As long as the shows and events are not charging any kind of entry or admission fees then i don't care how they judge the cars or don't judge them. I really don't pay any attention to any of the judging.

Over the last few years the events areas seem to be getting smaller and smaller in terms of area to hold the event. More cars and vendors jammed into smaller area and less pleasent surroundings. If i go to a show and appears to be cramped and too regimented i usualy don't stay long or maybe not even stop at all.

AACA held a very nice meet at a 'local' park in Franklin for many years. It was a great event. About three years ago they moved it closer uptown and into a half baked third rate mini-mall area called The Factory. Hell, that place should have been bulldozed and hauled off decades ago. I just quite going to it.

Well, the club guys will take care of themselves, saw this yesterday at the annual show during a long running festival down town. Now that I know the "rules" it might turn out different next year. Lots of Fords, Chevys, and cut up jalopys. Not to mention the Mustangs and Vettes. I was the only Packard there, and for sure the only thing even close to my class. Hey, a regular girl in a Gucci dress is still just a regular girl.

My 51 had body paint on the whole fire wall as well as the door jambs,ect. also the underside of the trunk lid.Gotta love those straight eights!Not enough oh,s in smooth. Brian

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Well besides best Ford and best street rod, this glass 34 ford also won best interior. A stock interior will never in this award. The owner of this ford said he spent over $400K. Not sure if he was stretching the truth, but I would have spent the money quite differently.

if i may add, it also irritates me when one car/owner sweeps almost all the categories.

one of the VERY VERY few judged shows ive been to was kinda sad. this one car took 10 out of the 12 categories. It was a fiberglass duce coupe. whoopdie do. i thought there were plenty of cars there that deserved some recognition!

My transmission problems didn't stop there. I wasn't too upset about the smoke because my plan was to have it rebuilt. About a year after owning her, I saved enough money to get it fixed. I found a company in Hemmings Motor News that would send you a rebuilt unit when you send in your core and $1800. I took the car to a local transmission shop. He removed the old one and shipped it. I never got a good feeling from this guy. My dad picked him out of the phone book and he didn't seem to know what he was doing. After about 3 weeks the new trans arrived and it took him another 2 weeks to install it. He called and said he was all done, but it wasn't working right. Great! I had to call the trans company and they figured it was the valve body and sent a new one free of charge. I really didn't trust this guy so I took the car back. On the way home, I noticed that the car was shifting fine and it just needed a tune up. At least I got an extra valve body for free! A week later, the guy's shop mysteriously burned down.
The car was working great for a couple of months and then it wouldn't go into low gear anymore. I dropped the pan and took out the valve body and found a metal plate that goes from the band to a hydraulic cylinder. That fixed it for a couple of weeks until the car stopped going in low gear again. By that time I was fed up having spent so much money and still had a car that didn't work. That was about the time I stopped working on the car.

My Chevelle is no trophy taker being its a 66 Malibu with a 6 cylinder engine and four door. In the 20 years that I have my Chevelle trophy winning has never been a factor with me.

I complained one time at a local AACA show about a person not getting what they should have. At the show they had a class for unrestored cars. In this class was a Willys Knight Knight never restored and in dam good condition. When it came to handing the awards out they gave the trophy to a fellow owning a 1939 Chevy that had been repainted. The fellow owning the Willys Knight should have gotten the trophy. I told the judges my thoughts on the matter and in the end I just told them they were JACK A$$$
and just walked away. Needless to say the next year when I took my Chevelle to the show I was given the cold shoulder by those judges.

To many car shows are rn by people that just don't know what they are doing. Then thier actions or lack of same tend to piss off the people who enter the events, that do have a clue as to how things should be run.


John F. Shieman

NEVERMIND ERIC!!! you'r not READING what i post! lol

In regards cars shows being too long, I agree. I just arrive late.

It's actually more fun to arrive late, and I usually get a great parking spot. At the show yesterday which started officially at 11, with registration from 8-11, people showed up at 6 AM. That is crazy.

There is a Friday night cruise I attend fairly regularly, pop in for an hour or so.

Packardon,

I actually went to two shows last weekend both in Oregon City. The first was put on by the Cascade Plymouth club which was cool as they brought all of their stock Plymouths to the show. I got the BoS there. Yesterday was at the Clackamas Community College.

The show that was really screwed up was you T-Bird club show. They forgot to print the ballots so when they finally got the ballots, hey just put them on the table and let anybody judge. Of course I didn't get an award as it was awarded to a 28 Dodge who looked like it was painted with a paint brush. The owners were out in front of their car soliciting votes while I was sleeping behind mine