[Closed] Car show pic of the day - Monday

A Granada with a hemmorhoid - LOL. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I can't believe they even sold one! They probably did not!

Believe it or not they were actually good sellers.

Agreed. They didn't hide the Granada beginnings well.

Ford was attempting to justify it as a Lincoln with the simulated connie. This was...

... during the era where the American automotive industry was burying itself with poor product. The Versaille and the Cadillac Cimarron were abominations that were glaring examples of what was wrong in the Big 3 product planning boardrooms. I think the import market made it's greatest impact on persuading the US market to buy foreign brands during those times.

Shouldn't someone decide what gets into a show? There should be standards!

Robert, I agree with you. But I realized long ago that those who run car shows, are clueless.

The catagories (classes) of cars are screwed up, the years of competition are screwed up, the styles are screwed up, and judging of the cars is screwed up.

With regard to classes cars are in, I've been to shows that had model years 1955 through 1964, or even 1960 to 1974. Now come on, give me a break! Even our annual MSRS "Back to the 50's" weekend here in Minnesota allows cars up to 1964 to enter the show!!!

Sorry, but I grew up in the 50's, and I NEVER saw a 1964 car in that decade. And the worst thing of all at these shows is the ego's of the cars owners! They strut around like peacocks because they have a 57 Chevy (or whatever car...fill in the blank).

Heck, even the weekly "Cruise Nights" shows in some towns allow anything on wheels to come to the eent. Two weeks ago in Hastings (Minnesota), there was a 1988 Honda Civic there. And again I'm sorry, but even in someone's wildest fantasy, a 1988 Honda Civic will NEVER be a classic car! And for the reocrd, I bought an 88 Honda Civic brand new in the summer of 1988, and even if I still owned that car and it was in mint shape, I'd not bring it to a car show.

Like everything else it’s all about $. Not too many car show organizers will turn away a $20 or $25 entry fee.

The Foreign makes certainly Capatalized on the US Mfg. blunders

It's also to encourage participation. More cars = more people = more customers for the local restaurants and other surrounding businesses that all stand to benefit the more foot traffic there is.

The Versailles makes a wonderful donor car for those who modify cars.

...for instance, the rear end is a 9" Ford with disc brakes.
The aluminum wheels are also desirable merchandise. Not many
liked the Mustang II but the front ends are under more
modified cars than any other.

Yea Lawrence and John, you guys are right. It's always about the bottome line. But,

I won't go to the shows to look at Ford Pinto's, Escorts, AMC Pacer's, Honda Civic's, or Chevy Vega's and Malibu's.

And I'm guessing in coming years it will become more and mor of those cars, as our generation of loving the real classics ages and dies off.

Oh well...

Get Used to Looking at The NEW CLASSICS as defined by the computer generation they never saw any of those things of the Fifties & Sixties let alone anything older than a Wal-Mart Hot Wheels Car. They only remember that 86 Honda is Older than they are, so it must go on display of their heritage (Whatever that is????). Too Bad! We are a Dying Breed.

The risk of seeing more and more Pintos and Vegas at car shows is quite remote. Most of those cars were junked years ago and do not survive in sufficient enough numbers to constitute even a noticeable minority at car shows. I went to the all-Ford show at Knott's in 2009 and saw maybe 5 or 6 Pintos there. On the other hand, there were hundreds of Mustangs, and many, many Torinos, Fairlanes, Thunderbirds, trucks, etc.

If you want to see only specific types of cars, you should consider attending single-marque shows such as all-Thunderbirds, all-Buicks, all-Cadillacs, all-Mopar, all-Lincoln, etc., which are organized by their respective clubs. Other makes of cars simply would not be present.

I enjoy seeing the occasional Pinto or Vega or Gremlin at the multi-make shows because they add an element of variety that would otherwise not be present in the oceans of Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, '57 Chevys, etc. Yet, the Mustangs, Camaros, '57 Chevys, etc. were produced in such high numbers that many people owned them and can identify with the cars and the memories they had of them, and therefore enjoy seeing them at shows.

It's also easy to restore Camaros, Mustangs, tri-5 Chevys, Chevelles, etc. because of the vast availability of reproduction parts to economically restore one. You can practically restore a Mustang or a '57 Chevrolet without even owning one in the first place.