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Bones:
Any man who allows himself to be changed by a woman deserves everything he gets.

DarkKobold:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 21, 2005, 05:09:20 pm ---
Guys with $$ get away with a lot more garbage than guys without $$.
--- End quote ---

shmokes:
I don't care if Chad has never been on a date in his whole life and got his wife mail-order from Russia.  He's dead on.  Of course he is.  Does it mean that all any hottie cares about is money?  No.  But to suggest that money doesn't help you get and keep girls is assinine.

Ya'll are talking about women who allow their first impression of you to be affected by what car you drive like they are guilty of something, when in reality it's perfectly valid behavior and gives them all kinds of useful information about a person in a situation where they don't have a whole lot to go on.

A nice car suggests that you have money, which suggests that you are successful, which suggests that you are ambitious and smart and get on well enough with people to help you climb the corporate ladder.  It also indicates what type of tastes you have:  "Oh, you drive the Accord Hybrid....you must not mind spending a few thousand to be environmentally friendly," or, "Oh...a hummer.  You are probably an ass hole."

All of these assumptions may turn out to be false -- maybe you're just living at home with your mom so your job at Hollywood Video pays you just enough to sink every last penny you have into your car payment -- but it's not like girls can just walk around with a stack of questionaires to hand out to people.  The information she gleans from looking at your car is at least as accurate as the information you get when you look at her make-up, fashion sense and sculpted body and think, "She looks stuck up.  She isn't going to give me the time of day."  That is to say....probably pretty accurate.

There's no use fighting it.  We all begin categorizing people the second we see them based on cues.  By writing off girls who would give you first impression points based on your wheels you are merely writing off women with high standards. 

Nothing wrong with making a good impression. 

That said, I drive a 1998 Dodge Neon. 

paigeoliver:
Speaking of cars and women, I was hit on by two girls last night in the McDonalds drive thru because of my Geo Metro convertible.

THEM: Your car sure is small.

ME: Thats because I'm not compensating for shortcomings elsewhere (I think this went over their heads).

THEM: But its hot, can I lick it?

This went back and forth for a while, while I was in the drive thru, one of them called me and left me a voice mail.

The only problem is that I'm not nearly as desparate as I once thought I was, I was all ready to settle until I started encoutering girls that were interested, but that I would have to  settle for, and then I realized I might be happier single.

Note to skeptics. I have owned a lot of vehicles. My nicer late model ones never got me so much as a phone number.

Vehicles that HAVE gotten attention.

My scooter (current and previous). Once I actually came out of a bar (Fast Eddies in Illinois) and found a girl sitting on it, and she was pretty cute, she said she just wanted to feel the power between her legs!! That was the most blatant one, but there were others.

My Geo Metro.

My old Dodge D-50 pickup. Although this had a 5" front 7" rear lowering job, a chopped top with an all metal convertible conversion, shaved rear tailights and tailgate with a Ford Escort station wagon license plate box, some tiny tailights in the lower pan, a scoop off something on the hood, a phantom grill, etc, etc, etc, etc, and that was back when that sort of thing was popular. The thing seemed about 3 miles long and 2 feet tall. Between the roof chop, short tires and suspension chop I took 12" out of the height of the thing, and the D-50 already had the lowest profile of any of the minitrucks at the time. It also helped that mine was an 86 model, which was the last year of the smooth looking old bodystyle that looked so much better than the comparable trucks (and they were massively rare, I never encountered another custom one. I miss being young and thinking it was a good idea to channel almost all my income into custom cars.

Vehicles that were ignored.
Buick Regal
Ford Escort
Ford Courier
Honda Accord
Dodge Shadow Turbo
Ford Ranger
Chevy Suburban
Lebaron Convertible.

ChadTower:

Unusual cars, if they look good, do get women's attention.  I used to have a 1982 Ford EXP... think Escort.  Once the top was chopped off and it was turned into a custom convertible, though, it looked like a 2/3 scale Mustang 5.0.  Chicks loved it.  Of course, they were always slightly disappointed that it took 4 minutes to get to 70 and that I couldn't rev the engine to piss off the neighbors.

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