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I just met the strangest 16-year-old girl


Since winter weather is pretty much over I took my old car for a drive around town today (I don't drive it in the winter at all). I drove to the tennis courts to see if the snow was gone from them yet, and there was a girl there by herself with a tennis racket.

She immediately came walking toward me and said, "I love your Charger!" I had to process what she said for a moment because it was such a surprise. I've had that car for ages and I'm very familiar with the type of people who tend to comment on it, and who know what kind of car it is, and it's definitely not females, let alone teenage ones.

I asked her, "How did you know what kind of car this is?" She said, "It's my favorite kind of car. It's a 1969, right?" That surprised me even more. Even guys who know what kind of car it is usually get the year wrong; usually guessing 1968 or 1970.

Then she started taking pictures of it and told me that she loves old cars, especially muscle cars, and doesn't like the way newer cars look (my sentiments exactly). She also said she has a 2002 Dodge truck that she's trying to fix up, which is a year newer than my Dodge truck that I also need to work on.

I've never known a female who was into cars, except on a very superficial level, such as, "Oh, I like Mustangs."

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This sounds like a dream. Or someone's done their homework on you...

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Yeah, and she also plays tennis. I haven't played tennis in a long time, but I used to practically live at the tennis court during the summers when I was younger. However, she's way too young for me.

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I’m familiar with the 1969 Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazzard which me and my friends used to watch all the time. I’m not sure if I could tell the difference between it and a 1968 or 1970 though.

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"I’m not sure if I could tell the difference between it and a 1968 or 1970 though."

Most people can't, unless they have a specific interest in second-generation Dodge Chargers.

BTW, a little over half of the Chargers they used on The Dukes of Hazzard were 1968s modified to look like 1969s. 1968s were easier for them to find because Chrysler made substantially more of them than 1969s. In the earlier seasons (before Warner Bros. started building "General Lees" in-house) you could easily tell when it was a 1968 because they left the round side marker lights in place (1969s have rectangular side markers, and they aren't lights, they are just reflectors, due to a legal loophole for that particular year), just painting them orange like the rest of the car.

Eventually Warner Bros. wanted more consistency so they started deleting the side markers on both 1968s and 1969s, and deleting the reverse/backup lights on 1969s (by "deleting" I mean removing them and then filling in the holes with sheet metal and Bondo before painting, making it look like they were never there to begin with). To make a 1968 look like a 1969 they would cut out holes in the tail panel with a Sawzall to make them fit 1969 tail lights, and they would pop-rivet the center piece of a 1969 grille into the 1968 grille. At that point the only way you could tell the difference onscreen is if you could see the dash pad, seat skins, or gas cap, and a few other minor interior things (you usually couldn't get a good enough look at those things).

No 1970s were used on the show. For one thing, far fewer of them were produced than 1969s and especially 1968s, and for another thing, the entire front clip is different than on 1968s and 1969s, even though the fenders and hood look the same at a glance.

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YOU KNOW THAT NOBODY BELIEVES THESE CLEARLY FALSE RAMBLINGS OF YOURS....RIGHT?

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Consider your laughable attempt at a crystal ball reading dismissed out of hand, Miss Cleo.

Also, if perfectly coherent writing looks like "ramblings" to you, it means you're stupid, obviously. Of course, you've already publicly declared idiocy countless times, so the fact that you're not the fastest car on the lot isn't exactly a revelation.

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YOU INVENTED THAT TALE SO YOU COULD SLIP IN THE BITS ABOUT RANDOM CHICKS DIGGING YOU AND WHAT A SWEET AS RIDE YOU HAVE...I'LL TAKE STUPID...AT LEAST I AM HONEST.😘

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"YOU INVENTED THAT TALE"

Your bald-faced lie is dismissed, CAPTAIN CAPS LOCK.

>SO YOU COULD SLIP IN THE BITS ABOUT RANDOM CHICKS DIGGING YOU

Reading Deficiency Alert

It was one chick, not "chicks," and she wasn't "digging" me, she was "digging" my car.

"AND WHAT A SWEET AS RIDE YOU HAVE"

The car is rough; it has been since I got it nearly 30 years ago, and it always will be, because I have zero plans to spend $50,000 or more to make it look brand new. "Car guys" like it because they know what it fundamentally is, but a typical chick just sees an old clunker and pays it no attention at all.

"I'LL TAKE STUPID"

That's good, because you're certainly stuck with it.

"AT LEAST I AM HONEST."

You just proved that you're not (see the lie of yours that I dismissed above). I don't make up stories, and if you weren't a Johnny-come-lately, and a dumb one at that, you'd already know that.

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Doesn't sound made up to me.

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you must burn a lot of gas.

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I only drive it about 6 months out of the year, and usually not very far; mostly to and from my retired mechanic friend's garage to work on it, or talk about working on it (he lives right here in town). It burns a lot more gas than say, a subcompact car with a 4-cylinder engine, but in the grand scheme of things, it still isn't all that much.

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What size carb is on it?

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It's just the stock 2-barrel carburetor (318 engine).

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Why 16 year old tho? Are you into underage or what?

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"Why 16 year old tho?"

She's 16 because she was born ~16 years ago, obviously.

"Are you into underage or what?"

Your non sequitur is dismissed.

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You're the one day dreaming about impressing 16 year olds with your imaginary car so... Get help

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"You're the one day dreaming about impressing 16 year olds"

It wasn't a dream of any kind, Slow Doug, so this is a...

Reading Deficiency Alert

... for you.

" with your imaginary car so"

Reading Deficiency Alert: Part II

"Get help"

Comical Irony Alert, you know, coming from the clodpate who can't read properly, doesn't know how someone ends up being 16 years old, and who thinks he's clairvoyant. Tell me, Sylvia Browne, what color shirt do I have on?

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Oh I can read, also know bullshit when I see it. ^^

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"Oh I can read"

Obviously not.

"also know bullshit when I see it. ^^"

Obviously not.

Now, do you want to put your money where your mouth is? I can easily prove that the car is mine. How confident are you in your purported psychic abilities, and how much money do you have to wager?

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Relax Jack, it's just internet post, not a dick, don't take it so hard

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So you don't want to bet? What a surprise.

Your tacit concession is noted, by the way.

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LMAO...JUST POST A PIC OF YOUR COOL CAR,CHIEF...I WILL BEG YOU TO FORGIVE ME.

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"JUST POST A PIC OF YOUR COOL CAR,CHIEF"

I've posted pictures of it before, newbie, and a short video of it too.

"I WILL BEG YOU TO FORGIVE ME."

How's the weather tonight, way out there in deep left field?

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DUDE...I WANT TO SEE YOUR COOL CAR...GOT A LINK TO THE PIC?...AS YOU HAVE NOTICED MY NAME IS KOWALSKI...FROM VANISHING POINT...FEATURING MY FAVORITE CAR...1970 DODGE CHALLENGER.

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https://i.imgur.com/XVqNPHq.jpg

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🚗😎👍

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ORANGE AND EVERYTHING....OK...I BEG YOUR FORGIVENESS...YOU HAVE A REALLY COOL CAR,BRO.

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Thanks.

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That’s a pretty cool car!

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Some young people are drawn to tastes outside of their own age range. I consider it a mark of an independent spirit, and of intelligence.

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Yeah, but it's not just her age that makes it strange. If you were to interview a large random sample of teenage girls about their interests, I'm sure that cars, especially vintage cars, would rank very low on the list, if it even showed up at all. With teenage boys it would be a different story. If she'd been a 16-year-old boy I wouldn't have thought it was particularly strange. I was into cars from before my time when I was a kid and so were my friends. In fact, I was still a teenager in 1994 when I bought my '69 Charger.

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I had a 69 Charger too. Canary yellow - nothing fancy, just a 318, but I loved it.

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"I had a 60 Charger too. Canary yellow - nothing fancy, just a 318, but I loved it."

Mine has a 318 too. At one point I was in possession of a 440 + 727 that I considered putting in it, but to do it right it would have cost more than I wanted to spend, and would have been a major job to boot, and a headache to source all the parts. I would have needed different torsion bars, different leaf springs, different rearend, different driveshaft, different exhaust, different radiator, new fuel lines, different sway bar, different kickdown linkage, different carburetor linkage, and different motor mounts. On top of that, even though the engine ran well, it had a small crack in one of the heads, so I would have needed to replace that too.

Is "60" a typo? 1966 was the first year for the Dodge Charger.

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69, sorry.

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I loved the American muscle cars, we grew up on those old beasts in my old neighborhood.
My first car was a 1967 Mustang coupe with racing tires… it was a small block 289 with an auto tranny, which was not a great drive train and it had a weird braking system, drums and disks but she sure could dance!

My little sister and I had a 76 4 door Chevy Nova, it had a 350 big block in it. It was fast as hell but pretty ugly.

I also had an 85 Trans Am and that thing could fly! It had a 5.0 liter engine and she could blow away any car on the road but it was a light weight car for the engine size…you had to be careful in that Trans Am, it could get away from you. The brakes were decent but you could get carried away with that motor.

Nowadays I’m fifty and I commute to a boring job, I drive a shitty Soccer Mom Chevy Equinox. It’s unbelievable how lame my car is.
Goddamn, I was super cool thirty years ago LOL😄

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A female liked a car? What is the world coming to?!

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"A female liked a car? What is the world coming to?!"

She didn't just "like the car," she knew the make, model, and year of the 54-year-old car just by looking at it. If you don't think that's highly unusual/strange for a girl, a teenage girl no less, then you have a tenuous grasp of reality.

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HOW LONG BEFORE YOU START TELLING US WHAT A HOTTIE SHE IS GONNA GROW UP TO BE?

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She wasn't hot at all, Miss Cleo, nor will she ever be. She was average looking at best.

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YOU'RE A WEIRD OLD DUDE.🙂

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Your non sequitur is dismissed.

Also:

Comical Irony Alert

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I AM A WEIRD DUDE...NOT QUITE OLD YET.🙂

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You are weird but I’m a fan of weird👍

How old are you now?
I just turned fifty last month.

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42 IN SEPTEMBER.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...DID THE NUMBER 50 FREAK YOU OUT...IT FREAKS ME OUT...ALL THE NUMBERS DO... I THINK ABOUT GETTING OLD A LOT...I AM NOT A FAN.

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I’m fine with it, it’s a nice even number.

I can still catch Lake Trout and fire my Marlin .35 to beat the band.

You’re a young fellow, enjoy your time Amigo!

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Did you not see My Cousin Vinny? Some girls come from car families.

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I saw it in the theater when it was new, and I've seen it probably 20 times since then. It's one of my favorite movies. Mona Lisa Vito was a fictional character, obviously, and she wasn't even a teenage character.

In any case, I said that it's "highly unusual/strange for a girl, a teenage girl no less," which is true, regardless of what you've seen in movies.

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