What influuences your decision to attend an event or car show. Please feel free to expand on your thoughts. Putting on shows is ultimately for the folks like you out there and getting you what you want is important.
being able to get in the gate in a decent amount of time!! i hate traffic jams! that is when i actually show up.....
Proximity to home. Scheduling. Cost. And my impression of how many traditionally styled cars I can see there. Those are listed in no particular order.
Primarily, friends, either local one's i go with or the one's that will be at the show..good example, if ScaryLarry no longer hosted the Jalopy Showdown, we would all still travel to see him and the rest of the Pa crew.... It's great to get away in a old car to hang out with good people.
If I can afford to take the day off, how close the show is, and whether or not I have an old car at the time that's road worthy. Having a swap meet is definitely an attraction for me also.
I'm really a universal Gear Head. I like it All and grew up with what is now called Old School. I understand the Young Guns and appriceate what they are doing. Good Guys Puyallup is a Local event for me but not at $85.oo for non members plus the Demand to join to bring your car in. I helped with Billettproof N.W. 2 weeks ago and had the Best time in a long while. I think I learned my Car is not H.A.M.B. friendly but I've never done anything to please others. I can have a good time with just about any crowd but Driving my Wheels to and from is the Main thing. For the most part the Cars and the Crowd bring me to any event. I Love burning Rubber. The Wizzard
Personally I like Pre WWII vehicles, stock & Hot Rodded, but draw the line at 1965. If it was manufactured from 1965 to yesterday chances are I'm walking by it to look at something better, I spend more time in the flea market than car show.
i used to go to most every local show within maybe 50 miles. often farther. now i go to only a few local shows, but i'l travel a couple hours to meet up w/ friends at cooler gigs.
If some cars came in to a show that were not your cup of tea.... say like a 68 Camaro.... but just happend to be driven there by some hella cool dood or chick that you really enjoyed talking to... would you choose to not attend the event... even at a nominal cost like $10 plus your gas and food and so forth?
candy man are you going to the unfineshed nats this year. I was at the billet proofs what ride was yours. Bob
I rode up with Zack in his '50 chebby.... My stuff is all broke as always! Good news is I have located a tranny shop to fix my truck... and just need to pay for the flat head and we'll be in bidness. If I am correct the unfinished nats are on labor day weekend.... and I am working all the weekends through August... mostly to get money for my rides oddly enough.... sucks for now but will be worth it later.
You never know who will show up at an event, the best events I've attended had an enforced cutoff date, that was stated in the pre event adds and flyers. Latemodel stockers have killed "Antique" shows, no need for then to do the same to the "Traditional Hot Rod" shows.
I look at the people that do the show. They set the tone for the show and their marketing attracts the kind of people I want to be around.
for me it is the entertainment, I go to shows with my family and like for them to have something to do. I like all cars/trucks everyone has there own take and that is what is interesting to me. I like to meet old and make new Friends I end up talking for Hr's and so that is way it is entertainment for the family so they don't get board.
Not paying a full paycheck to enter helps. Never got that, the cars are the show (and the people), but they pay a mint to show them. Screw that.
I go to be with my friends and check out the cars. If there is musical entertainment, that is a plus. If there is drag racing, well that takes it to a way better level. I can be open minded about most car styles, but I have a hard time looking at fancy'd up PT Cruisers. So I just walk on by. The closer to home, the better.. but I would travel, time permitting, to a show that is far away.
I'll agree with that kinda. I've enjoyed plenty of shows that have an enforced year cut off. I've also enjoyed ones that were general car shows. What I don't get is a show that advertises a specific year cut-off but then allows Joe Public to enter his mid 90s grandma-mobile sedan. It kinda shows that ya don't give a crap about your show, ya know? I guess I'm just saying that I've enjoyed both, but I prefer to know what possible year ranges of vehicles will be there ahead of time. I wouldn't want to end up in mini-truck heaven or something similar by mistake. I don't really need any entertainment though. The cars are supposed to be the entertainment.
I went to a traditional themed drag race and car show in Phoenix this spring. I invited relatives from a couple of hours away, we paid our money to attend... and there were a couple of late model cars making passes with the traditional cars. There were a couple of late 60's and newer cars in the show too. I was really pissed off. Those two or three late models may make me skip the event the next time it happens. It's not that I didn't like the cars. Like others have stated, I can enjoy just about anything. Ricers, lowriders, 4X4s = it's all good to me. But if I am "sold" an event that is for traditional rods then that is what I expect to get.
I pretty much hate dealing with people. I would rather be in the garage with my dog and XM radio,70's on 7, playing with something mechanical.
Shows with a cutoff date are a plus. Nothing worse that some econobox with vatozone hubcaps, and the owner that thinks they belong there. People are a close second. One run i attend is a little over 500 miles, one way, but the folks that show up there are worth the travel, and the guys that put on the run are constantly making sure everyone is having a good time. And we usually are
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