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Hi Greg,
I've been helping put on a little car show in conjunction with a small town festival here in central NE for the last few years. We have been getting 100-120 cars. We generally charge $15 to enter your car. Most people around here are willing to pay that (sometimes a little more) because we usually do dash plaques and trophies. We usually have about 25 categories and give out a top 3 award in each catagory rather than a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. We do this for two reasons, first, it makes it easire to judge, ie we only need to pick the 3 best cars in each class rather than try to decide which is the best which as you know can be very subjective. And second, it cuts down on hard feelings ie "I know my car is better than his but he won" type of thing.
The other thing we try to do is to get trophy sponsors. We like to get local business such as NAPA, Bob's repair shop, and local bars and restauraunts to sponsor trophies for $25 per trophy or $75 per catagory. We then have the companies name printed on the trophy when we have them made.
Hope this helps!
Dana
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