warrenmj

I went to Lowes today to get some faucet repair parts and I was wearing a Corvette sweatshirt. Walking down the isle, an employee helping someone else saw my shirt and said "hey, I have a '78 Vette". I stopped and said I had a '66 and the gentleman he was helping said "I used to own a '64 steel body Corvette with a 6 cylinder". I asked if he was sure it was a Corvette (while the Lowes employee tried his best not to laugh)? He said it sure was, so I just said I bet you wish you still owned it and moved on.

It's always nice to have an unexpected laugh during the day

vettpapaw

I had about the same experience a few days ago. Standing in line,the guy behind me saw my vett cap and said he had a new base coupe. He couldn't afford the upgrade model, he wanted one of the new V6 models but they were sold out!!!

Randy G.

I thought my 78 was a one of one car. Hmmm.

Captain Bud

I'm a young looking 73 year old minus a 6 pack and hair. I was driving my 1960 stopped at a light. A car full of young girls pulled up next to me. One of the girls yelled "Hey mister, what kind of car is that?" I responded, "It's a Corvette". The girls began to laugh. They yelled back, "Mister, you wouldn't know a Corvette if it ran over you. That's not a Corvette."
Sigh, I thought the car would make me a chick magnet. Seems like the only ladies that recognize the car were born around 1948.

DansYellow66

Corvette -- Corvair -- Chevelle -- it was probably one of those Chevy models that started with a "C".

warrenmj

I actually asked him if he meant he owned a Corvair and he said no, no, a Corvette!

Randy G.

Chevette? Now that's a classic.

Jalopy31

Yep.

When we were in high school, one of my brother's best friends called to tell him he got a new car for his 16th birthday. When my brother asked what he got, he told him "I got a Vette". We went straight to his house to check it out - only to find a Chevette in the driveway.

Nowhere Man

My Chevelle is the poor mans Corvette with its baby BB under the hood

Duck916

Not quite in the same ballpark, but one of my golf buddies loves to talk about the '67 fuelie he used to own.... I don't have the heart to tell him that his memory might be a but faulty....

tuxnharley

They acquired the nick name of the Chevy Shovit......

Railroadman

You wonder what goes on in the mind of someone like that. Either they know damn well it's total BS and they say it anyway, or their memories are so completely gone that they no longer have any idea what they used to have.

OP is a more patient person than I am, not sure I could have suppressed making some sort of comment!

Dan Hampton

A number of years ago, I had a '54 with a L 79 transplant + Muncie. Honduras Maroon with Tru-Spoke wire wheels. It was an eye catching car.

I stopped at the local library to drop off a book and a gaggle of ten year-olds, on bikes, came up to the car and asked if it was a Ferrari.

A poor man's Ferrari, I guess....

jim lockwood

That is absolutely priceless!

3JsVette

Totally understandable and not surprising in the current world we live in.


And it never ceases to surprises me just how many "experts" are out there willing to share their story.

rick1542

This should be in the "Friday Funnies"

Frankie the Fink

Something similar happened to me in my 61 dual quad 270hp solid-lifter car with off road mufflers. It resulted in me smoking the tires and a roaring, high-RPM launch and I wonder what the morons thought of my Corvair after that...

OC-1

A young couple stopped by the 63 coupe one cruise night in Somerville and asked what kind of car it was and who made it. For an instant I was stunned and questioned my state of consciousness and then wondered what cloistered monastery they grew up in.

Telltale signs that the world has moved on and some of us haven't.

juanvaldez

Gun "experts" can be more fun. I met a guy who could make 500 yd shots with .22LR and another who shot through car blocks with .38 super.

solidaxel

.... or how about the neighbor that bought the first 83