Sir, you are an Oaf

[fred]

Filling the Forester up with Pez, and a guy walked past , and said ''How do these Sedona's'' run ?

 

''Its a Forester mate'' - Oaf !

 

Had the same many times with my Vennie - ''Love your Cortina mate''

 

''Ehhhh??'' Oaf!

 

 

Even with my darn Camaro, had some twat swear it was a Corvette - ''No sir its a Camaro'' Oaf!

 

 

 

Is it just me? Or is Oafish tendencies becoming rife ?

 

 

[Urko]

People seem to use Cadillac as a generic term for my yank motors.

[Barry Cade]

Try owning an X1/9.

 

Every time at the petrol station..... No, its NOT a FUCKING TR7, you TWAT.

[Jim Bell]

Nice jeep mate.

 

At any 4 wheel drive car.

[Angry Sheep]

When I bought my Austin Metro, my lovely Romanian neighbours: "Is it an Aston Martin?"

 

Easy mistake.

[spartacus]

Eh, am I missing something, are you saying that people are confusing a Subaru Forrester with a Kia Sedona? If so, do you live near a large facility for the poorly sighted?

[2MB]

Maybe the bonnet vent threw them

[panhard65]

When I had my Maserati I had a long conversation with this young lad about it. As he is walking off he says to his mate "good cars those BMW's". I would of been less pissed off if he called it a Hyundai as they did at least look similar.

[andy18s]

Nice jeep mate.

 

At any 4 wheel drive car.

Throw this at a "one life,live it" LandRover driver,and watch him explode......

 

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[gordonbennet]

If i was remotely interested in smart phones...i'm not and never well be world without end amen, i'll stick with a steam powered jobbie ta...i would probably make the same mistake when the next person decides to show me pictures of something i'm also not interested in on their latest i-fone67/songsung intergalactic12, should i ask them if its a nokia to annoy them?

 

Maybe they do know what the car is but possibly owning an old or non german modern isn't allowed in their house or where they live,  so maybe they try to get one up on the owner of the old/different motor they would secretly love to have, i dunno, people is weird out there in nonshiteland.

 

The Jeep thing is just weird, but a handy warning term to see on an advert for another make, keep clear of this twat seller.

[Tamworthbay]

They are just being friendly, almost every time I work on the Capri I get someone telling me they had a 3litre ghia injection special, it doesn't bug me as they are just being nice and want to talk about something they like but in reality have little clue about.

[Cavcraft]

They are just being friendly, almost every time I work on the Capri I get someone telling me they had a 3litre ghia injection special, it doesn't bug me as they are just being nice and want to talk about something they like but in reality have little clue about.

 

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This.

I had more than one person insist my Mk3 Cortina was something else (mostly a Vauxhall Victor or something) but they were just being friendly and wanted to tell you how their dad had one in 1975 or whatever. Not everyone is a raging car fanatic and knows every make and model, but that doesn't mean they're being a twat just for getting your car wrong.

[Timewaster]

A Cosworth at a petrol station always ends up in:

 

"is it a real one?"

 

"yes, it's a real one"

 

"my uncle had a 500hp one, beat concord in a race. His mate sold his Ferrari cos he couldn't beat it..blah blah blah blah......."

 

"yeah see ya mate" *walks off to pay / wait in the shop until moron has gone*

[danthecapriman]

People seem to use Cadillac as a generic term for my yank motors.

I get this with the Mercury all the time. I don't think people generally know about many american car makes other than Cadillac, so when I tell them 'it's a Mercury actually', they say 'oh, never heard of that before'.

 

I've even had some idiot think my Capri was an old Triumph! Really!? I'd have thought a Capri was one of the more recognisable cars out there, even for non car people.

Shouldn't moan really as at least people take an interest and maybe take a bit of pleasure out of seeing old stuff out there still being used.

[Asimo]

The only comments I have had about this Insight have been "not seen one of those Citroens for years".

[fordperv]

I always get people mistaking my saph gls for a cosworth, i always tell them politely it's a gls and always get told a story about how their dad/grandad had a sierra and they loved it, with my Capri I got the standard, you'll need council slabs in the boot for traction, i had a 2.8 laser twin turbo, but on the flip side also had many a chat with very knowledgeable people, the one that sticks in my head was when I popped to the bank, came back to my car to find an old boy standing there just looking at the Capri with a smile on his face, he greeted me as I approached, we had a chat about his white 1.6 laser he had and how his late wife adored it, i offered him to sit in the drivers seat if he wanted, he sat there and you could see the joy on his face as he sat there, as we said our goodbyes he said "you've just made a sentimental old bugger very happy, thankyou" that made my day.

 

As Tamworthbay said they are just showing an interest and being nice, a lot of people genuinely don't have a clue about stuff but like what they see

[New POD]

Wifey went to meet her friend the other week, and she'd got a new car. "Oh", I says, "what kind"

 

"I think it's silver"......

 

 

 

Turns out it was a Fucos and not at all silver. In fact it was a white 1.0 ecotec.

[mercrocker]

When I bought my Austin Metro, my lovely Romanian neighbours: "Is it an Aston Martin?"

 

Easy mistake.

 

It wasn't a Tickford, then.... 

 

Actually I don't have much problem with any of this, as pretty much everybody says in this thread it is just people showing an interest.   I am not much interested in anything outside of old cars and rock and roll so I probably display a similar level of ignorance across every other subject under the sun. 

 

I do, however, get jolly miffed with people TELLING me something I know is wrong, misinformed or just bollocks.   Like the bloke last summer who told me my Cowley should have a side valve because HIS MATE had one FROM NEW and he is NEVER WRONG.  I felt like winding him up saying they fitted twin cam MGA lumps to the last few Isis but he had already wasted too many of my heartbeats.

[Tamworthbay]

I have also had stuff given to me from people who have seen me working on my cars, I had a guy offer me a load of his tools. He flatly refused any money for them on the grounds his kids would only scrap them when he died so he would prefer them to be with someone who would use them and a guy who had spoken to me about the Capri a couple of times who turned up with a NOS water pump, two Webber carbs and a stack of gasket sets, again he wouldn't take anything for them.

[hairnet]

When I bought my Austin Metro, my lovely Romanian neighbours: "Is it an Aston Martin?"

 

Easy mistake.

i want their drugs

[martc]

OAFs are often confused with MANs.

[fordperv]

I have also had stuff given to me from people who have seen me working on my cars, I had a guy offer me a load of his tools. He flatly refused any money for them on the grounds his kids would only scrap them when he died so he would prefer them to be with someone who would use them and a guy who had spoken to me about the Capri a couple of times who turned up with a NOS water pump, two Webber carbs and a stack of gasket sets, again he wouldn't take anything for them.

Had this as well, a lovely chap who I'd never met came knocking at my door with a set of escort rs turbo door and quarter glass and window seals, he also gave me some series 1 rs turbo opening rear quarter windows with hinges and brackets, he wouldn't take any cash for them.

[Rocket88]

The above is what sets us 'shiters apart from the Donald Trumps of this world...................

[Junkman]

1957-63 Imperials usually have their moniker written on the front wings in some chrome plated calligraphy.

If I'd have been paid a penny every time someone looked at it and then said "ah, Impala", I would now have -uh- £0.47 or so.

Similarly my '61 Cadillac was usually called a Chevrolet and my '78 Caprice a Town Car. My Maserati Ghibli was commonly mistaken for a Bitter CD,

prominent trident notwithstanding and more than one lad asked me, whether the Scimitar SE5a I was the temporary custodian of, is a Jensen Interceptor.

But queen of all was that lady with poodle who gave my '60 Buick an admiring glance and said, her uncle Dieter had the very same Mercedes.

 

If you want to avoid such oafisms, get yourself a P6 V8. Nobody has ever mistaken it for something else, because it was Britain's only ever true people's car.

Literally hundreds of people have walked up to me and told me how much they enjoyed being driven in one as a kid by their grandad/father/uncle/etc.

All of them were V8s, mind, four cylinder ones didn't really exist.

[captain_70s]

The general public are under the impression I own a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and a Toledo. Meh, close enough.

[Pete-M]

They're just jealous of your Laguna V6 Kettle.

[trigger]

 

Apparently this looked like a Mk1 Escort so i was kept being told.

[Pete-M]

When I had the Strada 130 TC people would often say "Nice Golf".

 

I don't know if that's insulting the Golf or the Strada.

[hairnet]

OAFs are often confused with MANs.

erf shirley

[Station]

There's a local second hand tool shop near me. The owner keeps asking if the tool I'm about to purchase is going to be used on my Capri. I've never owned a Capri, driven one or owned a car even remotely resembling one. I've said this a few times, but it doesn't sink in - I said 'I've got a Starion - are you mixing the two up?" And he says he must be.

 

I then gave him a lift to pick his car up from an MOT in my Starion and he asked about my Capri!

 

RX7 confused with Corvette and MR2 as a Lotus or Ferrari as well.