Event Coverage Street Rod Nationals

Hate to sound like an old fart, but the car scene with the younger crowd is getting bat **** crazy. It's not drag racing on the back roads or cruising up and down main street. Every day I get new videos popping up on my facebook or IG of hundreds of people hanging out in the middle of a busy intersection doing all kinds of crazy **** like that and people getting run over and hit all the time.
I think that's a reflection of what you described.

 

There are a bunch of videos on Utube. Might want to kick back and watch them on your TV's big screen. One of them is almost an hour and a half of cars entering the event.
Just type in Utube Street Rod Nationals...........

 

I think that was the year I bought your T5 transmission kit for my '34 Roadster, then bought a ch***is from you. Car drove great with the T5, flathead & ch***is. Regret selling it.

 

As I am part of that younger age group, it still drives me up a wall. I get the upping of the years of cars allowed, my age group on average does not mess with early cars, so I can see the reasoning to keep registration numbers up and to try and connect with the younger crowd. If they had stuck with the pre 48 stuff I pretty sure they would be folding up by now as the numbers would have dwindled big time.

As far as the Nats go, Ill never attend a NSRA event again. Never went to the Nationals (to far away living on the west coast) but the 2 years they put on the northwest nationals really soured me on the group. Took Taboo the 2nd year and while I am used to negative comments about the car, most of the members were the rudest car people I had been around and it was just poorly ran.

If I can ever swing the time off work and the money needed to haul the car east like that it would be for CCR or back to the 50s.

 

There's always Lloydfest

 

This post has been an interesting read. I just returned from the Nats in Louisville with a side trip to the Trifive Nats in Bowing Green. Had a great time at both events. I don't know how many car shows around the country can boast about having close to or more than 10,000 vehicles but there seems to be less every year. I walk past the vehicles that don't interest me and stop at those that do. And it's always great to see old friends. Next year Back to the Fifties.

 

Lloydfest over the NSR show for sure, at least this year....

Generally speaking, I just don't like BIG shows or big events. Don't like the crowds, the traffic, and the jacked up hotel rates that seem to be included with the big shows and the big events. We did several big shows when we were younger, I don't feel the need to deal with them anymore.

We did the Back to the Fifties until they reached 8,000 entries, it just wasn't much fun after that. Like someone else stated, you get past 3,000 cars you can't see them all in a weekend anyway, and 1/2 of what you see is not what you wanted to see. Like them or not, you lost time while you still had to walk past them. I don't have a problem with the cut off dates, as long as they don't start to include new cars. I get the new stuff is fast, but I could go to the dealership lots and look at them there if I wanted to see them. We do attend a couple shows that have newer stuff, but at least that stuff is in its own section of the show that I can byp*** if I choose to not look at them.

I have not ever been to the Street Rod Nats, the number of entries, even at the reduced rate of 9,000 is well past what I want to deal with. Doesn't matter where they might move it to, but for us northerners, Louisville in Aug is pretty dumb timing.

 

The "Aquanationals!"

 

I got to wondering, just how many big events are still out there that have Pre 65 or Pre 50 only venues? I know there was one in Tennessee that apparently ended this year. Just curious as to what events are still being held with that format.

 

Yes, glad none of us old guys ever did any shenanigans and got the cops on ourselves when we were young.


Actually, I think shutting down cruising on Phillips lane is probably a good thing, as its not really a good street for doing so. They may make the hotel rooms next to the fairgrounds a little less in demand and lower prices. Nearby Preston Highway which is a lot more conducive to cruzing usually has people sitting in lawn chairs and watching cars drive by. With 9000+ cars there will always be some new place that cars congregate and cruize nearby. As for the police, I think they show considerable restraint when the rodders come to town, but there are limits.

 

There's the Relix Riot at the Gilmore in Hickory Corners MI

 

The last one I saw (from the US), one guy drifted his car into the car of another of the "participants" in an intersection they had shut down. Owner of car 2 pulls out a 45 and starts shooting wildly at car 1 while he's doing donuts with a huge crowd of people around. Scary.

The burnout culture even at hotrod shows in small towns around here is fun, but it can get out of hand pretty quickly and be fun for nobody. 70MPH burnouts are unnecessary.

 

That wasn't at the SRN was it ?

 

How big is it and when is it ?

 

Tonight and tomorrow.
It's usually a pretty good size but nowhere near the size of the street rod nats.

 

Judging by the cars, no. A bit off topic.

I don't recall what city or state the video was from.

 

@CrustyChevy said two years ago there was an incident where guns were drawn here at Louisville last year. I quit watching the local news a few years ago because of the one sided reporting and the lack of any personality in the politically correct news clones, so I didn't see anything about any problems.