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What's The Weirdest Thing Anyone Ever Said or Asked You About Your Car?

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Funny the last comment was about being called a Vette. My early E-type coupe was called a "horribly modified corvette" that should be given to someone who actually appreciated the original design by one guy.
 
First time I took the 100 to a local autocross, the young person doing tech inspection took one look at the knockoffs and said "those will have to come off". I explained their purpose to him, to which he responded "Really?" and then watched in amusement as he tried to locate the battery.
 
Not long after I got my MGA a neighbor was walking by our house and said, "nice looking Healey" to which my husband said, "she wishes"!
 
This didn't happen to me, but to a friend who was selling his 260c.i. V8 powered 100/6:
Couple of 'know-all' blokes turn up to inspect the Healey but are disgusted to find the car had been modified. My friend Rick explained that the conversion had been done in such a way that reverting to Austin power would be straightforward. He even had a six cylinder engine to go with the sale. They weren't impressed and as they left, Rick overheard their conversation:
"Fancy doing that to such a beautiful English sports car" says bloke one.
"That's nothin" says bloke two "you should see what he's done to the other one".
Alongside the V8 powered six in Rick's garage was his 100S (3909)!
 
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pan said:
This didn't happen to me, but to a friend who was selling his 260c.i. V8 powered 100/6:
Couple of 'know-all' blokes turn up to inspect the Healey but are disgusted to find the car had been modified. My friend Rick explained that the conversion had been done in such a way that reverting to Austin power would be straightforward. He even had a six cylinder engine to go with the sale. They weren't impressed and as they left, Rick overheard their conversation:
"Fancy doing that to such a beautiful English sports car" says bloke one.
"That's nothin" says bloke two "you should see what he's done to the other one".
Alongside the V8 powered six in Rick's garage was his 100S (3909)!
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Nice Aston Healey ....you must be loaded to own one of these . Wheres the ejector seat ?
 
I don't consider the following story to be weird at all, and most of you probably won't either, but my wonderful wife of 20 years thinks it is and that it deserves to be added to this thread.

I have been living in the USA since 1987 and so my 100 languished away in a rented lock up back in the UK. I was supposed to only be seconded to the US for 2 years, but these things change and I was kept on at the US branch of my employer. Jump to 94 and Mary Anne was on her first trip to the UK to visit my family. We were already engaged, but I told her that her reaction to the raising of the lock up garage door would determine the future of the engagement! She thinks it is weird that a car should have any baring on her marriage, seems perfectly normal to me:smile:
 
Thanks, Rick. I thought you'd like that one!
Alwyn
 
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