at local regular car meetup be snucks. (me) pushing 40s regular dude that's been around cars (hot rods) since he was a small kid oh look a 502 big block powered 1965 2 door Chevelle wagon....neat notice at least a couple gallons of coolant leaked all over the asphalt under this rare beast...ugh ohh tell owner "hey I have a gallon of distilled water in my trunk if you need it" owner says: "I only run straight coolant" me: "that might be part of the overheating problem right there because straight coolant doesn't dissipate hea...." owner: "no no this motor is different you see and REQUIRES straight coolant" then turns shaking and spilling half the dexcool as he vainly attempts to fill the radiator I provide this guy with a funnel owner: "gee you come prepared" me: "yeah well I used to drive my car everyday" dude then tries to start his car and it barely turns over. me: " I brought jumper cables" some other random dude comes up provides one of those start boxes owner: "I charged it before I showed up here I don't know whats going on." me: " I could tell you why your car just died" "I mean I literally used to drive my car every day and can start it every time" owner: blah blah "I'm going home too much excitement for today" .....................Charlie Mike.. I put away the funnel and start checking out the other cars oh look a nice (but typical ) 57' Chevy with lacquered paint 57' owner: " I don't want to sound like an azzhole but you cant have dogs here" me: "...wat" 57'owner: " I mean your dogs seem really good and well behaved" (they are) "but you are making everyone nervous by just being here." me: "I'm pretty aware of them and keep them on a pretty tight leash and do not let them get within a couple feet of any of the cars" "that's my Buick over there" 57' owner: blah blah "its actually against the rules" me: "that's why the people that run this thing were literally petting my guys through the window and saying they were good" 57' owner: "yeah well they seem "blah blah "I'm going to have to ask you to leave" me: "this right here is why every single person at these things is in their 60's, there are no young people that come to car shows anymore" random woman: "some of these cars are worth 100k!" (nice but not THAT nice c'mon) 57' owner: points to a couple few other people and says "no dogs allowed right?" random people: "ugh yeah" me: " I ain't mad at y'all but let me get this straight. I'm the only guy here with a car that can actually be used everyday ac running, cruise control working etc.. but I cant be here because I brought my guys with me?" random people: blah blah "yeah that's nice" blah blah me: " and you people wonder why there's nobody under retirement age that goes to these f'ing things anymore" as I'm walking back to my car the LITERAL only other person at this thing under the age of 60 is checking out my car asking me questions and I have to tell him "sorry I was just kicked out of this thing" Dash strokers and y'all mfers that spend all your time caring about wax marks and correct stickers etc.. (people with more money than sense) are ruining this hobby. I fuarking HATE classic car people
I just can't sit in a lawn chair that long and then be sober enough to drive home. And yes I had my share of arrogant, know it all asshats, makes it seem like jail. Patrick
The 57 Chevy guy was the car show cop? Who is that guy to tell you to leave what looks like public shopping center lot? I would of told that rectal orifice to go get bent. I would of told him that he had to leave because Checker taxi cabs aren't allowed at car shows. Dogs are common place at all the cruise in's I go to. All of them are well behaved. I love seeing dogs and kids at car shows. Don't let a couple of morons get to you.
a group of people were like "yeah yeah no dogs" it reminded me of the first meetup I ever went to with my 65' Cutlass back in 1996 be me with my daily driver 65' Cutlass 330 4bbl post model parked next to a red 307 powered powerglide equipped 69' Camaro that was shooing people away that got within three feet of his car. It left a sour taste in my mouth that never fully went away but every once in awhile comes right back. The demographics of this hobby are aging and dying. In 10-15 years I'm going to be all alone with no one but well off peopel that do not know their azz from their elbows about anything.
I have to just say it. If I go to a dog show I have to keep my car in the parking lot. I have a dog...a rather large very well behaved dog (PERFECT just like every mother's kids). He is a PITA when you get into heavy foot traffic and has absolutely no business being around nice cars. At the 42nd St. Ignace car show I realized why I would never park my car out in public again. Absolutely no respect for another mans property or work ethic out there. If a guy has a 100k car I would like to see it without paying museum admission. I can also see why I may never get a chance to see it at a car show.
It's a car not a Fabergé egg. Cars are meant to be driven and I am very clearly in control of both my dogs keeping them on very tight 18" leads. They are literally right next to me (against my legs) the entire time and never get within two feet of any car. It's not just about the dog thing. Everyone that's reading this knows what I am talking about because its been slowly happening for years now.
Yep, Chopper rides with me in all my cars. I don't enter car shows anymore but I love cruises where the cars actually move and everybody waves. Most guys under 40 aren't into cars anymore, and a part of it is what you describe. I drive at least one of mine somewhere every single week. That's what they're for....
I get the point and I think that is why "rat rods" have become so popular. My point is that the wagon there is a very rare car and obviously a "show" car. That is what I like to see at car shows. If some teeny bopper wants to park his 85 Monte Carlo SS next to it and think he has accomplished something in life that is fine. It just takes away from the old guys that like to bring out something that they have spent more time painting than it took to chisel Mt. Rushmore. There should be proper titling of car shows vs. rod runs or local get togethers. A lot of these eggs are leaving the country because no one here wants to put the time into building them or have no idea of their real world worth.
The guy with the Chevelle wagon was cool just your typical clueless more money than sense optima battery in the trunk, single 16"electric fan radiator cap not fitting correctly type I see every time I go to one of these things. Its usually GTO, Camaro or Mopar guys tho. A lot of people see Barrett Jackson on cable think to themselves I got a 5k paint job on a blue flame powered three on the tree tri five chevy modded with a goodwrench crate engine th350 swap done in the mid 90s and it looks the same so it must be worht about as much right?! some mfers are always trying to ice skate uphill
Do you really believe the Chevelle wagon guy accomplished anything? That guys toolbox consists of a checkbook and a pen. Gimme a break.
Another good point. Someone did a good job on a rare two door wagon(likely not the owner if he does not know how to make it run properly). I still like to see the cars even if the guy had to go to college,work three jobs,and can't change a spark plug....But still can afford to buy this from an idiot like me who built it for five dollars an hour. I really don't think that is the norm at a car "show". If you want to have a millennial mediocre car and dog show I guess that would probably fit right in with the laid back "gitrdun" whenever world. I will keep my car in the garage and the dog on the porch,and just see if anybody is silly enough to bring out nice cars anymore.
1. I'm very much gen X and remember things like life before the internet, rotary dial phones, 8 track players, Oliver North and riding in the beds of pickup trucks without seats or belts. I still think cars with power windows and ac are fancified. 2. actually the Chevelle was pretty sweet lol it had AC and a big block 3. Nearly every time I drive my mediocre Electra (a couple times a week and every time it rains) if I make eye contact with another person I will get a thumbs up or someone trying to talk to me. When people first ride in it they ask if that happens a lot....yes it happens a lot so I tend to keep my eyes straight ahead. 4. I'm hesitant to bring my car into meetups like this because so many people in this life have their heads unbelievably far up their butts. Its a Chevelle/Mustang/Camaro/tri five chevy/non descript hot rod not a flipping Focke-Wulf 190 get over yourself. 5. Ask anyone that's been participating in this hobby or lifestyle for any real length of time and they will tell you the same thing I am saying. The demographics are getting older and the attitude of the people in it is not helping at all. It's gone from a working class thing to a well off (or close to it) baby boomer (no offense intended) 'I have nothing better to spend my money on so I will bust out my credit card and re live my youth' type thing. There are no families there are no more young people its just late middle aged folk that saw one too may ZZ top videos back in the day and for some unknown reason have a love of lawn chairs. It's dying mehdiocre
I'm 51 and have been annoyed with the rub their car with a diaper and sit in a lawn chair crowd for over 30 years!!! Ain't nothin new there, except for maybe the cars getting not as old as the ones from 30 years ago. The best way to view a car show is 2 cars at a time going down the QM! No lawn chair diaper rubbers there! The best place to see old cars is at your local drag strip, best crowd of people you will ever meet. These guys no matter what their age, usually they are the ones that built the car they are racing. There are a few in the crowd that are check book racers but even though they didn't build their engine a lot of the time they do the tuning for their cars. And most of the King of Street guys drive their cars there! A great bunch of guys at every track I have been to so far, if you break your car someone their will usually offer to help to fix it if it can be fixed at the track. I haven't ever seen anyone complain about someone else having their well behaved dog with them either. DRAGSTRIP!!!! Go see if that place is better to your liking, it sure is to me, racing a car or not. The Muscle car meets or just the Friday night king of street is the best times to go. Only diapers there are the ones underneath an engine so if it blows up it won't trash the track so bad. A lot of bars around here that use to have cruise nights quit doing it because they were getting the annoying rub their car with a diaper and sit in a lawn chair crowd that wouldn't spend any $$ and were so annoying that the other people that came to see some nice cars got turned off by the people we're talking about! These are the ones that made sure they got there early so they got the same spot they got the week before! So not only the same annoying crowd, it was basically the same car show week after week! BORING, so after a while the bars started losing $$ doing a "cruise night", so they stopped. Sad. I hear ya, don't condemn all of us older guys. But in my defense, I'm not a "baby boomer" I'm generation X, the ones in between the "baby boomers" and the millennials. Don't group me in with those dirty stinking hippies!!! Or the non hippy "baby boomers". My generation was the second hand muscle car generation where our high school parking lot looked like the car shows you go and see now. We learned to drive in those second hand muscle cars, the new cars in the early 80s were slow junk that couldn't get out of its own way! Those muscle cars were to drive, not sit next to and rub with a diaper!! The junkyards were gold mines of muscle car parts back then when you could still get good parts for that era of cars. The good old days, when the girls wore their pilot skirts(pilot skirt because if they bent over you could see the cock pit) and great concerts. Derek
I love driving my GS to work, Then having to stop by Walmart, Giant Eagle, or Ace Hardware on the way home, people look at me "your driving THAT car" "yes, its a passenger conveyance" I'll be too old or dead one day, I wanna wear my GS out, and break stuff on it before I die I even have paw prints on my pearl white back seat, Tucker, our foster Collie at the time thought he was going for a ride, Tucker was adopted, but I left the paw prints for now, I loved that furry fella
That Malibu wagon is sweet! I think a lot of people think these old cars are good long term investments. I don't believe so. Millennials don't care anything thing about these cars. After my generation (I'm 42) I don't think these cars will be worth much. My point is buy what YOU want and not what you think someone else wants, and by all means enjoy it!
what irks me is self centerd imature ppl who dont realize not all dogs are well behaved so a general rule is in effect that theres no dogs at the show,if ya dont like the rules stay home,only you will miss you!!
I think the issue is that it wasn't a car show. Snucks was asked to leave a shopping center parking lot. I wonder what the property owners would think of that
Jason cracked me up first with the "rectal orifice to go get bent." Then I was laying here shaking the bed laughing about the diaper rubbers, I literally use Scotch Brite on my "paint"! Love the picture of your two buddies lappin up the good times with their heads out the window in the back seat. THEY look like the coolest crew there : )
Even the dogs use to look cooler & tougher back in the day, hope he doesn't scratch any bullet holes off that wing though!!!
