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Sad that these cars have just become something you see once or maybe twice a year… rolled off a trailer, and into a spot to just sit. Boring.
 
440 PHIXX said:
Sad that these cars have just become something you see once or maybe twice a year… rolled off a trailer, and into a spot to just sit. Boring.
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To each his own respectfully, but this black cat loiters and disrupts the mean streets of New York every chance that I can get.
Imagine if like the old days of Indoor Drag Racing that by coincidence, happened in Chicago, would be introduced to this show. 100' foot drags, exhaust fume removal filtering systems, barriers etc. It would be bananas to say the least.
 
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To each his own respectfully, but this black cat loiters and disrupts the mean streets of New York every chance that I can get.
Imaging if like the old days of Indoor Drag Racing that by coincidence, happened in Chicago, would be introduced to this show. 100' foot drags, exhaust fume removal filtering systems, barriers etc. It would be bananas to say the least.
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And loud lol
 
RemCharger said:
And loud lol
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Yes, bring the noise of the cars of loud and proud people.
In fact, there were huge coffee table books on the subject of Indoor Drag Racing in Chicago that were on sale right beside my booth. 100 limited edition copies, signed and numbered by Gene Devening and Howard Crull.. I chose copy #99 for some reason and perhaps because it's the closest to A990.

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fullmetaljacket said:
Yes, bring the noise of the cars of loud and proud people.
In fact, there were huge coffee table books on the subject of Indoor Drag Racing in Chicago that were on sale right beside my booth. 100 limited edition copies, signed and numbered by Gene Devening and Howard Crull.. I chose copy #99 for some reason and perhaps because it's the closest to A990.

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Yes I would have loved to be there..

Side note; is there any way to find out what that black hemicuda from Saskatchewan won?
 
RemCharger said:
Yes I would have loved to be there..

Side note; is there any way to find out what that black hemicuda from Saskatchewan won?
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I’m not aware of a list of winners on MCACNs website, though it’s not something I’ve dug around it looking for.
Even hearing the awards presentation Sunday, it’s not very clear who won what, unless you know the name of an owner.
The announcement will be something like- here are the OE Gold winners, Bob Johnson for a 71 Corvette, Al Jones for a 65 Pontiac, John Smith for a 70 cuda, etc. So unless you know a car owners name, you don’t know which of the 71 Corvettes, 65 Pontiacs or 70 cudas got that award.
So you’d need to know who owns that cuda to ask him if or what he won.
Not every car there gets judged. An owner has to register and pay extra to get judged when he signed up earlier in the year. Other than some celebrity and sponsor picks. There is an also a limit to how many cars at the show can get judged, due to time and number of judges resources.
 
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XS22J8R said:
I’m not aware of a list of winners on MCACNs website, though it’s not something I’ve dug around it looking for.
Even hearing the awards presentation Sunday, it’s not very clear who won what, unless you know the name of an order.
The announcement will be something like- here are the OE Gold winners, Bob Johnson for a 71 Corvette, Al Jones for a 65 Pontiac, John Smith for a 70 cuda, etc. So unless you know a car owners name, you don’t know which of the 71 Corvettes, 65 Pontiacs or 70 cudas got that award.
So you’d need to know who owns that cuda to ask him if or what he won.
Not every car there gets judged. An owner has to register and pay extra to get judged when he signed up earlier in the year. Other than some celebrity and sponsor picks. There is an also a limit to how many cars at the show can get judged, due to time and number of judges resources.
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Ok thanks! I had heard it won " best detailed" or something like that, I'll have to ask the body guys. They do some extremely high end work.
 
For the record, unexpectedly my black car won the B-body Super Street Modified award. I was surprised to say the least when the name and car were summoned to the stage. I was content enough just to be flanked by a sea of A990's.

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Transparently, my celebrity plus award pick went to a beautiful '61 Chevrolet 2 door sedan 409 4-speed Biscayne in Tuxedo black. The car stuck in my mind for a long minute and throughout the show after they were being dismounted from the rigs on Thursday morning at 6:00 AM.
A very close second was JP's exceptional day two '62 Dodge Max Wedge T-85 car. Both here. First photo credit: RMCRGR.

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fullmetaljacket said:
For the record, unexpectedly my black car won the B-body Super Street Modified award. I was surprised to say the least when the name and car were summoned to the stage. I was content enough just to be flanked by a sea of A990's.

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Nice Job! I won the Day 2 A990 Award, hell i didn't even know my A990 was going to be Judged...
 
fullmetaljacket said:
Transparently, my celebrity plus award pick went to a beautiful '61 Chevrolet 2 door sedan 409 4-speed Biscayne in Tuxedo black. The car stuck in my mind for a long minute and throughout the show after they were being dismounted from the rigs on Thursday morning at 6:00 AM.
A very close second was DP's exceptional day two '62 Dodge Max Wedge T-85 car. Both here. First photo credit: RMCRGR.

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FMJ good pick on that Biscayne. Loved that car!!! My second favorite car at the show though!! LOL.

Great to have met and seen you guys there!!
 
My friend, Pete Jr., inquired about entering his (Dad's) car in the show, this year, but was told that it was already filled. The organizers told him that they would be happy to include it next year, however. The car is a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass W-30 2-door hardtop that Pete Sr. bought new at Central Chev/Olds in London, Ontario. Pete Sr. used to race it locally as a C/SA car, and it has only about 25,000 miles on it. Pete Jr. recently had the original red paint and black vinyl top and interior detailed, and it looks like a new car. Hopefully, he will have it there next year.
Note: SpellCheck changed "Cutlass" to "Gutless". Hilarious!
 
fullmetaljacket said:
Same here. I didn't know my car was in the judging gauntlet. I was just ecstatic to be amongst you guys and the 990's.
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The judge guy was goofy. He did not understand what the car was about at all even though he was told repeatedly it was a clone/tribute to the original factory race cars. Saying stuff like "where are the inner fender splash shields" and "there's a small dent in the quarter, that's points off" was funny. Guy was just clueless treating it like some sort of stock restoration. Never mind the 28x10 Hoosier tires on the rear or the mostly spartan interior...

At one point he was staring at some girl like a total perv... it was weird.
 
I registered for OE judging of my T/A in 2018, and since I work the show I was not with my car all day. The judges were supposed to call me when they got to my car so I could come over and open doors and the trunk etc. I was sitting at my station all day stressing out awaiting the call and afraid I’d miss it with all the noise in the building.
I never got called, and when I was leaving Saturday evening I asked what was happening and told the judging was behind and they’d do my car Sunday AM. I arrived at 8 am and the team was at my car. As I recall the Mopar guys weren’t there so the judges were mostly corvette guys! Well I ended up with 986 points and got an OE gold.
A few years later I had the car back in the show in the T/A AAR feature MCACN had, and I got a celebrity honorary Mr Norms pick since my car was one of the cars there sold at Grand Spaulding.
That’s good enough for me as far as national show level judging. I’ve been there done that and don’t aspire to winning any more trophies or plaques!
Watching the awards last week was sort of a dog and pony show. One guy won about a half dozen OE gold awards for all the cars he had entered. He was trying to figure out how to carry them away afterwards and they found him a cart. He was stacking them on the cart and several fell off, at least one trophy fell out of its box onto the concrete floor. Amazingly I don’t think it broke!
I’m just not feeling it when it comes to awards anymore!
 
The funny thing is as it was said before, I wasn't expecting anything other than a great experience and yes the show delivered just as I suspected. This show is top tier as far as the odd cars are concerned amongst the usual suspect cars we all love, be it Buicks, Olds, Poncho's, Blu-Ovals, Americans and of course (V)OPARS. Leave the best for last. LOL.

In the circle of factory fire breathers, I was honored to be flanked by all these cars of yore.

When it came to the judge, I thought that they were first just jotting down facts on the car, not a contest per se, because it is one of one and as far as my registration form indicated, it wasn't there to be judged in the first place, just a special featured car.
As far as I'm concerned, I had no dog in those judged fights, the car is a different animal, Period!
In fact I thought of the car as an enigma tossed in the cracks for conversations, and conversations it did garner.

Either way, it started to take an interesting turn when it was brought up that points were being deleted because four minute dents and various missing parts. At that point, it was explained to him that all three minor dents except for one, were battle scars related to its past usage at the haunts and intentionally left as witness marks. I would compare this with a barn find or survivor that retains its years of dirt, dents, scratches and even rust in all the right places. LOL.

I wasn't at all annoyed by the points being slashed, what was playfully disagreeable in the conversation was that the car was documented as missing parts such as inner wheel well splash guards among other items. We explained that those deletes were intentional just as the A990's had surrounding us. I was trying to school him on the factories deliberate deletions in favor of weight loss and wasn't at all for the reasons of regaining points, just educational.
Nevertheless, it was an amazing experience.

While these amazing originals represented how they exited the assembly lines or competed at the tracks in fighting form, this one car was a battle hardened street version grudging it out on the China rock concrete, period!


That being said, we had the time of our lives and we reconnected with many an interesting characters including some REAL street grudge friends of mine that are infamous for some REAL quick set-ups and I mean, REAL QUICK!

Brown Sugar or Shawanda ring a bell to anyone?

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