Snoozin
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Geeez; that stuff happening at NZ shows is a bit extreme I'm afraid that wherever there is a large group/gathering of people, a percentage of those people will unfortunately have criminal tendancies These stories have made me think, my security awareness becomes somewhat laxed when I attend many car shows as you tend to get a feeling that because you are omongst people of similar interest you are also around people of like-minded respect for fellow human beings & their property It's shocking, I remember when you could quite happily leave the car unattended without a worry (and I'm still only young!). I think now at a lot of the shows (here at least, more what you'd term shows that attract "chavs" and so forth), people who come to them aren't really that interested in cars as such. Sure, it's a nice sideline, but the drinking/partying/doof doof/girls etc. have attracted a lot of these folk, which for me has totally ruined the atmosphere. I go to catch up with old friends and see some nice cars and some fast times.... I think this concept is lost on a great number of attendees. The worst incident I have come across was when a young guy backed his car into another one, at the campground at 4 and Rotary Nationals in 2004. The people who were reversed into took exception to this in the most extreme way possible - the fella was hospitalised, and the last I saw of what was a tidy Toyota Levin was it being ferried out on a flatbed, absolutely totalled by these scum.
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I lock it at home, at shows, petrol station, everywhere. Shows aren't worse than leaving it in the street, it's just with X thousand cars in the same field, something is bound to happen. If your street was big enough to hold the same amount of cars, you'd have the same amount of stealing going off. Sadly when you have well-advertised shows (Bug Jam, Classic Ford, Japfest etc) then to some it's an advert that there's going to be a load of Splitties / Mk2 Escorts / Evos in a field, with drunk people around looking after them. All you can do is the same as outside the supermarket - lock it, alarm it, don't leave stuff on display. Sad but welcome to modern life
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Jul 18, 2006 12:19:18 GMT
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Hence why friends and I more often prefer to attend vehicle shows that are usually part of a local village fete/regata/flower show etc.
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Jul 18, 2006 14:00:07 GMT
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Clear rear lenses were a favourite to go missing at Mini shows a while back I`ve heard of grilles going as well ...
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It does suck.
I never had any of my stuff nicked at a show, which is pretty good. But I tend to stick to more minority style shows and events. Also tend to go to the ones where they exclude modern / hatch / FWD stuff. OK, not everyone driving a '60s yank is honest but you do see a lot less of it there it seems.
Although some guy had a chrome bug catcher nicked off his car at a hot rod event a while back I recall.
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