Wondering what gems you guys and dolls have heard.

NSX

Look dehr, sunny boi, dat dare's one of dem dang Ferarri Arura's...(hick ouside Madison)

FIERO

They keep making the motors in these Japanese cars smaller and smaller each year.(Mechanic, while staring at the spare tire in the front)

Your engine sounds like gym shoes and a cat got stuck in a dryer...(Buddy with 300ZX)

SUPRA

It's the One Ring that binds them...(after blowing up engine)

TRANSAM

We're going to have to charge you double, because we're going to have to make 2 trips to get it all. (The tow truck driver cleaning up my wreck)

I could go on and on...

"you ain't pimp till you cop dem twenty fos on your lex like mine"

some white guy at a parking lot pointing at my car.

All I've gotten is a couple "wanna trade?" comments.

All of these in the Elise...

Coming through Nashville a passenger in a Range Rover rolled down her window and started shouting at me. When I looked over she was laughing and pointing to a bag of "Funions". It took me a second but I finally realized she was saying my car was the same color as the bag.


Is that a kit car?


waaaay more times than I can count
What kind of car is that?
(me) A Lotus Elise
Oh, well who makes it?
(me) Lotus
What?!?
(me) Lotus, it's a small british company...
Oh.... (confused look)


I like your Corvette (followed by a mean look from me)


I've got one of those on Gran Turismo! (not always from kids!)


How fast that go?


How many chairs does your car have? (wtf?!? 2 I guess!)


A ton of "how much does it cost" as well as ridiculous price guessing. Apparently people thought it was anywhere from $20k to $240k, although most landing in the $150,000 range.


And a few I've found online or heard from a third party...

What color is that, gonorrhea green?!? (on a Focus forum)


Wife talking to her husband at a VW show...
Husband - I bet that thing is real expensive...
Wife - Not really, its about 40 thousand...
Husband immediately cutting her off - HA! Maybe $140,000!
At this point I laughed and said "No she's right, we paid just over $40,000 for it..."


A breakfast friend of my uncle ("breakfast club" every week) apparently lives in my neighborhood and knew my uncle was into cars. At breakfast one day he says "Oh Robert, you should see this bright green Ferrari in my neighborhood". My uncle plays along and says something along the lines of "Oh really, is it pretty neat". His friend then proceeds to tell him that it's the new Ferrari model and that a "rich young attorney in his neighborhood" owns it, which is priceless because at the time I was working 3 jobs (2 full and one part time) basically just to support the car habit.

^ thats great!

I some some idiot once come to see it and his freakin GF leaned on the wing asking about the car and I asked her to get off it, its kinda expesive...she just looked at me weird, then I told her the wing was 10k....she got off it fast
THEN, the idiot asked
"what kinda Ferrari is that?"
*sigh*
I said its not a Ferrari, its a Lamborghini
he said "wow, a Ferrari Lamborghini"
*SIGH!!!*
I said so, its a Lamborghini DIABLO, not a Ferrari!!!
he said, "wow, a real Ferrari to his gf"
idiots

isn't your other yellow car a Ferrari though?

mah i didnt care
aside from that rude bitch leaning on the wing!!!

So not true...This year at Turkey Run when the guy was looking at ricky Bobby's Lambo and said he had seen lots of Ferraris before...and the line up was all Z's...that takes the cake. LOL!

Were you all dressed like your cars? Sometimes that tricks people into thinking you're driving a Ferrari.

Whoa...Google search came up with 115,000 sites on Ferrari Apparel. Datsun came up with 71,300 + 385,000 for Nissan. That's almost a half million sites! I'm afraid we might actually be more geeky than the Ferrariphiles.

Yesterday I was parked at McDonalds eating inside with one of my co-workers. The youth who works the drive through comes up and the following converstion ensues:

kid: Is that your Ferrari parked out there?
me: No, I only drive a Honda and an Infiniti.
kid: Whatever, I know that's your Ferrari. A guy with a red corvette pulled up at the window and I told him that normally his car would be the coolest car I would see all day, but there is a Ferrari right over there. The corvette owner looks at it and says "If I had the new Z corvette, it would take the Ferrari." I told the corvette guy there is no way you could take the Ferrari.
me: That is true - nothing can beat a Ferrari. I assure my car is a HONDA. If you look in the back of it there is a big engine that says HONDA on it.
kid: Yeah right, nice try. Cool car.

The funny thing is the vette guy and the kid had no idea it was not a Ferrari despite the fact the car was about ten feet away from the drive through.
BTW - THERE IS NO CAR FASTER THAN A FERRARI

Good to hear someone out there preaching the truth

Very amusing.

Funny story. There are people who actually believe that all Ferraris built are road tested and if they don't run 200 Enzo won't put his seal of approval on it and it gets scrapped.


Corvette myth...sometimes when I have the 59 out people say things like, "back when they were steel, before they started building them out of fiberglass"

I get Ferrari alot, even a few at car dealers
sigh
I also get Lambo, but it is yellow and a wedge, so I understand
then again, I got a Lambo too, so its all good
NSX=perfection
Diablo=tublar steal hunk of shit....but oh so fast and fun

took a guy for a ride arround Putnam on the Z06,, it was the end of 3 days in a row on the track in a school and lapping day in the race car,,, so I was pretty gooved in and moving out pretty well.... about half way arround he says" you dont have to go this fast for me" I said I go this fast all the time....

the funny part was the next day when my wife got in the the car and said what is with the door handle,,, I looked over and there were fingrnail marks dug into the door handle,,,, the guy must have had a death grip on the thing

not about my car, but...
i worked in a detail shop in high school, my boss looked at a mid-90's Plymouth Duster, and said " That thing couldn't dust my coffee table."

Recently at our club's spring tune I had a guy approach me about my Z and asked if it had a V-8 in it. I replied: " No, just a straight 6". Then the guy replies to me:"Yeah right, with two more cylinders on it". Me, "Umm, no I built this I would know, wanna bet me $50 that says that I'm right?" His response is" Nah, your way too confident about it". I promptly popped open the hood and his jaw about smacked my fender and says:"Man, I really thought it had a V-8 under that hood boy was I wrong". "Ummm, yeah you were". LOL! What an arse!

Dave

Well i bought the car in vegas and on the way home i got all kinds of crazy ?'s yes i drove it from vegas to cincinnati. 1956 miled from his driveway to mine. oh yea its a 94 toyota supra tt.

i got nice ferrari, a couple of times.

the best was
middle aged woman in colorado; That sure is a pretty car.
me; Thank you
her; Who makes it?
me; Toyota
her; Is that a 2009?
me; No its a 1994.
her; Bullshit thats not that old.
( I show her the title )
her; I still dont believe you. but see ya later.

why do you guys feel such a need to prove what you say to people when they ask questions??

after the fool said it was a Ferrari Lamborghini I corrected him, after he said it again I just didnt care anymore, let him think what he wants

i had the title in the car since i was on the way back from picking it up. and i dont really care but i had it with me and hadnt spoken to anyone in like 12 hours so it was a welcome conversation.

well welcome to the board!!

I get the same thing with both cars.
they always ask if its new or what year it is and they cant believe they are both 01s
guess a good design is indeed timeless

thanks for the welcome.

and sorry for a newb ? ... but is there an annual cruise? like a cincy and indy thing or is that just set up on a whim?

pretty much a whim
webbys been slacking with all the big events like last year

and all the cinci guys seem to wuss out on the Indy/ S Indiana runs

yeah, I've been slacking this spring & summer. Starting this fall there will be much more though.

All the Indy guys wuss out on the Cinci runs too. (except Rick of course)