Is It Me Or the Car?

Posted by rblum On 2012/4/8 19:52:04

Had a great week building up to the Easter holiday driving the 55 Clipper! Put new tires on it on Friday and was out cruising around when I remembered that every Friday evening beginning in the spring there is a car cruise at the local shopping center. It is the usual Ford, Chevy, MOPAR 60's and 70's muscle car lineup. But, these are iconic cars that have been shown the proper amount of love and upkeep and I think they are great as I am a child of the 60's and 70's but I was kind of disappointed in the reaction to the Clipper. The reaction was no reaction!? I pulled up to see what was going on and it was early so not a lot of cars had appeared yet but there was a group of about 8 or 10 guys standing around that did not even wave to acknowledge my presence. There is a place to get coffee adjacent to the show area so I parked and got out to get a coffee. I went into the store and was looking out the window to see if anyone would stroll over to look at the Clipper but it didn't happen. I left the store got back into the car and contemplated making an attempt to start a conversation but again, no one even acknowledged my presence so I left.

In my travels people love to wave and give me the thumbs up and I'm always being engaged by someone who wants to know more about the car. So, I get around a group of car guys and all I heard was crickets! I'll stop whining now but I just wanted to pass this along to get some feed-back. I've also developed an animas now for the so called "Kruze Events" and the folks that participate, at least locally.