My granadpa just bough himself a 23 t altered and had it shipped up here from the states. When he got it we went through it and cleaned it up and painted it. He hasnt dragged raced since about 68 and is really excited to go racing, I spent about 6 years crewing on a local nostalgia funny so we are working together doing a family thing. We took the car to a local carshow and entered into the special interest category. They give you two cards, one with your number and cl*** and the other for the judges. So this dude stops buy wearing an orange reflective vest and a hat and sungl***es carrying a clipboard starts asking us about the car and says nice to see somethng different, he grabs our score card and fills it out and takes off. About an hour later the judges show up and ask where our card is and we explaied what was going on and they say that wast a judge we are the judges, the couldnt score us because they ran out of score cards. The point isnt that we would have won, but why would this jack*** do that? so that his buddy can win dishonestly? I dont get it, my gramps just wanted to show his new toy off to his buddies adn let the little kids sit in a real race car, we dont care if we would have won, we enjoy talking to people about cars and eating hot dogs. Sorry for the rant, but this is the sort of political **** that turns me off car shows.
Unfortunantly there is an *** hole in every crowd. Congrats to you and your gramps spending some quality time together.
You think you should have won but didn't? You are going for the wrong reasons. Most of the time- I take it off the windshield. I don't need some idiot w/ a clipboard (who probably knows nothing) to validate my car.
keep going to the shows. you will see the guy again, I'm sure. this is when the beat down should commence...
A lot of things are fixed, maybe it was for a good reason? Maybe it was rigged for a little kid with a terminal illness that helped build the winning car? If that happend to me I'd laugh my *** off over the fact someone went out of their way to dress up like a hall monitor and take a chance on catching a beat down over something so silly.
I should restate what I said,its an error in phonetics, because I dont think we would have won and even if we would have we went to hang out with eachother
The older I get the more weird malicious **** I see and hear about. If just the jerks that create **** to screw with your computer joined up with the beauty queens who want world peace and did something good we'd probably truly have world peace....nah, couldn't happen. What color is the sky in his world anyway?
Although it is pretty funny and my grandpa is like well thats ok it happens. If it wasnt such light hearted guys as us, I know a few guys that would have looked for the guy..... This is a fun thing and stuff like that spoils it.
I don't even put the info in the window & went to a show last weekend with about 400 cars. Nice day,nice cars & left before it was over. Got an email from a friend that night saying he had my trophy.(won a top 50). Never saw anyone judging & no info on the window so not sure how I got it.
I was at a show where it was people's choice. Only problem, they left the blank ballots on a table. A guy and his wife/girlfriend stuffed the ballot box so they could win "Best in Show". It was a black primered '65 Chevy stepside with pcv pipe for a roll bar. Boy were people pissed...........
gotta watch out for those guys in the orange vests. I paid for parking at a swap meet once to one of those guys and come to find out it was free parking... he was just some guy with an orange vest who stole my money.
^^^^^ No ****!! If you love and enjoy your car, why are you worried about some gay trophy? Tell them to keep there cards and cheap ******** trophies, and get the fluck away from your car.
I enjoy going to car shows mostly for the journey to and from the show but also to look and mingle with other people. I was at a car show with a couple of other friends and we did not display the window information and was ask to leave because they thought that me and the other 2 guys that I went with did not pay to register which we had. It was just one of those days and I guess that they thought they were going to lose a few dollars. Glad that your gramps took you to the show or vice a versa !!! Hope you and you gramps had a great day in spite of the orange vested phantom. You two will have something to talk about for years.
So, If you'd actually won, would you have mailed the trophy to the guy who actually built the car? It's all your point of view...
I hope the jag bag didn't wreck your day, it's the most disgusting thing ever to have some ****ster campaign for his car to trophy or play Barbie and Ken games to win a trophy. A trophy is a plastic piece of ****, most trophies could be purchased at a dime store for five bucks. Why someone would get so excited to get a trophy as to steal it is beyond belief, that totally dilutes the trophy, everyone knows the guy is a pizzer. What do you do with your BS trophy, display it next to your car at the next show in front of all the same people that your just ********ted? Nuts isn't it?
OK To clear this up, I dont care about the trophy, what I care about is the ***hole that dressed up as a judge and stole peoles cards. We went to have fun and show the car thats it. If you do win a show its a bonus. I DONT CARE IF I WON. Ther was a comment about sending the trophy to the guy that built it, well we added onto it, the car was built in the 70s, I painted it myself and fixed a bunch of wiring issues. I did this to make my grandpa happy and to say thank you for helping me out for years not to win a trophy!
Not a lot to comprehend, they had a ding a ling take the judging card, the judges wouldn't judge the car, thats sort of dumb as well, gramps didn't care, he had a nice time eating hot dogs and talking to people about cars. Sounds like they still had a good time. They even let some kids sit in the car, a real race car. Then the guy in the orange vest got up on stage and started singing YMCA with a cop and an Indian and the kids hot wired the car and ran over the man in the big yellow hat and George flew away on the balloons into the sunset with the trophy. Then George licked the trophy and said yuck trophies **** and dropped it and it landed in the oil well in the gulf of mexico and this caused the well to be plugged and BP was happy and restored their dividend and all were happy. Or did I elaborate a bit?
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