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11-17-2023, 12:08 PM | #1 |
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Good Morning Nice Car conversation
Had an admirer this morning asks the usual questions like: Nice looking car win any car shows? What year? What kind of car? You know the usual...
So the answers went kinda like this: Good morning, yes we have been fortunate to win a trophy or three. 1950 Ford, THEN it gets kind Mo, Larry and Curly(ish) Me: 1950 Ford... Ford, Custom Them: O Ok, what kind of car? Hudson? Me: Nope it is a Ford Custom Them: Ok I know it's custom but what kind of car? Hudson? Me: Nope it's a a Ford Custom, Custom is the model. Them: O Ok, Ford Custom but it's a Hudson? It has an H on it. Me ??? H? ITS A Ford... thanks have a good day Me driving away: ????? After I park I was like what in the world was that... as I'm walking away I look back like we all do just to see our cars(you know you do it too) and I see the 8 in the center of the grill and get it. The person must have thought it was an H not an 8 but then there is the whole FORD emblem right above the 8.. O well |
11-17-2023, 01:24 PM | #2 |
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Yeah, those people are around. Heck, when I was about 10 I could name every car on the road. Now, I have no clue what any of these newfangled things are until I look for the badge.
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11-17-2023, 01:35 PM | #3 |
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Re: Good Morning Nice Car conversation
This past summer I parked my '37 Ford and when I got out a guy asked me if it was a Plymouth. Man I just about fell over from the insult. I nicely told him it was a Ford.
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11-17-2023, 01:52 PM | #4 |
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Re: Good Morning Nice Car conversation
Just imagine the conversation with a 50 Meteor; even in the country it came from!
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11-17-2023, 02:24 PM | #5 |
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Good one!
I have this old guy (ten years younger than me since he shared his age with me the last time), who has stopped by several times when I have my '32 in the driveway and it goes like this: "Oh, tell me again, what year is it?" "How much is it worth?" Usually asks me this five or six times a visit! I always tell him its not for sale. "Yeah, but how much is it worth?" Last time I told him 5 million :-) "What color is it?" I tell him but he'll ask me several more times ..... Who's on first? :-) |
11-17-2023, 05:05 PM | #6 |
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It all happened because FoMoCo removed the F O R D from the vehicle in 1950 and replaced it with the Crest. |
11-17-2023, 05:08 PM | #7 |
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The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
11-17-2023, 06:23 PM | #8 |
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Don T,
Same with a Monarch, I'll bet! |
11-17-2023, 10:44 PM | #9 |
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when we had our '41 fordor, multiple people thought it was a plymouth
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11-17-2023, 10:58 PM | #10 | |
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11-18-2023, 07:55 AM | #11 |
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Bruce,
This has probably happened to you. I'm putting gas in my '50 Convertible. Guy walks up: "'49, right?" Me, close - it's a '50. He says "There's only one way to tell a '49 from a '50." Me - I can show you 7 differences just standing here. Guy "Nope, there's only one." Walks away. See. I learned something that day. Ken
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11-18-2023, 09:07 AM | #12 |
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It's like " my uncle had one just like yours, but it was a green, four door, Plymouth."
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11-18-2023, 09:24 AM | #13 |
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Ken,
In my case, they can't fiqure out the year of manufacture Minnesota license plate. "How can you have a 1949 Minnesota license on a 1950 Ford?" |
11-18-2023, 09:55 AM | #14 |
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11-18-2023, 10:41 AM | #15 | |
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I think it's just people trying to "fit in" and demonstrate their (lack of) knowledge about our cars. |
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11-18-2023, 12:15 PM | #16 | |
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The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
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11-18-2023, 12:44 PM | #17 |
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I have a '58 Nomad wagon. Some guys want to argue with me, insisting it cannot be real, they never made a four-door Nomad!
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11-18-2023, 03:15 PM | #18 |
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The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
11-18-2023, 04:09 PM | #19 |
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My folks had one of those. I hope yours doesn't have a Turboglide like theirs did.
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11-18-2023, 04:34 PM | #20 |
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My favorite example happened in the 90s. My dad had a 41 Ford fordor at that time and frequently got in conversations about the car. One person remembered their dad had one "just like it, only it was a 1950 and a Dodge".
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