Post your best bullcrap story you've ever heard here...

Cody,

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Did you notice that they compared them by mph instead of times? When I was watching I didn't see it display a time for the talon. Must have missed it.

 

I just looked at this ad. Sence when did they build a 73 Wildcat

A good BS Story. When I was in the srevice a freind told me that he new a guy that had a Camaro that had so much tourqe it would flip the car on its side if he dumped the clutch while street racing.

 

Yeah, they said the times too. The talon was like a 7.6 or a .8 while the Honduh was 1.2 slower..... $10,000 in parts and only a 8.8 in the 1/8th:eek2: :eek2: No wonder ricers only want to race the short tracks, that way a 16sec car can sound alot faster .

Did you hear how they are referring to their engines now... they called the Dual cam civic motor a V16....lol. I think the correct way to say it would be 16Vou: ou:

They remind me of my 4yr old daughter playing dress up. They'll do anything to look and sound bigger than they really are. But at least my daughter playing dressup is cute, these guys are just plain annoying :moonu:

The whole ricer stereotype is BS:blast: :blast:

 

As far as his claim that it burned rubber for an entire city block, that's probably true. But a '73 Wildcat?????

He should have just went all the way and said " '73 Wildcat GS"!:laugh:

 

When I first bought my Ceturion the auction listed it as a 72 Buick Centurion 455 Wildcat.

Being in the country side of NC I have heard alot of rual legends. Like the elusive 440 Hemi that came factory in a 74 dart.
My friends cousin had a 70 torino with a 429cj that would spin the tires at 80mph. my friend bought the car to find out it had a stock 460!! And this being chiivy country this list could go on and on.

Dave, you won't believe me but I pulled the wheels ONCE in my Valiant with 235/70 Goodyears. It was a mistake because the clutch was slipping and the back shocks where shot. It started slipping I tached it to 4500 and dumped it again. Scared the s@%t out of me. And I have a witness. Claims it brought the right front off the ground about 7 inches. Sadly it never happened again.

 

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This fella in Middletown OH has a garage and has a 65 Riv, so I stopped by one day and he told me about his old 64 Riv "factory stroker motor" that could go 150 MPH(it did have the Super Wildcat). I Never argue, especially when a man has a complete wood wheel for $250-horn bar and all.

 

Got a story but first let me say this. I've seen several cars get wheels up on the street. My GS would consistently pull the left front about 6 inches and if the road was good concrete I could get both up. Car hooks on concrete highways as good as it does at our local track.
Anyhow, BS stories; got a bunch but 2 stick out in my mind.
First: A kid has an 81 GP and comes sauntering over to our group at a cruise. He happened to hear part of our conversation about a race I'd been in on a deserted highway. I barely got out of the area and some cops showed and gave my friends the business. This guy chimes in about worthless cops oppressing him because his car is bad*ss. He even goes so far as to say " Yeah, not 10 mins. ago I'm in front of Burger King at the stoplight and when it turns green I got on it and it pulled the front tires. Only a little, like maybe a foot, and this cop pulls me over and gives me the riot act and a ticket. What an a-hole."
As one my friends and I turn our heads and look at his car parked nearby. Primer, Bondo and Bald street radials. We all just kinda smiled and proceeded to egg him on. it only got deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Pretty soon he had a Pontiac 400 with all the goodies(Krylon and oil stains are goodies, don't ya know) and makes at least 600 hp. I could go on but I'll just say guys like that are actually fun to talk to. If you want to have fun, subtly make suggestions about parts that you know are BS but sound good and wait a week or 2 and see if someone else has heard his "revised" story and engine combo.

 

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If that car had stiff gears, it could probably do 150. The factory stroker part is BS though.:grin:

 

I heard a pretty good one years ago.

I was using my toyota 4x4 to deliver pizza and the engine went south on me. I rebuilt it and did some mild porting (gasket matching) put a Shneider cam, 40mm weber carb, Thorley header, flowmaster, crane HI-6 and Fireball coil in it. Probably good for an extra 20- 30hp, tops (considering it had 97 from the factory, I will take anything I can get).

Got a modest gain out of it and it sounded decidedly non stock.

Anyway, a friend of a coworker shows up at the store, asks me if that is my truck. I say "it's mine", he chuckles and tells me that his toyota 4x has a Grand National engine in it and how it would beat my arse.

I say "wow, cool" you should bring it by sometime. I would love to take a look at it.

Weeks go by, the guy keeps showing up to visit his friend driving this POS civic. I keep pestering him to bring his truck over.

I show up on my day off to pick up my check and there it is. A beat up white 2wd toyota with a 4in bodylift and a fart pipe on it.

"So, lets see this Grand National engine ya got in there" I ask him. He stumbles, starts sweating and yammers something about his hood latch being broken. I peek in the wheelwell (easy to see inside the engine compartment when they have a huge bodylift on them) and what do I see, A bone stock Toyota 22r.......

Man, I hate people like that........ Saw him a few weeks later at a traffic light, just totally blew his doors off.... Slowest street race.......EVER. I think we made it up to the speed limit between traffic lights......

 

My best bullcrap story? I think it was when I told my wife I would finish the basement before I put up a shop building in my backyard.


Actually my favorite is the guy who told me his 1970 Electra 4 door had the stage 1 motor from the factory. He of course beat everything on the street from Porsches to Boss 429 Mustangs. For some reason chrome valve covers on a 455 Buick means "factory built stage 1 rarity" not "455 SF coded motor with chrome valve covers."

 

Used to know a guy called Mr BS. He used to come to a car club meet and he was a real nice guy but his stories were bull. I guess he did it to fit in and didn;t feel anything he really had to say was worth anything, which is kinda sad, as he was a nice guy.

Anyway it starts with anyone looking for a rare NOS part, well he's got it in his attic. Had me waiting months on a set of NOS front fogs still in the Vauxhall supply boxes before I realised his game. (I was big on Vauxhalls then)

Anyway, his stock 1.8 liter sedan "beat a Escort RS Turbo" one day and from then on his street racing stories started and got wilder.

My favourite was his Jaguar. I never saw his Jaguar (I wonder why?) but he got a sweet deal on a pair of XJS V12 HE coupes. It was a trade auction and it snowed real bad so nobody turned up. (he obviously never heard of reserve price). So he sold one Jag for twice what he'd paid for the pair and bought this rare six webber carb setup with the proffits. This made the XJS go "like 180 MPH and still pulling" but he only got 6 MPG so he took them off. When I asked if I could see the Jag he said "I had to sell it - a set of ignition contact points is like 300 for that car and they only last 3000 miles". He didn't know the XJS V12 HE has electronic ignition...

He brightened my evenings occasionally. He became a pain in the back end though when you were trying to have a sensible conversation with another guy and he'd keep butting in with wild tales.

He dropped out of sight, he said he'd been busted for racing at 120 MPH in a wild car chase and was going to get revoked. Heard from his girlfriend a while later that he actually got revoked for drunk driving.

 

I've been following this thread, and that's the best one yet! I feel bad for the guy though, it sounds like he needs some help with his self esteem issues.:bglasses:

 

I can imagine it..


Ricer1- "Yea I've got a v16."
Ricer2- "How'd you fit in your honduh?!"
Ricer1- "No dude, *valve 16*.
Ricer2- "Oh, wow man!"




Another bs story that seems to be real, at least for me now is my friend has this '87(86 maybe?) Iroc-Z that he had bought from this guy that went radical on it. It obviously has a huge cam but the rest is pretty much a mystery. So he tells us (around the lunch table) that it pulls so hard that it almost brings the front wheels up, now everyone at the table is like..."suuuuure" while rolling their eyes. So one day I'm at his house and he's like, "I'll prove it to you". SO we end up going on this old busted road and he drops it into first and blips the throttle and I'm back in my seat at a 30* angle, "woah" were the words that came out of my mouth. We only did it a few times since one of his valve cover gaskets was crap and leaking oil all over. Now I say that with a set of hot slicks and if he could dump the clutch (it's an auto though), he would probably bring at least the front left tire off a few inches.

 

I've got a reverse bullcrap story actually. It worked like this, My father had an old 86 ford pickup, and by 1999 this thing was shot, and would kick over again even after you shut it off (there's a term for that but I can't remember what it is). So instead of fixing it, he just turned the idle wayyyy down on it. So when I drove it to school, a couple of the "supposed" gearheads would comment that i must have some sort of "wild" cam in it to get that sound, of course I played along, Sure it was bullcrap, but wasn't started by me!

 

Dieseling?

 

And factory equiped with rare stage 2 headers.

 

I had a guy tell me that this summer!!!!:spank: :spank:


They were M/T repros.......Stage1.

 

I've had that happen, people think that the really bad rod-knock is a big cam. At auto tech, when not in gear, it would sound normal but when put in gear, it would rattle like a coffee can full of bolts.

 

Reverse storys are good too. Only goes to show how easy it is to pick up on wanna-be motorheads.

Towards the end of teh last semester, sometime in late October A friend from school wanted a ride in the Buick. SO we went. It was a rather crisp autumn Morning, and The Q-jet on the Buick was chokeless, not to mention I needed about a quart or so of tranny fluid. We hop in, and after a minute or two of cranking and pumping, (I'm sure alot of people on this board know the Cold chokeless starting process:Brow: ) She fired and actually Idled. It was realyl lumping along and pretty much running like crap. Its sorta sounded like a prostocker. WE pull out into the street, This is were the low tranny fluid comes in. I gave it a fair amount of gas, knowing if I got into the secondaries it would bog and stall. For reasons un-explained, I craked the scondaries very slightly, and it bogged momentairly, then it caught and revved anxiously. Th e Converter stalled somewhere above 3500, and the car really launched hard. It completly lit up the rears, and was smoke central. The moron thought it was supposed to do that, and now considers me crazy for driving it on the street.... Little did he know a Little ATF would have fixed me right up. ou: