I heard that they often get 100 cars at the Fri night shows in St. Francis. It's only 15 miles from my place. So I thought I'd bring the GN tonight. Then I found out about the 1980 cutoff. Sure, I can park it outside of the show area, but what the hell is the point?? Fuck! I am fed up with all of the damned age limits at the weekly cruises & shows around here. They all say that they impose a cutoff to keep the ricer crowd out. It just doesn't make sense. Carry that logic forward a few years & it eventually becomes laughable. What happens when 70s & older American cars become so rare & expensive that people rarely drive them anymore? (That has already happened to many of the 60s hotrods.) What happens when 4th gen SS Camaros, WS6 Firebirds, 1st & 2nd gen Vipers, etc., are old enough to wear collector plates? What happens when musclecars made in the early 2000s are considered to be vintage collector cars? Will the local events still use a stupid age cutoff to "keep the ricers out"?
Seems to me that it would be much more logical to adopt a zero-tolerance rule & kick out any participants who cause trouble and/or jeopardize safety, rather than exclude two or three decades of hotrods from the shows & cruises simply because a few import enthusiasts behave much like some of us did when we were teenagers.
Joel
Seems to me that it would be much more logical to adopt a zero-tolerance rule & kick out any participants who cause trouble and/or jeopardize safety, rather than exclude two or three decades of hotrods from the shows & cruises simply because a few import enthusiasts behave much like some of us did when we were teenagers.
Joel
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