Public admiration for your vehicles - can it get all too much? lol

[XBCoupeGuy]

Hi all,

I've been a driver of Aussie Muscle cars for over 20 years and it has never failed to amaze me the publics reaction to these cars.

I'm a fairly quiet guy and I am finding it increasingly embarassing that even just going to the servo ends up with people taking photo's of the car and wanting to talk.

Just this morning I was filling up with fuel and this guy was snapping away on his mobile phone. Now, my car is nothing special which makes it all the more embarassing, but this is a never ending thing.

I ended up with the guy sitting in the drivers seat at the servo, giving the thumbs up out the window while I snapped a pic for him on his mobile phone lol. It's getting ridiculous.

I've even had a guy jump out his work ute at the lights and give me a double overhead fist pump in appreciation of the car. I was absolutely dumb founded, but this was in Davoren Park so I shouldn't have been surprised ;-)

On Australia Day, I was doing evening lap down Semaphore and going through a round-about I had a bunch of lads in an EL Falcon give me a blast on the horn and a big thumbs up. I absolutely was not expecting it and I though they were about to t-bone my passenger door. All I heard was a blast on the horn, and I sh-at myself and ended up running up the medium strip with one wheel lol.


I'm a huge muscle car fan but at times I find the attention very embarassing. Has anyone else got any stories about "over the top" public responses to their cars?