Disturbing night at my car show last night.

I wouldn't get bent over anything that could be overlooked, by just focusing in a different direction.

However, if someone is being obnoxious to attract attention, or is intensionally bothersome to others, it would pi$$ me off pretty quickly. The trash crowd in some of the car cruise videos are a prime example, leaving a hideous trail of garbage with no consideration for others, especially the ones that have to pick up after them.

These people sounded blissfully ignorant, and evidently have an interest in something that they don't know much about... Doesn't make them bad people.

Nothing wrong with being ignorant and wanting to learn...

I just can't stomach the really dumb people that try to pass themselves off as a genius, and can't be told anything that they didn't already know.
 
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commando1 said:
Bottom line: There were so many things wrong with this picture I sunk into a deep depression. I'm ending the season for the car show early this year. Serious doubts about next year.
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I thought you practice Zen? I think you need a refresher course.
 
Don't let it trouble you Stan. Those types are everywhere. When I go to a show those sort of cars get instantly ignored by me and my buddies. I'm sure they overhear us talking even though we tend to speak to each other quietly when we encounter one:

"Geez, look at that thing."
"What a mess."
"A catalog special for sure."
"Is that a Moroso or an Edelbrock air cleaner?"
"Who cares? It's all junk."
"I wonder how much it would cost to make everything on this one right?"
"What a paint color. Must only have a 15 watt bulb in the garage."
"But it has the yellow plug wires - they must be worth at least 20 horsepower."
"Why do people do these things?"
"It would have been so much nicer if they had just left it original."
"Hey, let's look at this one over here that's done right!"
 
Those types hang out in a small corner of my local cruise with the tuners. They behave for the most part because they know their usual BS behavior won't be tolerated.
 
It takes all types to make the world go round. The club I belong to has everything from rat rods made out of anything the guy can find, to restorations that set the owners back 100,000+. There are a handful of cars in the club that have never been started after their restoration for fear of discoloring the manifolds. They are pushed off the enclosed trailers by guys wearing white gloves, roped off, then pushed back on at the end.... To me, they are not worth owning, but to them.... I guess they are..
 
Bryan said:
There are a handful of cars in the club that have never been started after their restoration for fear of discoloring the manifolds. They are pushed off the enclosed trailers by guys wearing white gloves, roped off, then pushed back on at the end
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to me these guys are gay.
Only exception for me is Dave Walden and the ECS crew
 
I don't care if a car is a one of one, the only one left on the planet.....if I own it, I'm driving it!
 
1978 NYB said:
I don't care if a car is a one of one, the only one left on the planet.....if I own it, I'm driving it!
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Indeed....that's my mantra also. As far as shows are concerned I don't bother going to any shows unless they are or mostly are Chrysler. Yah, I know.
 
Still thinking about the whole situation. And yes it IS a ZEN thing...

What kicked me in the nuts real bad this time is I realized that someone spends a lifetime all pumped up in this hobby, getting their hands dirty, doing stupid, stupid, things and paying their dues, and all these guys do is play it safe and conservative all their lives, driving beige cars, attacking dandilions, and cant buy a lawnmower without reading Consumer Reports first, and at the end, they write a check for something that is nothing imaginative. And then go to the head of the line.

I'd rather have a paint job where my friends ask me kidingly if I bought a new paint brush than one where on a placard on a stand in front of the car proclaiming:

"Custom paint by....................."
 
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that is life.

Some of us drove Mopars before they got cool, a lot jumped on the train in the last 10+ years.
 
Its easier said then done for you perhaps...I'll buy into that for you. If I owned it 1 of 1 or whatever, it would still see much road duty...no fun otherwise. Life's too short. I'd drive by and pickup NYB and we'd cruise.
 
I thought thats where you were going.

Though not expensive or valuable my convertible has very few original sisters left. Though I take it out I still obsess over it. Its a nice problem to have but I'd feel better if it wasnt so original
 
polara71 said:
I thought thats where you were going.

Though not expensive or valuable my convertible has very few original sisters left. Though I take it out I still obsess over it. Its a nice problem to have but I'd feel better if it wasnt so original
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I guess you know me well enough then. No need to rehash anything. I love driving too much. so much so it probably approaches stupidity but I'll be stupidly happy.
 
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