On Sunday August 28th, I entered a local car show. Beautiful day, highs in the 70's, light breeze..ahhhhhhh.
Anyway, 203 cars were entered into this particular car show. $15.00 registration fee each car.
At 4:00 P.M. the time came for the awards. The awards were standard for a car show; top 75, 10 best of catagories, 3 motorcycle awards, 1 Mayor's award and 1 Best of show.
After all was handed out, not one Modern car one!!!!
The modern cars entered were: 7 Mustangs, 2 Challengers and 1 (my) Camaro 2SS/RS
The name of the car club sponsoring the car show was Ky Klassics Car Club.
Now, we all know that there is a large contingent of folks who believe that a car show is/was and always should be Classic or antique vehicle's, and that more and more car shows are adding Modern vehicles as a seperate judgeable class.
Now here is where the rant begins. I am not pissed that my Camaro didn't win. However at least 2 of the Mustangs should have won. Both had cams, visually nice superchargers, and custom paintjobs, easily putting their vehicle's worth around $60,000 if not more. 1 of the Challengers had some cosmetic mods including custom paint job.
Before anyone asks about the visual aspects of the classic cars that won, I will tell you this. Most of them were very deserving. Several were 68, 69 Camaro's etc. But, for an example there was a 64 Mustang, decent shape, but had rusting rocker panels. One 69 Camaro in front of me (Yellow/Black) had SS badges front and rear, and he even told me himself it was not an SS, he just slapped the badging on there.
To put this more into perspective, there was a base model, stock 89 Mustang behind me. It had been taken care of, but the original blue paint was faded, the engine compartment dirty, and overall nothing special.
It was absolutely clear that this particular car club was not going to award a thing to a modern car. And honestly that is fine, if that is what they want to do (remember, they have the word Klassics in their name).
However, I feel that, A. Post it in the advertisement they ran in the local newspaper that you will not judge or award a trophy to modern cars...and B. don't accept the $15.00 dollar registration fee that was paid by me and the 9 other modern cars there. They pocketed $150.00 from 10 of us that they had no intentions of awarding a trophy to.
Again, so that it is understood, I am not pissed that I didn't win, but I can tell you that 2 of the Mustangs and 1 of the Challengers definately deserved to win.
I do believe that my Camaro should not be judged equally with a 68, 69 Camaro, because quite simply, mine is not in the same class as a very well cared for and fully resored 69 Camaro. Therefore, I do not even look at the Best GM catagory, or Best Ford Catagory etc. going to a modern car, and honestly it shouldn't. But, either have a seperate catagory such as Best Modern, or do not accept the fee from a modern car if you choose not to consider any award for it!!!!
Rant over, carry on!!!
