dumbest questions asked
Racer
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I get people that talk to me about my car all the time. I always try to educate them. If you want, It is easy and fun to make people feel stupid while still learning something without being a smarta$$ about it. For instance the mustang motor comment. I try to avoid being the "Corvette Douche"
There are many out there who look at LT and LS motors as "Vette" motors. They dont realize they also come in other cars and trucks. Although, the dumbass coulda asked what motor it had in it, rather then if the vette had a vette motor in it.
There are many out there who look at LT and LS motors as "Vette" motors. They dont realize they also come in other cars and trucks. Although, the dumbass coulda asked what motor it had in it, rather then if the vette had a vette motor in it.
Last edited by Fixed; Mar 23, 2012 at 04:01 AM.
Racer
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The stupidest question I ever got was in my old 95 black firebird. I had a plate engraved with a firebird where the airbag used to be, and my buddy had a 94 green camaro. We pulled up to a friends house at night, and he hopped in the back. He had only been with my buddy in his car, but I am driving along, and he looks at me and asks, "Why do you have a Firebird in a Camaro?"
Instructor
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From: Wrentham MA
I've never had anyone ask a stupid question or make an off the wall comment. Most people just ask if it's new. It's 12 years old. I did have a guy in a new BMW ride my bumper through traffic the other day and finally get up next to me at the light. I motioned to him to roll down the window and with a smile I asked him, "Is that the new Accord?". He seemed quite insulted and I felt fine. Rod
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From: Wichita KS
I've never had anyone ask a stupid question or make an off the wall comment. Most people just ask if it's new. It's 12 years old. I did have a guy in a new BMW ride my bumper through traffic the other day and finally get up next to me at the light. I motioned to him to roll down the window and with a smile I asked him, "Is that the new Accord?". He seemed quite insulted and I felt fine. Rod
Team Owner
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From: Kannapolis NC
See, that was kind of my point. I've tried to help people in C2, C3, and C5 if I thought I could. How much help would anyone be if they answered the questions the way the OP did? It only takes a second to say "yes" and the guy would have been happy that the OP had a Vette with a Vette motor and this whole thread wouldn't have had to happen. It's ok to give a real answer to a real question. The only question I've been asked that bothered me a little, and I have been asked several times, is when looking at my 65, "how much did you pay for it?" I usually just say, "a lot".
Safety Car
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From: Charleston SC
See, that was kind of my point. I've tried to help people in C2, C3, and C5 if I thought I could. How much help would anyone be if they answered the questions the way the OP did? It only takes a second to say "yes" and the guy would have been happy that the OP had a Vette with a Vette motor and this whole thread wouldn't have had to happen. It's ok to give a real answer to a real question. The only question I've been asked that bothered me a little, and I have been asked several times, is when looking at my 65, "how much did you pay for it?" I usually just say, "a lot".
Pro
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From: Jacksonville , NC
I had a simular question/comment. I was stopped at a light and couple guys pull up and one said. I think your power steering pump is going bad.
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From: Los Angeles
I've never had anyone ask a stupid question or make an off the wall comment. Most people just ask if it's new. It's 12 years old. I did have a guy in a new BMW ride my bumper through traffic the other day and finally get up next to me at the light. I motioned to him to roll down the window and with a smile I asked him, "Is that the new Accord?". He seemed quite insulted and I felt fine. Rod
Melting Slicks
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From: Madison WI
Actually, your jab doesn't work here. His point was that the person didn't know that runflats referred to the tires, not wheels, something that isn't necessarily related to Corvettes. He then chuckled "to himself" that it was especially funny "to himself" because he had a Z06.
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Le Mans Master
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From: Belleville Il
Was driving my BB shark that has a "little extra cam" in in and had an older lady ask why it was running so badly! I DID explain that it was a performance motor and that the rough idle made it run better when it really started to get going
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From: Middletown, DE
Another promoting the stereotype. The best answer would have been an honest correct answer. If someone is willing to ask for information, I am happy to help. Why do you assume that because you know the answer, everyone does? I know smart people who don't know or care the difference in a Corvette and a Mustang. It's not hard to be nice, unless you're just not a nice person.
I am as polite a person as you will ever meet, and I typically answer even the most basic questions (and I am far from a Vette expert so let's make this broader). No gold chains, no "mid-life" crisis about the Vette, no "my car is better than yours," period. I don't look to insult people and I drive my Vette every day, dirty, no garage queen sterotype. Just the otther day I engaged a fellow at a gas station with an old, fair conditioned MG whose first comment was "well, it's nothing like yours" and my first comment was his car was much more rare, and in many ways cooler. I just teased him he really couldn't drive it in the rain. So get off your "stereotype" baloney.
But to see a Vette, and ask if it has a Vette engine, is beyond stupid and Mother Theresa herself would need the utmost of self control not to mock the moron.
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I am as polite a person as you will ever meet, and I typically answer even the most basic questions (and I am far from a Vette expert so let's make this broader). No gold chains, no "mid-life" crisis about the Vette, no "my car is better than yours," period. I don't look to insult people and I drive my Vette every day, dirty, no garage queen sterotype. Just the otther day I engaged a fellow at a gas station with an old, fair conditioned MG whose first comment was "well, it's nothing like yours" and my first comment was his car was much more rare, and in many ways cooler. I just teased him he really couldn't drive it in the rain. So get off your "stereotype" baloney.
But to see a Vette, and ask if it has a Vette engine, is beyond stupid and Mother Theresa herself would need the utmost of self control not to mock the moron.
Race Director
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From: Middletown, DE
Well then, you sound like a swell person who doesn't fit the stereotype, so why did my response to someone who did, offend you? I stand by my thought that it's not nice to be smartass to a kid asking a question about your car. He may have been just trying to start a conversation. Either way he was impressed by the car and wanted to talk.
Simple -- it was the stupidest question I ever heard, and I was offended that you went after the guy who actually had enough self control not to tell the kid directly that it was the stupidest question ever.
Again, I ask -- "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"
If you don't tell me "Grant, you moron" but instead try to be nice to me, you are missing a great teaching moment...
I guess it is a Philly thing more than a Vette owner thing...
Last edited by Rapid Fred; Mar 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM.
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From: Kannapolis NC
Simple -- it was the stupidest question I ever heard, and I was offended that you went after the guy who actually had enough self control not to tell the kid directly that it was the stupidest question ever.
Again, I ask -- "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"
If you don't tell me "Grant, you moron" but instead try to be nice to me, you are missing a great teaching moment...
I guess it is a Philly thing more than a Vette owner thing...
Again, I ask -- "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"
If you don't tell me "Grant, you moron" but instead try to be nice to me, you are missing a great teaching moment...
I guess it is a Philly thing more than a Vette owner thing...
And the correct answer to "who's buried in Grant's tomb" is no one, because tomb's are above ground. It's an old trick riddle.
Last edited by 65GGvert; Mar 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM.