car-show evolution

[smithenhiven]

I remember my dad taking me to car shows as a kid, we'd park, walk around, look at all the cars, spend a few extra minutes looking up close at the ones we liked then leave.

And that's pretty much how I attend car shows today, even when I take my car there.  After I'm done seeing the other cars, I get in mine and go.  I don't get how people can bring chairs and sit next to their car for hours on end.  I mean, if that's what you like to do, God bless ya, but I cant do it.

[303 Mopar]

Is $35 a common fee to attend an all-Mopar show?

Edit: $15 if you register by 7/31.

[JR]

I'm too crippled to attend car shows anymore but I think it's easy to avoid disappointment by noting who's putting on the show. If it's old car/muscle car/hot rod orientated, you won't find the ricers and the low riders in attendance.

I like cars....full stop....old, new, muscle Brit US, Japanese and German.....although classic American are my favourite of course. I don't mind seeing a well build ricer or supertuned Merc.....and will free admit that some of the kids building hot ricers without massive cheque books have skills I could only of dreamt of at there age. I've stolen more than a few ideas from theirs cars for my 69 as well!

I did a thread on the monthly Goodwood breakfast club we have in the UK (until the bastards at Photobucket destroyed it!!) which is where they hold the World famous Festival of Speed and Circuit Revival.......free entry, no trophies, just park your car on the track and leave it while you look at the others.....or sit by your car and answer questions....up to you.....but you can leave it in pretty certain knowledge that there wont be so much as a finger print on it when you get back!. Several thousand attend each time. I loved seeing a 1914 ?? Star parked next to a big buck Nissan GTR build......the Star owner (flat cap and tweed jacket and pipe) enthusing about the Nissans handbuilt exhaust that was nothing short of a work of art and then later I saw the Nissans owner sat in the Star (backwards baseball cap, trainers and full arm ink) being taught the controls of the old beast!. Too me that summed up the whole event....car brothers together.....we fight the mindless laws they throw at us....not each other.


Obviously things might be different over there.....hope not by too much though.

I would LOVE to have something similar to the Goodwood Festival of Speed here in the U.S..

I can't think of any similar events here. Car events seem so segregated depending on type here. You can go to a show OR a driving event. You can go to an late model American car show OR a classic British roadster show.  A Mopar show OR a super Chevy show.

I enjoy seeing all types of cars together. And especially enjoy driving them. Sitting around for three days looking at the same makes or models of cars at an event bores the hell out of me.

I did recently go to an event that was put on by Summit Racing at Atlanta Motorsports Park. Anything with an engine was welcome, and they had autocross, and parade laps on the oval track at the end of the day. That was fun.

I typically don't do car shows, but if more events like that started I'd go to them.

[alfaitalia]

Goodwood FOS was a couple of weeks back.....check it out on youtube. I love to see people not scared  (and rich enough....hello Nick Mason!) to brush the side of their priceless Ferrari 250GTO against a twenty foot flint wall on the hill climb!! LOL! They used the even to help celebrate Ferraris 70th birthday....lots of their most famous drivers put a car up the hill.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoIPEhF7sQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFcNl9Y-ZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EANM3DR56Gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inSyXG8DpIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkNtRF0WQFM

Just a taster of the dozens on the tube at the moment!!   Could not find many well filmed ones of the static cars shows.....but I'm supposed to be working!!!

[Charger_Fan]

This is always a fun car show to attend here in Utah, the first weekend in July... http://www.cachevalleycruisein.net/
There's usually tons of cars from across the spectrum to see, and they give away a car each year. One recent year it was a black '68 Charger! The slideshow at the top of the site shows the giveaway cars from over the years.

[JR]

That's awesome! I had no idea full broadcasts were on YouTube.

Now THAT'S a car show. Watching all makes and models, modern and historic being driven hard as they were intended. I'd go watch something like that every year if the U.S. had something like it.

Just to loop it back around since we're in the Charger specific part or the forum, here's a clip from when Richard Petty attended with his 67 GTX.

https://youtu.be/rDQukOJsTv0

[tcs69rt]

Loved that Richard Petty interview!!!

[lloyd3]

I just found out today that my usual event at Extreme Automotive falls on the same date as the all Mopar show at South Glenn (August 12th). Now I have to choose between one that calls every year with a personal invite, free food (and coffee!) tons of other freebies (shirts, hats, flashlights, key-chains, etc.) or one that charges you $35 at the gate ($25 if registered before the end of the month). Hmmm......

[Kern Dog]

Is $35 a common fee to attend an all-Mopar show?

To show your car at our Mopar show in Sacramento, the registration fee is $35 for pre reg and $40 on the day of the show. Spectators get in free though.

[Sublime/Sixpack]

In the valley where I live, there is and has been for many years an all Mopar car show that is free for participants as well as spectators. Participants receive a cool Mopar T-shirt and sometimes a goodie bag. They also present nice awards for the winning cars. Two different Dealerships have been involved in this Show through the years. I appreciate what the first dealership did for us, as well as the current dealership that continues to put the show on. It's good for us Mopar people, and it's good PR for Company. I attend each year.

There's also a big car show for all makes further up north that puts on a great car show for free. Seems like they have around seven or eight hundred vehicles show up each year. They do have a raffle to recoup funds so they can continue to put the show on. They give out some nice prizes and the Grand Raffle Prize is a complete rebuilt bored and stroked engine. I also make it to this one each year that I can.

As far as the shows that charge an entry fee I pretty much only participate in those that are tied in with a good cause. Charity type shows that help out the elderly, children in need, the less fortunate, animals, etc.

Car shows have changed since I first started participating in them back in the mid-1990's, but I still enjoy attending certain ones. For me, one of the best things about the shows is sitting around and visiting with good friends. The time goes too fast. Seems as though we just get there, start talking and it's time to leave.

There are also many evening Cruise-in's that don't charge a fee. Of course the surrounding businesses certainly appreciate and welcome any patrons.

[lloyd3]

Well,  nothing stays the same. The "free" show I was  bragging about earlier now asks $20 to participate. To be fair, they do provide a nice t-shirt,  coffee, brunch, lunch and soft drinks ( and....they still call to invite me).  It does, however put that $35 fee for the all-Mopar show in a different light for me.