Seriously wrong Car Identifications ?????????

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I confuse even the MOPAR folks on occasion :)
Valiant Signet....

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You guys all have it easy! :poke:Try having "Regal" badging on your rear fenders....

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I got pretty tired of hearing people call Bazza's VG a "Buick Regal" at the MITP show.

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:rofl: And you don't even have a cowl induction hood on the ol' girl.
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We had a guy in my car club who called them Cow In-Duck-Shun.
That's no Bull.
I used to have a Chevy guy at school tell me my Challenger was a Chafee. When I corrected him he said they were the same cars different trim levels.
Best was when my car was at my buddies body shop. He did work for a few new car dealers to add stripes etc to make new cars special on the lot.
Guy told his buddy my Dart Sport was the new Mustang.
 
340six said:
We had a guy in my car club who called them Cow In-Duck-Shun.
That's no Bull.
I used to have a Chevy guy at school tell me my Challenger was a Chafee. When I corrected him he said they were the same cars different trim levels.
Best was when my car was at my buddies body shop. He did work for a few new car dealers to add stripes etc to make new cars special on the lot.
Guy told his buddy my Dart Sport was the new Mustang.
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:BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead: :rofl::rofl::rofl: Wow!
 
Had a local 10 min. type oil change place. One side the sign said the special Oil Change with price. The other side sign had Earl Change. It stayed like that a long time.
 
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A guy I know worked the parts counter at a Ford dealer. Lady came in, I need parts for my husbands car. He's out out of town deployed. His car she pronounced it as his car is Ford Phi-Sew
He went and looked it was a F-150 truck bet ya did not know it's pronounced Phi-Sew
 
340six said:
A guy I know worked the parts counter at a Ford dealer. Lady came in, I need parts for my husbands car. He's out out of town deployed. His car she pronounced it as his car is Ford Phi-Sew
He went and looked it was a F-150 truck bet ya did not know it's pronounced Phi-Sew
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Took a sec for that to register

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340six said:
A guy I know worked the parts counter at a Ford dealer. Lady came in, I need parts for my husbands car. He's out out of town deployed. His car she pronounced it as his car is Ford Phi-Sew
He went and looked it was a F-150 truck bet ya did not know it's pronounced Phi-Sew
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Like the Bro coming in for a part for his "duce and a quarter" (Buick Electra 225) Or as they said "Lectra 225"
 
340six said:
A guy I know worked the parts counter at a Ford dealer. Lady came in, I need parts for my husbands car. He's out out of town deployed. His car she pronounced it as his car is Ford Phi-Sew
He went and looked it was a F-150 truck bet ya did not know it's pronounced Phi-Sew
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:BangHead: :BangHead: :rofl:
 
340six said:
Had a local 10 type oil change place. One side the sign said the special Oil Change with price. The other side sign had Earl Change. It stayed like that a long time.
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That one side of the sign was supposed to be shipped to Brooklyn.
 
I was towing my '54 Triumph TR-2 roadster home several years ago.

Stopped for fuel in Indiana and two guys shouted..."love your Studebaker!"...
 
And meanwhile there's a guy on the net,....complaining that some guy at the gas station called his 1966 Chevy 2 a Dart Swinger.
 
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If I had a dollar for every bonehead that called my Shelby Dakota an S-10, I'd have a SuperBird by now. Just sayin.....
 
In 2007 I was at an SAE lighting standards development meeting. Sat down next to the Chrysler delegate and asked him something or other about the lighting system on the recently-launched Dodge Matrix. Took a beat and a half before I processed what I'd said and had to go "I mean Caliber".

(I didn't beat myself up too hard about it; as far as I was concerned the Toyota Matrix and Dodge Caliber were more or less the same, and I didn't care to think much about either of them.)
 
We had a young couple move in across the street in the spring. The first time I got the Cuda out for trip around the block it was all stop and stare. Any ways, when I went over to introduce myself later that week he asked if the car was a Mustang.
 
My employee, whom I've mentioned previously, is a quite pretty young gal who's had a 1968 AMX for a couple of years now. It's been called a Mustang, Camaro, Nova and Charger because apparently nobody remembers AMC. What really gets her irate, though, are the guys that do remember, think they know something, and ask her about it:

"It's a 290/4-speed car."
"You mean 390. AMC didn't make a 290."
"Weird that they'd put a 290 emblem on each quarter and a decal on the air cleaner, then."
Guy turns to his pal: "She means 390."
She turns to his pal: "He doesn't know anything about cars."

"My buddy had one like this. It this a six-cylinder too?"
"They never put six-cylinders in the AMX."
"Sure they did. My friend had one."
"OK, but AMC didn't build it."
*Guy sees "290" logo on quarter* "Hun, I hate to tell you but the 290's a six."
"Can you count to eight? Or would opening the hood embarrass you?"

She can get pretty savage, but being a "car guy" is a tough gig for an attractive 21-year-old.
 
I had one just like it except it was a brown station wagon with a convertible top and a V-12 Detroit diesel and a 6 speed out of a Ferrari.
 
Studebaker guy took his Stude to a local guy who has built some stout Chevy motors. After studying the Stude's 289 (Studebaker) engine, he went to the local parts store and bought a bunch of parts for a fifties Y-block Ford. None of them fit, of course.
 
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