Re: Wow! Is that a Bricklin?

["Toby Peterson" <tobyp@xxxx>]

I had Winged1 in a car show inside an upscale shopping mall in 
Bellevue, Washington, along with 10 other DeLoreans from PNDC. A 
gentleman (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt) walked up, remarked 
"Wow, stainless steel, huh?", and proceeded to rap his knuckles on the 
left front fender. His assumption was that it was built like a bank 
vault door. He then asked "So, how much do these body panels cost, 
anyway?" I said that the fender he was beating on was .012" thick, 
and cost nearly $4,000 new (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration!). He 
very quickly put his hands in his pockets, muttered some lame apology, 
and shuffled off. That seems to be the main assumption that people 
have about the stainless steel - that it's indestructible. As far as 
the fingerprints go, I've given up trying to understand why people can 
walk by a refrigerator without giving it a second thought, but they 
MUST touch a car made from the same stuff.

Toby Peterson VIN 2248
Winged1

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx> 
wrote:

> A bigger mystery to me is why some people see my car, and confuse it 
> with Buddha's belly. "Oh, gee look! It's made out of stainless 
> steel! Let me just rub the hell out of it with my greasy hands!" 
> Or worse, when they rap their knuckles on it. I know a car with 
> stainless steel is quite a novelty (after all, I have one!), but 
> some people just become like little kids around it. I