not a race story, but I wanted to kill the guy

ok not really. I went into a "speed" shop in town and the guy behind the counter askes how can he help me. I tell him I'm looking for some headers for my Buick455. He just looks at me with a *HuH* look and says Buick made a 455, no kiddin. Then he askes, so what kinda car is it for. I tell him a 68 GS, *HuH* whats that lika station wagon or something. I couldn't believe he asked that. So I told him that if he wants to see one, wait till the local car show in October, it will be the one with all the trophys. Some peopleou:

 

Well, there's an ignoramus born every minute (or something like that :grin: ).

 

just tell him it looks like a Chevelle...ou:

 

....but a lot faster!:Smarty:

 

I get the same problem at my local speed shop. Mainly staffed by kids . They do have 1 guy thats into "old school stuff" as they call it! The store mainly has rice rocket stuff! But I guess that what sells the most for them! I'm only 39 but when I'm in that shop I feel like I'm 95 or something!! Mind you none of them pull up to me at stop lights!!!!!!

 

Wise azzes like that have been around ever since Buick began making 8 cylinder cars. All you can do is hope some day he gets his doors blown off by one! :spank:

 

I have the oposite problem. I go into the local speed/machine shop where I buy parts and I feel like im three. I know im new to this , 18 years old and only minor car work so far, but i know a little bit. Everyone there is like 40 and has old cars. I saw a ricer kid walk in once and ask if they have any B16 parts on clearance, the kid didn't even have one in his car, it was an earlier motor and he read the valve cover wrong.

 

Actually thats what I say.. or olds. Its all the same to them anyway... Bugs the crap out of me. I dont know about the situation where you are but over here its like:
-So whotcha got?
-A Buick GS
- Oh... (He's thinking: "Why am I talking to you, Im looking for someone to talk to about performance, not grandmas old beater!")
Its like that all the time (usualy buttheads my age) except for people who know Buick. Luckily my speedshop does :TU:

 

I got some looks from the guys at the gas station today, all probably 40 and up. One guy came out and asked about the car and said he once had a Chevelle just like it. ou:

 

About the same thing here ... at the gas station there were some people waiting at the counter when it was my turn to pay I was asked - "Is it for the Chevelle ?" ou:

 

Yep. At the local strip mall, one of my neighbors complemented my GS as a "nice looking GTO." I guess the sun reflecting off the paint kept him from seeing any of the emblems. And I get comments about my black "Monte Carlo" all the time...

Most mean no harm. They're trying to pay complements...they're just not gearheads.

 

Partsmonkeys, they're everywhere.

I laughed in the face of the partsmonkey that asked me if my '62 Ranchero had anti-lock brakes.

I also had a guy ask me if my LeSabre was a GTO awhile back...

 

i wish i could just be grown up and calm, but when somebody asks about my cutlass or monte carlo, or tells me my buick is the same as a chevy, i get infuriated. i dont know why. one idiot said he knew my car. "oh really?" "yeah, its like a delta 88." then my fists clinch and i say calmly, yet painfully, "no. its a regal. its nothing like a f*ckin delta 88." and then he argues with me about the similarities.

now as for the "its just like a chevelle" talk.........i've made an analogy for that as well. here it goes:

"buick is to chevy like budwieser is to busch. whatever goes down the assembly line and doesn't meet buick's standards is sold as a chevy. just like whatever goes down the budweiser assembly line and doesn't meet the standards is sold as busch."

you can take this one a step further and throw in pontiac/natural light if you want as well :laugh:

 

I had one guy the other day who knew something about Buicks ask about the car. We had a conversation about them rolling along at 35 mph before I let the car romp a bit to show off.:laugh:

 

I like the time one of my daughters EX boyfriends decided that he would try and strike up a conversation as I was doing some work under the hood of the GSx. He is a great Buick expert becuase he has a Randezvous. :rant: So he ask me what motor I had and I replied, 455. His response is "oh that is an Olds engine." I then explain how no it was a Buick engine made in Flint (we are 15 miles south of Flint) and how every GM division had their own motors at that time.

His comment " I guess I will have to look that up." :blast:

Thank god she finally dumped the ignorant (*&^(*&^ because I was eventually going to have to beat the #$% out of him.

 

Here in Des Moines the only ones who know it's a Buick when I pull up to a Quick Trip is the Black dudes.And they always want to know if it's for sale.I've had alot of great conversations because they know them as well as the Buick folks do.:Brow:

 

And he works at a speed shop? I'm betting he knows every detail of a *blah* Chevy small block but completely clueless out side of that.

 

Amen!:3gears:

 

I was pumping gas into the GN once and a guy walks up and says nice Monte I had once just like it once. I politely said this in a Grand National made by Buick but it is a sister car to the Monte or MCSS and they do look a lot a like they even start out on the same assembly line. I don't think it sunk as he said yea Chevy should of put a 350 in them instead of the 305 as he is looking at my car. Have you put a 350 in her yet? No, this has the turbo intercooled Buick V6. A V6? You should put a 350 in her. Why would I want to do that this is stronger faster more durable and gets better mileage. His face wrinkled up and got this confused look. I took the momentary stunned silence as a chance to walk off to pay for my gas. ou:

 

Hey Jeff,

I bought my showroom 70 Triple Black Wildcat with buckets, posi and the correct Buick mags and center caps in Des Moines back in 2001 when I was there for work. It was sitting in a gas station with a for sale sign and the kid that was selling it says he had inherited it and hated it because it was "A stupid Buick and not a Chevy". He says he wants $5K and I offer $4K which he accepts on the spot, what a marooooone. I have been offered 3X that so far. As for recognizing my GS no one even knows what my 87 T-Type is much less my 72 GS.

Mikey