stupid things said about your car

[orionmojo]

example, today i got a quote to repair my rear quarter after the incident in the slowest crash ever in the snow. and the guy came out and said

 

"well, well yeah. hmmm. yeah it could be fixed i spose, but you've got to ask yourself is it worth it, i mean, how old is this? "

 

me, '69

 

" right, yeah, well do you want to spend all that money"

 

the guys obviously a loon and shouldn't be let anywhere near my classic ford, and dont worry, he wont! i mean i could expect that from someone who was locken up in a cave (or prep school) and had NO idea about cars but COME ON. i thought he was joking at the time, then realised he wasnt weird

[Wessie]

what a twat , how much he quote ?

[mr squidian]

did he drive a saxo by any chance?

[orionmojo]

nope, he didn't drive a saxo. i dunno what he drove tbh.

 

wessie, £250, fix the dent and repaint. its a tad on the cheap side for a pukka job, but the paint is flat on the rest of the car anyway, so it might not matter too much.

[johnny_h]

Bloke came up while I was working on the mex and he said, ooh i've just bought the boy one of these. I said oh, a mk1 escort? He said I don't know what it is...

[orionmojo]

Bloke came up while I was working on the mex and he said, ooh i've just bought the boy one of these. I said oh, a mk1 escort? He said I don't know what it is...

 

PMSL

[Wessie]

£250 doesnt sound tooo bad

[sab6024]

I had some repair work done to the Capri after some T**T in a Golf hit it. After taking back to the garage 4 times to get the work done properly and bits fixed. The guy who runs the garage told me "You're just fussy". NO F**kwit when I want a job done I want it done properly. Not much to ask is it. I told him I couldn't have done a worse job with Hammerite and a paint brush. Needless to say we don't pass the time of day now.

 

I know it wasn't silly but I was pretty F**ked off.

[orionmojo]

£250 doesnt sound tooo bad

 

it doesn't matter, he's not getting the job anyway

[Wessie]

too right

[sab6024]

A guy was looking around the Capri while I was filling it up one day. He asked me what it was, I said a Ford Capri. He said, yeh I had one of these once.

 

Duh!!!

[Wessie]

the worst thing is being called fooking 'harry potter car' when my anglia's being towed around

[atomic punk]

the recovery bloke who picked the cortina up when it broke down said that he had had one once, with a 2.8 V6 Pinto

 

I had a similar story when I took the Escort for a quote from somewhere that was reccomended. Conversation went a bit like this

 

'door gaps are uneven' well, it is a 30 yr old Ford......

'THere lots of surface rust, needs to go to bare metal...... ' yes I know I'm not stupid

'TBH mate its really not worth the bother...' B******s to you then, your loss, I'll just do it myself

[escort21]

The last twat that drove into the side of the 'tina said........nice car (was before you hit it c**t features ) is it an rs2000

[Cookie]

He asked me what it was, I said a Ford Capri. He said, yeh I had one of these once.

 

Duh!!!

 

Memeory obviousley aint what it used to be

 

People make you laugh don't they, yea I had one of those for years, just can't remember what it is

 

 

Why you bothering to fix up a 35 year old car thats covered in rust? , just buy a newer one

Why, cos this rusty old car will be worth 5 times what your shitty mondeo/astra/rover/citreon/pugeot (please delete where appropriate )

 

 

 

some folk just aint got the brains they were born with

[ratman]

At the ace bloke comes up with his tag a long m8

 

AAAHh Mk1 cortina look at that the interiors not original and walked way

 

But the best one so far was the first time I went to the surrey mk1 cortina pub meet at The Marquis of Granby, Esher

 

I pull in and a crowd gathers around my motor then one bloke walks up looks all around the car shakes head and walks away

gess he didnt like it

[72mk1escort]

Sounds like a right plonker

[RFChris]

Cookie, you hit a chord there....

 

"Why don't you just buy a new car?"

 

:evil:

"Because I DON'T FOOKING WANT A NEW CAR......knob head"

 

ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

[escort21]

"Because I DON'T FOOKING WANT A NEW CAR......knob head

 

 

YFKT

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

I had someone ask if my Capri was a 2.8 once. I said "erm, yeah"

 

They then asked if it was the Injection model

 

I thought to myself, I have injection stickers on the front wings & a 2.8 Injection sticker on the boot. Can they not read???

[orionmojo]

i had someone ask me if mine was a real 1600e once, i banged the roof and said yep

 

i dont think he got the joke, and i knew what he meant, but its got the badges, the wood, and the 1600 engine (the bonnet was upat the time)

[GT_Jim]

Ive had a few mainly it a real GT - erm yes

 

i had one with 2 doors - that gets on my nerves it doesnt matter

 

but the best by far was wen me and a m8 were out in his mk3 3.0s cappas we got bored and went to a local cruise 2 laugh at chavs.

 

so we got there and he put the bonnet up to show off the chrome when some guy and his standard mate come over and start talking about the car

 

then he drops the clanger to his m8 "this is the turbo's one" its there and points to the power steering resivoir!

 

my m8 turns around and tells him what it really is and that this doesnt have a turbo so his only reply is "how the f**k do you kno" by which point a crowd is slowly growin to look at the car

 

so my m8 dangles the keys in his face and tells him that its his car. this guys face drops as a small group of people laugh at him and his m8 so they walked off

[Smudger105e]

Had a Guy yesterday looking at pics of my Anglebox, and he said "they made a Lotus one of these, like yours but with a green stripe they were."

 

Me: "No, that would have been a Cortina, they only made Anglia's in 997 and 1198 engine sizes"

 

Him: "No, I had a Lotus Anglia built by Ford, with the twin cam engine and everything"

 

Me: "Whatever"

[andyg]

bet it was quick with a lotus lump

[MK5]

my 2 door MK5 Cortina had an RS2000 engine and an RS2000 sticker on the boot.... I took her to Quack Fit in Ivybridge to have the tracking adjusted and I told the guy she was a Cortina. He was adamant she was an Escort... I asked why, he said because it says RS2000 on the boot. I told him I stuck the sticker on and that she was definitely a Cortina. He didn't believe me. Needless to say I didn't get my tracking done there!!