How to do a Corvette show? - Page 2

86DSOMVERT · 10-11-2006, 11:36 PM

I've gone to the Silver Springs show last year. Most likely not returning due to the simple fact that I was boxed in and couldn't leave when I wanted to. I won a Peoples Choice trophy which was good. But this year I'm heading to the keys most likely to hang out with the club I'm in for their last show in Holiday Isles.

Out of all the shows I've been to I can't say any of them set my heart on fire. Corvette Homecoming in BG was pretty messed up with the judging. The best run shows are the NCM shows IMHO. Super Chevy ferget about it the judges are so biased it's not even funny. Won't ever go back till they change the classes around so a early model C4 isn't competing against a 2006 ZO6 which is completely retarded.

The one show I didn't make it to but plan on making it next year is Carlisle. From what I've heard it's well worth the trip and the money. But I'm with a couple of the previous posters if I get hijacked and not able to leave when I want, forget it I don't want to be there with the exception of winning last year at Silver Springs

. I've learned alot this year with these shows and I've found that the most rewarding ones to be at are like I said NCM Shows.

naples · 10-15-2006, 10:41 PM

Rich, if you want to start attending some shows, how about Oct 28 in Cape Coral FL.?

**Rich Z** · 10-16-2006, 12:23 AM

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Rich, if you want to start attending some shows, how about Oct 28 in Cape Coral FL.?

Hmm, maybe. But that is a pretty long haul for us. Just spent today driving to Seffner and back to take the Z to Anti Venom, and will be driving back down there next weekend to pick it up. Not sure how keen the wife would be in spending every weekend doing Corvette stuff, so I need to watch I don't wear out my welcome.

And heck, I can't BELIEVE it is mid October already!

And as an aside, the wife doesn't like driving a stick shift, so that puts all the driving on me. Even in the vette, it wears me down after several hours on the road....

JIM KILL · 10-16-2006, 06:41 AM

I WENT TO THE QUAKER STATE SHOW IN PINELLAS PARK AND SAW A FEW FRIENDS. DID NOT SHOW MY CAR.... HAD TO LEAVE EARLY...DID ANY OF THE CORVETTES WIN???

Carl81 · 10-19-2006, 02:04 AM

I have never regretted going to any Corvette or any other car show in the past. I have also never registered my 81 for any event as well.

I just make sure I drive my Vette there and show my support for the hobby. I personally would never go to Corvette show and drive an ordinary car, but that is just me. I have to admit, there are always some surprising Vettes that show up and park out of the staging area.

Mine will be there somewhere, warts and all.

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litevette · 10-20-2006, 09:46 AM

Man I'm with you. There's no way I could sit around all day. BORING! I usually park near and look around for 2 hours max. Whether I want my car looked at or not, I just can't sit still for that long.

**Rich Z** · 10-21-2006, 11:42 PM

Well today (Saturday) Connie (my wife) and I had some time to kill while Greg at Anti Venom was finishing up my turbo install. So we took a ride out to Plant City where they happened to be having a Classic Car Show. Basically all Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs, but since I used to have a '66 GTO many moons ago, it was worth walking around. And I got a bit of a bird's eye view of what people actually DO at shows of this nature. Which appeared to be basically NOTHING.

Looks like three things may be a requirement:

Bring your own shade.
Bring your own chairs.
Bring your own drinks.

Any shady spot anywhere around had a group of people huddled there. As the sun moved and the shadows along with it, so did the people utilizing that available shade.

Unless you want to sit on the ground, bring a chair.

I don't know if it is SOP for such events to have refreshments available, but I didn't see much at this one. So having a cooler handy with drinks would have come in REAL handy.

As an aside, one aspect came forcibly to mind as the wife and I were walking around and saw a lady (and I use that term loosely) and her two kids walking around looking at the cars. The two kids were acting like wild indians, banging their hands on all the vehicles they ran by and touching everything within reach. This *woman* just acted oblivious to it all, so my wife walked over to her and told her rather bluntly that people here probably don't really want their freshly cleaned cars touched by anyone. The woman then made a feeble attempt to rein in the kids, but certainly probably no longer than after we were out of sight. Is that sort of thing normal?

Are cattle prods and electrified fences appropriate at shows?

I think if some kid gets a notion to climb all over the Z at any shows we attend, he or she is going to get a real surprise at those two people who grab him or her by the scruff of the neck and escort him or her on down the line somewhere.

**Rich Z** · 10-21-2006, 11:49 PM

Oh, one other observation.... I noticed a guy walking around with a bunch of flyers to hand out and would reach in and place them on the driver's seat of each of the cars. Is that SOP? Does anyone get upset about such things? Is there a better way to do this? Also, does it step on the toes of the event's management if someone does this?

IVOZ06 · 10-22-2006, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich Z

As an aside, one aspect came forcibly to mind as the wife and I were walking around and saw a lady (and I use that term loosely) and her two kids walking around looking at the cars. The two kids were acting like wild indians, banging their hands on all the vehicles they ran by and touching everything within reach. This *woman* just acted oblivious to it all, so my wife walked over to her and told her rather bluntly that people here probably don't really want their freshly cleaned cars touched by anyone. The woman then made a feeble attempt to rein in the kids, but certainly probably no longer than after we were out of sight. Is that sort of thing normal?

Are cattle prods and electrified fences appropriate at shows?

I think if some kid gets a notion to climb all over the Z at any shows we attend, he or she is going to get a real surprise at those two people who grab him or her by the scruff of the neck and escort him or her on down the line somewhere.

I have a shovel in my truck for parents like that!!!

IVOZ06 · 10-22-2006, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich Z

Oh, one other observation.... I noticed a guy walking around with a bunch of flyers to hand out and would reach in and place them on the driver's seat of each of the cars. Is that SOP? Does anyone get upset about such things? Is there a better way to do this? Also, does it step on the toes of the event's management if someone does this?

Yes very common SOP.

Every show I have been to, I find an assortment of flyers on my seat.