I'm better than you!!!

[SVT32VDOHC]

I have a before and after poster framed in my office that is open to the public in my salvage yard. It has 9 photos total, two of them I am standing in. So people know it is my car.

I hate when people go, "Nice Mustang, what's done to it.?" (In my sig you see I have minor mods.) So I tell them "Just a 5.0L swap, 5 lug conversion and I painted it black." They ALWAYS try to out do me with "I've got a 427 Windsor, double pumpers, 10 point cage, 33X15 wheels and a BLAH BLAH BLAH."

Why does everybody think they are better and try to out do you????? Does anybody else get this?? They then ask me what it runs, I tell them I don't know, it's stock, probably 14's. "Oh, mine ran 9.56 at Milan, 9.43 at whereever.....I am like **** YOU! I just want a nice car to drive not some drag rat. These people never give up and keep going about their car, that is like apples to oranges to mine. I can never get a plain compliment, without an outdoing!!

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I think it stems from childhood. When i was a kid, if you mentioned any performance car you could bet your life that another kid next to you had an uncle or cousin or neighbor or somebody who had something faster. It didn't matter if your dad was John Force, they had something faster and cooler. It's the one-up thing.

 

[FrankenStang]

One-uppers.... They're everywhere...

*looks around all paraniod-like*

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

I would have to agree. I never try to one up anything about my car. It is just their because it helps me sell Mustang parts sometimes. I am very humble when I talk about it because I know it's nice.

 

[bloopbloob]

I think it stems from childhood. When i was a kid, if you mentioned any performance car you could bet your life that another kid next to you had an uncle or cousin or neighbor or somebody who had something faster. It didn't matter if your dad was John Force, they had something faster and cooler. It's the one-up thing.

haha yeah. i hate that crap. whenever people ask what i have done to my car, i just tell them its stock. much easier that way. everyone also has the impression that 5.0's are supposed to be "the baddest car EVAR", so if it's not in the 10's its a disappointment. It's funny too, because the person doing the yipping is almost never the owner of a nice car. the actual owner is probably just like you, and keep it low profile.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I tell people mine is mostly stock, because engine wise it really is, but they never believe me. That's when the one-upper attack begins.

 

[5.0Droptop]

I have friend who has a friend who knows a guy who has a friend that has a friend of a friends friends whos friend has a mustang that runs7;s in the 1/4 and his friends friends friend has one that runs 2's in the 1/4 my friends best friend friends uncles cousins dad told my friends friends cousins friends about it right before I got there so nan nana naa naaa na boo boo stick your head in doo doo

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

I have friend who has a friend who knows a guy who has a friend that has a friend of a friends friends whos friend has a mustang that runs7;s in the 1/4 and his friends friends friend has one that runs 2's in the 1/4 my friends best friend friends uncles cousins dad told my friends friends cousins friends about it right before I got there so nan nana naa naaa na boo boo stick your head in doo doo

I know that guy. I think he is a liar. His name is Fred.

You know what...that is That is your friends, Uncle's, friend. Not your cousins, friends, Uncle.

 

[ttop88]

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They all suck! I just tell people mine is stock. Keep the hood closed, if you can't see it it aint there.

 

[5.0Droptop]

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They all suck! I just tell people mine is stock. Keep the hood closed, if you can't see it it aint there.

Does that apply to fat girls too, Close your eyes and if you cant see her shes not there?

 

[5.0Droptop]

I know that guy. I think he is a liar. His name is Fred.

You know what...that is That is your friends, Uncle's, friend. Not your cousins, friends, Uncle.

Hey dont you get sarcastic with me MR.

 

[ttop88]

Does that apply to fat girls too, Close your eyes and if you cant see her shes not there?

Whatever you haft to tell your self to sleep at night is OK wit me

 

[5.0Droptop]

Whatever you haft to tell your self to sleep at night is OK wit me

LOL

 

[25thmustang]

It's even worse when they know NOTHING about track times yet ask what it runs.

I say mid 12s on a slick, had a guy go, oh really, my dads stock Charger went 7s. Yup, pulled the front tires all the way down the track. Guy was driving a Blue Neon missing most of the paint, with those cool purple neon badges, and had about half his teeth left!

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

I think what it REALLY boils down to is how much of the car people build THEMSELVES.

Id have more respect for a guy turning a stock 5.0 into a 13.5 second car with a set of heads etc vs. someone who bought a turnkey car off the Bay of e with little to no knowledge of what kind of man hours it took or what is actually inside the motor etc...and runs 12s.

My .02......good thread!!!

 

[Darkwriter77]

I think people, as a whole, just suck. And that about sums it up, right there.

 

[ttop88]

I think people, as a whole, just suck. And that about sums it up, right there.

This is beautiful! I love this place!

 

[Turkey Sammich]

I've always hated that. Be it on the street, or parked some where. I always say it's stock. I just don't feel comfortable with telling them the amount of $$$ I have in my mustang to a stanger. It's like "Oh nice house, whatca got in it"?

 

[Darkwriter77]

Usually, ricers usually use the "what's it got in it" question as a pretext to starting their own monologue of BS about their NAWSSSSS, their Type-R whatevers, their J-spec this and that, their imported-overnight-from-Japan doohickies, and their "custom" everything. I'm sure that you could tell them that you've got a motor custom-made by Black & Decker and they wouldn't hear a word of it because they're too busy thinking of whatever kind of BS lies or overblown pseudo-glorious "mods" they're going to tell you they've done to their own car (or their friend's father's brother's nephew's cousin's uncle's sister's mother's former roommate's car).

It is my firm belief that these kinds of people need to be bludgeoned immediately to death on the spot, dismembered, cooked upon a spit over a raging campfire, and eaten.

 

[ttop88]

johnny the ricer
Darkwriters kind of guy.