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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr.Nickey Nova</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have been going to car cruises for a long time myself and seen a lot of close calls with my cars.I seat in my chair and wonder why i even bring my cars.Sometimes i just go without one of my cars and walk around,which i enjoy more,no seating by the car watching it like a hawk.If i want to go for a drive,i just hop in and go,and then back home in the garage.It's a shame it has come down to this for some of us,but a lot of the stuff i have seen are mostly from non car people who don't know how to act towards cruisers cars,who have nothing better to do,but walk around. </div></div>

I could not have summed this up better!!! Amen Brother!!

Rich

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Car show with voting with ballot papers.
&quot;He who has the most friends win&quot; [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img]

I went to a Mopar only Springfling show here in Toronto Canada with my Mopar National and Carlisle &quot;Best in class E body&quot; former champion 70 R/T S.E Challenger and everyone was surprised when a modified with weld wheels 74 Challenger won. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] Later I found out the owner was part of the club that sponsored the show [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img] Oh the politics of a car show some times.
They will never get my support again.

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Lots of people at these cruises don't even know what they are looking at. I had more attention with the stupid repro window sticker than the car itself sometimes.. Those windows stickers draw more attention and people. Then you get the stupid comments about how the car was only three grand, twenty eight hundred, or whatever new back then. I would tell people that was a lot of money back in 69 or 70... Then you always heard, &quot;I will give you that for it now, HA HA&quot;. Yeah real funny...

Needles to say I ditched the window sticker asap...

Rich

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I think some of the most enjoyment I get at cruise nights is from the couple that are truly clueless. I mean that in a good way too. Some don't know a Chevy from a Ford much less a 68 from a 78. They get pulled in like a moth to a light and admire your car like art. Genuine interest, basic questions and maybe a few pics. I'm happy to have met some nice people both young and old by just hanging out and being polite. Spending some time with some appreciative spectators usually makes up for the stampede of tools.

Just remember, a long hard day at work, traffic, crappy roads and a few tools can be a receipt for misery.


BIG

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I get a kick out of the people who don't recognize the model name of our old cars today.
We all here have Nova,Chevelle,Elcamino,Impala,Corvair etc.in our DNA,but many people today are only somewhat familiar with the names Camaro &amp; Monte Carlo.
And some are speechless when they walk upon an old station wagon for the first time.
I always grin when a young child walks up to me to ask what my car is called,and then yells back to their parents,&quot;It's called a Chevelle&quot;.
Are we really that old?

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Yep!

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Always pay attention to the young people and answer their questions. The old people either already know the answers or they are not capable of understanding the answers.

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

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If your car's not red you have about a 25% less chance to win anything. The absent minded voters simply vote based on color.

I go to the shows to hear the random spectator who's there by chance talk about their brothers old Hemi Road Runner. It usually checks out as an old 68 Satellite or something, but the stories are cool none the less. Plus, there's that remote chance that it was actually an old Hemi Road Runner [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think some of the most enjoyment I get at cruise nights is from the couple that are truly clueless. I mean that in a good way too. Some don't know a Chevy from a Ford much less a 68 from a 78. They get pulled in like a moth to a light and admire your car like art. Genuine interest, basic questions and maybe a few pics. I'm happy to have met some nice people both young and old by just hanging out and being polite. Spending some time with some appreciative spectators usually makes up for the stampede of tools.

Just remember, a long hard day at work, traffic, crappy roads and a few tools can be a receipt for misery.


BIG </div></div>

Amen....

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If your car's not red you have about a 25% less chance to win anything. The absent minded voters simply vote based on color. </div></div>

People go to cruises / informal car shows to &quot;win&quot; something? Really? hmmm, definitely a difference of reasons ...

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I always grin when a young child walks up to me to ask what my car is called,and then yells back to their parents,&quot;It's called a Chevelle&quot;.
Are we really that old? </div></div>

I overheard one kid pronounce it like &quot;Shev-uh-lay&quot; with the Spanish double L making a Y sound.

I guess that is how the modern generation spells Chevrolet. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

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Had a woman walk up to my car and proclaim she bought a new 1968 SS chevelle with the same working flapper cowl ind. hood.
I told her that was impossible.
She told me not to tell her what she knows &amp; was the fact that she's a woman have something to do with me not believing her?
I told her that year Chevelle couldn't get that hood till 1970,but she was adamant and said I was wrong.
Kept standing there like I was a male chauvinist pig.
Told me next week she would bring me photos of the car,along with some dealership paper showing such.
This was 2 years ago,and I haven't seen her since and I'm there every week.

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Originally Posted By: Mr70


I always grin when a young child walks up to me to ask what my car is called,and then yells back to their parents,&quot;It's called a Chevelle&quot;.
Are we really that old?


I overheard one kid pronounce it like &quot;Shev-uh-lay&quot; with the Spanish double L making a Y sound.

I guess that is how the modern generation spells Chevrolet. grin

Top



Those darn Long -I-Land kids

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Had a woman walk up to my car and proclaim she bought a new 1968 SS chevelle with the same working flapper cowl ind. hood.
I told her that was impossible.
She told me not to tell her what she knows &amp; was the fact that she's a woman have something to do with me not believing her?
I told her that year Chevelle couldn't get that hood till 1970,but she was adamant and said I was wrong.
Kept standing there like I was a male chauvinist pig.
Told me next week she would bring me photos of the car,along with some dealership paper showing such.
This was 2 years ago,and I haven't seen her since and I'm there every week. </div></div>

Rick, I think I know that car it's a real rare 1 of 1 made [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

I like the experts that know everything there is to know about your particular car.. &quot;Hey they never made an SS with an automatic on the column&quot;... &quot;Yeah your right, Gee you got me I was trying to pull off a fake here&quot; [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Rich

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I have a 1967 fastback Mustang that has some rough paint at the bottom of the A pillars. It's a driver so I don't really care. The last 2 cruise nights I've had it at, people have picked or have tried to pick the paint off with their fingernails. Who does that? Seriously?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a 1967 fastback Mustang that has some rough paint at the bottom of the A pillars. It's a driver so I don't really care. The last 2 cruise nights I've had it at, people have picked or have tried to pick the paint off with their fingernails. Who does that? Seriously? </div></div>


...or when it is a 'Survivor' / 'Driver' car and the comment is, &quot;that will look good when you are finished restoring it.&quot;

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a 1967 fastback Mustang that has some rough paint at the bottom of the A pillars. It's a driver so I don't really care. The last 2 cruise nights I've had it at, people have picked or have tried to pick the paint off with their fingernails. Who does that? Seriously? </div></div>

People like you who move other people's cones who have reserved a spot for their buddies. It's matter of handling another person's personal property, which you stated you have no problem with, so why complain about someone touching your car?????

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Yeah Matt,

You could damage the cone!

Jason [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Any kind of big car show where I live is pretty rare so for the most part they're all fairly small gatherings. There really isn't a problem with saving a space or two for someone coming later because there is usually a ton of spots to park even if you come late. The problem I have personally run into is the smug, cocky types with the high dollar resto's and such that act like you shouldn't even be there. One guy came up to me and my family one show and had the nerve to say &quot;What are YOU doing with a Z28?&quot; Like I shouldn't own one. I'm just an average, factory worker, machine operator that sometimes can't even rub two pennies together, but I do have a 69 Z28 that is unrestored and is a nice driver. I just looked at him and his buddies and laughed. It really amazes me that there are a lot of people with nice cars with really shitty attitudes. It should be a requirement to have a good attitude if you bring a car to a show. I haven't gone to a show in a lot of years, too much drama for me.

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&quot;Ego's&quot; are the problem................There are &quot;Car&quot; people..............and &quot;People&quot; with Cars............Nuff Said!!!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kwhizz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> &quot;Ego's&quot; are the problem................There are &quot;Car&quot; people..............and &quot;People&quot; with Cars............Nuff Said!!!
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Very</span> well said.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Verne_Frantz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

People like you who move other people's cones who have reserved a spot for their buddies. It's matter of handling another person's personal property, which you stated you have no problem with, so why complain about someone touching your car?????

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] </div></div>

Verne,

I am 'almost' certain that you can spot the differences between peeling paint off someone else's car and moving a cone out of a parking space when there is limited quality parking available.

For the record, I would never, ever touch anyone's vehicle. However, a road cone blocking a parking space? C'mon Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] The minute I see someone spending tens of thousands on cheap plastic road cones where people are enjoying them, driving them, restoring them, waxing them, and showing them. I won't touch them!

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I'm kind of a black or white guy. I don't touch anyone's personal property without permission, whether it's the straw in his Coke or the radiator cap on his Cobra.

Verne

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Verne_Frantz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm kind of a black or white guy. I don't touch anyone's personal property without permission, whether it's the straw in his Coke or the radiator cap on his Cobra.

Verne </div></div>

X2...I would challenge anyone to try and move a cone or a coke straw...I might get my butt kicked but they'll know never to do it again. I don't touch anyone's stuff and they better not touch mine. One of the first things I taught my kids and my grand kids....if it doesn't belong to you don't touch it.

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I think this post nails it for me.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: GaryC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The problem I have personally run into is the smug, cocky types with the high dollar resto's and such that act like you shouldn't even be there. </div></div>

I will link you to a advertisement I put together for a Plymouth Road Runner ONLY car show that I put together a couple weeks back. Check out the post from the first guy after the flyer.
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=1&amp;vc=1

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looks like your birdshow was a success [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If your car's not red you have about a 25% less chance to win anything. The absent minded voters simply vote based on color.

I go to the shows to hear the random spectator who's there by chance talk about their brothers old Hemi Road Runner. It usually checks out as an old 68 Satellite or something, but the stories are cool none the less. Plus, there's that remote chance that it was actually an old Hemi Road Runner [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img] </div></div>

HA...yeah...I took my fresh resto day2 COPO to multiple local shows last year and i couldn't win a trophy to save my *ss...the shows around here are 'participant voting'...at one show I was put in the pro-street category cause the car is done-up day2 with tow tabs, there were 4 cars in that class and 3 trophies given out, guess who didn't get one... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] ...good thing there are people who still do it for the enjoyment of the cars [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

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I'm new to the car show circuit but..

My car is far from a &quot;show car&quot; but it was hard to watch a trophy go to a guy with a Ford Focus.
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Born30YrsLate</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If your car's not red you have about a 25% less chance to win anything. The absent minded voters simply vote based on color.

I go to the shows to hear the random spectator who's there by chance talk about their brothers old Hemi Road Runner. It usually checks out as an old 68 Satellite or something, but the stories are cool none the less. Plus, there's that remote chance that it was actually an old Hemi Road Runner [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img] </div></div>

HA...yeah...I took my fresh resto day2 COPO to multiple local shows last year and i couldn't win a trophy to save my *ss...the shows around here are 'participant voting'...at one show I was put in the pro-street category cause the car is done-up day2 with tow tabs, there were 4 cars in that class and 3 trophies given out, guess who didn't get one... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] ...good thing there are people who still do it for the enjoyment of the cars [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img] </div></div>

Oh yeah, if you allow people to vote on &quot;Best of Show&quot; they'll choose the biggest POS on the property. Case in point: Took my '84 Porsche 911 to an all-Porsche show-and-shine sponsored by the local PCA chapter. Lots of nice cars and nice people. Some yay-hoo shows up with his 911 coupe with a small-block Chevy stuck in the back seat! (There's always one.) Okay, I get it, 911s aren't known for their drag-race credentials so there's always people who need more. Okay, to each his own. But this was more like a poke in the eye with a stick, intended to irritate the P-car crowd--which is probably not hard to do. Not a particularly nice job either, kinda' ratty, kinda' unsanitary. So what car gets the crowd's vote for Best of Show? Yes! The ratty half-a$$ed 911 with the 350 Chevy in back! I just laughed and laughed. It really was funny. Hey, you can't expect to get the crowd you wish for (unless it's MCACN) so you must suffer the consequences when the votes are cast.

This is not a political post. If it sounds like one, I understand!

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Here's my two cents.

Went to a show yesterday and parked in what I thought was a good spot in &quot;Chevy Country&quot;

Got all set up and headed out to look at the talent and scout for some parts.

Came back three hours later to find that the folks across the aisle from me had built a fire and crop dusted my car with a nice coating of ash.

Seems like bon fires with hot embers floating it the air isn't such a good idea for a show.. JMO...

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JBALL</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's my two cents.

Went to a show yesterday and parked in what I thought was a good spot in &quot;Chevy Country&quot;

Got all set up and headed out to look at the talent and scout for some parts.

Came back three hours later to find that the folks across the aisle from me had built a fire and crop dusted my car with a nice coating of ash.


Seems like bon fires with hot embers floating it the air isn't such a good idea for a show.. JMO... </div></div>

THAT REALLY SUCKS!!

Rich

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JBALL</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's my two cents.

Went to a show yesterday and parked in what I thought was a good spot in &quot;Chevy Country&quot;

Got all set up and headed out to look at the talent and scout for some parts.

Came back three hours later to find that the folks across the aisle from me had built a fire and crop dusted my car with a nice coating of ash.

Seems like bon fires with hot embers floating it the air isn't such a good idea for a show.. JMO... </div></div>

Quite a few years ago, a good friend of mine took his fully restored rolling chassis (with complete 409 driveline) to a national convention (emphasis on <span style="font-style: italic">national convention</span>). IT was parked with the other show cars in an underground garage. One of the principals of the organization set up a barbeque grill not 5ft away from his chassis and proceeded to cook burgers and dogs for everyone. Not only was the entire chassis coated with grease, but people used the tires and frame rails to sit on while eating.
After all, it wasn't really a CAR was it??

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Verne_Frantz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JBALL</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's my two cents.

Went to a show yesterday and parked in what I thought was a good spot in &quot;Chevy Country&quot;

Got all set up and headed out to look at the talent and scout for some parts.

Came back three hours later to find that the folks across the aisle from me had built a fire and crop dusted my car with a nice coating of ash.

Seems like bon fires with hot embers floating it the air isn't such a good idea for a show.. JMO... </div></div>

Quite a few years ago, a good friend of mine took his fully restored rolling chassis (with complete 409 driveline) to a national convention (emphasis on <span style="font-style: italic">national convention</span>). IT was parked with the other show cars in an underground garage. One of the principals of the organization set up a barbeque grill not 5ft away from his chassis and proceeded to cook burgers and dogs for everyone. Not only was the entire chassis coated with grease, but people used the tires and frame rails to sit on while eating.
After all, it wasn't really a CAR was it??

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] </div></div>

That takes the cake Verne! Wow...

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I was at a local show a few years ago. There was a guy walking around with a Doberman on a leash. This dumb azz actually stopped and let his dog pee on the wheel of a friends AAR Cuda. Luckily the friend wasn't there to see it. The guy was quickly escorted off of the show field and threatened with bodily harm if he returned.
James

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That's why I don't take my car to any shows anymore. Not worth the bother.

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Had my 67 Vette' in a car show -- it had yellow plastic chain in t-bars surrounding the car. Most people understood what the chain was for -- DO NOT TOUCH ... PLEASE!!! This lady walks up with a child and starts to ask questions about the Vette' -- before anyone could stop him, the little boy ducks under the chain and uses the door mirror to pull himself up to look inside the car. Yep -- the damn mirror broke off. Just an accident but there was a group of !@#$!@ to anyone that would listen. TAZ

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I may stop going to car shows with my Chevelle as the question I get asked the most is &quot;Is that a real LS6 SS&quot; with a copy of the build sheet and window sticker right on the dash.

Time to make a new sign for my dash &quot;Yes it is a real F@#%$N LS6 SS&quot;

Nobody ever asked me if my 1970 Challenger is a real R/T S.E. though.

Envy and Jealousy continues.........

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Like anything we all remember the bad instances. However, I'm guessing more than a fair share of the people who have had something negative happen have benefitted greatly from someone giving them a lead on a car or parts etc..