I will give the guy one thing, at least he was being friendly so that was a plus, but he is a dealer, and on comission, so every person is a perspective customer.
Anyway, I get out of school today and head down to the dealership to pick up the Mystiques gaskets. My car is filthy. They have been doing construction near work so I drive on what is basically a dirt road every day. At first I was upset that my car was getting dirty, but knowing I was going to detal it on spring break (starts friday) I havent been washing it. Its normally teal paint is a light shade of brown. The entire rear of the car is covered, so much so its starting to get hard to read my plate number. The front wheels have brake dust on them and the rear wheels have that funky compressed dirt between their spokes. You can see where the wipers clean and where the washer fluid gets on the hood after the squirters have been used. Its actually making me kind of sad to see my baby like this but it will all be made up for real soon.
So, I pull in, and the guy, probably in his late 40s, comes up to me and says, "Hey, how do you like your SVT?" Apparently he didnt notice the
TEAL paintjob, the non-SVT front bumper cover, and the stock non-SVT rear cover. The projectors or the 16V emblem on the side wouldnt be a giveaway either.
I respond with, "Its actually a GL," and he continues on with how they had an SVT demo a few years ago and he loved it, like he didnt even hear me speak. I come back with, "They are fun to drive, arent they?" or something similar. After he is done with his flashback, he looks at me funny and asks me what year it is. I tell him and he still looks confused.
"Oooh, so you put the wheels, and sideskirts on it then!"
"I did."
"Thats cool," and he turns and walks away just as quick as he came.
I wonder if it clicked that the car he was looking at was almost ten years old, and the person standing in front of him was there for parts, not a car. Its not like I was holding my reciept or anything.
I grabbed my parts and a SVT poster (cool BTW) that they had on clearance and left.
CLIFFS: The dealer thinks that my car is an SVT and I got a really neat poster.
