Favorite Dumb Questions

[RocsMerc]

There are a lot of people out there that have no idea what a Marauder is and I've gotten many laughs at some of the stranger questions about my car.

The stupidest questions that I got are "Did you put a Chevy 350 in there?" and "Didn't Chevy make this car to replace the Impala SS?" Really? Chevy??? :confused: And you call yourself a car guy?

The most common questions I get are in relation to cop cars. "That's the engine the police use, right?" and "Is this what the cops use as their cars?" Normally these type of questions don't bother me since the specs of police vehicles aren't exactly common knowledge and they obvously want to learn more about my car. However, occasionally I get these type of questions from people who try to act like they know all about my car. Even worse, people who think they know more than you about your own car and try to tell you things about it. I've even had a long argument with someone who was trying to tell me that a stock cop car would be faster than my Marauder because cops have "better transmissions and rear end ratios." I said that I had more power at the wheel than that car has at the crank, and my 4.10 ratio to his 3.55. I even had my dyno sheet with me that showed 275 at the wheel and I explained to him that the police package made 250 at the crank. This guy owned a stock 03 interceptor that he bought less than a week ago and was begging me to race him so he could prove himself. I told him I didn't have to race to know which car was faster. His exact words were "I don't know dude. Cop cars are faster than five-oh's." At that point I just gave up and agreed with him that he was probably faster. I ended up leaving there early out of frustration. :mad2: This one actually had me still mad when I woke up the next morning.

So what are your favorite stupid questions you've got about your car at car shows.

[tremblay]

Ive been pretty lucky so far with dumb questions concerning my MM...the only sort of dumb question I got was "Nice rims! where did you buy them from?" But i guess that if you don't know what a marauder is....

But when I had my 1992 5.0L, some guy at a gas station told me something like that "That 5.0L sounds really mean, thats a V6 in there, right?"
RIGHT!!!.......

Another funny gas station story with the 5.0L...As i come in the gas station to pay for my gas ,the clerk, which was asian, said with his very strong Asian accent " Does that say 5liter on the side of your car???!!!". "humm....yes"
"OMG THATS A BIG ENGINE!!!!"

Lol took me everything i had not to laugh! (good thing I wasn't driving my grandfathers Lincoln with the 460, he would of had a heart attack!!!)

[DOOM]

Is there a hemi in it? :stupid:

:shot:

[Bluerauder]

So what are your favorite stupid questions you've got about your car at car shows.

1. So what's so special about this car?
2. Why did you bring a cop car to a car show?
3. I know for a fact that THOSE wheels didn't come on that car, right?
4. Where did you buy those exhaust tips?
5. You mean that there were other colors besides Black?
6. Why did you repaint your Marauder?
7. They came supercharged from the factory, correct?
8. Where did you get the Fireman's Emblems for your wheels? :o

..... and more. ;)

[ImpalaSlayer]

i always get asked whats done to my car i tell them, oh just a lil something.

i also always get asked why its so loud i saw what? cant hear ya. :D

[youngrauderlvr]

Ummm.....Ive only had mine for a couple of weeks and my faves are:

1. Why did you put those ugly wheels on it?
2. Don't all detectives drive those?

[boatmangc]

Ummm.....Ive only had mine for a couple of weeks and my faves are:

1. Why did you put those ugly wheels on it?
2. Don't all detectives drive those?


Ugly wheels? :bop: I'd have to slap somebody

[SC Cheesehead]

There are a lot of people out there that have no idea what a Marauder is and I've gotten many laughs at some of the stranger questions about my car.

The stupidest questions that I got are "Did you put a Chevy 350 in there?" and "Didn't Chevy make this car to replace the Impala SS?" Really? Chevy??? :confused: And you call yourself a car guy?

The most common questions I get are in relation to cop cars. "That's the engine the police use, right?" and "Is this what the cops use as their cars?" Normally these type of questions don't bother me since the specs of police vehicles aren't exactly common knowledge and they obvously want to learn more about my car. However, occasionally I get these type of questions from people who try to act like they know all about my car. Even worse, people who think they know more than you about your own car and try to tell you things about it.

Yup, know exactly where you're coming from.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3682861337/

[SID210SA]

People are always asking me..."where is your interceptor?"

[Mr. Man]

I don't get much guff from the cruise nite crowd as most of them have at least heard of the Marauder. It's car shows where the mentally challenged come out. I even get puzzled looks from the event staff. I know their thinking 'this guy brought a GM or a police car'. Once I pop the hood though I usually here "damn that's a big engine'. That's where I just nod thinking to myself '281cu in's. not even close'.

[Raven34]

Aside from all those questions and incorrect assuptions about the engine my favorite one which ive actualle been asked quite a few times is: "does it have a racing cam in it?!" to which i answer, "Nope... just FOUR regular ones in it" LOL

[SC Cheesehead]

Aside from all those questions and incorrect assuptions about the engine my favorite one which ive actualle been asked quite a few times is: "does it have a racing cam in it?!" to which i answer, "Nope... just FOUR regular ones in it" LOL

^^^^^^ :lol: ^^^^^ Good one! First I've heard that.

[Pat]

I have to relate this because it happens from time to time.

I volunteer with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Posse and we wear a nifty uniform with shoulder patches, etc. My car has the two gauge pod on the "A" pillar and a GPS mounted on a home made pedestal in front of the dash radio that, on a smaller scale, resembles the laptop one sees in LEO cars.

I drive down the parkway on my way to the substation with my arm on the window sill, Sheriff's patch clearly visible. Add the visible "instrumentation" in the car, it's marked resemblance to a police cruiser a person could suppose that it's a Constable or Marshall as they approach from the rear. Not unfounded because our City Marshall did drive a black 03 Marauder, plain Jane patrol car.

That's exactly what happens, I'll notice a car or truck fast approaching on the outside lane, then, sometimes, they rapidly brake to the speed limit, even to to the point that they won't pass me.

I'm only on the Parkway for about four miles but I get a chuckle at these speeders because they feel relieved they have "gotten away" with something. I smile and give a little wave.

Conversely, because I do represent the law in a small way, I meticulously obey the speed limit and traffic signage. Uniform on or off. Don't want to embarrass Sheriff Dean.

[WI Fordguy]

What's a Marauder? Looks like a cop car. Needless to say there aren't many in the area. I've only seen one other one within a hundred miles.

[TAKEDOWN]

Why did you get rid of the chrome grille on your Lincoln?

[youngrauderlvr]

Ugly wheels? :bop: I'd have to slap somebody
The thought crossed my mind!

[youngrauderlvr]

Why did you get rid of the chrome grille on your Lincoln?
LMAO!! I like that one.

[TiTo35]

Not a question but my old co worker thought that the ones with the Gods head on rims were the supercharged ones...

[BigM460]

Why did you want an old mans car? :mad2:Got the same thing with my 68 Monterey until the wheels went on!:cool:

BTW- like the 4 stock ones on the race cam question!!:2thumbs:

[dohc324ci]

That's an old man's car
Is that a Lincoln?
Is that a Police Interceptor?
That came supercharged from Ford right?
Does it have a 5.4 in it?

[Joe Walsh]

At car shows I usually hear knuckleheads look at the width of the cam covers and state that I have:

- A big block Ford
- A Hemi
- A big block Chevy

Then they proceed to tell me about their uncle who owned a late model Marauder and it had a....:blah:

[PonyUP]

I always get..."My Grandfather used to drive one of those police cars"

My response..."If he was lucky he did, and he probably used it to run away from the cops, asshat!!"

[CBT]

In Louisville (at the gathering) we all parked in the lot at Makers Mark, bout 30 Marauders. We all start walking, I realize I left my camera so I jog back for it. As I am jogging back by a delivery driver in a semi says:
"Hey, man. Is this some kind of promotional thing?"
Me - "Huh?"
"You all have the same rims, did you all buy them from the same company or did they give them to you's as some kind of promotional thing?"
Me - "No, those came with the car, they are all Marauders."

*crickets*

Me - "Go over and check 'em out, I gotta catch up with the tour."
"Oh cool, okay!"

I guess it was an honest question, but I think it is the strangest question I've ever gotten about the cars.

[Bluerauder]

I guess it was an honest question, but I think it is the strangest question I've ever gotten about the cars.

The STRANGEST 2 questions that I ever got were in April 2004 enroute to Ray the Dealer's "Support the Troops" Car Cruise at Northeast L-M

1. The rest stop in Delaware in the center of I-95 was a designated rally point for the MMs coming up from the south. As about 10 MMs were sitting in the lot waiting, a guy ran up and asked "Hey Man, is this an FBI convention or something?" As an afterthought, we should have made him assume the position .... but that would just be cruel. :rofl:

2. Same trip outside Bennigan's restaurant, there were 18 MMs lined up in the parking lot. A guy walked up and started to stare at the line with his head turning left and right. "Did you guys notice that all these cars look alike?" Naaah .... just a coincidence. :rofl:

[clintons4]

I don't get much guff from the cruise nite crowd as most of them have at least heard of the Marauder. It's car shows where the mentally challenged come out. I even get puzzled looks from the event staff. I know their thinking 'this guy brought a GM or a police car'. Once I pop the hood though I usually here "damn that's a big engine'. That's where I just nod thinking to myself '281cu in's. not even close'.


LMAO! The new VP at my office looked under my hood when I was doing my T-stat..."Wow, I didn't know they put a big block in those" :shake:

[Motorhead350]

A funny comment came from a guy an in AMG SL last year. I blew a pipe off the blower and helped me push the car off the side of the road. I thanked him and he said "I've had a million of these before." I didn't see this as a stupid comment or question because all he saw was the tail end.

When the car was N/A I had the hood open at a drag strip. Someone said this is supercharged right? No, where do you see a supercharger. He pointed to the upper intake. I tried not to laugh, but I did a little. I said this is the intake, I would like a blower though. He walked away.

"Your car is basically a Mazda." Someone said to me while driving. "No it's not. There's a big difference!" I yelled and he drove off.

"5.0?"

"289?"

"You don't drive this everyday."

"Was this a police car?"

The best comment came from a woman that's no longer in my life. "I've been in some fast cars, some cool old school cars, but this one is the most fast and most exciting car I've even been in." It would be nice to get along again, but I holding a grudge like an elephant with her.

[fastblackmerc]

Is there a hemi in it? :stupid:

:shot:

Technically we do have a hemi.

[breeze]

"what is this"?
ah marauder
ah maruder?
OR
nice looking cop car

[JOEMERC]

i had comments such as ,wow that car must have a 460 in it, or does that have a v8,a older guy said to me what did you do to that grand marquis. Or those wheels cant be factory and why do your center caps have fireman on them,just to name a few that i can think of.

[yjmud]

what yours isn't supercharged
mine is supercharged........ to find out he has a 03 cobra
"is that the one with the 5.4 or the supercharger" David Freiburger

[fesifisky]

Most often asked of mine: Did that start as a GM?

Second most often: Are you some kind of cop?

Third most often asked of mine: Is your name TJ?

[Black Dynamite]

My all time favorite dumb question came from a girl I was taking home from a friend's wedding reception. She was waiting in front of the banquet hall when I pulled up to pick her up. She got in the car and asked "why the hell would you drive a Buick?":mad2: I almost didn't get laid that night...


My other favorite dumb question came after some gangster wannabe kids told me about how "dope" my car was and they really liked what I had done to "dat Vic." They actually had the audacity to ask me what part of town I lived in.:mad2:

[CBT]

My other favorite dumb question came after some gangster wannabe kids told me about how "dope" my car was and they really liked what I had done to "dat Vic." They actually had the audacity to ask me what part of town I lived in.:mad2:

That's pretty rude of you to assume they were ganster wannabe's. I'm sure if you'd actually told them what part of town you lived in and engaged them in casual conversation, you'd have made some new friends. Until they stole your rims, of course, 'cause you told them where you live. :D

[Mr. Man]

Speaks ^^^^^ from sperience:bandit:

[MIDNITEMARAUDER]

I didn't get a dumb question, just a dumb comment. I was at the West Side Car Wash in Manhattan and a couple of patrons were admiring my Marauder when one rocket scientist stated "They stopped making these cars because too many people were getting killed, there's too much power under the hood." I now take my car to New Jersey to get her clean. I get it hand washed and people keep there mouth shut.

[Motorhead350]

My all time favorite dumb question came from a girl I was taking home from a friend's wedding reception. She was waiting in front of the banquet hall when I pulled up to pick her up. She got in the car and asked "why the hell would you drive a Buick?":mad2: I almost didn't get laid that night...

If that was me I sure wouldn't have. Stuff like that can turn me off for the night very quickly. The less I know about someone the easier I can... ya know... yeah. I'm complicated.

[centexmarauder]

Being 20 years old, most young folks around my age dont get it at all. They think its some big old car I just take really good care of.

I recenty started using a new Ford Dealer. I found it funny when my parts guy went out of his way to tell me, Exact quote: "This isnt some Crown Vic you got here." And im sitting here bitting my tounge thinking, you have no idea how much I know about this car.

Ive also stood at the parts counter for an hour while some idiot is looking for a motorcraft part number for a Suzuki motorcycle.

Also, the sticker on the front of our blocks that reads "540".... yeah, thats the cubic inches.

Also:
It IS a cop car.
I AM pretending to be a cop.
I bought the rims from Ford, there off a V6 Mustang.
It came with a 5.0, 5.4, a 350, a 454, and those are all hemi's and supercharged.
Also its not special at all. "I see atleast 10 of them a day around here. But they dont have those CHROME rims, and there not loud like yours"- Also an exact quote.

I just dont care anymore. I know what it is.

[RacerX]

I happened to see one and followed it a short distance (figured I'd just say hi) and he pulled into a Ford dealership, me right in tow. I pulled in behind his 03 Black, guy was in late 60's, talked for about a minute and a couple sales guys come out and say "Boy, for a minute I thought the FBI was pulling up and we were in trouble!). I thought it was kinda funny.

[LURCCH]

did you get this from a cop?

why did you wanna old man car?

im really surprised most people thats said something to me actually knew it had a 4.6

[SAAAAAC]

My friends call it the "magruder"

[LSCR351]

I get plenty of ignorant statements with my Vic, but the dumbest thing I heard was almost a year ago in my 2"/5" dropped stepside F150 with a 5'x10' flatbed in tow. Nothing in the back of truck, nothing on trailer. Guy in the lane next to me said, "what you hallin, it sure is heavy". I simply replied, "Air".

[a_d_a_m]

I've heard a lot of these ones before. One of my all time favorites is when people see the rear bumper and try to read it.

It usually ends up coming out "Ma-rar-duh".

[johnnyrauder]

Technically we do have a hemi.
please explain...

[LURCCH]

just got asked if they all come supercharged for the first time today

but the stupidest question ive been asked followed right after

"you waanna trade cars?"

*looks over sees a red camaro LOL*

thats a big time NO
it was nice but uuuuhhhhh its still a chevy haha

[Architect]

I pulled up onto a construction site last year and half the Mexican workers hightailed it over the fence and never came back...:D
Architect

[RF Overlord]

Technically we do have a hemi.


please explain..."Hemi" is short for Hemispherical and is the shape of the combustion chamber. With 4 valves and the spark plug in the centre, we have a hemispherical combustion chamber, but Chrysler pretty much has a lock on the word "hemi" as it applies to car engines...

[FF1077]

I had my car shipped out from Florida to Washington State. I had a friend take me out to pick it up from the shipping company. Everyone around me had heard me talking about Marauders, so I was hyped. When he got there he turns to me and says “You paid to have a old cop car shipped from Florida?” I just laughed and said it’s not a cop car.
I took him for a quick ride and when he get back he says "thats no cop car!".

[RacerX]

These stupid questions and assumptions by people make you feel that much better when you hear someone say something good and correct about them though. I heard a guy on a Harley yelling to his buddy on another Harley "Hey! That's a Marauder!". Or at the strip when someone with a really nice Stang pulling 10s all day checks your car out and says something nice about it.

[FF1077]

Or you take it to a Ford Dealership to have a battery put in and you watch as ALL the mechanics end up under your hood. Then they tell you "We werent expecting headers and we REALLY werent expecting a blower. Thats a nice car man."

[magindat]

That's a cop car. MARAUDER is just a name you made up.

[CBT]

When I had my car prepped for MV8, it was parked inside the large bay area after they got done at the Ford dealer I take it to. While we were shooting the breeze and I was paying I said to the manager "Damn, Lee. Doesn't it look awesome sitting there under the lights?" He said "No. It looks awesome flying down the road." :beer:

[4drcbra]

parking lot question - Will ur headlights and bumpers fit my Crown Vic?. I told him yes they were both built on the panther platform and his responce was "I dont have a panther, I have a Crown Vic"

[Black Dynamite]

parking lot question - Will ur headlights and bumpers fit my Crown Vic?. I told him yes they were both built on the panther platform and his responce was "I dont have a panther, I have a Crown Vic"

I probably would have just told him they wouldn't fit.

[Embassy]

This might have already been posted but I've gotten, "Did all the police packages come with a supercharger?" :rolleyes:

[Tony Rouviere]

Getting gas at the local 7-11, a Wigger walks up to me and asked, "How I got murderer on my bumper".