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Car Show Trophys
If you were a helicopter pilot rescuing wounded personnel in a war zone and a hero you would not get the kind of trophy/award they hand out at car shows for being good with q-tips and cleaning your car. Seems very silly to me. Am I missing something?
Your input is welcome. To me the best thing about car shows is seeing the old hot rods and young women (NOT OLD WOMEN!) exposing their cleavage.
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You will like this. I once helped a group of volunteers renovate a Kart track (I don't know why I capitalized 'kart") but it was my home track. We had a dumpster delivered. So this guy I wasn't too familiar with shows up with his own back hoe. Great! And he did a lion's share of work.
Quietly, he threw 200 trophies in the dumpster. I started to really pay attention to this guy and he became a good casual friend. That was the epitome of a humble man. I don't know what to say, I have a couple of trophies for racing but you would not be impressed. What they mean to me is different. |
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10-09-2011, 05:55 PM
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For one of the car shows for PCA, we get these cool mugs...
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10-09-2011, 05:59 PM
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I am only interested in the trophies that where not easy to get. If an event is passing out a lot of trophies for just anything, it devalues them.
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10-09-2011, 06:25 PM
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"I am only interested in the trophies that where not easy to get."
Then don't bother with car shows. It seems you get a trophy for just showing up. Hello.... it's all about the money. More trophies=more cars =more money next time for the car show operator.
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10-09-2011, 06:32 PM
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Won a few...tossed most of them. No longer "do" the car club thing.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
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10-09-2011, 08:37 PM
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My father is real active in the car show scene, and he does a lot of judging. Every Monday morning , I hear all the stories of grown men taking fits, because their car did not get a trophy that given day. He has had people threaten him.
He always asks me to help, but I am so uninterested in that noise.
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10-10-2011, 02:17 AM
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19 years and 17k posts...
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I have never won a trophy...
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10-10-2011, 06:53 AM
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I see people at local car shows proudly displaying 3-foot trophies for 1st in class (there were only 2 cars in the class). Goofy.
Suggestion: see if you can donate those old trophies in the attic to local charitable organizations. Many of them can recycle them by putting a new name plate on them. There are links to places online that recycle as well.
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10-10-2011, 07:21 AM
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In retrospect, I should have contacted the local special olympics before giving mine to the trash...
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
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10-10-2011, 08:06 AM
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Yep, the new trophies I've seen are gold or silver colored plastic, not metal like the "old school" trophies...
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10-10-2011, 08:11 AM
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We have a commemorative model truck made for our Truck Show every year and our staff creates the trophies for the show by hand using that year's model.
 This was from about 8 years ago.
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10-10-2011, 09:14 AM
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This is from our 2008 show
edit - something happened to the color when Pelican got ahold of it. It's NOT that bright green color! 
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This is from last year. The show truck was a "distressed" 1932 Ford. I distressed it some more and one of our artists painted the funky billboard. Pelican is still doing something weird with the green colors.
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This is our 2011 trophy. The truck is a 1953 IHC and the trophy was inspired by the Raymond Lowey-designed IHC service centers of the 1950s. Those are pictures of myself and some other staff members in the showroom. Again, Pelican is making the colors weird.
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10-10-2011, 09:34 AM
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I got a beer stein this weekend at a local PCA event. Sad part is I didn't even wash my car. Still had greasy hand prints on the fender. pulled up the carpets. Meanwhile there were plenty of the q-tip crowd that came away with nothing. I'll use it for beer - I would have preferred to be at the track.
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Hey JeremyD- St Pete is my new favorite place.
Coming down in November for two weeks to Sunset Beach. 
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10-10-2011, 01:52 PM
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There has to be a good way to donate or reuse old trophies. Like giving them to kids. Trophies are like crack to little kids, especially when they're for cool stuff like cars.
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Graham: you can give them to local schools, special olympics, etc or just google donate trophy
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This is a timely thread. I was just at the CVG carshow in New Albany, OH. I noticed that the awards classes were not equitable. Examples:
Cars had Best of '50, '60, '70 Best Camaro Best Mustang Best Chevrolet Best Lambo Best Ferrari People's Choice Award Not equitable as there was a very nice Cougar, it could have won best of '70 or people's choice award, but there was not a best Mercury... Motorcycles had Best Custom Best Harley-Davidson Best Sport Bike People's Choice Award There was a nice little restored stock CB350 that could only have won the People's Choice award, which it did. If there was a Best H-D, why was there not a Best Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki etcetera. Also, I don't know how anyone won the people's choice awards as the people didn't get a vote sheet to submit. I learned a lot while paying attention to how the categories were stacked. Last edited by Hard-Deck; 10-11-2011 at 08:36 AM.. Reason: spelling |
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