New cars at Shows

[Burd]

One year in Orlando, I had enough of the strip there, I took a drive and found an area that was nice, sand lake rd I think it was, sat morn there was a Smoke Shop that everyone brought their Exotics and had coffee and a cigar, it was nice seeing all the high end European cars. No mustangs, vettes or Chryslers.

[danachevroletfor1967]

I don't know if it's the same all over as it is here locally where I live, but here there is a distinct difference between a car show and a gathering at a cars and coffee event. All our local car shows charge an entrance fee for anyone wanting to display their car, usually $30-$40. Spectators wanting to view the cars get in free. A cars and coffee event is where you just show up, usually at a large shopping center parking lot on a Saturday morning. These are approved ahead of time by the shopping center. There is no charge for the car owners or spectators.

The cars and coffee events have cars from old to modern. The car shows usually have cars mostly from the '50's to the '70's.

[big gear head]

We had our annual car show yesterday and we judged the cars by decade. The registration sheets for the '60s was the tallest, but the sheets from the 2000s was almost as tall. If we had not allowed cars from the 2000, 2010 and 2020s we would not have had a show. They greatly outnumbered the cars from pre '49, '50s, '70s, '80s and '90s.

[bdk1976]

No EFI would be a good line to draw in the sand.

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by bdk1976

No EFI would be a good line to draw in the sand.

So, no restomod old cars with a modern LS or hemi swapped into it?

[njsteve]

Had a great time at the local cruise night. A ton of weird, never before seen trucks in addition to all the normal musclecars showed up. Looked what parked next to me: A vintage Mack semi. This guy just restores old Mack trucks as a business/hobby. He ships them all over the U.S. It was quite a spectacle seeing him maneauver that thing into the parking spot. It has manual steering. No wonder the guy was built like fire hydrant. He had Popeye-sized arms from driving old-school Macks all these years. Cool dude. There were some Unimogs, a half dozen WWII Jeeps, a Command car or two, and some weird Euro military recovery truck in attendance. It was fun seeing stuff you'd never seen before

I had a bunch of people come up an ask about the 30 year old 'Burb. This is the new vintage station wagon. Every who came by said they grew up in one of these Old Body Style (OBS) Suburbans. To our age group, the station wagon was THE family car of our childhood. To the newer generation, it's the Suburbans. I had one lady really trying to buy it. She had to recently junk her 99 Suburban because the frame was so bad there was nothing holding the rear diff in place any more. She said if she won the mega millions this weekend she was going to hunt me down.

I did point her across the lot to a 55,000 mile 1992 Suburban 1500 with 350 in it, that was for sale for $15k.

[Burd]

Originally Posted by bdk1976

No EFI would be a good line to draw in the sand.

1999 cut off.
State of Mi says a classic is 1999 back.

[Burd]

Here’s another, old coolers, picnic baskets, fake food on drive in trays, drive in speakers, stuffed animals, crying bumper kids, back seat lined with trophy’s, signed parts on a car, die casts all over the car
A bud always put a diecast on his Aircleaner of his 62 Pontiac, one day we were ready to leave the show and he slammed the hood on it. Instant low rider.

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by Burd

Here’s another, old coolers, picnic baskets, fake food on drive in trays, drive in speakers, stuffed animals, crying bumper kids, back seat lined with trophy’s, signed parts on a car, die casts all over the car
A bud always put a diecast on his Aircleaner of his 62 Pontiac, one day we were ready to leave the show and he slammed the hood on it. Instant low rider.

Ouch! did he punch a car shaped dent into his hood?

BTW, I second that on those crying/leaning/peeing dolls on the bumper. I just don't understand that.

[bdk1976]

Originally Posted by njsteve

So, no restomod old cars with a modern LS or hemi swapped into it?

Nope!