Driving home last night, sitting at a light. A mid '80s MB wagon diesel pulls up next to me.

Next thing I know the passenger window rolls down, and a middle aged woman leans out to ask me about my car. The woman looked like she had not spent much time indoors. Very weathered, if you know what I mean.

Two years ago when I first got my car, I was used to this happening almost every day, but in jaded SoCal, the occurances of this have greatly diminished.

In a very friendly manner, she asks me what those "things" on my car are. She is making a circular motion with her finger, so I am really confused. She can't possibly mean my wheels, every car on the road has them, so I ask her to be more specific.

She says, "those things on you wheels" and is now pointing more specifically at my front wheel.

I don't have anything on my wheels, they are just factory Rays, so I ask her again, can you be more specific.

She says, "Those gold things". This time she is starting to get annoyed with me for not immeadiatly understanding what to her is the obvious.

So now I can answer her question, "Those are just my brakes". I didn't even want to say calipers for fear of further confusion. To which she replys, "Really, can you show me?". I'm baffled at exactly what she wants to see, so I patiently explain that they don't do anything that is visible from the outside.

Her parting comment as the traffic light changed was, "I don't know much about cars, but I want those on my next car. The're so pretty!"

All I could do was smile and continue on home.

So whats the dumbest question anyone ever asked you about your car?

 

Most people: "Is that a Porsche?"


(I have -Z- medallions): "Who makes the -Z- car?


Cop: "How fast does that thing go?"

 

On obvious joke but a stupid question that was pretty funny, when Dodge was making those commericials someone asked,
"that got a Hemi?"

 

Haha i think it actually does though. VQ series engines use hemispherical heads if i recall correctly, but i could be wrong.

 

I thought a true hemi and hemispherical heads AND domed pistons??