Hearing your story about Corvette owners gave me a smile and a story to share . Twenty years ago I was involved with a group of Street Rodders and we would hold a annual car show , each year it got larger and larger and our last year we had over 600 cars there . There was a $20.00 entry fee and each driver would get a goodie bag filled with items donated by local businesses , two free tickets for a
barbecue lunch , door prizes , and free judging and trophies for classes . The last year I was contacted by a guy who had a local corvette club and asked if he got his members to attend the event would we waver the $ 20.00 entry fee so visitors could see the high level corvettes on display . I said no but they would still be welcome , he then asked if we had a Corvettes only class for judging .
I said not currently but if he brought at least 10 cars we would have one ( I would just need to buy an additional trophy ) . During the day of the show 9 of the club members showed up . We had 3 regulars who drove Corvettes so we had a total of 12 to judge . During the registration several of these drivers were upset that they had to pay the registration fee but agreed if we found them an area where
they could park together and still be on the main walkway . After getting some Rodders to move their cars to help us out , we satisfied them . We had a D. J. who played mostly 50's and 60's music because of the age of the car owners . We received one complaint on the music and two complaints on the lunch . You guesses it the Corvette guys . We used 4 judges who would also judge local " World
Of Wheels " shows , so they were very good . After the Corvettes were judged the leader came up to me furious because there was only one class . He yelled that there needed to be at least 4 different model classes and trophies needed to be give to the top three in each class . Luckily I had ordered extra trophies in case of any disagreements with the judging .
Yes every Corvette there got a trophy . At the end of the day as everyone was leaving and thanking us for the event one of the Corvette guys stopped and took the time to come over and tell me that this was the worst event he had ever attended . There is no way in hell I would do a Corvette car show .