just how cool it is to have something that attracts attention and doesn't look like a jelly bean. Even when it vapor locks in the parking lot and the water pump seals blows.
The funniest is when I open the hood and people see the OHC6 Sprint and tell me it's not stock, no 6 cylinder came with a 4-barrel carb and sounds like that. I show them the owner's manual and sales brochure and they just don't get it.

Took 2 girls to a church picnic yesterday. One said what kind of car is this I said GTO she said is that a chevy I said no its a Pontiac she wqas texting her friends while asking questions and taking pictures.

The most common comment I get is "nice Bandit!", followed by "no T-tops?", even though I got a blue 74 T/A :confused:. I gave up explaining after a while :p.

I've had the "what year chevelle is that" question about a dozen times. "is that a tri power?" comes pretty regularly. I've also had 2 or 3 guys volunteer that they lost their virginity in the backseat of a car "just like that".

"DAMN!" is my favorite comment though. Sitting at a traffic light and a guy drives through the intersection and you can see "DAMN!" from his lips as he spots the car. Or cruising into a cruise-in and hear somebody say "DAMN!" as the car rolls by with a bump from the tailpipes. Or "DAMN, I had one that same color"...........

Had a guy on the left of me in traffic leaning over, "nice car, what year"

"69"

"Uhu, my parents had once just like it , a 65"! :eek: (I`m driving a 69 Firebird, first year made was 67...his parents MUST have had that rare factory "special" early model)

" ok"...lol
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once having a burger, sitting close to the car (Firebird) as two guys come and sit down with their burgers...
one guy " look, nice GTO"

the other :"no I think its a Firebird"

"how do you know"?

"It says so right there on the fender" :D (smart guy!)

with my 61 2 DR Sedan I had that question thrown at me by a smart a## snobby b!tch, I replied more then your p----of s*** import. She retarded, NO WAY! I then told her to figure it out herself and handed her the log from when I filled up and how many miles i drove and how many gallons it took to refill. She got her calc out and tried it 3 times then apologized to me for being so snobbish. Guess 22mpg from the ole economy 2 bbl 389 wasn't what she expected!!!:D I then offered to drag race her nissan sx, and she said, no, I already know if it runs like my grandpas ran, I'd lose.:p

perfect time to explain chevies are for losers:D

My LeMans has Rally 1 wheels on it (I will rectify this situation hopefully within the year) and while I was participating in the boardwalk parade at Ocean City some guy yells, 'hey, that jackass has Plymouth wheels on that Pontiac". I yelled back "they're Pontiac Rally wheels, douchebag". Ahhh, good times.

This story made me laugh.

[QUOTE=Bjorn;4023107]Had a guy on the left of me in traffic leaning over, "nice car, what year"

"69"

"Uhu, my parents had once just like it , a 65"! :eek: (I`m driving a 69 Firebird, first year made was 67...his parents MUST have had that rare factory "special" early model)

" ok"...lol
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Bjorn,

that guy must have been up to N.Texas too! had the same happen to me with my 67.

We were at a car cruise two weeks ago. A guy is really checking out a 69 Camaro that was next to my GTO. I was standing behind it so he walks up to me and says he had a Camaro exactly like that, EXACTLY!! Then he says, what year is it?

Jim

I got the "thats a nice Monte Carlo" from a guy about my 87 Buick Regal.

That's not too far of a stretch though. My step kids and even my dad had trouble with that when I had an 86 Regal for a daily driver, and it sat in the driveway with the 84 Monte. I just told them the Regal was 'boxier' looking.

I work 3rd shift , after i got home i take out my dogs for thier dumps ... then i bring them in and go back out with a baggie and pick it up , ( good story so far ? ) ,,,, anyways , As i was doing this at 6:50AM on my residential road , a police car goes by and hits the brakes after he passed my house ..... then i see the reverse lites and he backs around my minivan right to where im standing and he rolls down his passenger side window .... he looks about 25 years old ..

Me... Is there something wrong oficer ?
LEO... I just have to ak you what that is under the cover over there in your driveway ....
Me... Its registered and insured officer , i can get the paperwork for you ...
LEO... No , I was just wonderinf if it was a firebird and what year ....
me.... its a 67 ragtop firebird with a 428, 4-speed , in good shape but i just dont have time for using it at this time due to my edless excuses and laziness ... lol ...
LEO... My dad had one same year and i remember when it broke down near here years ago when i was a kid and we had it towed to a shop to fix it but they found frame row so my dad scrapped it , i cried ...
Me...

well , you al get the idea .... it was a cool moment .... and most people that stop toask me about cars are just interested in my Yellow 68 Cal-look Bug .

One time this kid was driving a 2000 Trans Am and I pull up at the light with a 1968 Firebird - kid asked me what kind of car it was. I just looked at him and said, read the fender.

Then blew out of the light when green.

I went to a car show with my kids last weekend and looking at a red 65 GTO this one guy leaned on the fender asking the owner "Whats it got in it a 389 or 400?" The owner quickly replied a 357? I couldn't stop laughing all weekend.
George

I had an opposite surprise a few months ago...as we drove to Galveston for the APA show on the Strand ,we cruised down the toll road, most had toll tags, but I didnt , so I pulled in to the toll booth...an old (even to me!) lady with grey hair looked out and said "nice 69 Firebird"!

just about floored me , but then I thought, she must have had one at some point...

Bjorn, that reminds me of another good one that happened to me.

A few years ago, a couple of us from Naples decided to drive up to the Plant City BOPC show. Our little caravan consisted of a '70 Judge, '71 TA, '62 Grand Prix, and my '66 GTO. We left Naples real early, as it was a 3+ hour drive. I was sick with a sinus infection that was kicking my ass, but the show must go on, right?

After the show, the '62 Grand Prix got a little cantankerous (the owner hadn't had it long, and was still working out the kinks), as the starter relay was starting to go south. It took my friend getting under there with a screw driver, while I worked the throttle to get it going, twice, since we stopped at Sonic too..

Once we started the trek home, I was leading the pack, because I knew where we were going. It was starting to get dark, when my phone rang. It was Doug, in the Judge, telling me that one of the tires on the GP was about to go, and that we needed to stop and change it.

We had just passed the last gas station for about 10 miles (which was in the middle of nowhere about 7 miles south of Bartow FL) about a mile back, so we all turned around and went back to it. We open the trunk and I was relieved to see that he had a spare in good shape, as I was really starting to feel lousy and we still had a solid 2 hours of driving ahead of us. We pull the spare and jack out, and not one of the 5, college educated car guys present could figure out how to LOWER the stock jack enough to get it under the car. The irony is that I ALWAYS bring a floor jack and full tool kit on these trips, but was feeling crummy, so I didn't bother.

As we stood there like a bunch of idiots in the waning light, an older woman, dressed like a homeless streetwalker with a "faces of meth" look about her, came out of nowhere, and made a beeline to the GP, completely ignoring the much nicer (the owner hadn't done much to it yet) and better known TA and 2 GTOs! She starts in with "I had one just like this in HS, and I was the fastest thing in Bartow with a 421 and tripower" etc.....

I was half paying attention, trying to figure out how to lift the GP enough to change the tire, so I could go home and submit to a Nyquil coma, as she was swooning over the GP. She kept going on and on, and I was getting a little annoyed with her. In an attempt to shut her up, assuming that she was full of crap, I turned to her and said: You used to own one of these? She said yes. I then asked her if she remembered how to lower the jack, as that's the problem we're having. Without hesitation, she said "Sure, you do this, this and step on this and it goes down"....

Darn it if she wasn't 100% correct!

I went into the gas station and bought her a 12 pack of her favorite beer.

What are the odds of running into the one person in 100 who would know how to work the thing? Especially since we were really in the middle of nowhere. She walked from somewhere, but looking on a map, there aren't too many houses within a few miles.....

Then we got lost in Arcadia......

Fun trip!

thats awesome.

It is nice when you meet someone that really does know what they are talking about.

It's even funnier when said person doesn't look like they know a lick about stuff.

Cool story.

Most of the questions/comments about my car have been positive. I had one just like that. My friend had one like that but it was "X" color. Good stuff. One of my favorites was at a gas station. Couple of kids working there saw me drive up and asked what size engine it had. Simply replied "400" . It was classic, their jaws just dropped. Kinda cracked me up. Guess the car does sound different than a dodge neon.

I seriously laughed out loud here!

:D

I was going to suggest that maybe she was your guardian angel, but somehow that doesn't seem right...

:p