Lousy show in Jersey today.

NJRR · Sep 25, 2016

I was very disappointed in my local show today. For the last few years I have been bringing my 70 RR to our local show sponsored by the Lions Club, all proceeds going to charity. Usually they advertise a few months before online and then post signs all over town at least a month before. In August I looked for the date online. Found nothing. Never saw a sign posted around town. This morning around 11, I was dropping my daughter off somewhere and saw signs for Car Show with an arrow. Nothing else. I went to the shopping center where they always held the show and sure enough, it was on. We have always had at least a 100 cars there. Today, 25-30 cars tops. I didn't even bring my car cause it was already after 1:00. Very sad that a charity organization drops the ball so poorly. There were 3 Mopars there. The 70 FC7 Cuda won its category. A real beauty, matching numbers 426/4 speed. Also there was a nice 73 Charger and a Coronet 440, I think a 67. Here's the pics.

Pops1967GTX · Sep 25, 2016

where in NJ ?

NJRR · Sep 25, 2016

Pops1967GTX said:
where in NJ ?

Closter. Right over the Rockland Border.

Pops1967GTX · Sep 25, 2016

That's not that far ... I'll go next year....

dual fours · Sep 25, 2016

This one. http://www.rubberhitstheroad.info/car-shows-by-area/car-shows-in-bergen-county-new-jersey
I would contact the 'Head Lion' a see why not much advertising was visible as before.

WileERobby · Sep 25, 2016

Not surprised. I've noticed a lot of "non-promotion" for cruises & shows, as if they have no clue how to do it. I found out about one while reading a local paper in my barbershop recently, while nobody I knew had any knowledge of it whatsoever.

Bb70charger500 · Sep 25, 2016

Cool charger thanks for sharing the crusins are falling off here we used to get 200-230 cars last month we had 88-90 ish show could be the weather tough!

snakeoil24 · Sep 26, 2016

NJRR sounds like a good time for you to take charge of the show.

NJRR · Sep 26, 2016

snakeoil24 said:
NJRR sounds like a good time for you to take charge of the show.

Snakeoil- If I had the time I would consider it. My point was, if you are going to take something on, do it right. Especially when other people are giving up their time to participate.

NJRR · Sep 26, 2016

dual fours said:
This one. http://www.rubberhitstheroad.info/car-shows-by-area/car-shows-in-bergen-county-new-jersey
I would contact the 'Head Lion' a see why not much advertising was visible as before.

Thanks for that link. Never saw it before. I searched it and the show wasn't listed there either.

snakeoil24 · Sep 26, 2016

NJRR said:
Snakeoil- If I had the time I would consider it. My point was, if you are going to take something on, do it right. Especially when other people are giving up their time to participate.

Agree completely sounds like they could use your knowledge

dual fours · Sep 26, 2016

NJRR said:
Thanks for that link. Never saw it before. I searched it and the show wasn't listed there either.

NJRR I'm not nit picking with you, just feed back, just that the show was listed at the time I posted, and had all the information with the lions email there also. I also hate to find out about a show after the fact.
Right now at my location there is a big sign in red letters on the Fairgrounds fence "CAR SHOW HERE". :wtf:

EDIT: Now the sign shows this, "CAT SHOW SATURDAY".

NJRR · Sep 26, 2016

dual fours said:
NJRR I'm not nit picking with you, just feed back, just that the show was listed at the time I posted, and had all the information with the lions email there also. I also hate to find out about a show after the fact.
Right now at my location there is a big sign in red letters on the Fairgrounds fence "CAR SHOW HERE".

Dual Fours- That website is great and I found some shows listed locally that I didn't know about. There was a search function where you can enter the date and zip for shows and I entered yesterday's date and my zip. Some different shows came up, but not the one in my town. That's why I wrote that it wasn't listed.

Kern Dog · Sep 29, 2016

WileERobby said:
Not surprised. I've noticed a lot of "non-promotion" for cruises & shows, as if they have no clue how to do it. I found out about one while reading a local paper in my barbershop recently, while nobody I knew had any knowledge of it whatsoever.

That sucks, man. Shows usually rely on volunteers to get the word out. Few organizations can afford to buy radio or TV time to reach a huge audience. Posting up flyers around town and putting the word out online is the norm. Again, from my experience, nobody ever gets paid to do any of it. There is the problem: FREE help is sometimes worth exactly that.

Budnicks · Oct 10, 2016

Too bad, the cars you showed were nice,
some smaller cars shows are sometimes a nice change...

Maybe next year, it'll get the proper exposure...

thanks for sharing anyway...

Lousy show in Jersey today.

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