Smert peoplez likke Hon-Duhs.

[Sixty8panther]

I work with this dope who LOVES Hondas. He thinks that they are God's

gift to cars. I mean really, this guy told me how one of the sickest and

fastest cars on the street right now is the last gen. Prelude. According

to him a TSX is the best sport sedan on the market.

But here's the kicker... he drives a '96 Dodge Neon.

Today he told me how his Neon is stupid-quick, quite the sleeper.

What mods has he performed you ask?

He installed a cam from an Intrepid. I - kid - you - not - !

Honda: for those too dumb to own Mopar.

[NOS2006]

I had the hood up on the Camaro one day in auto class and some kid from Auto II came up to me and said, "Yeah, you should really install a Z06 intake and cam.. that'd make it really fast."

I was like Uhh, I have a V6.

"No you don't, that's an 8."

"No, dude" *counts off coils and cylinders* "That's 6"

"But still, throw in a Z06 cam and intake. That'd be so badass!"

Needless to say, I closed the hood and walked away.

[Robert Hall]

My manager drives an '07 TL, which is a car I like...but his previous car was a '02 BMW 540i. Then I found out he bought the TL only because he couldn't find a 'Camry Sport' (is there such a thing?). Now I seriously question his judgement...

[Guest YellowJacket894]

For the record, this guy's stupidity has to do with his own horrible ignorance, not Honda.

I've heard things just as stupid from people before. I had someone tell me that you can only install an eight-cylinder engine in four-cylinder S-10s. I pointed out to him many times that what engine the truck has before the install doesn't factor in what makes it fit and what doesn't (what matters is your transmission, driveshaft, rear-end, and motor mounts). Then I had one guy tell me his 1998 3100 V6 Malibu could beat a Z/28 Camaro.

Stupidity lives. Unfortunately, we all have to deal with it.

Edited January 29, 2008 by YellowJacket894

[Intrepidation]

There's a "Sport" package for the Camry....

I know those Neon's are crap but I still feel sorry for it being owned by a retard.

Edited January 29, 2008 by Dodgefan

[Robert Hall]

For the record, this guy's stupidity has to do with his own horrible ignorance, not Honda.

I've heard things just as stupid from people before. I had someone tell me that you can only install an eight-cylinder engine in four-cylinder S-10s. I pointed out to him many times that what engine the truck has before the install doesn't factor in what makes it fit and what doesn't (what matters is your transmission, driveshaft, rear-end, and motor mounts). Then I had one guy tell me his 1998 3100 V6 Malibu could beat a Z/28 Camaro.

I have a coworker that swears his Prius is a sports car.... (ironically, he a pic in his cube of the '71 Challenger he had back in the '80s).

[mustang84]

My manager drives an '07 TL, which is a car I like...but his previous car was a '02 BMW 540i. Then I found out he bought the TL only because he couldn't find a 'Camry Sport' (is there such a thing?). Now I seriously question his judgement...

I believe Camry SE is the "sports appearance" Camry...that's probably what he was referring to.

[SuperSport623]

i hate:

when people ask if my car has a hemi

when people tell me "wow, thats a nice mustang!"

when people ask why my car doesnt have "dubs" or hydrualics

why i would drive a 36 year old car... i must be poor!

[K.C.]

I had the hood up on the Camaro one day in auto class and some kid from Auto II came up to me and said, "Yeah, you should really install a Z06 intake and cam.. that'd make it really fast."

I was like Uhh, I have a V6.

"No you don't, that's an 8."

"No, dude" *counts off coils and cylinders* "That's 6"

"But still, throw in a Z06 cam and intake. That'd be so badass!"

Needless to say, I closed the hood and walked away.

Thats right NOS, you set him straight. Its a Series III 3800 V-6! :AH-HA_wink:

[Robert Hall]

I'll still never forget the time about 1990 (I was about 20) and I was driving my mom's pristine silver blue '68 Cougar...I was walking into a 7-11, some teenagers came out and commented about what a sharp Camaro I had..

Another time, a coworker complimented my sharp Celica....umm, it's an '87 Mustang GT.

Clueless people are everywhere.

Edited January 29, 2008 by moltar

[NOS2006]

Thats right NOS, you set him straight. Its a Series III 3800 V-6! :AH-HA_wink:

Damn right it was!

[04monteintimidator]

my little brother once exclamed "CJ look a Corvette!" as we were driving through a parking lot

i turned, excited to see one... and it was a Celica... yes... a Celica

worse yet... my Mom tried to defend him "they're the same basic shape..."

then again... my mother once told me that a Honda Accord coupe looked like my Monte... so... ya know...

[Duncan]

Lessee - there was the guy in high school with the four-cylinder Cherokee, who thought it was a V6 and loudly told me so. (Easy to tell - the sucker had "2.5 Litre" right on the hatch - not "2.8 V-6" as you'd expect.) And then my car-knowledgeable friend, who should have known better since he drove his mom's 4.0 Cherokee on a regular basis, BACKED HIM UP. I was later informed that I was correct after all, but not from the source of the stupidity.

Then there was the guy in auto shop with a late-80s Jetta. This was a car that had obviously been in an accident (hood didn't seat right, windshield was loose, back door would stick), but he bought it anyway on the assumption that "VWs are fast." The shop teacher (and pretty much everyone in class) proceeded to explain that it was probably a stupid investment.

In an attempt to prove the car's speed, he then further wrecked it and traded "up" for an AMC Eagle sedan - again, apparently purchased with no real inspection whatsoever. This one rolled into the shop with a slightly better (though not by much) body, but an engine that seemed to stall at random. A cursory investigation revealed that the carb was only minimally attached to the intake manifold, and would actually wiggle back and forth if you nudged it.

Or the guy I used to work with at Target who, despite making roughly seven bucks an hour, was convinced he could afford a new Shelby Mustang if he saved up enough for a down payment. I attempted to explain that regardless of how much he thought that would be, there was still going to be the bigger problem of the insane dealer markup - and my doubts of his ability to make the gigantic monthly payments besides. He remained resolute - but last I knew, he was still driving his four-cylinder Ranger.

Another dude in high school had a Benz 190E with rims about three sizes too big - to the point that there was no way to turn the car anywhere close to its actual steering radius. Or the sophomore with the newish Corolla who roared down a seven-percent grade hill during lunch break and apparently rammed into the back of a dump truck while tuning his radio - not injured, luckily, but certainly somewhat wiser.

Ah, memories...

[daves87rs]

Reminds me of the guy who has a focus he calls the "escort"...

I thuoght he was just being funny until he shows me an escort oil filter....

[Cory Wolfe]

Reminds me of the guy who has a focus he calls the "escort"...

I thuoght he was just being funny until he shows me an escort oil filter....

Brings to mind the guy who told me my Cutlass was worth $20k.

[Intrepidation]

Someone around here is trying to rice an Escort.

[Duncan]

Someone around here is trying to rice an Escort.

I'm fond of the guy I used to see with the Cavalier who painted his front calipers red. Nothing wrong with that, I guess - but then he went and painted the DRUMS in back, too.

I mean, you gotta be consistent, right?

If it helps the image, the rest of the car was in a candy purple hue - apparently applied without the benefit of much body prep, since the bumpers flaked off and showed their black plastic origins.

[Intrepidation]

In high school one of my teachers drove a Dodge Shadow that was painted white using a paintbrush and exterior paint...

[Cory Wolfe]

Um... my dad used spray paint to paint his old 77 Scottsdale.

[Intrepidation]

Um... my dad used spray paint to paint his old 77 Scottsdale.

At least spray paint doesn't leave brush strokes and bristles in the paint

[2005 EquinoxLS]

Where should I start? People think the Bonneville has a big block. It really has an Olds 307. Then people dont believe me until I show it to them.

[Lamar]

The other day, a friend of mine (bless her heart) thought her Civic had a 2cyl engine.

Another friend of mine, back in HS, was told by her father that her gas cap might be loose, so she looked under the hood.

My mom who insists, in the interest of saving on gas money, on still putting regular into her E320.

And this one takes the cake... I spoke to a dealer a few months ago, and he still insists that the 08 Sable was built on the same platform as the Lincoln MKZ.

[SuperSport623]

i always love messing with "know it alls" by asking them about made up things... i swear everyone's car needs blinker fluid every 5k miles, and muffler bearings every 10k miles!

[04monteintimidator]

i always love messing with "know it alls" by asking them about made up things... i swear everyone's car needs blinker fluid every 5k miles, and muffler bearings every 10k miles!

well of course! dont forget to remind them to check their flux capacitor every 2 years or 25k miles as well!

[XP715]

The best one I can think of in recent memory would be from about two summers ago when I owned my '96 Riviera. It wasn't an uncommon thing to get compliments on it or people to come up and talk to me about it, but the conversation I had with a local car wash attendant was the best. He saw the car, came up to me and said that it was beautiful, and then said that Rivieras are great cars and they have always been one of his favorite cars for years.

That's cool. I totally agree. Riviera is one of the best nameplates GM ever made.

Then he tells me about all of the neat ones he saw and rode around in when he was a teenager back in the late 70's.

What was his favorite memory of his younger days in regards to a Buick Riviera, you ask?

Well, as it turns out, his friend's father had "one of those Rivieras with the pointed back like a Corvette," (the '71-'73 "boat tail," obviously) and he remembers riding around in it with him and his other buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, and how they would all get a kick out of people's reactions when they would do front wheel drive burnouts(!) because "they would all get so freaked out when the smoke was coming from the front wheels, because that was back when front wheel drive was still new."

I politely corrected him and told him that the Riviera was not made front wheel drive until the 1979 model year and asked if it wasn't an Oldsmobile Toronado or a Cadillac Eldorado, perhaps, but he insisted that he and his buddies would sit there and roast front tires at every red light in a boat tail Riv.

Right. Your friend's dad must have had a one-off GM test mule on a Toronado chassis then, because hard facts could never be right. You know everything. That's why you're fifty f@#king years old and still work at the f@#king car wash.

At that point I just smiled and agreed with him and left.

[SuperSport623]

like i said before.... kids in my school are stupid.. im no car guru, but i know a good amount... i love when kids are talking about their RWD civic's they just bought.. or my favorite, my friends dads 2002 GTO 4 cylinder... (it was a freakin cavilear!)

[A Horse With No Name]

At least spray paint doesn't leave brush strokes and bristles in the paint

At the library I go to there is a 96 Mustang GT with flames painted with brush and roller. I kid you not.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Oh, and someone yesterday told me about a 68 fairlane GT with a 396 and factory tri-power and a powerglide that he once owned.

Nice that we live on a planet that allows cars from the twilight zone.

Chris

[Sixty8panther]

396 big block & powerglide in a Ford huh? Suuuure....

but I'd rather have a '67 Chrysler Newport with a Pontiac 455 and dynaflow; from the factory.

A year ago almost to the day I was looking into purchasing a really REALLY clean

1977 Chevy Nova 4dr sedan. It had new paint, a VERY clean Pontiac Ventura

interior in it and Iroc-Z rims... I loved the look of the car. It was powered by the

tried and tested original 250 inline-6 and mated to three-on-the-tree manual.

The kid was asking too much and I ended up buying a clone of my Datsun 810

Maxima instead (which I sold to buy the '77 Caddy CdV) but I did have a good &

interesting conversation with this kids' dad. He was a nice guy and had some

legitimate stories to tell that seemed plausible, EXCEPT:

He insisted he had a '59 Buick back in the day, it had a factory powerglide in it.

(always with the powerglide!) and went as far as to say that Dynaflow did not

reach production untill the early 1960s...

Whatever....

Also, he sent me on a wild goose chase to find a big Buick in a local gas station

that he insisted was for sale, it was a '59 Buick (even agreed that it was the one

with the real angry looking headlights & big fins) and after a few weeks of

searching I found a not so mint '63 Buick 4dr post.... Electra IIRC

Yes, 1963.

These cars (at least in my opinion) are about as different as post-war cars get!

[DetroitNut90]

At the DC auto show, they had a "guess the car" contest. They took an Amber Bronze '08 Malibu LTZ with the Ebony/Cashmere interior and covered up every Chevy/GM badge on the car and told people to guess what it was for a prize. Some tool went up to it while I was debating whether or not to enter the contest (the prize was lame, so I passed), and he said to his friend "Oh, that's one of them new Nissan Fits! Write it down!" And I swear, four people around him picked up a slip and wrote "Nissan Fit" on it. When I walked by the car again, I heard someone saying it was some sort of new Kia.

[Robert Hall]

At the Denver Auto Show a few years ago, I was checking out a GTO when I overheard a woman ask her boyfriend/hubby/whatever 'What's a Pontiac?'...he replied 'A Dodge, I think'...

[K.C.]

Edited January 30, 2008 by K.C.

[Sixty8panther]

Those new Nissan Fits are like the hottest cars on the streets right now, Son.

You pick one up, throw some deep-dish dubs on that sucka, it be off the hook!

[pow]

At the Denver Auto Show a few years ago, I was checking out a GTO when I overheard a woman ask her boyfriend/hubby/whatever 'What's a Pontiac?'...he replied 'A Dodge, I think'...

You mean it's not???

[K.C.]

And these are the people in the majority and who the automakers target for volume sales.

[siegen]

These cars (at least in my opinion) are about as different as post-war cars get!

I do see the difference, one being a vert and the other having fins on the back and angled head lights. Other than that, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

I kinda like the red one better.

[A Horse With No Name]

That Aqua and white B-59 is awesome!

[Sixty8panther]

Most Hondas can't handle a dirt road period. Esp. the Ridgeline.

[Robert Hall]

Most Hondas can't handle a dirt road period. Esp. the Ridgeline.

A few years ago, I was off-roading on some rocky, dirt trails up in the high country when as I was descending a narrow trail (several miles from the nearest paved road), I spotted a late '90s Civic 2dr coming up the trail. There wasn't room to pass, so he had to back down the trail probably 1/8 of mile into a turn-out so I could pass... he was dragging his muffler and a piece of rubber from under the front air dam. What a moron.

[Sixty8panther]

LOL, priceless... stupid ricer kids!

[SuperSport623]

the only time i had fun with a honda is when my friend bought a beater... about the only productive thing to do with a FWD car... Tray Sliding!!!11

[Sixty8panther]

I think FWD is useless even for tray sliding. XP tried his best in his chick's W-body Impala

and the trays shattered and splintered...

In my opinion modern FWD cars are only good for one thing: DEMOLITION DERBY ENDURO RACES!

And I can proudly say I've killed several in that way. All of them Mazdas, Fords.

I did also kill a RWD Volvo 240 but it had about 300K miles on the odometer, it had a good life.

[makfu]

A few years ago there was a kid on CarDomain.com proudly proclaiming his 92 STS had "a prototype Northstar". When I, and several others, commented that what he had was, in fact, an L26 (HT4900) 4.9 aluminum OHV V8, he said no, it was a prototype 32v DOHC V8 (he had even affixed a "32v Northstar" label on the trunk lid). I said this was fairly obviously not the case based on the fact that, well, it said 4.9 V8 on the top and looked exactly like every other STS with the L26 4.9 V8. The kid vehemently rejected this notion, further postulating that this was a 4.9 liter DOHC prototype and that we were all just "hating" because he had such a nice car at such a young age (17, IIRC). At this point, I pointed out that the head cover profile was obviously too small to be a DOHC engine and that the entire argument was beyond ridiculous. His response was that we didn't know what we were talking about and his mechanic buddy had confirmed that it was a Northstar prototype.

The best part was that, intermingled with our attempts to set this kid straight, there were other idiots actually backing the kid up?!

I wish someone had an archive of that CarDomain page, because it was full of Epic Fail.

[K.C.]

I think FWD is useless even for tray sliding. XP tried his best in his chick's W-body Impala

and the trays shattered and splintered...

In my opinion modern FWD cars are only good for one thing: DEMOLITION DERBY ENDURO RACES!

And I can proudly say I've killed several in that way. All of them Mazdas, Fords.

I did also kill a RWD Volvo 240 but it had about 300K miles on the odometer, it had a good life.

[K.C.]

A few years ago there was a kid on CarDomain.com proudly proclaiming his 92 STS had "a prototype Northstar". When I, and several others, commented that what he had was, in fact, an L26 (HT4900) 4.9 aluminum OHV V8, he said no, it was a prototype 32v DOHC V8 (he had even affixed a "32v Northstar" label on the trunk lid). I said this was fairly obviously not the case based on the fact that, well, it said 4.9 V8 on the top and looked exactly like every other STS with the L26 4.9 V8. The kid vehemently rejected this notion, further postulating that this was a 4.9 liter DOHC prototype and that we were all just "hating" because he had such a nice car at such a young age (17, IIRC). At this point, I pointed out that the head cover profile was obviously too small to be a DOHC engine and that the entire argument was beyond ridiculous. His response was that we didn't know what we were talking about and his mechanic buddy had confirmed that it was a Northstar prototype.

The best part was that, intermingled with our attempts to set this kid straight, there were other idiots actually backing the kid up?!

I wish someone had an archive of that CarDomain page, because it was full of Epic Fail.

There IS one born every minute! :AH-HA_wink: Maybe all of THEM are on CarDomain?

[Drew Dowdell]

Had One, Never Did Again

[Drew Dowdell]

There was a kid back in highschool who had a white Firebird V6 as far as I could tell, unmodified... don't remember the year, but it was a second to last gen.

He used to brag about the wheelies he'd do...... I would mock him by telling him my FWD Toronado had a V8 and could totally do higher wheelies than his Firebird. His argument against it was always "no way an Oldsmobile is gonna do better wheelies than a Firebird".....

never argued against the concept of a FWD car doing wheelies though.... He was a thinker....

[Robert Hall]

There was a kid back in highschool who had a white Firebird V6 as far as I could tell, unmodified... don't remember the year, but it was a second to last gen.

He used to brag about the wheelies he'd do...... I would mock him by telling him my FWD Toronado had a V8 and could totally do higher wheelies than his Firebird. His argument against it was always "no way an Oldsmobile is gonna do better wheelies than a Firebird".....

never argued against the concept of a FWD car doing wheelies though.... He was a thinker....

'wheelies' as in getting the front wheels off the ground or do you mean tire spin? I'm used to the term 'wheelies' meaning a bicycle or motorcycle up on the back wheel...I don't see how you could do that with a car other a drag car getting the front wheels off the ground under hard acceleration...

[Drew Dowdell]

'wheelies' as in getting the front wheels off the ground or do you mean tire spin? I'm used to the term 'wheelies' meaning a bicycle or motorcycle up on the back wheel...I don't see how you could do that with a car other a drag car getting the front wheels off the ground under hard acceleration...

front wheels off the ground.....

he was totally serious....

he also wrapped it around a tree and blamed it on unexpected sudden acceleration....

[Robert Hall]

the only time i had fun with a honda is when my friend bought a beater... about the only productive thing to do with a FWD car... Tray Sliding!!!11

Wot's 'tray sliding'? Never heard of it..