We did something similar, but funny instead. Went to an "open to all types" car show. My daughter brought out her Nova that is in about 100 different shades of primer. There were also the typical car show gold chainers that have tons of money sunk into their cars and take life WAY too serious. Well, the show is people votes off all types of cl***es. As a joke, I filled out "best paint" with my daughters car # on it. Well I told a few people, they thought it was funny and filled out theirs the same way. Then they told a few and it blew up from there. She didn't win, but one of my friends who runs the show came over to my house later and was pissed but laughing about it at the same time. He told me we missed her winning by only 2 votes and he would have never heard the end of it if she won. Car shows are about having fun and great times with friends, nothing more, nothing less.
The national hot rod ***ociation should start regulating all balloting nationwide. At least one NHR official will be at Every car show nationwide. All voting will must be highly regulated and monitored. This is serious, and has gotten out of hand. I'm as mad as hell and can't take it anymore.....
This is the only pic I have of the car, its just a race car. Like I said my point wasnt winning, it was the point of why would somebody do what they did.
man...there are too many dumb***es that would not get the significance of that car.... maybe if it had lambo doors on it Seriously though...I want more photos of that! It looks sick.
Great lookin' car, congrats to grandpa. Car shows are entertainment or at least the trophy *****s are!! Normal Norman
good looking car, but put it on the track and have some real fun! i'd look realy good with alot of slick residue all over it.
Ahmen brother....this threads a cl***ic, some of it friggin hilarious..some of it's sad...and then there are the parts that made me scratch my head....or something
I use to help judge a charity show years ago and when ever I saw a (Gold Chainer) trophy shrine set up around a car in the cl*** that I was judging I would look for a nice clean looking car that a younger guy had in the same cl***. I would then really hit the gold chainer with the old microscope and give the young guy some lea way when judging his car. I figured the mega trophy winner wouldn't appreciate another trophy as much as a guy who was not Mr. Show and Shine. God I loved to watch the kid get a trophy while gold chainer blew steam from his ears. I know.....I'm an ***hole.
There are model car shows I skip due to such nonsense, guess it don't matter what scale your car is, no show is immune from dirty dealings. Bob
That is funny. I had that happen to me. I was showing a 1951 Ford pickup in the custom truck cl*** and if a got a trophy I could care less I was there to have fun and talk to people. But this truck seem to get trophies all the time. I was at a local show and this truck showed up that was on the national show circuit. Some of you may know the truck (The Land Yacht). He ended up in the same cl*** as me. This show was a people choice award show. At the end of the day we were at the tent and your cl*** was up and he got second place and I got first place. Well he got so mad that he was spinning the tires in the gl*** as he was going to his trailer to load the truck. As he was loading his truck into the enclosed trailer he jump on the gas and almost hit the side of his trailer as he was entering it. At this time a crowd was gathering because of the seen he was making and they started to cheer when this happen. This even made him get madder yet. He ended up giving everyone the one figure goodbye as he drove off. Right after that I put my truck up for sale and every time he would show up the other guys in the cl*** would tell him, he needed buy that truck so it would not beat him again. Wow that would piss him off. Once you become a trophy hunter it takes all the fun out of it. A trophy is a bonus and all mine set up on the ledge in my garage.
This reminds me of a show the wife and I ran across last sunday by dumb luck. It was a free show, they had "FREE BEER", thats right free beer, and food but NO AWARDS. Talk about some *****en, they all drank and ate the free food and beer but was pissed because there was no trophys. One guy told us I'll never come back even if it free again, I come to win a trophy this guy is a cheap ***hole, who has a show without trophys, I said to him THIS GUY DID, AND YOU CAN LEAVE ANYTIME.
We had a show to support my son's old Cub Scout Pack (he's moved on to Boy Scouts now). I was unable to attend as I was out of town but I saw the pictures. At a local cruise I saw a truck I recognized from the pics and asked him how the show was. Mind you we set it up so that scouts voted for the top ten cars/trucks/motorcycles/whatever that won. He said "Oh the leaders had it fixed there is no way the kids voted for the cars that won...etc...etc. They didn't know anything about cars." I said well it isn't about knowing about cars its about what they liked. It was their show to support them. He complained that too many new cars won. I talked to the guys that were at the show. Two newer Mustangs won trophies but the rest were 60's and older cars that won. The top pick from the kids was a '64 Impala! I told him well it was really all about supporting the Cub Scouts not about winning trophies. I thanked him for coming and said well maybe next time we'll just charge $30 for the show and hand each person a trophy as they enter.
It gets even better when there are merchandise awards given too........or worse, (like one show I used to work at, until they started this) cash prizes. That's when the wolves come out of the forest.
I need to buy an orange vest and some fake parking stickers. I could use the extra money to buy some beer.
What a ****ing joke..... Thats why I dont enter car shows for judging....too many misplaced egos in the scene who dont get it. Judges who wouldnt know the *** end of a wrench from the front of one. No thanx..... I can appreciate someone who makes the effort to be recognised for HIS work on HIS ride,.....not someone elses work.... sure. Shows... The best thing about shows is driving to them and home with your mates and seeing old hot rod mates you havent seen for a while. To each their own. Rat
judge not lest ye be judged .. is that right ? i remember hearing that from church .. looking in from outside
I keep thinking I should go to this late fall show here that has a $1000 Best Of Show cash prize, I figure if they give out cash prizes, I might actually sell some **** there. Now I don't know if I should go, who knows how many ***holes will be there fighting it out for the $1000.
really what you should do is just start going to even more shows and crash tackle and pimp slap every person you see wearing a high-visability vest and carrying a clip board. you'll get him eventually and that'll teach him....
Ummm, I dont know if I should post this, but........ Many moons ago when I had my 38 it was kinda rough, a 70s build that had been driven non stop into the late 90s. I was invited to a minor car show at my nieces primary school. I was the ONLY car in my cl*** and they still gave me third place!! Honest!! Doc.
When I had my g***er I went t a few shows/cruise ins and was usually bored ****less after a couple hours. For me it was the drive there and back. My best memory of that car was driving home through the country from a party late one summer night with my wife.
awesome!...... sounds to me like your upset that you didn't win. if your there just to show off to your friends then why care about the trophy or card? look at it this way....at least he didn't get your "do not touch sign".
That's a ****ed up way to run a show anyhow, giving the participants the judging cards. Car shows are fun. They would be just as much fun without any tropy at all. However; Observing the drama about tropys in general is a big part of the fun!! It's fun to listen to people whine about anything related to winning, or not; 'I got second place but should have been first' 'why didn't I win?' 'I should have but didn't' 'the car that won was a heap' 'it's all politics' 'somebody stuffed the ballot box and won' blah, blah, blah...................
I was that wise guy.... Hello Hotflint, I would like to start by appologizing about what happened. I'm sorry for the confusion at that certain St.Albert car show. I was in fact a judge, in fact I was the head judge. What happened was I found myself with some extra time before my other judges were to arrive so I judged the line of cars along the trees first. Then when my judges showed up an hour later they didn't realize I had done your row already as you were on the end of that row, so they asked you for your card. However I let them know shortly after that I had done your row earlier. It was all just a matter of location. I'm sorry if it wrecked your day at the show and I hope with this information it won't turn you off of comming next year. It was nice to have a race car there for the kids, and I know people enjoyed seeing a race car in the mix. Anyway, if you need more proof that I am who I am, please feel free to E-mail me. Thank You. Not so Wise guy...
that's pretty stand up for you (Newageretro)to make a profile in which to explain what happened and apologize. mistakes happen.its just a trophy...doesn't mean your car ****s...just not what the judges were looking for at that show.
We go to a car show. It was really really hot and it had a bar next door so we wind up in the cool bar all day. It gets dark and time to leave, go outside, damm hood won't close so I try like two more times, thinking WTF ! Here there was a trophy sitting on the air cleaner, dented hell out of the hood and had to replace the air cleaner. The busted up trophy is still on the shelf in the shop.
opposite happened to Pops. He won first place at a local show, he was upset that he got first instead of a "trophy" 32' coupe. Dad's paint ain't perfect (he drives the hell out of it) and his car was "garage" built, not by a pro shop. A few weeks later I ran into one of the judges and mentioned it to him. His explaination was the same as mine, "Anyone can buy a $75,000 streetrod and wax it, the cool cars are the ones that sweat,blood, and tears went into!" Of course with the cars I drive I won't ever have to worry about such problems! LOL
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