Do you lie about year?
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From: Virginia
i was waiting in line the other day at the burger king drive thru, and this guy and his chick in a red/wood pt cruiser pulled up next to me and asked if i had the car imported or if it was a new model for 2004, and this is the typical reaction i get, actually, since i rebadged my sc into a soarer. but, despite temptation, i told the truth about the make/model and year. im proud that my 96 is in such shape that people think its brand new 
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From: California
Originally posted by Overclocker
I have the 2000 front end on my '92 and tell people at meets the truth. But I tell the casual person a little white lie.
I have the 2000 front end on my '92 and tell people at meets the truth. But I tell the casual person a little white lie.
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From: D2'sville
Originally posted by Hermosa
Hehe, how embarassing would that be to say you had a 2000 if yours was really a 1992 and that person knew something about the car and pointed out your lack of passenger side airbag, a distinguishing mark of a 92.
Hehe, how embarassing would that be to say you had a 2000 if yours was really a 1992 and that person knew something about the car and pointed out your lack of passenger side airbag, a distinguishing mark of a 92.
In the long run it just doesnt pay to lie. I tell folks the absolute truth about EVERYTHING, year, mileage, how rough the ride is on the Brooklyn streets, whateva man!
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Nope, no lying. No need to when I get people telling me it looks like a 97 (I have a 93) and people who pull into the gas station when I'm filling up for the sole purpose of saying I have a nice ride.
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From: D2'sville
Originally posted by jewelerz
they know its an older car but shock at how good of shape that its in.
they know its an older car but shock at how good of shape that its in.
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From: Florida
Originally posted by tggoodrich
and people who pull into the gas station when I'm filling up for the sole purpose of saying I have a nice ride.
and people who pull into the gas station when I'm filling up for the sole purpose of saying I have a nice ride.
If people ask the year, I tell em. I like older cars better anyways.
SR
Last edited by CmputerWiz; Oct 23, 2003 at 12:19 PM.
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From: New York
Originally posted by CmputerWiz
Down here in south Florida, they do that too. But the next thing out of their mouth is "now gimme the car or I'm gonna shoot ya" LOL
SR
Down here in south Florida, they do that too. But the next thing out of their mouth is "now gimme the car or I'm gonna shoot ya" LOL
SR
You guys think you have it rough down there?
Push a Lex thru Redhook, College Point, Harlem, etc. DGOT will confirm this, there's burned out hulks of stripped cars under every friggin' bridge in Brooklyn. I remember one morning on the way to the Verrazano I noticed it took the cops two extended flatbeds and a towtruck to take away all the stripped cars that had been left there the night before....you can tell they're fresh because they haven't started to surface rust where the paints been burned away. As for you guys lying about year and mileage, it is PATHETIC...I will call you a clown right to your face, stop fakin' the funk.By the way, I think it's cool you guys get comments on your cars, that doesn't really happen to me, maybe I should turn the volume down??
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From: Michigan
Originally posted by Lex Luthor
husler and clocker, you should be ashamed of yourselves
How shallow can you get?
husler and clocker, you should be ashamed of yourselves
How shallow can you get?
My front end is a 2000, but I have the 92 tail lights. I'm straight with car people, but they average person doesn't know and doesn't care.
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From: New York
Originally posted by Overclocker
Get off your soapbox. You yourself have bent the truth about nitrus on your cars when you street raced.
My front end is a 2000, but I have the 92 tail lights. I'm straight with car people, but they average person doesn't know and doesn't care.
Get off your soapbox. You yourself have bent the truth about nitrus on your cars when you street raced.
My front end is a 2000, but I have the 92 tail lights. I'm straight with car people, but they average person doesn't know and doesn't care.
That's got to be the worst analogy i've seen in awhile. Part of staying ahead in racing (professionally and on the street) is keeping your competitors from knowing your exact combination...no one ever really knew exactly what I ran, I tried to keep it as secret as the formula for Coca-Cola
. There is a world of difference between that and having someone ask if the car is a 2000 and saying....uh, yeah, it is. Anyone that does that is a looooser. I also have the newer front but i've never been phony by lying about my year or mileage, i'm not saying that you do but your responses seem to suggest you don't have a problem with that. It upsets me that this thread even exists.