[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by Bob Dillon

I was gassing up my Grandville a few years back and a kid looked at it for a minute and said "hey, did they like stretch that car, you know, like a limousine?"

Another time I was cruising the main drag and a kid in a Honda with blue headlights, a fart-can exhaust, and giant rims pulled up next to me at the light and smiled. He was revving the engine waiting for the light so I slipped it down into low and waited. He took off with a fast start. I gave him about 2 cars and floored it, rocketed by him in low, shifted to second and chirped the tires, and then let off it and pulled into the grocery store in the next block.

He pulls in and parks next to me and says "Like, old dude? ( ) What's IN that car?" I just smiled and said "a dinosaur engine."

Teenage boys are teenage boys, but you're right, these youngsters don't have near the knowledge we did back in the day. Few drag strips and smog laws. No wonder they're limited to mostly cosmetics, is it?

Don't feel bad Bob, when my wife & I were new car shopping about 12 years ago a salesmen called mine a "aircraft carrier"