What The? - Public stories about the confusion surrounding ur car

[inark]

OK... well i couldnt find the thread (ceffo did tho http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47222) we had going about the stories and questions etc that people have about how confused other people are about Ceffies, Laurels etc so i made another.

I dont want to hear about drag racing... i dont want to hear about street drifting... all i wanna hear is "WHAT THE?"

I'll start off with an example.

Ive finally got CEF-ZLA on the road with a UVP (Unregistered Vehicle Permit) so i can go to and from mechanics... garages etc etc

To truely understand the attention this car seeks if you havent already listen to this as it gives u a bit of an idea altho still not as scarey as it sounds at full tit

On the way home from a mechanics at about 5pm i was dropping fully sick coolahs mate.... no sorry... i mean i was coming down the road changing pretty hard and accelrating to the speed limit as hard as possible to give it a good test.

I could see a guy behind me in an old EA falcon trying to catch up... he was ducking and weaving in and out of traffic to catch me at the lights...

He finally caught up and dropped his window...

"What the **** is that man!?"

-Its a nissan cefiro

"A what?"

-Nissan Cefiro

"Is that like a maxima?"

-To a certain extent

"Whats it got under the hood? Sounds mean as!"

-A Skyline GTR engine

"SHIT... no wonder :)"

No sooner had i gone round the corner but some old dude in a 4WD started following me and trying to get up beside me to have a yarn about WHAT THE?

Then some tosser in a VN calais V6 wanted a drag to which i replied "**** off u idiot... go race an exel"

I swear im going to make up a sign and stick it on the passnger window cause im sick of answering the same questions.

"THIS CAR IS A NISSAN CEFIRO. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH A HOLDEN SAFIRA. IT IS A TURBO CHARGED GRANDADS CAR WITH MORE POWER AT THE WHEELS THAN AT YOUR ENGINE AND NO I DONT WANT TO DRAG YOUR VN AS I COULD THINK OF BETTER THINGS TO WASTE MY PETROL ON"

It is very funny looking at the faces of some people tho when it goes past them or as you take off from the lights... ive scared the begeesus out of so many people i still cant help but laugh

[someonestolecc]

heh. i want your car.

noone has asked me or even looked at the car with the WHAT THE face except for one passenger in a p plater 180 and one p plate guy in a ford laser who stopped at the lights on green and asked me to smoke it up (being really nice about it too haha).

I want a gtr engine damnit.

You still selling ? I might go hock a kidney.

[Ceffo]

i think this is the thread your after..

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47222

[RiverSide]

I have had similar experiences Inark...........except mine barely looks like a ceffy anymore, so you can imagine the "what the?" looks i get..........

I remember coming back from the dyno tune with my race pipes on............damn that scared some people. hehehehe

[nissaner]

not one single human being gave me any attention to me car on road. kinda like it that way...

[inark]

i think this is the thread your after..

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47222

thats the one!

link added to the top post

[dangerous_daveo]

I constantly get what is it! (as does everyone)

Now this is people asking me what it is after they have had a GOOD look around the car including badges etc.

VN commodore but not... (duhh?)

New Bluebird

New School Torry (after they read cefiro and nissan...)

Camary

Cosmo (nah dude, cosmos are 2 doors... and dont make rb20 noises) Most common thing its mistaken for

A ford (this was on the highway over the UHFs someone then corrected them and said it was a CefirA! I quickly corrected them then...)

its been called a WHAT THE F&^K IS THAT!!! a few times too.

Skyline, siliva, datto 200b I think was said once

If only most people could read the badges!

[inark]

thats one thing that makes it hard to know what mine is... the badges are off except the side ones on the window but no one looks there

[dangerous_daveo]

Yeah, mine doesnt have the silvia look lights tho. Doesnt look so Japanese as such.

But yeah, the funniest thing I have found is telling people its an 1988 model car, they just dont belive it.

[inark]

lol they wouldnt... look at what was available locally made.... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

[Ceffo]

Yeah, mine doesnt have the silvia look lights tho.  Doesnt look so Japanese as such.

But yeah, the funniest thing I have found is telling people its an 1988 model car, they just dont belive it.

Yeah all the peeps i told said it looked liked a 90's model. WTF.. Its blurdy 16 years old.

[StilledCefiro]

well mine was called a commenwhore but some derros in swanview

and then yesterday some retard called it a farken magna

i almost went over and belted the guy

Stewart

[inark]

lol ive heard a lot of people say it looks like a magna

[dangerous_daveo]

lol ive heard a lot of people say it looks like a magna

Yeah? as in the older shape? Where the headlights lent forwards a bit? I can see it with a camary with the new lights on the rear, but not so much a magna.

[inark]

pretty sure they meant the newer shape cause they always say its cause the chrome handles... they say it looks like one sideon

[StilledCefiro]

i cant see it myself

my mates told me as we was getting in the car after leaving maccas on our way to the drags at the plex

i personally think it looks more like a 5 series BMW from the same era

Stewart

[martydaman]

i reckon they do look like the old magnas... but particularly the old mitsubishi galant... first time i saw a ceffy i mistook it for one

[inark]

Stone Him!!!!!

[martydaman]

cmon, the front-end resemblence is pretty close...

[inark]

Use The Big Pointy Ones!!!