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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => 73-87 Chevy & GMC Trucks => Topic started by: Irish_Alley on February 21, 2009, 01:45:42 am
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every time i drive my truck around town or even on the high way i get allot of waves and smiles but everynow and then some snobby rich butt person will just wrinkle there nose at me lol. like I'm the bad person that makes their gas price go up
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I know the feeling, get the same treatment around here also. Funny thing is most of the ladies still want to go for a ride ;D
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Old trucks are a way of life around here so I don't see it so much in the trucks. But when I am in my car I get allot of waves, and if I pass a group of bikes I might as well be riding a Harley myself. Thumbs up or a low down wave from everyone of them.
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They just suck, they've bought the best (arguably) of everything money can buy, but character wasn't available. ;D If i judged people like them by their cars, id never talk to anybody with a newer than 2000 ride and it had better have a bit of rust somewhere. ;) I have been known so start licking the inside of the window if they get too full of themselves, it makes the women almost vomit ;D
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I like the snobby ones, I stick out my tongue at um and give them the thumb on the nose/wiggle my fingers.LOL
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I don't have too much of people looking down on old trucks. I just went to the gas station and the only vehicles there were seven 73-80 chevys and gmcs including mine. I never had that many just meet up like that before. kinda wierd, but cool.
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I hate it when people ask me all the time "I BET THAT THING SUCKS ON GAS" well you stupid moron if I didn't built it for gas mileage. And beside thatI don't have to drive it everyday.
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Perhaps they look at us that way because our favorite hobby involves burning lots of fossil fuels. :)
And, perhaps, they don't approve of that hobby. Heck, I don't approve of eating tofu and being a vegan. ::)
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I have heard the gas mileage quip many times but I just figure that I can buy a lot of gas for what they pay every month in a payment. Not forking out $700 a month for a car payment is very agreeable to my wallet.
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i got the looks because it was rusty lol
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Jealousy, because yours is paid for and theirs is not. I don't really care what they think anyway. I have a dream about buying a house in one of the richer neighborhoods, and driving the ugliest truck I have and parking it out front. Course, I gotta start it up every morning at 6am so I can go get a cup of coffee. ;D Oh yeah, I don't drink coffee ;D ;D
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lol starbucks. something iv noticed is newer trucks aint really getting better mpg compared to the older gms that are getting 20 mpg. i also get the question "how much you get, 4" i just laugh and say if im running late to work i get about 5 if im on time i get about 7-8
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lol i actually had a lady about in her 30's come up to me (before i took my truck apart) at a gas station and started cusing me out for no reason, and finaly after she stoped talking i asked her what is your problem? she replied, "all your doing is killing the enverioment and the animals driving the truck" aslo she said "you and every one else who drives thos old rust heaps that get no mileage to the gallon is the reason why as prices are sooooo high" and again she started to cus me out but she started to walk away before i could respond, but when she walked to her car it was a caddiliac esclade, and i said across the gas station "are you kidding me!!!!" and "you yell at me because of gas prices!!!!?" i cant stand how some people mostly the richer people are so stupid 8)
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I was doing some tinkering on my truck one day and landlord comes out and says "Must be hard on gas?" I'm like .. its easier on gas than my 99 4runner was. He looked at me in disbelief.
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I just smile, and give them a nod at the stop light. Then when they look forward I stab it in 1st and watch them practically jump lanes the sound scares them so bad. After I get flipped off I wave at them ;)
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LOL thats the finest thing to do when people flip you off is just smile and wave. heck even here at work when i get into a staring contest with an inmate i usually win cause after about 30 sec of hard staring ill wink and they eather look away or smile and laugh
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People like that think every car and truck built before 87 should be crushed.I don't get much of that here in Arkansas everone has an old farm truck or older pickup they drive. It must depend on what part of the country u live in
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Now see I just love sitting beside someone at a stoplight my exhaust comes out right behind the tires 2 1/2 in 40 series flowmasters with 3 1/2 inch tips. I even had people roll there windows up just cussing and beings that 've got a standard tranny when I take off I useually wind it up a bit in between shifts. Fun as heck.
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I've only ever had one person squawk at me face to face about driving an old truck that gets bad mileage. She was driving a puke green Prius w/ Illinois plates. When she got back in her car and sputtered off, she drove out in front of a late 70s ford sporting a plow frame in lieu of a front bumper. Like, RIGHT in front of him. Old plow truck 1, prius 0. She was screaming at the officer that showed up about how it was his fault for driving a vehicle without ABS, and how it had to be illegal to leave the plow frame on a truck without the plow attached....She got a ticket, the guy in the furd tilted his plow lights back up to where they should be, sprayed some black spray paint over the green prius paint, and went on his way. Justice was served ;D
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these trucks are still very common in my area so I never get a second look. Well I was getting gas once in my 84 gmc and a guy walks up to me and said that truck must have a lot of character. When he got back in his car I noticed he had florida plates.
Now when I'm in my 79 malibu I always have people coming up to me wanting to buy it or talk about it.
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Now see I just love sitting beside someone at a stoplight my exhaust comes out right behind the tires 2 1/2 in 40 series flowmasters with 3 1/2 inch tips. I even had people roll there windows up just cussing and beings that 've got a standard tranny when I take off I useually wind it up a bit in between shifts. Fun as heck.
1st gear plus high revs = car alarms beeping and going off in car lots.. that gets you looks hahaha.
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lol back when i was a teen that was something you bragged about.
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We used to do key bangs to set them off!
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key bangs whats that. must be too young to understand that one
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key bangs whats that. must be too young to understand that one
its when your driving down the road and you shut the key off for a couple seconds while driving and turn it back on it lets out a prety loud back fire and some times flames i did it all the time with my stepside before i took it apart to rebuild the truck, i did once when a buddy of mine was driving behind me, and he knew my truck did that, but another buddy of ours was with him and he didnt, i shut my truck off turned back on while we were in a small tunnel looked in the rear view mirrior and only saw one person cuz my buddy in his pass seat hit the floor he thought he was getting shot at, and my buddy driving almost wrecked his truck he was laughing so hard :D :D, just thought id share that story 8)
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lol. OK my uncle once told me about that, i tried it once but not since, didn't know thats what it was called tho