Sir, you are an Oaf

[Cleon-Fonte]

People who come up to me while I'm in the SD1 and moan about how shit their K-series cars were are always fun to deal with.

 

That and the 'is that a Rover 3-litre m8?' club.

 

I usually get around this by driving cars nobody would ever want to talk to me about.

[Elstro1988]

I've never had this with my Nova, I think it's because they resonate with a particular generation - the early to mid 30 something lads who all had one as their first car in the late Nineties to early '00s. I get a few 'not seen one of those for years', 'like your Nova mate' and even a wee lad, only about 8 said he 'liked my car' as I parked it in front of his mother's Euroblob with the Cherry Bomb in full on crackle and pop mode. It's stuff like this that makes me never want to get rid of my pathetic pushrod 1980s shopping trolley, no matter how many still deride them as 'chav wagons' all these years later.

 

Either way, be flattered people are interested enough to comment on your car, even if they may get the name wrong. I wouldn't mind.

 

The Rio is still in anonymous banger territory so nobody notices it..yet.

[bub2006]

I took my mate to fetch something other night,he went to knock on door so I opened boot. Chap cone out and said he hasn't seen an old honda like that in years.didn't state which honda but did make me think what old hondas look like a440?

[Tamworthbay]

I took my mate to fetch something other night,he went to knock on door so I opened boot. Chap cone out and said he hasn't seen an old honda like that in years.didn't state which honda but did make me think what old hondas look like a440?

I guess the 80s boxy ones do slightly (the ones rover made under licence as well) at a distance on a dark night.

[martc]

erf shirley

OK, just to clarify -

 

OAFs are often confused with MANs, ROMANs and ERFs

[Barry Cade]

Had the same with the Challenger.

 

Ooh, I loved that programme when I was a kid, do you have to get in through the windows....can you do the horn?

 

 

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.

[bub2006]

I guess the 80s boxy ones do slightly (the ones rover made under licence as well) at a distance on a dark night.

Concerto?

[Junkman]

I swear, the next time I see someone with one of those gopping E-Types, I'll congratulate him on his nice old Porsche.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I swear, the next time I see someone with one of those gopping E-Types, I'll congratulate him on his nice old MGB.

 

EFA 

[Tamworthbay]

Concerto?

could be a few to be honest, the accord would also fit:

[bub2006]

I don't see it!

[Tamworthbay]

I don't see it!

it's in the post above

[Timewaster]

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

You should have advertised it for £12k then. #missed opportunity

[xtriple]

People keep calling my car a Rolls Royce which annoys me no end, it's a Mazda for fucks sake!   

[Zantimisfit]

Roaming around in the old Mini....

 

"Whats that?"

"Its an Austin Mini"

 

I then have to explain that, no, BMW didn't make Austin Minis, and/or explain what Austin/British Leyland was. To be fair it is recognised a lot by Swedes over a certain age ("ah hundkoja") and, as is the way, you will meet people that used to have one,  but to the youngsters and Eastern Europeans etc it just brings confusion because BMW invented Minis in 2001 and this one is way too old for that!

 

[pandamonium]

People keep mistaking my Daihatsu Move for a recycling bin.

[mercrocker]

Had the same with the Challenger.

 

Ooh, I loved that programme when I was a kid, do you have to get in through the windows....can you do the horn?

 

 

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.

 

Just aim them straight at a bulldozer.....

[EssDeeWon]

I don't mind people commenting and getting it wrong, it happens. No one knows everything. I even had someone call my SD1 a Rover Princess once LOL! And the Rover 75 has been called a Jag by my neighbour.

 

But what I do get annoyed with is people who refuse to take any notice and tell you what it is, one day I was buying new tyres for the SD1 and in conversation I mentioned 'SD1' to the main guy behind the counter, he looked out the window and replied 'Nah thats an SD eye'

 

No its an SD1.

 

Nope SD eye.

 

Is that why there's a Rover SD1 club then?

 

Yeah they are SD eye's.

 

What ever, can I just pay for the tyres please pal?

[Grundig]

 

.....    " look there's a Bentley" 

[junkyarddog]

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

I've had the same in my HC Viva,

but they were young lads and at least they had a bit of interest

[RoadworkUK]

I actually feel a a bit of a swelling of pride when folk see my Rover 800 and say (and this has actually happened):

 

"I bet that goes well with that big V8".

[skoda_fan]

You can see from  my moniker where my automotive proclivities lie. You can therefore imagine the degrees of Oafdom I've encountered over the years...

[sierraman]

It's annoying when you are at a car show and there's a say 1.6 Capri there and someone goes 'shame it's not a 2.8i'.

[fordperv]

That does annoy me alot, I saw a beautiful 1.3 capri at a show and while I was looking at it a couple of cap headed yoofs were talking to the owner saying they would pull the 1.3 out and put a v8 in, bless the old boy owner he told them they had better save their pocket money for a good while to buy one then, I giggled and they walked off, I had a great chat with the owner about its rarity.

[Noel Tidybeard]

when someone comes round and says "thats one of them Barrat houses"

 

no you oaf its obviously a Persimmon

 

i ask you what is with these people

[panhard65]

A few years ago at the NEC I was looking at a Jensen 541 on a fancy dealers stand. The twat salesman had a punter on it and was giving it the full on bullshit. You would think someone selling a car at over 40k (about 10k more than it was worth) would actually of researched his subject and not tell the punter "oh yes it is the same engine as the A-H 3000" and other crap. I suppose it sounds better than saying it was the engine from a hearse.

[Junkman]

Depends on what kind of oaf is interested. I for example would much prefer the hearse engine bit to an engine from an MGC.

Besides, my first ever stockar F1 was powered by a hearse engine.

[Justin Case]

I'm sure that we're all the same with modern stuff, especially the 4 x fauxs. I recently pulled out behind a Nissan Cashcow, and I was genuinely surprised to see a Renault badge on the back   As for new Peugeots,  I pass the dealers every day and I still can't tell one from another, I suppose because I find them about as interesting as washing machines; we had to buy a new one last week and all I cared about was whether it fitted in the kitchen and how cheap it was. I didn't even have to think about the colour

[Angrydicky]

Brooklands today. Having a butchers at a lovely Atlantic convertible that was there. Middle aged know-it-all with two women with him confidently states "Ah yes, built for the American market. It's a 2.5 six cylinder engine with triple carbs under there. Must have been very thirsty".

 

I had to interject and corrected him, that it was in fact a 2.6 four cylinder with twin carbs. "I used to own one".

 

"Ha ha, yeah" was his response. Obviously a guy in his mid twenties can't have owned an Atlantic...

[Uncle Jimmy]

I've mentioned it before on here I'm sure; but a couple of years ago in a supermarket car park a bloke and his little boy walked by the Ovlov as I was getting in; boy says 'dad, look, a Rolls Royce'. Dad says, 'no, it's just a Volvo'.