Open Diff ? What are your automotive pet peeves? | Hemmings Daily

I?m rather disappointed. After my post on the 1952 Mercury woodie wagon that sold at the recent RM St. John?s auction, I fully expected commenter Get It Right to weigh in ? as he/she does every time we write about woodies ? to tell me that it should be spelled ?woody,? not ?woodies.? I?d believe that Get It Right is actually one of our copy editors posting anonymously if it weren?t for the fact that our copy editors could easily go in and change the spelling themselves. (For the record, ?woodie? is the accepted spelling of the National Woodie Club, and who am I to argue with a club full of woodie enthusiasts about how they spell their favorite vehicle?)

But Get It Right isn?t the only one of our commenters with a specific automotive pet peeve, as I?ve come to find out over the last several years conversing with everybody who reads and comments on the Hemmings Daily. For example, Mal Fuller seems to be leading the campaign against the use of the 1964-1/2 model year designation for early 1965 Ford Mustangs, and a number of you have repeatedly weighed in with pet peeves ranging from the overuse of the word ?classic? to the improper application of Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels on mid-1950s Chryslers.

So, this is your chance to fire away with your own automotive pet peeves. Let loose your inner pedant. Release your OCDemons. Dazzle us with that one bit of automotive trivia that everybody seems to get wrong. Hopefully, we?ll all reach some sort of catharsis by doing so, and we?ll all come away learning something for it.

By the way, just a reminder that the comments here are for civil and on-topic discussion. Stray too far off-topic, start calling people names, or generally make a nuisance of yourself and your commenting privileges will get yanked. That goes for this post and every other post on this blog.

Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/08/07/open-diff-what-are-your-automotive-pet-peeves/

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