Driving home from the Pearl harbor base gym when out of no where comes this black late model murcury cougar from behind me. The car is honking and weaving through traffic and what not. At first i figured it for another baseball hat on sideways teenager wanting to race (already had that happen this morning, riced out mistubishi with wing). Anyway, it was no invitation to race, but two very good looking females trying desperatly to get my attention. The driver was a lovely black Army girl ( those BDU's give them away every time) and the passenger was a very stacked local looking gal ( as in hawaiian,..er or polynesian). There both waving and the passenger gal is waving and screaming "hey , hey ,hey". Motioning me to drive along side. I'm not gonna bore you all with details on the none story that is the rest of this incedent. Suffice it to say there must be some truth to the old Bil Paxton line from "True Lies". I could say it was the fact that i spend two or three hours in the gym every day that got there attention, but as nice a day it is in hawaii the t-tops werent off. I could say they mistook me for someone they though they knew or assumed the car was an exotic and i was a rich guy. Possible, but not likely, we drove alongside each other long enough to realize we were all strangers. And no self respecting rich guy whould drive a filthy unwashed black exotic. So, we can only assume that ,...SOMETIMES,...the vette is the Azz magnet some claim it to be. And i think thats something we can all live with.

 

You at least got phone numbers?

 

If you did not stop and talk to them at least, I am going to be really pissed that I read all of that.

 

They probably wanted to tell you about your tail lights giving off sparks or something. These old cars have all kinds of electrical problems.

-Mark.

 

Moments like this make it all worth while!!!

OK, here's the OTHER side of the story.....

..... at the end of my neighborhood is a 24-hour CITGO station/convenience store, which I rarely use, as my grand-father had 37 years with Sun Oil Co. (SUNOCO), and I try to use thier products exclusively, but, on-occasion, I will stop-in for a few gallons of gas, a bag of cookies, a Diet Pepsi, etc.

Besides my low-mileage '82 Vette, my other cars included a low-mileage '97 Monte Carlo Torch Red Z34, a Flame Red '91 Sportside used to tow my '79 Red Z28 on my now-infrequent trips to the strip, and my 'daily-driver', a Charcoal Gray '93 Dodge Dynasty.

It seems I'd always get the same kid to wait on me at this store, and he'd always have a T-shirt with a 'car-type' logo on the front, but he NEVER mentioned any of my (usually) spotless cars at the pumps, until when I happened to stop in my filthy Dynasty one day:
the kid went bananas over it!
:confudsed:

He asked me what year it was, which motor it had (like there was a 'good' one offered???), how many miles it had, etc., and said if I ever wanted to sell it, let him know, cause it was JUST what he wanted.....


Last year, I blew several years of dust off the Z28, loaded-up, and made a few test-and-tune sessions at the strip:
after one, I stopped the rig in-front of his store, and ran inside for a quick bottle of Diet Pepsi.

The kid took one look at my 'rig' parked outside, and exclaimed:
"Is that YOUR truck and race-car? I've never seen it before....."

Kinda cocky, I said, "Yeah, just coming home from making a few passes at the strip, why?"

The kid frowned, then asked:
"You didn't sell the Dynasty to buy that race-car, did you???"

 

Oh MAN GLEN! That is rich!

 

Proof that the drug epidemic among our youth is more widespread than we'd anticipated. . .

 

Makes ya feel kind of OLD. donnit? Kids these days! Too much "Fast & Furious" for their own good. It's amazin' how many Hondas, Mitsus and Nissans pass for "awesome rides" these days. The GOOD ones are quite fast and excellent, but like hen's teeth, they're few and far between. Remember guys, no "ricer" is worth losing your license over, racing is best left to the track no matter how tempting it may be. Sheesh, hope I didn't sound too much like a wuss there !

 

I don't even know what a Dodge Dynasty is?? Seriously. . .

 

well, I remember the dodge box with the crystal hood ornament

but I though they stopped production in like 88 or so???.....Robert
ps.....not saying your but I thought they were late 80's .........anyhoo

 

it's a K car I believe, a couple 9 sec turbo ones out there.

 

Oh yeah. Beware the K car. There are many out there that'll smoke you. Wait until you run across a turbo Dodge minivan. It isn't all that funny when you know what people do to those K cars. It gets less funny when all you see are minivan taillights.

 

Do you have pictures?

 

Isn't it the doge version of the chrysler new yorker??

 

Never, never, never happens to me.

 

I think Marck is correct:
I'm not a 'Dodge-guy', my dad had a buddy who sold them, he helped-out a few nights a week there in the sales department, and he bought this Dynasty new, which I bought from him to 'save' my Chevrolets from the roads maintained here in Pa. by PENNDOT.


I think '93 was the last Dynasty, which was replaced in the MOPAR line-up by the Intrepid in '94, and is a boxy, 4-door, 6-cylinder 'lump-oid' bereft of styling:
my dad's car had just 28,000 miles on it when I bought it in '01.


All of my other cars (save for my Black '82 Vette) were sporty Red Chevies with aluminum wheels, so I bought a cheap set of 'chrome' twisted-spoke wheel-covers at Wal-Mart:
I think that is why the kid at my local store likes the car so-much.....


My girlfriend says it makes the Dodge look like a " pimp's ride ", and calls me " Pimp-Daddy ":
I tell her to " shut-up, Mama, er I'll drop yo' azz off at de next street-corner...yo' dig? "