For you guys driving GS's try driving an Apollo. Ugh. I once had it mistaken for a Pinto. :blast: :blast: :blast:. Almost everytime they say "Nice Nova" I just take it as it is, a complement is a complement. The really stupid part is when they ask whats in it. It has a "350" badge right on it so I usually say its gotta straight six in it. Like I said, its just nice having someone admire my rustbox. Patrick
A Superbird :laugh: Not really but I always get "is that a Monte Carlo" for the GN and it makes my blood boil :af:
my '70 is orange, that is the only reason i can think of for a guy a long time ago to ask if my "Dodge Charger" was a '69
I am asked all the time if it has a Rocket motor in it! Now dad has a Cutlass and people ask him if it has a 442 in it!! People are crazy.
I had someone call my 66 Wildcat Convertible an Impala once. I made sure they were corrected. I think I suprise a lot of people with all late 60's GM cars because I know so much about what they are, what engines are available and things like that... They are used to people calling their car something that it isnt.
It can almost be justified today that some people don't know what we have. Hey, they don't see many of them. When I used to take my 69 Stage 1 to Dover drag strip in Wingdale NY (long ago and long gone) the tower guys always would say 69 chevelle over the speaker. And that was in 1972! :error: You would have thought they would have known better back then. ou: Mark
I get Cutlass a lot - hey, better than Chevelle. When I explain its a Buick Skylark, they look, and then notice the differences - typically they do appreciate it... then they ask if it has the Rocket 350.
Ok, Ok, I'll confess..... I mentioned to a buddy I was going to look at buying a convertible, but NOT a small Camaro. He spotted a 71 GS conv in the paper. I asked, "wtf is a GS"?o No: He said, like a Cutlass, Lemans, or Chevelle, only by Buick. I drove an hour to look at it.....Yes I bought it.:TU:
An old German was looking at the rear of my Boattail for a while, came up to me and spoke the classic words: "I liked them better with the split windows........" (Boattail: Corvette on steroids )
My girlfriend mistook My 1967 GS340 for a belair. We were in the hobby store and I was looking at a 1962 chevy bell air 409 kit and she said "isn't that the car you have under a tarp at your father's house?", I just hung my head in shame and said "you mean the buick, the '67, right?". She goes "well it looks like a belair". I suppose I have to leave her now. On a semi related note my 1967 GTO never gets mistaken for anything. The worst it gets is when people try to convince me that it can't be a real GTO and it has to be a clone because no one in their right mind would let a real GTO body rust that badly and that nobody in their right mind would actually drive a real GTO around with rust that bad. MY 1967 Chevelle never got mistaken for anything other than a chevy, but my buddy's 442 has been called a malibu a few times. Must be a buick/olds thing.
I was feeling left out, so here it is: I've had kids ask about my vette and lots of people ask me if it has a rocket in it. Due to the fact that few things look like a boattail, most people will recognize it as a Riviera.
yea... I get the same.. What year chevelle is it.... or the husband telling the wife.. thats a 454....Guy stoped next to me sunday at a light asks... what is that a 69 chevelle... don't you just love it.. except now at car shows a lot of people ask.. isn't this the car on speed vision a couple of weeks ago??? oh well better late then never...haaaaaaaa owen
I get (well used to get) "nice chevelle" too. However, I can't really blame them because of my paint job. :grin: <------- I can't wait to get her back on the road! Rock on...
I usually hear "Does that have a 327 or a 350 ?" Even people who recognize it as a Skylark will try to make conversation by saying "I once drove a Chevelle".
Cutlass, 'cause they don't know better I hear Cutlass most often, I think because they think its not quite a chevelle. But, the best one was last summer: A friend and I were out in his Cuda, you know the ones with the garish paint and the GREAT BIG Cuda graphic on the hood. This lady and here kid walked by and the kid asked what kind of car it was, the lady said "Rustang". I would have let her have it, but the door panel was off, and the window crank with it. Anyway, I vote Cutlass, 'cause (I guess) I don't know better. Jim
How bout this one " That chevelle has great potential, I fix up muscle cars heres my card" HAHAHA yeah right. I threw that card away. Anyways my opinion is "its not YOUR car if you paid someone to fix it all up"
