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Automotive pet peeve of the day!!
I just love when I am pumping my gas I am forced to stand there & listen to the commercials & adds on the little TV screen that's on all the gas pumps now.
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Keith Collier 61-63 Pontiac Tempest Tech advisor POCI.org |
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Mine is when they don't keep receipt paper in the pump and I have to go inside for one.
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The local Chevron has those. 4 pumps, screens on both sides, so 8 different screens. The sound comes to my ear from the random pumps like a bad stereo sound mix.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core. |
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Most of ours here have a mute button, I always mute them!
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I hate those damn things! I don't need to be entertained while pumping gas!
My automotive pet peeve? Cars that don't use keys anymore. Can someone tell me why anything short of a race car needs a push button start? I hate them!
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"Those poor souls have made the fatal mistake of surrounding us. Now we can fire in any direction" 1970 Trans Am RAIII 4 speed 1971 Trans Am 5.3 LM7 1977 Trans Am W72 Y82 1987 Grand National |
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When I drive my Pontiac, I don't need to listen to the ads - there are too many people wanting to talk about the car.
With my daily driver, I'll set the "auto" switch and walk away to avoid that stuff. They are always playing "Jimmy Fallon" clips on the pumps out here. Either they are picking his worst jokes, or that guy isn't very funny.
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1965 Pontiac LeMans. M21, 3.73 in a 12 bolt, Kauffman 461. |
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Talking about cars while gassing up the 9. A guy about my age told me. “Most people don't know this. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, he invented the automobile assembly line.”
The pearls of wisdom gained while pumping gas and listening! Youth is brilliant: While driving the car in a parade, an 8 year old boy hollered out, “Nice Firebird!” I said thanks while his buddy asked him how he knew it was a Firebird? “It says so on the car.” Why can't people our age figure out these kinds of things? |
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"The modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Ransom Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash." I knew it was Ransom Olds, but to confirm the above is taken from here.... https://www.bing.com/search?q=who+in...f7c8d54c32f5c2
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Gary Get in, ShuT Up, Hang On! Member of the Baltimore Built Brotherhood MY GTO built 4th Week of March 1966 "Crusin' Is Not A Crime" Keep yer stick on the ice. |
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Mine is when a young person is pumping gas, car shut off but stereo on full blast.
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My best/worst one is when a guy pulls up with his girl and I'm filling my Z/28 and says his friend had one just like it only it was a convertible.
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69 Z 302 M21 3.73 http://www.byjanmarie.com/camaro/Z28.html 69 FB 400 http://www.byjanmarie.com/firebird/69.html 69 Camaro 327 4sp. 4.10 http://www.byjanmarie.com/camaro/69camaro.html ( SOLD) 2002 Camaro LE/SLP-(sold) 1967 Nova SS-- 327, M20, 3.73, FRT Disc |
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1977 Black Trans Am 180 HP Auto, essentially base model T/A. I'm the original owner, purchased May 7, 1977. Shut it off Shut it off Buddy, I just shut your Prius down... |
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Just as bad, the person who walks up "Hi, I'm out of gas, and I need to get home, and I have no money", and they're driving something nicer than most people have....
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be a simple...kinda man. |
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My pet peeve, convertibles with the top down and every window up!
Worse than that, top down with only quarter windows up!!!
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1969 Firebird 350 convertible, t-5, Carousel Red 2008 Solstice GXP 5speed manual, Sly 2008 Grand Prix, Ink Slate, Winter daily driver 2009 G8, Switchblade Silver, summer daily driver |
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Here in Kentucky , I don't know if I'm more annoyed by the fart can Honda or the hick with the fart dump diesel / semi stack sticking out of the bed - at least the Honda kid doesn't belch black smoke or have a fish hook on his real tree hat ! 3rd up is Harley's with drag pipes .
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When I wore a younger man's clothes |
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The C6 I bought a little while ago straight up hates the newer style gas nozzles with the vapor guards on them. Most other cars I've had would sometimes trip the auto pump deal. The corvette I pretty much just have to stand there and hold it.
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1967 Firebird 462 580hp/590ftlbs 1962 Pontiac Catalina Safari Swapped in Turd of an Olds 455 Owner/Creator Catfish Motorsports https://www.youtube.com/@CatfishMotorsports |
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All of the taxi cabs filling up when gas is 2 cents a litre cheaper in my neighborhood. It seems to happen whenever I'm low on fuel. I've seen them fight over spots in line to save 1.20 with their 60L tanks.
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carson is 100x funnier than fallon or any one of those other late night goofs/time wasters on tv. 300 channels and nothing on. give me football or the westerns channel, sports news or a movie. thanks.
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I HATE that. I put the nozzle on lock and walk away so I don't have to be bombarded with that crap......
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Jeff |
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Slide your credit card, select your grade, insert the gas nozzle, then freeze your ass off and WAIT 5 minutes till they reset the pump...
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Mercedes invented it because of carjackings. That way you have the key on you, you get carjacked & within 10 miles or so the car will shut off when it comes to a stop because its always making sure the key is in the car while running. Other car company's only saw the start button and said thats cool lets do that too.
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