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Now I Have Seen Everything!!


EvilRufusKay

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I met these once - a student of mine, an Asian kid with lots of car-macho, drove this wide-bodied Acura to school every day. Pretty car, a powder-blue, expensive-looking wheels, right down low on the ground, tinted everything, video stuff on the dash, the whole schmearola. I was thinking it must have some cool stuff under the hood, the amount of money he's spent on the *visible* stuff was staggering. I'd shown him and his buddies my Z a couple of weeks before, and though he wasn't rude or anything, he clearly wasn't impressed by pushrod-driven drivetrains. So one afternoon when school let out I was finally in the parking lot the same time as this kid. I intercepted him at the car, made some small talk and asked him if I could see under the hood. He was standing in the open driver's side door, I was up at the front. He says "sure" and I, thinking I'll save him a few steps, reach over and give the pin a solid tug, 'cause I know they can be tight sometimes and - the whole thing comes off the hood in my hand, leaving the sticky part of two-sided tape on the hood. Oops. I was stunned for a moment, all I could say was "What the hell is this? What is this thing? How do you open the hood? Uh?" This other kids standing around were laughing tears, partly at the poser aspect of the pins, and I'm sure partly at the look of total shock on my face. Just then the hood popped up as he pulled the release in the cockpit. At that point I started to giggle, too, the pin still hanging on my finger. The poor kid, I felt sorry for his embarrassment, but I just couldn't help it.

 

And of course, you guessed it already, the motor was totally stock, right down to the air filter.

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