Coach and I attended a show a few years back. The host club was a hot rod, pre 60 car club. They put Coach and I in class 49 with a 86 Caddie and a tractor with a 350 motor.
Guess who won?
Coach and I left before they gave out the prizes and trophies. But three weeks later at another car show we met the guy with the Caddie. He was still hot! He told us the tractor won. We laughed but this guy was pissed. He was never going back. "It was a car and truck show, not a tractor show".
We have told this store a bunch of times and laugh every time.
The next year I received a letter from the Club to attend their show that year. Well I had so much fun tell the story so many times that I just called the President of the club and told him I was surprised that they had invited me back. He ask "why" and I told him about the tractor and that I thought this was their way the way of telling us not to bring our fiberglass fake cars back. He made a lot of excuses and apologized a hundred times.
We could not make their show that year but the next year we had four Cobras there. Guess what? We all won a trophy??? So trophies do not make a car better than another.
We like shows that do not judge. We like the door prizes (cash works). More of the show are going with a non judge format.
We attend all the shows we can. We enjoy the people, looking at other cars of all kinds and showing our Cobras.
See ya at the show. Got one this week in town. We should have 8 to 10 Cobras.
Tents, chairs and coolers.
Dwight