Jngrbrdman
09-22-2003, 01:00 AM
EricZ, SlackerQX4, and myself have spent the last several weeks promoting and planning for a different kind of car show. Being Autopians, we have been more than sickened at local car shows when the winners have swirled cars or less than Autopian standard appearances. We decided that it would be cool if we had a car show where the modification of the car was cool and everything, but it was how clean the car was that mattered. Not a dental-mirror-white-glove kind of car show, but one that would seperate the Autopians from the rest of the pack.
We had a little mini-meet back in August and the planning started then. We booked a place at a park on the east side of the city that is very well known. We didn`t use anything but the parking space, but we had plenty of grass and shade where people could relax and toss a football or whatever they wanted to do. It was a good thing we had the amount of parking that we did because we filled it. Between EricZ and his friends passing out flyers at the University of Utah parking lot, and also promoting on several message boards, we had a pretty incredible turnout. I counted over 35 cars at one point. We had several people arrive late and missed registration to be judged, but they popped the hoods and showed off their work anyway. Wash Me even came out to it all the way from Boise. He had been in Vegas the morning of and shined up the car right before he arrived. You wouldn`t have been able to tell that car had just come off a near 1000 mile road trip. He would have placed for sure. He was a real credit to Autopia. :bigups
I discovered halfway through the event that I had a fingerprint on the lense of my camera so some of the pictures have a sort of celestial glow to them. :rolleyes: There were more people than me taking pictures and I just need to get them in an album so you can see the cars that were there. They did a really good job shining them up, I can say that.
There was a really high German car presence with all the VWs and BMWs that were there. The imports were represented by a few Integras, S2Ks, and even a brand spanking new WRX STi (a week and a half old). The only domestics present were a yellow Cobra and a Chevy pickup truck. Everything else were Japanese or German. The awards went like this: 1st: 2001 Integra 2nd: 2000 New Beetle 3rd: 1997 BMW M3 We had 3 Honorable Mentions to a 1991 VW GTI, a 2002 VW 337, and the 1982 Chevy C-10 pickup. They were all just really good examples of Autopian style detailing. That 337 didn`t have a swirl on it and it was an AutoX car. It was so sterile you could eat off of it. They were very nice. It was tough deciding on winners.
Awards included a great goodie basket that Jennifer laid out containing supplies sent by David. It was hard giving awards of cleaning supplies to people with already immaculate cars, but I think that what we gave them will help make their cars look even better for next year. I`ve been talking with an organizer of another annual show and we will most likely be combining the event next year together. Hopefully we can make the Auotpia Car Show an annual event and create more Autopians out here in the mountains. From the looks of the cars out here I`d say we need them. :) A huge thanks to David for helping out with this event and to everybody who came and helped out and participated. It was a great success I think.
Here is a sort of pasted together panoramic view of the event. We had a lot of traffic from people just walking through the park on their way to other gatherings stop by. Cars were lined up on both sides of the one way street. :)
We had a little mini-meet back in August and the planning started then. We booked a place at a park on the east side of the city that is very well known. We didn`t use anything but the parking space, but we had plenty of grass and shade where people could relax and toss a football or whatever they wanted to do. It was a good thing we had the amount of parking that we did because we filled it. Between EricZ and his friends passing out flyers at the University of Utah parking lot, and also promoting on several message boards, we had a pretty incredible turnout. I counted over 35 cars at one point. We had several people arrive late and missed registration to be judged, but they popped the hoods and showed off their work anyway. Wash Me even came out to it all the way from Boise. He had been in Vegas the morning of and shined up the car right before he arrived. You wouldn`t have been able to tell that car had just come off a near 1000 mile road trip. He would have placed for sure. He was a real credit to Autopia. :bigups
I discovered halfway through the event that I had a fingerprint on the lense of my camera so some of the pictures have a sort of celestial glow to them. :rolleyes: There were more people than me taking pictures and I just need to get them in an album so you can see the cars that were there. They did a really good job shining them up, I can say that.
There was a really high German car presence with all the VWs and BMWs that were there. The imports were represented by a few Integras, S2Ks, and even a brand spanking new WRX STi (a week and a half old). The only domestics present were a yellow Cobra and a Chevy pickup truck. Everything else were Japanese or German. The awards went like this: 1st: 2001 Integra 2nd: 2000 New Beetle 3rd: 1997 BMW M3 We had 3 Honorable Mentions to a 1991 VW GTI, a 2002 VW 337, and the 1982 Chevy C-10 pickup. They were all just really good examples of Autopian style detailing. That 337 didn`t have a swirl on it and it was an AutoX car. It was so sterile you could eat off of it. They were very nice. It was tough deciding on winners.
Awards included a great goodie basket that Jennifer laid out containing supplies sent by David. It was hard giving awards of cleaning supplies to people with already immaculate cars, but I think that what we gave them will help make their cars look even better for next year. I`ve been talking with an organizer of another annual show and we will most likely be combining the event next year together. Hopefully we can make the Auotpia Car Show an annual event and create more Autopians out here in the mountains. From the looks of the cars out here I`d say we need them. :) A huge thanks to David for helping out with this event and to everybody who came and helped out and participated. It was a great success I think.
Here is a sort of pasted together panoramic view of the event. We had a lot of traffic from people just walking through the park on their way to other gatherings stop by. Cars were lined up on both sides of the one way street. :)