whats goin on with the custom/show scene

Edited: 2/12/2010 11:48:57 PM by BabyYouWish

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by pdolgnerWhat really sucks is in the last year I took my wife to three shows.  There was a fight at two of them. She said forget this, I am not going to anymore and your not taking our son if this is the kind of thing going on.  I have been showing for 11 years and these last two years were the first where I saw a fight in the middle of the show.  Absolute bullshit.---------------------------------------------Come to the North East, we don't really have that here.  From everywhere I have traveled to a show (from down south, midwest, all the way to Cali) we don't have that here. 95% of people get along. Yeah there are always bad-seeds, but thats with everything and more often then not its friends of people in the scene. People who don't own, nor have ever owned trucks.   I wouldn't give up our section of the scene for anything. We ALL hang out no matter what club we are in or where we are from. Obviously we have people that don't get along, but thats just people in general.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by Blitz NomaThere are SOME shows where its actually cheaper to enter a car then to pay for parking and multiple entrance fees... ---------------------------------------------Ha Ha, Pleasanton rod show.

Shows have multiple classes to cater to everyone interested in showing a vehicle. If everything at the show was on the same level as your vehicle it could make participants lose interest in the event quickly. Be proud of your vehicle and the time you have spent making it the way you want it. If you do not like looking at a vehicle at a show do not look at it. I do it several thousand times each year without complaint.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by Last_ResortWell I will say this, I agree with everyone on the "you have to start somewhere" because those same people that are showing stock trucks will later on be the ones stating the same complaints in a few years lol and the fight at show thing..mmmm I really don't see why people have the urge to go to a car show, pay whatever they did to attend and then fight and get thrown out....but DJ, remember when you first got started!! --------------------------------------------- i know were i first started. but last resort was the first show ive ever entered..i plan on putting alot more progress before showing again..my first truck was a half back hack because of a friend that wanted to do it his way. an didnt listen to a thing i had to say.. but stu you know there is a club floating around jennings that im kinda pertaining to..they might as well be a used car lot ..  Freaks of Nature       Louisiana Vice President

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by Laid_DakotaThere are some good points made in this thread. And who am I to say someone elses truck isn't good enough to be in the show? However, what comes to mind in Scrapin' the Coast last year. If I remember correctly there were quite a few fully done show trucks that could not get into the show because it was at capacity. There were alot of stock trucks/cars that in my opinion shouldn't have been let into the gate. I understand the need to make money to keep shows going, but when you have a off the lot truck, completely stock taking the place of a bagged/bodied/ or even dropped truck I think its going irritate people. Just my opinion.  --------------------------------------------- exactly! and this is why i wont be back, at least this year....several hotel parkin lots were loaded with fully built featured rides that couldnt get in the grounds due to all the crap that was let in.  i dont wanna hear the "dont sleep so late" thing either. some people drove all night to get to the show, got to the grounds at 9ish and found out their turned away because its full and full of junk... last years show was laughable at best end rant

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MY problem is locally the majority of what is showed is garbage.  The last show I went to around here I brought my bagged Ram with pinstriping to the show parked it in the parking lot,  because I didn't believe it was show worthy material.   I went into the show walked around and it was nicer than 98% of what was inside the show.  Then I come out to the parking lot and I got people standing around checking out my truck.   Its hard to get new blood into the scene when you bring them to a show and they look at stuff that looks like a 5 year built it.    

and with that little rant out of the way I do have to say I am supper excited about this years show season, I heard off some really nice trucks making it out this year!

I can see this with all types of car shows, not just minitruck shows. There are stock clean cars just getting started and beat up shit boxes that shouldn't be there. Not everyone has the money, talent, or ambition to build a full custom vehicle. When I started out, I thought that 90% of the stuff I do now was stupid and a total waste of money. Over the years I learned more and my priorites changed. I would have never bought a brand new car and cut it up. Now. I wouldn't think twice about it.  I just think it was alot simplier 20 years a nice static drop, wheels, and some interior stereo was bad ass show car now those are daily drivers. Today, 3/4 frames and bodydrops are pretty much a standard. That is a steep entry level that is very hard to pay for. It takes most of us quite a few years to afford it.