My "Ding Bat Rant"

['69Novajoe]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: old5.0</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nobody has any respect for anyone else's cars anymore. Several years ago I went to a show and took an 89 Mustang LX with a nasty little 427 Windsor I had sitting around. Late in the afternoon, somebody points out a guy sitting on the front of my car. I walk over and ask him nicely to get up. He stands up and says &quot;It's just a Mustang&quot;. A little irate at this point, I respond &quot;It'll just be a concussion if you plant your @$$ on my car again.&quot;

It was no show car, just a beat up old street racer, but what makes anyone think they have the right to use <span style="font-style: italic">anyone's</span> car as bench?</div></div>

<span style="color: #3333FF"><span style="font-weight: bold">You just nailed it Tony, it's all about respect. I had a guy do the same thing to my car, leaned against it with me standing right there. When I told him to get off, he said he wasn't hurting anything. Dude, let me be the judge of that!!
</span></span><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jbsides</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Joe, I remember you pointing out that scratch on your driver's side quarter and explaining how it got to be there. It was more or less in response to my asking a donut derelict to not lean on the back of my Lemans Blue '69 SS. Not an original one-owner car, but the thought of what it would take to get that paint back to the way it was, well, enough to make me wonder why I was there at all. I have not been back, and at a club gathering at the shop in Norco last Saturday, my partner and I agreed, it's just not worth it. We have stopped going to shows, Pomona, everything. Sad to say, but the &quot;sorry, buddy&quot; you get for the battle scar is just not fair compensation.

JB </div></div>
<span style="color: #3333FF"><span style="font-weight: bold">I really don't want to get to the point where I don't drive the car or take it anywhere. That's the most fun. I guess things will happen and you have to make the best of it.

Joe</span></span>

[Xplantdad]

Joe...that really sucks!

The nerve that some people have. We must have it a bit nicer (or we are a bit luckier)...as I've only had one occurrence at Pavillions...and believe it or not, it was with another &quot;car guy&quot;.

Joe, you definitely have the right attitude...don't change that.

Maybe make up a sign thanking the inconsiderate jerk for his lack of caring?

Take it easy Joe! Maybe we'll see you this winter sometime... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[CC Rider]

Bruce, were you with me when I saw some guy insert half his torso (up to his belt) through the open window looking inside my car? Happened at Pavillions last year.

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