Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors?
07-22-2002, 02:17 AM
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Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors?
i've developed a habit of using the bottom of my shirt or jacket to open the door from the outside to avoid getting finger marks on the chrome handles. does anyone else do this?
07-22-2002, 02:19 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
Sometimes - Only when working on her and my hands are dirty and I need to turn the engine over, etc.
07-22-2002, 03:40 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
i've developed a habit of using the bottom of my shirt or jacket to open the door from the outside to avoid getting finger marks on the chrome handles. does anyone else do this?
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here.
07-22-2002, 03:42 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
Put me up for sometimes. I know when my hands are dirty.
Funny thing is, I can drive my thing for two weeks, and get absolutely no fingerprints on it whatsoever.
Almost ANY time I let someone else ride in my car, the passenger side door is smudge city.
:mad
-Steve
Funny thing is, I can drive my thing for two weeks, and get absolutely no fingerprints on it whatsoever.
Almost ANY time I let someone else ride in my car, the passenger side door is smudge city.
:mad
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07-22-2002, 03:43 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (BSeery)
i've developed a habit of using the bottom of my shirt or jacket to open the door from the outside to avoid getting finger marks on the chrome handles. does anyone else do this?
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here.
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here.
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07-22-2002, 03:51 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (BSeery)
I'm with Bryan on this one. I don't care about putting finger marks on the chrome, the car is outside and it's going to get stuff on it. It litterally burns you to open your door out here and that'd be the only reason I use my shirt, towel.
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07-22-2002, 06:38 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
Ok call me sad... If the car is cleaned up, particularly if we're going to a "show" of some sort, I'll use a handkercheif to open the door, and probably to close it. I also always use a handkercheif, or the cloth I'm cleaning the car with to push the bonnet (hood to you guys!) down closed (no, I never drop it for the last 6 inches!)
In my younger years I worked with a couple of chaps who'd spent 30 odd years at James Young, the Rolls Royce coachbuilding company. They ingrained into me that I, or anyone else for that matter, has no need to touch car paintwork with bare hands... Always, always use a soft cloth of some sort if you need to touch the paint, and if there is a handle for anything, use it.
And, I use a towel on the floor to keep the mats clean........ :bb
In my younger years I worked with a couple of chaps who'd spent 30 odd years at James Young, the Rolls Royce coachbuilding company. They ingrained into me that I, or anyone else for that matter, has no need to touch car paintwork with bare hands... Always, always use a soft cloth of some sort if you need to touch the paint, and if there is a handle for anything, use it.
And, I use a towel on the floor to keep the mats clean........ :bb
07-22-2002, 08:42 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
I have a converible that is kept in a garage, but the top is always down. I simply lean over into the car and open it from the inside.
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07-22-2002, 09:16 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (BSeery)
i've developed a habit of using the bottom of my shirt or jacket to open the door from the outside to avoid getting finger marks on the chrome handles. does anyone else do this?
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here.
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here.
[Modified by Silvr77, 7:17 AM 7/22/2002]
07-22-2002, 09:48 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (Silvr77)
Good idea. I have fingerless gloves I wear in the summer from time to time when the wheel gets hot, just so my palm can contact that. Works with the shifter too. I'd wear gloves w/ fingers, but they seem to impede my hand motion. Gloves help a lot, though!
-Steve
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07-22-2002, 10:38 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
Sadly, I to use a shirt or towel to open my doors, must times. Unless I'm cruzin' with 'da boys.
07-22-2002, 10:39 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
Yes but not to avoid finger prints. I do it to keep from burning my fingers. That chrome can get HOT in the Texas sun.
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07-22-2002, 10:54 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (Tom73)
Yes but not to avoid finger prints. I do it to keep from burning my fingers. That chrome can get HOT in the Texas sun.
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07-22-2002, 10:59 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (Bohot)
I don't unless I'm getting in/out of it at a show, but then i use a towel or something...not my shirt :nonod:
07-22-2002, 11:11 AM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (SizzleChest)
i've developed a habit of using the bottom of my shirt or jacket to open the door from the outside to avoid getting finger marks on the chrome handles. does anyone else do this?
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here. wuss.
:jester
Uh, we use the shirt tale to open the door, and then in the car is a towel that has been drapped over the steering wheel. You use the towel to flip the seat back, as it has been folded over. Then you use the towel to grab that metal seat buckle and strap yourself in. The the towel gets used to turn the ignition lock and start the car. After that you drive with the towel in your hand until the A/C gets going.......
Why ?
Because you live in Chandler Arizona, where it's 100+ in the shade, but you didn't park in the shade.
No -- that would have made sense.
Instead, you open the door to that plastic blast furnace using your shirt, because the chrome door handle is the same temp. as the surface of the sun !!
Then you grab that 110 degree towel and use it to flip your seat back. If you didn't remember to fold your seat forward, you now get to sit on a blazing hot seat that will burn the stitch marks into the back of your legs !
Then you use the towel to buckel your seat belt, remembering when you first moved down here and what happened before you put the towel in your car. You, the dumbarse, grabbed a white hot metal object that has been sitting in the sun with your bare hands and proceded to burn "GM" into your palm.
After cussing and swearing about that, you tried to start the car, but only managed to change your fingerprints from swirls to straight lines. Where did those come from? From that bright metal lock cylinder you were trying to turn with your bare thumb and forefinger.
Now that the branding is done you can grab ahold of that damn hot steering wheel with you now 3rd degree burned hand and try and drive your stupid **** to a state where you can't boil water in your car by parking it in the sun!!!
But we don't worry about finger marks on the chrome. Most of us lost our finger prints the first summer we lived here. wuss.
:jester
07-22-2002, 12:30 PM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (BSeery)
bseery, :lol: :lol: :lol: ! i feel your pain! las vegas isn't any better. plus i have a dark blue interior so i know what your talking about. there have been times when i knew i was going somewhere so i took a wet cloth out to wipe down the seat before i sat down in it :bs
seriously, the trade off is: we can drive our cars year round. summers just require a little personal protective proceedures before getting in the car! :lol:
(what's really sad is that for those of us who live out here, that applies to ANY bare metal. don't dare work on your car outside of the garage in the summer: you put down that wrench for a minute and it's 150*+ when you pick it up. i have litterally blistered my hand doing that but only once)
seriously, the trade off is: we can drive our cars year round. summers just require a little personal protective proceedures before getting in the car! :lol:
(what's really sad is that for those of us who live out here, that applies to ANY bare metal. don't dare work on your car outside of the garage in the summer: you put down that wrench for a minute and it's 150*+ when you pick it up. i have litterally blistered my hand doing that but only once)
07-22-2002, 12:47 PM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (67HEAVEN)
I've just started using my underwear.
07-22-2002, 01:03 PM
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Re: Anyone else use their shirts to open their doors? (BSeery)
Remote staters built into the remote controlled alarm system can get the A/C working a couple minutes before you open the doors. Just have to remember to leave the A/C controls switched on when you leave the Vette parked.