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What will happen to the green octopus that’s been around forever? Hopefully someone takes good care off them…
Gunner wrote:Did anyone else, besides me, question the “long distance award” or “who drove the greatest distance to get to this show” award. Did I hear correctly that it went to someone who claimed to have driven from Colorado? I don’t know how they did it, but they must of been hauling a** to get from Colorado to Pardeeville in a reasonable amount of time.Come on here, let’s get real. Nobody wakes up at dark thirty and drives from Colorado to Pardeeville to attend the car show.
If this is a Pardeeville award, maybe that one needs to be reworked because I know we had cars and trucks from Iowa and Illinois and Michigan and Minnesota that actually got up at dark thirty and drove to the Pardeeville Car Show. In all fairness, this could have been a “Wisconsin Hot Rod Radio” award and the winner picked by the DJ’s.
Yes, I was standing there when several questioned the long distance winner traveling from New Jersey (I think) for the show. Come on, there is no way one got up Saturday morning and decided to drive to Wisconsin for a car show… more thought needs to be put into this. Heck I was up at o’dark thirty and felt like I was late at 7:30 (when the gates aren’t supposed to open until
Dogs.. I don’t mind seeing them as long as the owners remember they need to take care of them. I can’t imagine walking around on hot blacktop when it’s 90 is fun for anyone, let alone all the people.. days like that, leave them home.
I’ve also seen this several times, we normally bring a cooler full of water & ice, never thinking twice about it. There is no way to enforce something like this – Saturday I saw groups with tables full of food & beverages. I understand the groups selling make money too and rely on others to purchase – but keep the prices affordable and it may make a difference. Charging $1 for a can or soda or small bag of chips they more than likely bought in bulk is making a pretty penny.
As most of you know, Steve & I have judged the Corvettes for years now. I won’t rate the show, but will add they had well over 1000 cars this year, which is truly amazing. With a show that big, you will have problems, and they did. People were lined up at 5 a.m. to get in, on a state highway, which isn’t good. We rolled in around 7:30 and were shocked to see half the park full already and several spots “saved” for bigger groups or some special reason, I heard several say they didn’t appreciate that. The line to register was really long all morning – hats off to the registration workers that tried to keep that moving. Overheating cars was a big issue this year, I second that you pay at the gate and register yourself once inside – I’ve always thought it was unfair of someone who knows zilch about my car to tell me what class I should be in, and if one has lots of questions that only holds up the line and causes more problems. All in all, so many cars to see – this show brings them all out, several we don’t see all year long and several from other states. I did feel bad for the group that came from Iowa and didn’t get recognized for long distance.. that award should go to the person that drives the longest THAT DAY, not that week. There is no way someone came from Colorado or New Jersey just for the show and drove yesterday morning.
There is always work to be done on a show this size, Vicki and her crew will work on that – guaranteed!
Spring Green is always a good show, love the drive out in the morning. It’s got to be difficult to keep everyone happy with a show this size, there are still a few businesses in town that don’t realize what a gold mine it is to have 500+ cars (and their owners and the spectators) in town for the day, but that will probably always be a problem.
I didn’t attend this year, but would like to thank Todd Newton and everyone that supports Todd in putting on a great show for many years! Hopefully the next group can do a great job, they’ve had a great teacher!
Close.. haven’t seen this one around Sun Prairie, but we all know there are plenty of vehicles in garages and barns that never see light
Thanks, just got the flyer in the mail – normally they advertise long before this. Always a good show, love the location
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We did see a Camaro based Trans Am cruising around at Automotion. It looked pretty cool, I’m sure it was someone’s kit car?
