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Old 08-16-2009, 08:49 PM
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Default Another Car Show, Another 50/50, Another Plaque!

I'm going to have to start playing 50/50 everywhere or something. After winning it once at the last car show I went to (there's a thread here somewhere), I won AGAIN today. This time was a bit less, $116... but more than I went with.

Anyway, decent turn out. Probably somewhere near 150 cars (didn't get an official count). Lots of variety but definitely a bit more "tuner" focused - not intentionally - but turned out that way. There was actually another tC there too - but uh... I wasn't a fan of most of his mods. Neon, chrome, etc.

I won an "Award of Excellence" for the Asian Mild class. Basically they do a "Best of Class" for 1st place and then a few of the Excellence awards for 2nd, 3rd... sometimes 4th. Whatever they feel like, I guess. So that makes two shows and two trophies this year (as well as another 50/50... haha).

So, the pics...

Full Album: http://www.allankintz.com/photo-albu...s-to-classics/

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My very poor attempt at an HDR image from my point and shoot digital.











Hehe...


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last car is beautiful
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Digging that red truck that was parked next to you.
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Ya, it was really clean. A little while later I had to move over a little bit and a "mini truck" was parked between us. He won his class. Not bad looking. Lots of custom work.
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Tastefully done tc. Looks good!
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Congrats man, cars looking clean as always.
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Appreciate the words guys... thanks.

Sadly I only have one other show on my calendar for this year. Better start looking for more.
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Oh man... almost forgot one of my favs from the whole show...





I just have to ask though... WHY would someone bring something like that to a show? I realize it is probably a work in progress... but damn.
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I hope the "progress" is undoing what's been done.
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What has been seen cannot be unseen...

Here's another good one. This was a super clean VW. There are just a couple more pics of it on my site.

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scary ghosts in the first pic!
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Originally Posted by ack154
Oh man... almost forgot one of my favs from the whole show...





I just have to ask though... WHY would someone bring something like that to a show? I realize it is probably a work in progress... but damn.
Is the car next to it just primered? It looks just as hideous.
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I think it is... there were others as well.
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And this is why I don't go to car shows.
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I went to high school with a guy who had a civic hatchback that was just primered that was like a 95' and he always told me he wanted to race me and would brag about the extra 2 horsepower he got because he took out his air conditioning. I would always just laugh at him while i cranked my ac. This was when I drove my 04' Saab 9-3. He ragged on my turbo all the time too.
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I think the 240 was trying to go for a Bosuzoku-style look such as this:
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And even if he was trying to do that, aside from the front bumper, the rest of the car is FAIL!

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Why would anyone ever go to a car show with a POS like that? I don't understand it.
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