Car Meets and Shows: big or small and how you should act

um.... I beat the shit out of my car. And It'll never be a show car.


and im ok with that.

 

If mine is running I'll be entering it plus my custom towncar in this year's show at the local ford dealer. Even though they told me they would not work on my gt,cause of pi swap lol. Don't even care if I win just want my customization to be see by the masses

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It takes all kinds. I was walked a large local cruise last weekend. Some guys couldn't shut up about their cars, others sat with their buddies and seemed like you were intruding on their little party if you asked them a question. My wife and I had our 98 ragtops parked together, and a 96 Cobra pulled in next to us. Politest guy - thanked me for opening my hood and showing him my engine compartment (like that was a burden ). When he asked about exhaust, he said let him know when I was leaving so he could hear it. I said why wait and fired it right up, and again he thanked me.

 

I once waited outside of my school for an hour to talk to a guy with a 1971 Fastback. What a waste of an hour, as the guy barely responded to any of my questions and either didn't know jack about his own car or just didn't care to talk.
It's hard because it's not really fair to expect anyone with a nice car to be willing to talk to strangers about it (After all, you are allowed to own a nice car for yourself and not others), but geeeeeeez you'd think some people could learn a thing or two about politeness.

 

I'll never understand the attitude of some show car owners either lol. When i get approached with questions about my car at shows i make it a point to be as polite and social as i can just to avoid that stereotype mustang owners carry with them. I think a lot of it is generations of owners too. My generation was taught manners and basic social skills so if you see me out there walk up and say hi i'll talk your fuukin ear off :grin:

 

I just don't talk to guys with flat bill hats.

 

or knee high socks like my sister wore in the 80's

 

I live in Montana, where the men are men and the sheep are afraid. Never seen that. But I would avoid car talk with a person rocking those.

 

Last year at the same cruise a kid came up in a beater 4-dr BMW he was working on. Most of the other old farts ignored him but I went over and asked about his car, what he had done, and what he planned to do. Hey, everybody has to start somewhere.

 

I talk to anyone and everyone about anything. If someone is interested in my junk, I let them know, they talked to the wrong fella, because they are about to get stuck lol.

But I need to point out a major flaw with the post. Since when are Mustangs fast ;p

 

Totally know what you guys mean...I'll never forget how I joined a mustang forum for local mustang owners and went out to a meet they had and totally got dissed about having a V6....don't get me wrong I can take a joke but like these guys were angry at me for having her....which was really disappointing but that only showed me that there are good people and a-holes in this world...

 

Some people are just so introverted that they can't even discuss something they enjoy with someone they do not know. Others might be big enough a-holes that you would not want them to talk to you if you knew. Then on the other side of the coin, some people will never shut up. My dad and I went through a car show yesterday funny enough that was hosted by my old mustang club. I bet I talked to 6-8 people either briefly enough to compliment their paint or at one point dad found a guy with a 46 chevy that use to sell medical supplies at his office that we talked to for 15 mins. But funny enough I only waved hello at one of the club members and that was as far as I went out of my way to say hello. This town is not that big but we have 3 mustang clubs that were all created when people in another club could not get along and went and made their own. At one time we had 60 members and when we had a show we would have 15-20 of our cars there at least and always got the club participation trophy. This show I counted 6, and last I heard they were down to maybe 20 people. Most of the people I know over the past few years got tired of the BS between the clubs as we had people in our club that would get mad if they saw you talking to someone in another club, or if you in the area of their show and stopped by. What can I say is a crappy little town that 2 yrs ago that the only time you hear it being #1 in anything its not a good thing. Now pheonix I was in the biggest club in the nation the copper state club and they were all great people. Idunno.

I can't wait to get my car back together for a show to talk about it. That is part of the reason why I did everything myself was to be able to tell about it. Idunno people are people and sometimes it is what it is.

 

I can relate with you so much on this, i agree, alot of people ruined the car game they dont want to talk and are stuck up dicks like they think they are god gifts, and everybodys car is slow and shit compare to what they drive, if you dont want to talk dont go to a car show or car meet, you should expect questions and compliments lol