Topic: Why do some people feel compelled to rub their hands on a perfect paint job?

[lostmykeys]

 Found the keys to my bike and going for a ride.I pulled the baffle out and Im on a mission to piss off some harley guys.
 Never mind I realised during my short ride that it is friday the 13th and parked it.

[dave500]

next time your at a show with your car,,have a piece of metal like an old fender painted the same as your car with a sign saying something like,dont touch the car but feel free to touch this?or how would you like me to feel your wifes tits or some #$%*?

[trueblue]

Most peoples reaction to my bike is similar, I was at the servo one day, I had just fueled my bike and was about to leave, and this numbskull came over and started to chat as I was putting my gear on, anyway as I was about to leave he reached out and was about to tap the tank with his car keys in his hand.  I just reacted, swiped his hand away from my 3 week old paint job, sent his keys flying across the driveway, started the bike and rode away.  But the funniest thing I have ever seen, I had a callout to a jobsite one time to do some repairs to a backhoe, on site there was a D9 dozer that was working, he had been pushing dirt for a solid 2 hours when the workplace health and safety d!#khead waltzed onto the site and ordered him to stop the machine because he wanted to check his operators ticket.  Anyway the dozer operator stopped and lifted the blade out of the ground, the first thing the workplace health and safety dumbar$e did was walk over to the machine reach his hand out and placed it on the nice shiny blade, which after 2 hours pushing dirt was hot enough to remove the skin from his left palm and most of his fingers.

[72 yellow]

I used to attend many car shows with my 77 Monte Carlo.  I've seen parents let their kids ride bikes around the cars, run around loose and just act like they were at home.  My car has the swivel bucket seats, so I turn them when I get out and leave them that way.  I also have a AM-FM 8 track radio in the car.  I turned around to see some moron crawling in through the open window to look at the 8 track.  Same thing with the bikes.  Some guy wanted to push the ticklers on my BSA.  Only problem it floods the engine with raw gas.  Had people want to twist the throttle on the CB750.  What the hell ever happend to if it don't belong to you, leave it alone?

[Damfino]

'77 Monte Carlo. Boy does that bring back memories. In 1983, when I was a senior in high school, I bought a mint condition '77 Monte from a golf course owner who mostly left it in storage at the golf course since he bought it new. Besides having a few dings on the hood and a cracked windshield from errant golf balls, it was absolutely mint and fully loaded. It was a triple white car - white paint, white landau roof, and white interior. In the interior the buckets, rear seat, door panels and headliner were white. The dash, console, and carpeting were a complimentary blue. 4500 miles on it when I bought it and PS, PB, PW, Pwr locks, full gages, tilt wheel, swivel buckets, pwr trunk, pwr sunroof, and the AM/FM 8 track with power antenna! Never have seen another like it since, it was probably a one of a kind. Wish I still had it! 

[72 yellow]

'77 Monte Carlo. Boy does that bring back memories. In 1983, when I was a senior in high school, I bought a mint condition '77 Monte from a golf course owner who mostly left it in storage at the golf course since he bought it new. Besides having a few dings on the hood and a cracked windshield from errant golf balls, it was absolutely mint and fully loaded. It was a triple white car - white paint, white landau roof, and white interior. In the interior the buckets, rear seat, door panels and headliner were white. The dash, console, and carpeting were a complimentary blue. 4500 miles on it when I bought it and PS, PB, PW, Pwr locks, full gages, tilt wheel, swivel buckets, pwr trunk, pwr sunroof, and the AM/FM 8 track with power antenna! Never have seen another like it since, it was probably a one of a kind. Wish I still had it! 

Here's a pic of my 77 Monte.

[Damfino]

Love it, that's a sharp looking Monte! I'm not sure I have any pictures left of mine and if I do they're packed up somewhere as I'm in the middle of moving back to Illinois soon. That's one thing I always meant to find for mine was the 'Rally' wheels. Mine had the wire wheel hubcaps.

[faux fiddy]

'77 Monte Carlo. Boy does that bring back memories.

A friend of mine traded cars for a day and he had a monte, prolly '77. We were driving in it, and of course he was thrashing it, called my attention to the speedo at 105 or so. First time I knew I was over a hundred. I was about 15 at the time.

[Stev-o]

I remember my buddy having a white Monte Carlo too. We drove it to Daytona Beach for Spring Break!

[faux fiddy]

All being the same,    I hope buddy was thrashing his Trans Am as well.

Not sure what the deal was there, but he drove his own car a bit slower.