Pet peeve.......
Safety Car
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From: AnyTown NJ
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
There was a guy that would attend certain shows and cruise ins with his Cadillac Eldorado. He would roll out a red carpet and drive the car on it. He then would place urns w/fake flowers at each corner and run red velvet theater rope around the car. He would place a placard in front giving all the vital statistics and claiming it was an exact duplicate of a car Frank Sinatra and the rat pack drove back in the day....lastly he would play Frank Sinatra songs from a boom box. He never stayed with the car....he would walk away and watch from a distance. Just to tick him off I would walk by and never even glance at the car. 
Melting Slicks
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From: Vero Beach FL
There was a guy that would attend certain shows and cruise ins with his Cadillac Eldorado. He would roll out a red carpet and drive the car on it. He then would place urns w/fake flowers at each corner and run red velvet theater rope around the car. He would place a placard in front giving all the vital statistics and claiming it was an exact duplicate of a car Frank Sinatra and the rat pack drove back in the day....lastly he would play Frank Sinatra songs from a boom box. He never stayed with the car....he would walk away and watch from a distance. Just to tick him off I would walk by and never even glance at the car.
Team Owner
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St. Jude Donor '07
Why did I read this thread? 
Seriously...if someone putting a year-correct dealer promo model with their car in a show bothers you that much, just stay home and please don't go out in public.
Seriously...if someone putting a year-correct dealer promo model with their car in a show bothers you that much, just stay home and please don't go out in public.
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St. Jude Donor '09
the ones that irritate me are the people that let their kids run through the cars or worse yet, ride their bikes through... that makes for a neurotic person!
Melting Slicks
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Cost me a M1131 passenger top two summers ago. Little **** stepped on it and the mother then had the nerve to give me drama.
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From: Monroe Louisiana
I do not understand why some people will not clean out their cars before showing them. I have seen trash, drink containers, CDs, and other items scattered throughout the interior of some cars at shows. If I showed my car, I would want everything neat and uncluttered.
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From: Springfield MO
St. Jude Donor '07
Melting Slicks
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My lovely wife had left a flat satchel under the top in the back of the car, and I had to take it out to get to it(the satchel). I was parked on grass at a fairground - in fact parked in a fenced in corner, so figured I could set it on the grass for 30 seconds, since nothing was behind me. I had no sooner set it down, when a passerby's two rugrats appeared chasing each other around the cars parked around us. The one chased the other one right by me, they circled around the back of my car, and stepped directly on my t-top cracking it almost in two. When the mother of these two wonderful children was confronted about reimbursing me for my troubles I was told, "If you didn't want people to look at it, why'd you bring it?" When the issue was pressed, her redneck boyfriend wanted to start WWIII, and the rent-a-cop security guard was also useless. I took camera photos of them and showed them to my local provincial police force officers, who said there was nothing they could do!!!! Long story short, a Canadian forum member had a NOS passenger top that had sat in his basement for 30 years that he let me have for $400.......lesson learned.
Le Mans Master
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From: Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Okay, you convinced me, I'm going to get a little "mini me" corvette that is the spitting image of my corvette, go to a car show and put it on the air cleaner.
I looked at buying one a year or so ago but decided it wasn't worth the $50, but hey, if I can wind people like you up for $50 its well worth it.
I looked at buying one a year or so ago but decided it wasn't worth the $50, but hey, if I can wind people like you up for $50 its well worth it.
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From: Springfield MO
St. Jude Donor '07
My lovely wife had left a flat satchel under the top in the back of the car, and I had to take it out to get to it(the satchel). I was parked on grass at a fairground - in fact parked in a fenced in corner, so figured I could set it on the grass for 30 seconds, since nothing was behind me. I had no sooner set it down, when a passerby's two rugrats appeared chasing each other around the cars parked around us. The one chased the other one right by me, they circled around the back of my car, and stepped directly on my t-top cracking it almost in two. When the mother of these two wonderful children was confronted about reimbursing me for my troubles I was told, "If you didn't want people to look at it, why'd you bring it?" When the issue was pressed, her redneck boyfriend wanted to start WWIII, and the rent-a-cop security guard was also useless. I took camera photos of them and showed them to my local provincial police force officers, who said there was nothing they could do!!!! Long story short, a Canadian forum member had a NOS passenger top that had sat in his basement for 30 years that he let me have for $400.......lesson learned.
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From: Maine
I really don’t want to start a war but I got to ask why would anyone want to park their corvette in a field or parking lot all day? There is a big (well big for Maine) car show I went once years ago the people I saw were “Look at me I have a better car then you”
I prefer to just take my car out for a drive, if someone says nice car I just say thanks. I have to laugh when I have my ugly car a 88 Mustang 4 banger convertible out when someone says I love your car. Hey maybe I should enter my mustang next year??
I prefer to just take my car out for a drive, if someone says nice car I just say thanks. I have to laugh when I have my ugly car a 88 Mustang 4 banger convertible out when someone says I love your car. Hey maybe I should enter my mustang next year??