That's pretty funny. I had an Italian girlfriend long ago. We were watching a movie and there was a yellow 67 Mustang Convertible. Her sister said, "wow, look at that beautiful Ferrari". We explained that it was actually a Mustang, and that I had that exact same car, same color even. She didn't believe us and said we didn't know what we were talking about.
There's a guy here at work who has an old Healy that he's trying to make look like a Cobra... Maybe I should have him drag it out there for you so that you can totally confound your neighbor.
Some people just don't have a clue, 2 conversations i recall. Had a young teeneger ask me one time , "Is that a 56 model" and another guy "Who did the custom work for the rear glass and body". "That would be a 65 model young fellow" and "Ford did the work, it's a fastback design....."
I took my '68 fastback (before I built it into a Shelby clone) down to the GM dealer to get some parts for my Suburban, and the parts guy asked me, "is that a real fastback?" I didn't know what to say, so I bit my tongue and with as straight a face as I could, siad "yes". I really wanted to ask him if he'd seen many "fake" fastbacks driving around, but I didn't. Another favorite of mine happened on a fairly regular basis. Several years ago, my only transportation was a '30 Model A pickup hot rod. It had a 289/4 speed, 5-spoke Americans and lots of fun to drive. I lived in Phoenix, Az at the time and there were lots of neat cars used as daily drivers. My pickup used to get lots of compliments, which is always nice, and seemed to attract lots of people with tales of their old car. They al were pretty much the same, "I used to have one EXACTLY like that! Yep, EXACTLY...except mine was a chevy...and it was a coupe...and it was all stock...and painted green. But other than that, they were EXACTLY alike!"
I had a girl say I love your Corvette, confused i said "Oh yeah, well its actually a Mustang." She kinds ignored me and said i like that one also as she pointed to a Chevelle convertible. Come to find out what she was trying to say was convertible but Corvette must have been on the mind.
Don't tell a man with a broken arm and a torn rotator cuff something so hilarious! It's just to damned painful!
I had my 68 coupe running in the driveway doing some tune up work and this kid (17-18) walks by and asks, is that a 351 in that, I tell him no it's an inline 6 cylinder He says wow it sounds just like a 351, yea right! Guess he felt like a fool and didn't know what to say so that stupid comment came out
I had a few people confused much the same way with my I-6 when I had the header on it....more than one person thought it sounded like an 8...
