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Can you top this?

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we had some trouble with our new dryer... the service man comes out and goes to the garage where both the dryer and the NSX are... he says to my wife, "gee, that's a great car... what is it? a camaro?"
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No it has pop-up lights, so it must be a Firebird without the barfing chicken on the hood.
 
i heared they are going to stop making the camero so hopefully stupid people will not say stuff like that anymore...
p.s. i've heared camero, mustang, vette, feiro, ferrari, kitcar. etc. i think it would be easyier to think what the car hasn't been called

[This message has been edited by smoore (edited 30 April 2002).]
 
i was out on a trip when the dryer guy came out... i almost bust a gut laughing when she told me about it... apparently, she had all she could do to keep a straight face...

since my wife cuts hair, maybe i could ask her for that mullet i've been wanting so bad...
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Its funny, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area... a lot of young people know the car pretty well. I hear little kids like 10 years old yell at me NSX NSX!!! sometimes... I wonder if this has anything to do with Gran Turismo.
 
Originally posted by kenjiMR:
Its funny, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area... a lot of young people know the car pretty well. I hear little kids like 10 years old yell at me NSX NSX!!! sometimes... I wonder if this has anything to do with Gran Turismo.

I live in San Diego. Just this past Sunday I was hanging out with my brother in Pacific Beach at a Dairy Queen. A little boy (guessing about 6 years old) and his father saw my car. I heard the little boy saying from far away "look daddy! an NSX an NSX!!!" The father said "Yup, that's an Acura NSX!"

That put a big ass smile on my face!
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So far, most people know what the NSX is. The others, they've guessed a "new Corvette", and a Ferrari. Of course, that's when I reply "No, those are in the shop."
 
Hi,

Just last weekend, my brother took the NSX to a local Smoothie shop, and while in there, he overheard some teenagers talking about the car- one of them asks, "Is that a new Mustang?" The friend replies, "Yeah." That really got my brother laughing inside.

Once, an acquaintance of ours asked us if our car was a 3000GT!
I try not to take these insults too personally J/K
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When I was driving my car after my purchase (from ND to CA) I stopped at a rest stop at the ND & MT border. A minivan pulled up and a bunch of kids jumped out and bolted to my car. It was the biggest drooling fest I ever saw! The father comes by and says:

"Thats's a.... a.... a.... McLaren! Yeah, that's what it is. What a great car!" I told him he was incorrect and that it was an Acura NSX made by Honda. He insisted that I was wrong. I told him Honda built it, the same company that builds Accords and Civics. He still insisted otherwise. I then showed him the NSX plate on the door sill stating it was manufactured by Honda. He was blown away. Never though that Honda could produce a supercar like this. Well, he thought wrong.

Later in my trip, I had another guy call my car the new Nissan Z. Since the Z was discontinued in '96 and I bought my NSX in '97, he was so sure that I was driving the next generation Z. Couldn't believe the changes Nissan made to the car, he said. I told him it was an NSX. A what? "N" "S" "X". He then recalls seeing the car years back and thought it was the prototype for the next generation Z until I set the record straight.

I like driving a car that people have a tough time identifying. It's amazing that this car was produced over a decade and yet people today who see my NSX said they never saw this car before.

I like that!
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Vytas

[This message has been edited by Vytas (edited 01 May 2002).]
 
I was in a deli with one of my 'car guy' friends and as we were paying, the register guy says, "hey, you like cars? Check out that F40." I turned around and, sure enough, he was pointing out the window at my car. I said, "no, that's my car; its a Honda." He replies, "dude, I know what an F40 looks like and that is an F40." I show him my car keys. He doesn't believe me. I use the alarm remote to make the lights flash. He STILL doesn't believe me. Finally, the lady in line behind us (about forty) says "shut up you loser - its his car, I think he knows what it is. Bsides, my husband used to hav an NSX and that is an NSX." So, the guys starts arguing with her that it is an F40 as we go sit down to eat.
 
One time after a long long night spent at a strip club, me and my friend went over to an IHOP with some of the girls around 3:00, a few more showed up and came over to our table, one of them said to all of us "We just came over to "blank" the guys with the Corvette and Lexus"...
Needless to say, my car was a Corvette for the next 4 hours.

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1992 NSX Red-Black 5-Speed
 
The unanimous response for me so far is vette. I guess I have to desensitize myself to these response. Additionally, my people see me driving the car and tell me to burn some rubber (not a chance). If I want to burn rubber, I will do it in my T-bucket.
 
Maybe he was just trying to get under your skin?
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I remember this one time I was at a small club in Newport Beach, and these two guys who think that they are the HOTTEST thing since sliced bread drive in a new $130,000 Z8. These guys were right out of the Saturday night live skit (those brothers who bob their head to the song "what is love"). Anyhow, they are raising a big stink and flashing cash at the front of the line, so I go to my friend "Check out the guys in the 1997 Z3.

Man..... to see the guys face. ouch.. LOL.
 
I had a Guy come over to fix our Hot Tub came in through the garage and asked if the car was a " KIT " car I said HELL NO!!!MAN it's a NSX what's that he said. The Dude had no clue what a Acura was so I told him should of known driving a run down Mini Van.


Steven 91 Blk/Ivory
 
I once had a kid argue with me that my car was an integra with a "JDM total body kit on it" he said hew was looking for on for his integra. Usually the young ricers know what it is, this guy just surprised me.

corvette is the most popular response then a ferrari.

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The newest one for me is twice in the last month or so being mistaken for an MR Spyder.... bleh.

"That's the hard top version of the new Toyota MR Spyder, huh? Those are pretty cool"

Other than that, it's the usual -
 
I was pulling into a local Hooters, and the staff saw me parking. So when I walk up into the restaurant, about 3 of the girls rush up and ask if me it's a Ferrari. I tell them no, it's an NSX. Then I see the chef in the back smile while the girls hand him ten bucks each.....

It's always a Ferrari with me....only 1 or 2 corvette inquiries.

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Ten years ago the NSX was even more rare than today and the rice crowd was in diapers. I had a great line to their inquiries - "It's the new Prelude, it's 14 grand and it's at the dealers next month."
 
A coworker asked me today if I still had my car since I tend to go through them every couple years. He wondered when I would be getting a Porsche.

Naturally, I answered:
"Porsche??? Why would I downgrade?"
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My S2000's been called a Porsche, BMW, and Audi.. but the one that its called the most is... the Miata
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..wait and "what a cute car!" NOO its not cute...
 
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