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Car showsDeleted
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Sept 20, 2019 15:49:13 GMT
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What is it about static car shows that I find really boring? When I go to one I generally walk past most stuff without a second glance. I feel a bit immune to the cars there.
BUT...when I was out driving today I saw a '62 chevy pickup parked up on the side of the road, I had to drive past but then turned around and went back and parked up. Just as I was getting out of the van to have a look 2 blokes came by carrying a heavy work bench so I did the decent thing I gave a hand and helped load it into the back of the chevy. We stood around talking trucks for a bit and then shook hands and on I went. The truck wasn't moving (so may as well been at a static car show) but I didn't feel that immunity, and dare I say it but I felt some excitement...(no, not that type of excitement), if it had been at a show I'm sure I wouldn't have really noticed it. Il post a picture in the spotted thread later.
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luckyseven
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Car showsluckyseven
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Sept 20, 2019 16:12:04 GMT
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I like car shows because they usually have cars in them. Not so keen on random trucks sat on the roadside. Maybe that's the Cosmic Balance right there? Anyway, have a picture of a car taken at a car show in the wonderful British summertime TR6 white 73 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr and a pickup. errr. Taken at a car show Type 2 late Bay cream pickup 73 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr
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Sept 20, 2019 16:27:58 GMT
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Maybe it is about context I guess... with Spotify I can listen to pretty much any song I want at any time and loads of similar songs can be played after it, but it is more interesting when it comes on the radio/tv/whatever in the middle of other stuff.
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Car showsDeleted
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Sept 20, 2019 16:48:20 GMT
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I feel the same way, and I'm in Halifax Nova Scotia waiting for a connecting flight. Even here, in Halifax Nova Scotia, waiting for a connecting flight, I find static organised car shows a bit boring, and I share your feelings about the thrill of seeing a rare beast existing in a natural habitat. More so when it's the juxtaposition of eras and/or the juxtaposition of design mentalities.
It's a tenuous link but I've just stood outside the airport in the Canadian sunshine, in Halifax Nova Scotia, waiting for a connecting flight... and I marvelled at the loneliness of an automated Husqvuarna grass mowing bot trundling up and down, totally left to its own devices, blindly bumping into trees then turning to trundle away from them.
It filled me with pathos, it pitched me onto the ledge of an existential chasm. It all seemed so hopeless, yet the little bot rolled on stoicly, trimming the grass and bypassing the futility. I developed feelings for the little robofella and went over to walk with it a while. I experienced even more complex feelings when it finally sank in after five minutes of walking with it that it didnt care that I had joined it. It lacked the capacity to appreciate or even acknowledge with a mere monotonous beep that I existed, was there beside it, and had developed complex feelings for it.
It didnt know I was there and it wouldnt either, unless I stood in front of it. At that point I'd just be a data point, like a tree, and the little Husqvuarna would turn and roll away from me. I wasnt sure my heart could take that so I stopped following it, then walked away once it had put some distance between us, but before it hit another tree and came back.
Now, take me to a lawnmower bot static show where enthusiasts have all assembled their automated bots to proudly display them, and I'd feel nothing. It's just plastic. No interest.
By the way, I am in Halifax, Nova Scotia, waiting for a connecting flight.
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Sept 20, 2019 16:51:39 GMT
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Car showsDeleted
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Sept 20, 2019 17:02:52 GMT
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^^ You need to get out more often... 😂😂
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Sept 20, 2019 17:06:20 GMT
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I agree with it being in context. If youre at a show, nothing is a suprise, within reason, you know what you are there to see, and you see it. If I saw a standard moggy at a show I wouldnt need to have a closer look, i know what to expect, but on my way to work I can see something as 'normal' as a moggy minor, and its cool as fungus, and that little early morning snippet can keep you going for the rest of the day. When people see my Cube they give a look like their milks gone sour, so I'm not sure it has the same effect.
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Car showsjohnthesparky
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Sept 20, 2019 17:15:37 GMT
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You're doing good, little fella. Wow, where is that? Is it somewhere like Staines?
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Car showsjohnthesparky
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Sept 20, 2019 17:25:23 GMT
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Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia You are making assumptions there, there may be 100 input feeds all collecting data and information on you and your proximity to the bot. It could even have been processing that information and calculating with complicated algorithms ways to interact and interface with you But some heartless designer failed to link all of these calculations and decisions to any output hardware, thus rendering the bot incapable of reacting. Your presence could have pushed it over the edge, it’s silicon junctions could have been screaming in anguish because of you, but you just continued to taunt it and mock it by walking alongside..... not sure where I was going with this have a good trip
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Car showsjohnthesparky
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Sept 20, 2019 17:29:14 GMT
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I quite like static shows, but I don’t like ones where all the blue mk2 escorts park together etc
I like shows like the Gathering where you have a series Land Rover parked next to Agent Thor (that’s just an example)
But I do like seeing old cars out and about, and in the wild too (and especially being used, saw a HA van that a sparky uses for work in Milton Keynes today
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Sept 20, 2019 17:48:09 GMT
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I personally think static classic car shows are one of those really ace things that you can do too much of. Once you've done too much of it, all the appeal collapses and crumbles away and you can never regain it fully. A bit like eating too many Mars Bars.
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Car showsMercdan68
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Sept 20, 2019 18:40:48 GMT
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I like cars I like beer I like sweaty hamburgers I like getting away for a weekend with me son and our pals So car shows are fine by me, fields race circuits, showgrounds it’s all the same to me, I’ll be planning next year straight after the last show for us next weekend
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Car showsDeleted
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Sept 20, 2019 18:47:03 GMT
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I like cars I like beer I like sweaty hamburgers I like getting away for a weekend with me son and our pals So car shows are fine by me, fields race circuits, showgrounds it’s all the same to me, I’ll be planning next year straight after the last show for us next weekend In that context, yep no problem.
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Sept 20, 2019 19:12:31 GMT
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I quite like static shows, but I don’t like ones where all the blue mk2 escorts park together etc I like shows like the Gathering where you have a series Land Rover parked next to Agent Thor (that’s just an example) My thoughts exactly, and a lesson many classic car show organisers could do to learn. Having a row of identical cars probably appeals to the sort of mind that arranges their book shelves by colour but it actually diminishes the interest in the cars in proportion to how many of the same type are parked together. At least with custom and modified shows, your chances of seeing 2 or more similar cars together are much similar even when the builders start with the same base vehicles. (having said that the ratty 50s trucks seem to be magnetically attracted to each other!) Funny thing is I'm not really bothered about motor racing. I'll enjoy an event with racing attached e.g. Fueled Society or Hot Rod Drags, but I'd never bother with a pure racing event. As someone mostly interested in the aesthetic aspects of cars I like the chance to get a real close up look at things.
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Car showsbrachunky
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Sept 20, 2019 20:32:23 GMT
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Funny you should post this as I have recently been questioning whether one still gets a buzz from static shows especially after seeing over the past few years, how many are on. It's gone from famine to feast with all and sundry putting on some form of "classic" car show, from pubs to the local hospices. It's all gone a bit boring tbh
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Car showsMercdan68
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Sept 20, 2019 21:12:01 GMT
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One??? Sorry me old china but “one” needs to go to a few shows with the king of “provenance” yer know the mileage clocker geezer quentin Wilson ?
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Sept 20, 2019 21:38:50 GMT
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I personally think static classic car shows are one of those really ace things that you can do too much of. Once you've done too much of it, all the appeal collapses and crumbles away and you can never regain it fully. A bit like eating too many Mars Bars. I find that with just about any event (see also the Revival thread earlier this week). I try and do Haynes Breakfast club semi regularly, but suspect if I went to every one it would be super dull, same with anything really, except RR events of course
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stealthstylz
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Car showsstealthstylz
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Sept 20, 2019 22:34:41 GMT
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If I go to a static show it's for the social side mostly, never really look closely at any cars unless there's something I particularly like (most recent were a Honda City Turbo 2 and a Fiat Dino Coupe). I've always preferred cruise nights, the local "legal" ones have nice cars there but they'll never have the atmosphere of the chav cruises.
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Sept 20, 2019 22:37:30 GMT
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when I was in the midst of going to car shows, almost weekly for more years than i care to remember, it got to the point that we were only going for the autojumble and social side of things, the cars were the same week in week out. I clearly remember laying on the ground in the sun at Uxbridge, 2003 ish, looking at the cars around me and thinking that all this seemed so normal, but i knew that one day i wouldnt be doing it on a weekley basis, and now I don't. I really don't have any desire to either, i hadnt been to a show for years until I went to RR weekender last year, and i went to that for a number of reasons. 1)thanks to this forum I knew it would attract an interesting variety of cars 2) It was Goodwood 3) It was Goodwood and that meant there would be cars moving about on track. Reason number 3 has made it more likley than ever that I will probably never go to a static-only show ever again. Its like comparing a bacon roll to a full english breakfast. Bacon rolls are great, but once youve had a full english the bacon roll is just a bacon roll.
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luckyseven
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Car showsluckyseven
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Sept 20, 2019 22:53:34 GMT
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Is it actually possible to eat too many Mars Bars? I've never managed it Picture from a car show only last night. sunset by Nick Liassides, on Flickr Retro Rides sticker not author's own
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