Grrr.... local A70 owner FTL...

[supra90turbo]

So I'm at wal-mart, and as I'm leaving I hear a familiar sound... look up only to see a 92 Supra. Teal/shadow gray auto with an exhaust. Some 30-something driving it. Couple random splotches of primer on the front bumper, light rust on the wheelwells. He proceeds across the parking lot to find a space to park, and I turn to my friend and just say "yeah, i'm going that way"
and he's like "yep, i'll go grab the car and meet you there"
typical occurance, he knows the routine.

I walk towards where he parked and meet him walking.
this is how the conversation goes.
I spoke the words in bold.

Notice then that he's a 30-something balding gentleman whom is wearing a mechanic's uniform.

"Hey, man. Were you just driving that Supra?"
"yep"
"Want to sell it?"
::scoffs:: "You couldn't afford it"
"Are you serious?"
"yes I am."
"well, I guess I'd better sell the 3 that I've got, then, huh?"
"doesn't matter. the car's not for sale"

Keep in mind that he never stopped walking and I had to follow him inside to have this "conversation".

MK3 owner with the mindset of a "typical" MKIV owner.


Is it sad that I went up to the car and as I looked at it, apologized to it that it would never get the love it deserves? lol











feel free to move this if it is OT, mods.. sorry if so.

 

[MassSupra89]

Hahaha that's funny.
He dug himself as deep as possible when he said "You couldn't afford it"
I bet you can't wait to get your build done and see him again lol

 

[MDCmotorsports]

Maybe it was the 2j leaking into his brain from under the hood?

 

[supra90turbo]

Right you are, Jason. He looked a bit confused when I said I had 3.
Jon: LOL Perhaps he watched too much of the first FnF....
All I could think of afterwards was "More than you can afford, pal. Ferrari"

 

[ForcedTorque]

I hate when a Supra owner has no sense of community

 

[MassSupra89]

Yea the Ferrari guy is what I thought of when I read it. He must be used to saying that to all the "OMG iz that a Suupra??" kids?

I think there's an A70 guy like that around me, he works at a Billiards hall in the next town over, my friend's got an old Celica and talked to him once and the guy was acting like he was so much better than him he said. I see a silver MKIV parked there sometimes too, but I think it's NA. I should go in sometime and talk to him, I'm thinking of not saying I have a Supra at first and seeing what reaction I get.

 

[supra90turbo]

Yep. Wouldn't even stop to talk to me.
When I see him on the side of the road, hood open, steam everywhere, you think I'm gonna stop to help? nope!

I'm going to fly home, write a check for $1,000 and give it to my Dad for cash.

I will go back and stop, wave the money in his face and see what he has to say THEN.
lol

 

[IJ.]

Shouldn't be a surprise there are quite a few cockspank Mk3 owners that need bitch slapping IRL

 

[Doward]

Shouldn't be a surprise there are quite a few cockspank Mk3 owners that need bitch slapping IRL

Hear, hear! I know of a couple guys like that, but thankfully for every lame MK3 owner, I've met 2 good ones

:love: for the Supra Community

 

[SupraDerk]

It's funny you should mention a Ferrari. I was out towards Orlando about a week ago and this Testarossa came hauling ass up behind me. We got to a stop light and he pulled up next to me, gave me the thumbs up, said "nice Supra"...the light changed, and he continued to haul ass!

But that sucks, man, every MKIII guy I've run into around here (all 2 of them) have been pretty nice

 

[johnathan1]

Shouldn't be a surprise there are quite a few cockspank Mk3 owners that need bitch slapping IRL

lol...IJ is so badass.

I can't believe he would say something like that...When he said you can't afford it, I would have been like "What makes you so sure?" Oh well, don't feel bad, he'll get his serving of Karma . He doesn't deserve that car.

 

[IJ.]

Had a guy once approach me to make him some custom IC pipes full of attitude like it was a privilege for me to work on his car!
(Like yeah working on a 15+ year old $5000 Mk3 toyota is nowhere near as prestigious as working on 2 x $250.000 race cars with a $750.000 annual budget)

He seemed butthurt when I told him he couldn't afford me to work on his car and to take it somewhere else......
(the attitude set my price and no matter how much money he had it wouldn't have been enough)

 

[kwnate]

Like you'd buy a teal car anyway...
























Right?

 

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

Shhh don't say that nate--you'll hurt Adam's feelings lol

 

[Jeff Lange]

If you came up to me and asked the same question I probably would have told you a similar story. Well maybe not that you couldn't afford it, just that you wouldn't like what I was asking. It's way beyond reasonable for it. Though I probably would stop to talk to you for a bit anyways. It's hard to get a feel for someone's attitude from text.

Maybe he just bought it and wants to fix it up himself, or has already started buying parts, who knows. I think you have the wrong mindset about the incident, personally.

 

[bigaaron]

I would never ignore someone who offered to buy my car, I would be too interested in what they would offer before I turned them down :biglaugh:

 

[robeats91t]

I think it was more the "cockspank" attitude the guy took that was so offensive, not the fact that his car wasn't for sale. I'm a car guy, and I love to stand around and talk about cars with people I know, but I'm always a little paranoid about random people that ask about my car (the "hey, what all do you have done to it?" screams "hey, is your car worth stealing?" when it comes from a random passer-by--especially if they're in a ricey honda) but I'd never be so rude as to tell someone they can't afford it. I'd sell mine to someone that threw a check at me with enough zeros on it...

Anyone can be had for a price. My girlfriend told me a great story about a lesson one of her teachers gave the other week in class. As the class began, the teacher set a plastic cup on the lectern and filled it with apple cider vinegar. He let it sit for a moment so that the pungent smell permeated the room. Once he was satisfied that everyone got a good smell of vinegar, he started: "who will drink this whole cup of vinegar for a dollar?"

No one moved.

"Two dollars? Five dollars? Ten?"

No takers. The teacher pulls out his wallet, counts his money, and begins again:

"Twenty five dollars? Thirty? Forty? Forty five dollars??"

A girl raises her hand and is invited forward to drink the vinegar in front of the class. She does; she takes the cash and runs straight to the bathroom.

Everyone has their price...even the stuck-up asshole. You'll just have to catch him at a time when his head's not shoved up his own ass...

 

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

I'd sell mine to someone that threw a check at me with enough zeros on it...

Great! Here's a check for $000000.00

 

[DyslexicSquirrel]

I hate when a Supra owner has no sense of community

too true...

maybe it's just because they haven't been exposed to our wonderful community

 

[pimptrizkit]

i have had a few people ask, i tell them abou 8-9 grand if they want to buy mine.. it's not nice or pretty but i told them im gona get my money back out of it :biglaugh: