This aint right is it?

My valiant smokes horribly the first 3 minutes of startup....valve stem seals gone.
One day heading to church a man in his 60-70's pulled up next to me in a new Camry. He was gesturing at me so i rolled my pass window down. He said, "Your cars smoking bad." I'm like yeah it's an old car and the motor is wearing out. He then yells at me "Well, get a new one!!"
I was like, what the crap! I figured this old man was gonna say something like, nice car or something being that he was an old timer and I figured he'd appreciate an old car.
Guess i was wrong.
Also my car is emissions exempt here in Colorado Springs...so if someone wants to call that hotline...good luck to them.