Ashyukun
07-06-2011, 02:19 PM
I figured some here (especially Bill and the others with carbed D owners) would find this interesting, or at least amusing/vaguely disturbing.
My girlfriend's cousin got married on Saturday, so she drove down to North Carolina with her family over the weekend and was gone from Friday morning through Sunday evening- meaning that I had almost three days, uninterrupted, to work on 16655- and I used them to fairly good effect. At the same time, earlier last week I had put a number of things I wanted to get rid of up on Craigslist, and as such ended up being interrupted several times as people came by to buy stuff- and unsurprisingly gawk at the half disassembled DeLorean in my garage.
On Saturday- just as I was pulling a burger off the grill for lunch- the guy who was interested in buying one of my old computers pulls up and hobbles his way up my driveway with his cane and gawks at the D while I put my burger in the microwave to keep it away from my cats before going out to talk to him. The first thing he says is pretty much what everyone says: "Wow, you don't see these around much anymore..." A few more typical questions and comments followed as was also normal- but things got a bit less than usual when he looked at the carb chuckled a bit at it, and then related the following story.
This guy is a professional photographer, and very much the artist at it (read: most of his portfolio involves a complete lack of clothes on the models), and as is the case in most fields, being an artist itself really doesn't pay that well. So, he does a lot of other photography to pay the bills. One time, he said, he got called out to do what was categorized as a 'fetish shoot' (which apparently, as you'd expect, pay fairly well). The shoot involved bringing a female model along, dressed in a nice, normal dress and high-heels. The guy the shoot was for has a collection of older cars that all use carburetors, on which the automatic choke has been disconnected. The photographer then takes pictures of the model's legs/feet as she pumps the gas pedal and tries to start the cars... He had about 6 or so, and they took pictures of her trying to start all of them as the guy who owned the cars and was paying for the shoot commented on whether or not any other girls had gotten that particular car started anytime recently.
Apparently, there is quite a market for this, and the guy said there were a number of websites dedicated to this. A quick GIS showed that there were indeed pictures out there along these lines... I guess there are plenty of people out there with rather weird tastes. And it's definitely the weirdest story I've ever had anyone tell me after seeing my car.
For my part, I'll be keeping the electric choke on 16655 hooked up...
My girlfriend's cousin got married on Saturday, so she drove down to North Carolina with her family over the weekend and was gone from Friday morning through Sunday evening- meaning that I had almost three days, uninterrupted, to work on 16655- and I used them to fairly good effect. At the same time, earlier last week I had put a number of things I wanted to get rid of up on Craigslist, and as such ended up being interrupted several times as people came by to buy stuff- and unsurprisingly gawk at the half disassembled DeLorean in my garage.
On Saturday- just as I was pulling a burger off the grill for lunch- the guy who was interested in buying one of my old computers pulls up and hobbles his way up my driveway with his cane and gawks at the D while I put my burger in the microwave to keep it away from my cats before going out to talk to him. The first thing he says is pretty much what everyone says: "Wow, you don't see these around much anymore..." A few more typical questions and comments followed as was also normal- but things got a bit less than usual when he looked at the carb chuckled a bit at it, and then related the following story.
This guy is a professional photographer, and very much the artist at it (read: most of his portfolio involves a complete lack of clothes on the models), and as is the case in most fields, being an artist itself really doesn't pay that well. So, he does a lot of other photography to pay the bills. One time, he said, he got called out to do what was categorized as a 'fetish shoot' (which apparently, as you'd expect, pay fairly well). The shoot involved bringing a female model along, dressed in a nice, normal dress and high-heels. The guy the shoot was for has a collection of older cars that all use carburetors, on which the automatic choke has been disconnected. The photographer then takes pictures of the model's legs/feet as she pumps the gas pedal and tries to start the cars... He had about 6 or so, and they took pictures of her trying to start all of them as the guy who owned the cars and was paying for the shoot commented on whether or not any other girls had gotten that particular car started anytime recently.
Apparently, there is quite a market for this, and the guy said there were a number of websites dedicated to this. A quick GIS showed that there were indeed pictures out there along these lines... I guess there are plenty of people out there with rather weird tastes. And it's definitely the weirdest story I've ever had anyone tell me after seeing my car.
For my part, I'll be keeping the electric choke on 16655 hooked up...