Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: donz26
I had some old man cuss me out (in a rest area) for driving "J *p Cr*p".
I`d love to run into someone like that! Probably just some piece of common uneducated white trash. He`d definitely think twice before making a comment like that to someone again.
I probably would say something along the lines of "thanks for the tip. Have a great day." Then I'd walk away and wait for him to start something for real.
Small-minded people come in all flavors. My '66 Dodge has a "Built when cars were made to LAST" sticker in the back window. I don't take it particularly seriously- I got it with an order of parts from Kanter years ago and put it there just for grins. But then I had a guy get OUT of his car and come up to my window in the parking lot at my daughter's school a few years ago and start telling me how he had 180k miles on his Honda and that no old car could ever last like that, blah blah blah blah. I politely listened, and then said "keep taking care of that Accord the way you are. Then maybe in another 30 years and an additional 150,000 miles it can match what this car has done... so far."
Exactly. Just the other day I was driving my 1976 Chevette and some guy in an Accord comes up to me and tells me no American car from that era would ever last as long as his 200k mile Accord. Oh, wait, it did not actually happen that way as there are essentially zero Chevettes on the road from that era at this point.
The American car industry produced plenty of garbage from 1960 until, I don't know, today. While there are plenty of cool muscle cars around, and props to your collection, I am going to have to side with this "small-minded" fellow and suggest that he has called it correctly and on balance, a modern Accord has more ability to cover tha miles than Mopar stuff from the sixties. I don't mean to be harsh, but let's be realistic.
Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: donz26
I had some old man cuss me out (in a rest area) for driving "J *p Cr*p".
I`d love to run into someone like that! Probably just some piece of common uneducated white trash. He`d definitely think twice before making a comment like that to someone again.
I probably would say something along the lines of "thanks for the tip. Have a great day." Then I'd walk away and wait for him to start something for real.
Small-minded people come in all flavors. My '66 Dodge has a "Built when cars were made to LAST" sticker in the back window. I don't take it particularly seriously- I got it with an order of parts from Kanter years ago and put it there just for grins. But then I had a guy get OUT of his car and come up to my window in the parking lot at my daughter's school a few years ago and start telling me how he had 180k miles on his Honda and that no old car could ever last like that, blah blah blah blah. I politely listened, and then said "keep taking care of that Accord the way you are. Then maybe in another 30 years and an additional 150,000 miles it can match what this car has done... so far."
Exactly. Just the other day I was driving my 1976 Chevette and some guy in an Accord comes up to me and tells me no American car from that era would ever last as long as his 200k mile Accord. Oh, wait, it did not actually happen that way as there are essentially zero Chevettes on the road from that era at this point.
The American car industry produced plenty of garbage from 1960 until, I don't know, today. While there are plenty of cool muscle cars around, and props to your collection, I am going to have to side with this "small-minded" fellow and suggest that he has called it correctly and on balance, a modern Accord has more ability to cover tha miles than Mopar stuff from the sixties. I don't mean to be harsh, but let's be realistic.
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