I'VE HAD IT WITH PEOPLE AT CAR CRUISES

[al8apex]

<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 ...

[Born30YrsLate]

<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]

[427TJ]

<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!

[Mr70]

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.

[Mr. Chevy]

<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

[kwhizz]

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

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Those darn Long -I-Land kids

[Fast67VelleN2O]

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?

[bbbentley]

<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;

[Verne_Frantz]

<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]

[Fast67VelleN2O]

<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!