I butted into a car show...

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I butted into a car show...

May 07, 2006, 06:29:11 PM

And it was pretty cool.

Every saturday night, they have what they call a "cruise in", and its mostly cars ranging from 1910-1979, all kinds of things from rat rods to muscle cars to cruisers, anything you can imagine.

So i go to take my girlfriend there to check it out, and i say...fu*k it, im jumping in. I drive around twice, park myself in the show, lift my hood and walk away for a while.

Every so often, people would walk around the car, then look under the hood. I saw people look like "wtf is that", and some that thought it was cool. Best thing is, as i walked up to my car, there were two kids arguing over my blow off valve.

Now i just need to clean it up, finish some projects and hop back out there. Im hooked.

I butted into a car show...

Reply #1 – May 07, 2006, 06:30:49 PM

There, now you have an incentive to come up on the 20th

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Reply #2 – May 07, 2006, 06:32:18 PM

Im not able to for the 20th, my girlfriends birthday is the 19th...so we're doing stuff both on the 19th and 20th.

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Reply #3 – May 07, 2006, 06:39:09 PM

Oh, I see how it is. Choose the girl over a day of playing with cars.
If you were the 5 year old version of yourself, you'd kick your ass. :D

Just kidding. That's cool.

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Reply #4 – May 07, 2006, 06:49:01 PM

I actually took my black car to a show, well not in the show, but I had my hood up so I could add water. People walked by and said WTF is that? lots of people were saying it was a beat to s*** mustang. I thought it was funny. I wanna finish up my dad's 91 crown vic and brint that in with a h.o. stamp on the intake to see what people will say.

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Reply #5 – May 07, 2006, 07:00:01 PM

Yeah, they're fun. I enjoy seeing people look at or ignore my car and hearing any comments. I saw one old man walk over to it, look it over inside and out and smile.

So far, I've heard the following

Wow, I didn't know they looked like that in '88.

Father: Look what he's done to the motor.
Son: It's no different than my Mustang

Young son: *excited* Hey dad look at this one!
Father: That's a Cougar, get over here. *walking towards one of 7 first gen camaros in the show.

Wife: to husband...What's that?
Husband: snaps back...That's a cougar, I had one of them. It's nothing.

There have been a ton that I've overheard. The topper was when this one guy walked up to me.
him: You want another one of these? I have one next to my garage and it's a piece of $h!t just like yours.
He then ran away. :rollin:

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Reply #6 – May 07, 2006, 08:23:29 PM

i will never put my car in a show, cept for the parking being more convenient

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Reply #7 – May 07, 2006, 08:48:15 PM

starting this month every tuesday night they have cruisenight in the nearby town. regular cruisenights, every tuesday, usually are fairly small, maybe 50-100 cars. but once a month is the supercruise... and its massive, 1000+ cars, and people come from across the country.

strange cause its just a small town that you wouldnt expect to have one of the biggest car shows around.

ive seen everything from restored model t's to brand new cars there.

http://www.wauseoncruisenight.com/

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Reply #8 – May 07, 2006, 09:09:21 PM

I love the cruise in thing. should try changing motors every so often.. LMAO~! that get em.

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Reply #9 – May 07, 2006, 09:29:24 PM

Quote from: bhazard

strange cause its just a small town that you wouldnt expect to have one of the biggest car shows around.

Wow, that's wild! Who'd of thunk it? Sure looks like a lot of fun.

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Reply #10 – May 07, 2006, 11:10:51 PM

You wanna see a car get some second looks, enter a Turbo Coupe at the World Ford Challenge. It's great

Don't get me wrong, I like Fox mustangs, but when you get that many of them together in one place they all start to look the same...cowl hoods, saleen or cobra wings, Cobra R wheels, and they're allllll 5.0's....

I can't wait to see/hear some of the reactions my car gets this year, mainly because I've got some dents down the side and the clearcoat is starting to bubble/peel on the roof & trunk lid (just a little) but the engine bay is all pretty, and I've got a bunch of stuff done to it. Should be fun.

I used to take my '90 2.3L Mustang out there, I'm sure people made fun of it a lot, but I was told that two kids were looking at it once and one was telling the other about my supercharger, whilst pointing at the power steering pump....

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Reply #11 – May 07, 2006, 11:20:35 PM

I love cruise ins as well. One time there was a man leaning on the front od my dad's Chevelle with his cigarette hanging just above the battery.

Once I get my Thunderbird HO project finished, I'm going to take it to cruise ins and park right in the middle of where the millions of the Fox 5.0 Stangs sit :flip:

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Reply #12 – May 08, 2006, 11:43:40 AM

i love car shows.. wish i could get to more. and wish i had a car i could park in one!!! hehe.

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Reply #13 – May 08, 2006, 10:05:10 PM

My T-bird always gets attention at shows probably because there aren't many of them left. If people do see one it's rusty and clapped out. I usually get a lot of questions about the car. Here are some of the more common ones.

How old is that T-bird?

What year is it?

Those came with 5.0s?

Is that a Turbo Coupe?

Some statements.

Wow that's a nice T-bird. I used to have one of those back in the late 80s.

I haven't see a T-bird of this vintage that clean in over 10 years.