Event Coverage Shades 2016 Hamb friendly cars

I have attended every Shades of the Past show with the exception of 2014 and I'm on the fence to whether I will attend next year or not.

I've always enjoyed the show and meeting all the hambers and other people I have met over the years but the motels are getting greedier every year and I had a confrontation with a couple of locals that almost came close to blows and I am too old to fight,especially with one wing!

I don't drink so we didn't enjoy the drunk whinny arse woman with a insidious laugh in the room adjacent to ours, this woman was totally oblivious when it comes to common curiosity and continued her nightly ritual of drinking,screaming & hollering on the balcony outside our door into the wee hours of the morning ~ This woman's vocabulary would embarrass a seasoned sailor.

The enjoyment of sitting and watch the 6 lanes of nightly spectacle of all the hot rods and customs cruising is now a lesson in futility,unless you like watching zit faced kids in their personal pizza delivery cars/trucks or the touring motor cycles,new cars,mini vans and giant 4 wheel drive trucks are now the common theme.

There are a occasional hot rod,custom or a cool gasser style car that rolls by but few a far between
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The show location,Splash Country, Is a huge money maker for the club and the park and I get it. but everything being on asphalt it's HOT ! Too damn hot for a old fart like me.

Cars and truck most of us would like the pre '64 models are way down in numbers

I have been a ardent supporter of the Shades of the Past shows but I guess I've been bias and based my support on the earlier days when evry thing was pre
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Ultimately,it's time for a change so we are going to look for another show/destination.HRP

 

I feel your pain, Danny. Sadly, nothing ever seems to remain the same and I guess that's just the way of the world. Bigger isn't always better and quality should trump quantity. Seems you're always going to get those ass hats like the POS in the hotel room who felt like she deserved the right to make everyone else in the place miserable. There's a segment of society now that has this sense of entitlement whereby they feel that common courtesy is a thing of the distant past. I know that you're a proud son of the Southland where we were brought up to have manners. Cordiality and respect are gone and probably never coming back............Don.

 

I had to go back and edit the post as I inadvertently called her a lady!

 

Sorry for the rant,let's get back to the photos. HRP

 

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Anymore pictures of the tall top T? That is slick.
Never made it to shades, I know my folks use to go to the Gatlinburg Run and the stories from those days they can tell....



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The outlaw runs in Gatlinburg bring back fond memories,the resto rods and T buckets were plentiful, headgear was a straw cowboy hat on men and bell bottom jeans,and we all had dark hair! HRP

 

Danny the guy at lived across the road from me said the same thing when he went last year. It was only his second time going but was disappointed in all the new stuff and general unruly fools cruising around as well as the heat. He said something about the old location was way better.

 

I too have been making the pilgrimage since the old G'burg runs, from Florida and Memphis, and now that I live only 75 miles away, I've come to realize, like the monkey screwing the skunk, that I've enjoyed all I can stand.

Yeah, I'm a lot older, tireder, ornerier and less forgiving than in the 70's, 80's, 90's, but I'm with HRP. It's time to move on.
Are you listening, Shades people? Do you care?

 

Exactly why I enjoyed Jalporama in Maryland so much and am looking forward to October[emoji41]


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