Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
Ummmmm hmmmmm
How all my co workers see my car
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mopardude318
Well-Known Member
those damn millennials i tell ya...
Here is how most see mine:
SLOPAR72
Well-Known Member
I consider myself lucky with the group I work with in regards to our interest in all things mechanical. Dirt/street bikes, muscle cars, model A's, and all brands.... We dig on each other all the time but there is definitely something to be said about working with people who enjoy things we all like to do.....
JW
JW
That's awesome. I'm stealin it.
famous bob
mopar misfit
R4Sedan
Larry
That's why all the car companies stop making stick. Because people can't text and shift.
you keep on going against the grain.
TrailBeast
AKA Mopars4us on Youtube
In one of the places I lived in CA there was a bank robbery and the robber took a set of keys from one of the tellers.
Well, he ran out and jumped in the car and found out it was a stick.
He ran back into the bank and demanded keys to an automatic car, but by then the cops were there.
This actually happened.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
i remember when my oldest was a baby, and I still had a stickshift
I was heading up a highway on-ramp, my boy in his carseat in the back
I was feeding him a bottle with one hand, shifting with the other and steering with my knee
I was heading up a highway on-ramp, my boy in his carseat in the back
I was feeding him a bottle with one hand, shifting with the other and steering with my knee
Hauling *** through woods roads heading deer hounds talking on the CB rowing gears and smoking a cigarette.
Standard **** for us in these parts when I was a youngin'.
Standard **** for us in these parts when I was a youngin'.
vntned
Well-Known Member
Nothing more fun than picking the gears for yourself! All my buddies told me that my '64 Dart would be faster with an auto. The car came with three pedals, so it's a 4spd! Might not be as fast but banging gears is where it's at!
Unconventional
Well-Known Member
I used to trade the 289 4spd Ranchero to my little sister for her 4sd Pinto just cuz that Pinto was a hoot to drive. I tried not to think about her trying to scare the crap out of her girlfrenz on those nights
adriver
Blazing Apostle
"She's much to much on the clutch."
"She don't make with no brakes".
First song at my first concert.
1973/74 tour.
Warm up acts that concert.
New York Dolls
Opening act: Aerosmith.
Spot the Dart Sport?
Looks like Bourbon Street.
"Locked Steven Tyler in the party room and left him on his own".
Then
Now.
"She don't make with no brakes".
First song at my first concert.
1973/74 tour.
Warm up acts that concert.
New York Dolls
Opening act: Aerosmith.
Spot the Dart Sport?
Looks like Bourbon Street.
"Locked Steven Tyler in the party room and left him on his own".
Then
Now.
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Nothing like the rear sliding a foot or two the left with every shift and having an infinitely adjustable stall speed.
gunbunny
Well-Known Member
My son used to shift my truck for me when he was a kid. It was just fun for him, so I let him. He's 29 now, and curses me all the time for letting him do that. He wants to grab the shifter by his left hand.
I think it's funny.
I taught both my 30 something kids to drive a manual. Both even can drive a 3-on-the-tree. Older drove a manual up until this year.
On our first date, I had a 98 Mustang 5 speed. I got her a big *** bouquet of roses and I had to hold on to the vase in the passenger seat with my right hand steer and clutch with my left leg and shift with my right hand. It sure was fun driving through town like that!
Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
I work in an office with lawyers and legal support staff. (Won't go into too much detail) but the dress code is business formal even for myself. All of my co workers have new and expensive vehicles. Lots of BMW and Mercedes fill the parking lot.
At the end of the row, is my faded original 68 dart. 2 door H/t GT with a slant six and 833 OD that I swapped into the car because I don't do autos.
So a few weeks ago I got a duster running. It's a junk yard dog but I cleaned it out by removing the carpet and putting a coat of duct tape on the seats and painting the duct tape ( decent IMO), also took the headliner out so it doesn't come apart in the wind and make a mess. so the day I took it to work, a co worker needed a ride.
She looked at the car as if it were a disease, she refused a ride because she had on nice clothes (so did i) she made a big *** deal about it. She said it's not a safe car because I swapped a 4 speed in and didn't weld in a hump yet. I like seeing the rods move as I shift and what's wrong with seeing a little pavement go by. So I told her I wouldn't pick her up If i saw her on a lonely highway.
So she went on to talk crap about me and told everyone I am a hillbilly and classless and everything else.
So I put the above meme as the background on her computer screen and I am owning that I am a self made hillbilly and loving every minute of it. So now I am going to work early to park my hot rod in her usual parking spot.
At the end of the row, is my faded original 68 dart. 2 door H/t GT with a slant six and 833 OD that I swapped into the car because I don't do autos.
So a few weeks ago I got a duster running. It's a junk yard dog but I cleaned it out by removing the carpet and putting a coat of duct tape on the seats and painting the duct tape ( decent IMO), also took the headliner out so it doesn't come apart in the wind and make a mess. so the day I took it to work, a co worker needed a ride.
She looked at the car as if it were a disease, she refused a ride because she had on nice clothes (so did i) she made a big *** deal about it. She said it's not a safe car because I swapped a 4 speed in and didn't weld in a hump yet. I like seeing the rods move as I shift and what's wrong with seeing a little pavement go by. So I told her I wouldn't pick her up If i saw her on a lonely highway.
So she went on to talk crap about me and told everyone I am a hillbilly and classless and everything else.
So I put the above meme as the background on her computer screen and I am owning that I am a self made hillbilly and loving every minute of it. So now I am going to work early to park my hot rod in her usual parking spot.
Rustyfish
Member
I bought both my daughters stick shift cars for their first vehicles so they couldn't text and that they'd have to really learn how to drive.
JDMopar
Well-Known Member
Parking right next to her might be more fun. If you don't have assigned parking, but people have typical parking spots....just be careful not to piss the whole place off. It might be as much or more fun to come in every day dressed nicer than her. She sounds like an idiot, so don't let her drag you down to her level, and beat you with experience....lol.
If you don't have assigned parking, but people have typical parking spots....just be careful not to piss the whole place off. It might be as much or more fun to come in every day dressed nicer than her. She sounds like an idiot, so don't let her drag you down to her level, and beat you with experience....lol.
I see you know my kid. I tried to buy him a Ford Ranger that my neighbor had. The summer before, he had dropped it off at the mechanic down the street, and told him to fix whatever is wrong with it. $2600 later, it had a new clutch, brakes, shocks, front end gone through. He put new tires on it.
Kid didn't want it because it had a 5 speed. The neighbor sold it for $600 bucks.
I need to change my Cuda over to a stick. He'll never want to drive it.
Kid didn't want it because it had a 5 speed. The neighbor sold it for $600 bucks.
I need to change my Cuda over to a stick. He'll never want to drive it.
Louie70Dart
Southern IL. Complete opposite of k-town
Her loss, not yours; if she is that judgmental over a car, what is she like about men? No BMW, no date? Guy could do a lot worse.
67dartgtgo
Well-Known Member
You’re a freakin’ crusader....keep on keepin’ on.
Back in 1999, I was dating 2 women at one time. I had a date with one on Friday and the other on a Saturday. Friday went well. Saturday....
I was on my way back from someplace and knew I was low on gas. I barely made it home! I showered and when I went to leave, the truck wouldn't start. My Camaro was really dirty but the 73 Duster had gas!
I showed up at her door with this car and she made a face as if I shot out a long, loud fart.
"I'm used to being seen in something nice".
Yeah, I followed through with the date (In her car) But the night was tarnished with her pretentious manner. I never called her again.
I married the Friday night Woman in 2002.
I was on my way back from someplace and knew I was low on gas. I barely made it home! I showered and when I went to leave, the truck wouldn't start. My Camaro was really dirty but the 73 Duster had gas!
I showed up at her door with this car and she made a face as if I shot out a long, loud fart.
"I'm used to being seen in something nice".
Yeah, I followed through with the date (In her car) But the night was tarnished with her pretentious manner. I never called her again.
I married the Friday night Woman in 2002.
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