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...out town closes down main street a couple times a year for its little auto expo. I'm not a car guy by any means, but the kids get a kick out of it. So here's some pics for you grease monkeys

We have a pretty good size car show every summer too, they make it a 3 day event with cops and robbers, a poker run, a sock hop and a show 'n shine. I didnt even bother going this year.

There are some good looking vehicles there. I am into that stuff though. I will build an old truck one day.

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3legged_lab wrote:We have a pretty good size car show every summer too, they make it a 3 day event with cops and robbers, a poker run, a sock hop and a show 'n shine. I didnt even bother going this year.

like I said I'm not really a car guy, but it's 5 min from my house

that 1970 mach 1 is bad, i like that red and white ford truck too.

I really like the old trucks.

The old trucks are cool. Here they have 2 bug shows at the state fairgrounds. Back to the 50's which brings over 5000 cars in, I think close to 10,000, any kind if car you can think if from stock to hotrod to ratrod and everything else. The other is Car Craft which brings probably 3000 cars, all beefed up.

Enlighten me please as to why someone would enter an early 90's Buick LaSabre, or new model Saturn Sky, or a late 90's ford f250 (all stock)? There were several others I saw entered like newer model mustangs and such. Who cares!

I remember while going to the car shows with my dad as a kid (he was always into the cars of the 60's-70's = his era) asking him "when I am your age, will the car shows be filled with stupid cars like an '88 Ford Taurus, or a '91 Honda Accord?"

3legged_lab wrote:I remember while going to the car shows with my dad as a kid (he was always into the cars of the 60's-70's = his era) asking him "when I am your age, will the car shows be filled with stupid cars like an '88 Ford Taurus, or a '91 Honda Accord?"

I guess any idiot who thinks his ride is a classic can enter huh

Redbeard wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:I remember while going to the car shows with my dad as a kid (he was always into the cars of the 60's-70's = his era) asking him "when I am your age, will the car shows be filled with stupid cars like an '88 Ford Taurus, or a '91 Honda Accord?"

I guess any idiot who thinks his ride is a classic can enter huh

I'm sure most car shows have the same rules, here I think the vehicle has to be a "classic". I believe their definition is 25 years old, thats it no other stipulation. I've seen a bunch of junkers there just so they could put a 'for sale' sign on it, hoping with a few thousand people walking by that someone will buy it.

3legged_lab wrote:I remember while going to the car shows with my dad as a kid (he was always into the cars of the 60's-70's = his era) asking him "when I am your age, will the car shows be filled with stupid cars like an '88 Ford Taurus, or a '91 Honda Accord?"

i doubt it, itll still be the same classic cars preserved and restored from the same era.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:I remember while going to the car shows with my dad as a kid (he was always into the cars of the 60's-70's = his era) asking him "when I am your age, will the car shows be filled with stupid cars like an '88 Ford Taurus, or a '91 Honda Accord?"

i doubt it, itll still be the same classic cars preserved and restored from the same era.

Maybe 30 years from now you will see a 2012 camero or challenger at the car show of the future.

cars of today are gona be pretty hard to restore with all the electronic crap. too much technology that will definitely be obsolete 30 yrs from now. most of the information and equipment to program the pcms will be long gone.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:cars of today are gona be pretty hard to restore with all the electronic crap. too much technology that will definitely be obsolete 30 yrs from now. most of the information and equipment to program the pcms will be long gone.

I'm sure there will be some future 'retro' shops working on them. I would say an old teens ford with a 6 volt system is antiquated too, but you still see them at the car shows.

Those look good in pictures, How'd they look up close?

Redbeard wrote:Enlighten me please as to why someone would enter an early 90's Buick LaSabre, or new model Saturn Sky, or a late 90's ford f250 (all stock)? There were several others I saw entered like newer model mustangs and such. Who cares!

I know that some people who have hot rods they show will plan for event like this months in advance. Then, if they're like my shop foreman, go out and do something stupid like drop a valve and have to pull the motor and rebuild. Instead of not going they just drive the daily driver or whatever they can so they can still go on the trip. He drove his wife's 08 vette this weekend rather than his 67 camaro

I like the old trucks...I got one on the wish list.

Dads friend has grandpas old 1947 dodge. He is fixing it up to be drive able again since its been sitting in my uncles garage for the past 15 years.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:that 1970 mach 1 is bad, i like that red and white ford truck too.

Exactly what I was going to say!

I really like the 1950 ford cop car, I had a 50 ford 2 door sedan as my first car. I kept it for almost 10 years then sold it, I wish I still had that car. I had a lot of fun in that car.

This is one of my Dad's cars, he has the car bug really bad. It is a 1911 Stevens-Duryea, in case anyone was interested.

Sweet lookin car TJ