car show etiquette 101 what's your horror story?

[ohio cuda]

I went to a car show last night and could not believe the lack of respect shown. People just have to touch, rub, lean, point and touch, and the list goes one. I talked to a guy who quit going because as he was talking to a couple she leaned down and with her 2" fingernail scratched the blacked out hood and remark how rough the surface looked and then confirmed it. My father years ago had a kid running away from his parents on his bike and crashed into the side of his car. Last night a guy wanted to look inside my car and wrapped both his mits on the widow sill. I asked him to move as his "HD" belt buckel was within 1/32" fom the door. Lets hear yours.
However I did see this "HOT" and I mean "HOT"  Lady in the shortest white mini skirt I have ever seen in my life. Holly Smokes it was Hot and my camera was home on the counter.

[camjam]

Good thing you didn't have the camera you might have been in some hot  water at home.

[Carlwalski]

  LOL  (Definitely a couch night) 


Man, that's sad to hear about things like this happening.....the world can be a cruel place. 

[DAYTONA]

about 20 years ago I had a 10K original mile Daytona at a local cruise night.....the diner had a small creek that ran behind it.....a lady (old with a big mustache and warts on her nose) decided the nose of the big Dodge was the perfect place to sort the crap in her purse.....I asked her very nicely to please remove her belongings and she just kinda huffed at me.....then she pulled out a big string of keys and placed them on the fender while continuing to search thru her purse.....I asked her again, nicely but a little louder.....she looked me in the eye and said "I'll move my sh!t when I'm F***in' ready".....I picked her big ring of keys up and heaved them over the roof of the diner and into the creek, and then asked to remove her purse again......she grabbed her sh!t and ran screaming towards the creek and her keys....

one other show, I caught a kid about 16 doing chin-ups on the wing of the Daytona...

I was car watching a friends antique car (33 Desoto conv, only restored one in existence)at a cruise in one night when an Asian lady and her 6 kids decided to get into his car, I told them to stop and get out....then a couple of the kids decided to use the big front fenders for slides......I ran her and her destructive brood completely out of the show....

all in all, a few nose prints were all I ever had to clean up....

[Carlwalski]

about 20 years ago I had a 10K original mile Daytona at a local cruise night.....the diner had a small creek that ran behind it.....a lady (old with a big mustache and warts on her nose) decided the nose of the big Dodge was the perfect place to sort the crap in her purse.....I asked her very nicely to please remove her belongings and she just kinda huffed at me.....then she pulled out a big string of keys and placed them on the fender while continuing to search thru her purse.....I asked her again, nicely but a little louder.....she looked me in the eye and said "I'll move my sh!t when I'm F***in' ready".....I picked her big ring of keys up and heaved them over the roof of the diner and into the creek, and then asked to remove her purse again......she grabbed her sh!t and ran screaming towards the creek and her keys....

Man, you done well to keep your calm the first time you asked.....
I would have said, hey, get your fken crap off my car lady, this aint no rest room! 

Good job for throwing her keys away...lol
Would have been good entertainment for surrounding cruise members. 

[matt63]

I don't know if you can consider this a horror story or not but I have proven this to myself a few times:  I go to the local weekly Mopar show and shine and no one is interested in talking to me cause I don't have a car.  Next year I show up at the annual show in a car,win second place (so what if it was only out of 6 - Dodge A body class) and everyone is my long lost best friend.  Kind of makes me think that the Porsche club can't be that much more snobby.

[EVIL72]

 Nothing ever happened to me, but one year at a Goodguys show I guy opened up a car and sat in it with his young son, while his wife took pictures, like he was at a new car show! I couldn't believe it!
 Then this last weekend at the Mopar show, I kept seeing people putting there hands on the fenders while they look at the engine! Then some lady saying "boy I really like this" as she runs her fingers across an emblem and then the fender.
 Last year I even saw some guys just pop the hood on a car so they could see the engine.
 What is wrong with people!!!!! 
 

[Rev-It-Up]

For the most part, people around here are genuinley curious and curteous.  However, I remember last fall we were at a cruise-in and a guy and his wife were looking at the car.  Red and I don't smoke and the smell of cigarette smoke just sticks like glue to my hair (not very pleasant).  Anyway, this husband and wife were smoking.  Not a problem....until they stuck their heads in the window and continued to smoke their cigarettes over my new leather seats!!  That's about the only time I got real touchy with the car.  As I was walking over to them, they decided it was time to leave, so I didn't need to say anything...but I was going to!

[Chryco Psycho]

my friend had a dog pee on his door at a show & yes the dog was on a leash & the owner of the dog didn`t really seem to care

[71fish]

I have yet to run into any problems. The parents are generally very attentive to their kids affinity to 'look' with their hands. I'm always leary of the guy with the landscape size belt buckle though.  lol   

71fish

[cuda]

I remember a show a few years back when a younger mom was hot and stressed by her todler at her side and had a baby in a basket in her arms. She was looking at cars when she just plunked the baby basket right on the car beside me  My blood just boiled up fast and i got up went right up to her and asked her if this was her car? She replied no.........and i said why do u think u can place your baby on it then ? She replied .its just a baby. I did all i could to not snap..... she left in a real hurry. I was pissed off for the whole day. What i find is that its mostly little kids that just need to be instructed by there parents in proper car show eddicate.

[FY1Challenger]

  Oh boy, where do I start.... Let's see yesterday, I attended the Columbia SC, stop of the Hot Rod mag 2006 Power Tour. Lots of great muscle, not many of "us" though. Guy is behind our tent talking to the plastic chevy crowd and comes over to borrow a pen. He then decides he needs a handy flat surface to jot down some notes and heads over to the Yellow Perils roof. "Excuse me sir, I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that." He turns around annoyed, hands me back my pen, and retreats back to Corvette world. Good dam ridance!:wave:. Then, couple years back at a local show, we have the kid that takes a lap around our Challenger with his two fingers carefully tracing a line about stripe level all the way front to back. I asked my wife, "Did you see that kid"?  She say yes, but also explains he'd had both digits planted firmly in the nostrils beforehand and needed to clean em' some way. His mom stands totally oblivious to the whole thing while the rest of the family runs roughshod over someone elses prized posssesion.  To quote an old friend from school, "Sometimes I wonder and sometimes I just don't know"!

[Mopar73340]

Last year at the local cruise, I had a guy in his 50's reach into my car twice to look at the flyers that were left on my seat. After he picked up the second and looked at it for a few seconds, he started to walk away with it. By now I'm  so I walked over and asked where he had got the flyer and he told me it was none of my business. So I told him where I saw him take it from and that it was my car. Then he was pissed at me and told me I had two of them and didn't need it anyway. So then I asked him, If I had 2 $100 bills in the car does that entitle you to one?  He then proceeded to toss the flyer back into my car. What an A$$hole. I just don't understand some people and why they need to touch other peoples property. I have had people touch things also. Now I generally leave my windows up most of the way and stay close to the car.

[Blackcuda]

Beware of the people that set up those four leg tents, and move your car far away if it's not tied down. I was at show when the wind picked up and one of those tents tumbled over 6 cars at the show scratching and denting everyone of them. You can't imagine the fight that broke out, not to mention thousands of dollars worth of paint damage.
Also look out for those stick in the sand beach umbrellas.

[fishn4cuda]

I remember several yrs ago at the Mopar Nats in Columbus, OH a young boy decided to trace the 71 billboard stripes on a dust covered, triple black AAR Cuda. Owner was PO'ed, as he should of been. Talked to him the following year and he said that it was almost impossible to buff out. Almost a repaint.