What I've seen in the last 3 years while showing my truck is that guys who build a "show car" will trailer it for about a year and then start driving it to local venues. If they have to go more than 100miles, they trailer it again, while I don't agree with this appraoch, I understand it. Some of these cars have a nicer undercarriage than the hood of my truck.

While I would love to drive the most neck turning car at the show, I would not want to keep it clean like it deserves. I've helped take care of some cars with completely chromed out undercarriages, and being under them for 4-6 hours gets old quick.

:rofl: ......

nice jayr.......thats good stuff

tom

I LOVE THE ANALOGY!!

Well... and also the cars... (and trucks too! Roger):bow:

"can probably run circles around most Lambos, Ferraris and Porsches."
And weres the proof of that?? The Countach, Dino or a 70's Porsche? i hope

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If I lived next to Hugh Hefner, I think I might be occupied with a different kind of body construction going on. I think Roy Pigford is probably the only one, in recent years memory, that probably came closest to building his own car that won the SMOY. The guy that drove the F-Bird finalist all around town during the event, should be applauded. I'm really not worried about if a car meets certain state requirements for being " legal" street worthy, as many have pointed out, they vary state by state. If part of the overall decision on the winner, is how the do in the auto-cross, why not bring them to the drag strip and see how they do in the 1/8 mile drag ? Perhaps, we need to start from the beginning, and define, "What is a real Street Machine". If you attend many local shows, I'm sure you will see a lot of different interpretations of this definition.

Now we're talking "pump gas drags"... or Drag week...

Personally I think it's enough that they even fire these bad boys up - and do the autocross! That's impressive given the effort$ that are put into these super quality cars...

I'm so thankful that guys build them - so I have something to drool over...

EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Yes we do have real big ones. Inspections stickers too:D

It's Good Guys' show and their award so they get to define what a street machine is and how it's judged. Start your own show and award and when people come from all over the Country to shoot for your award, you can make them jump through any hoop you want and award them based on any criteria you want. Besides that, the industry trends are P-T type cars like this site is all about so an autocross is extremely relevant not to mention the logistics of dragging everyone to the drags and alienating the paying audience who are at the fairgrounds.

well said.

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If we are to discuss logistics, why not move the whole event to the middle of the country, say Kansas City, so that people in the south and western part of the country, wouldn't have to drive 3000 mi to get there. It seems the odds are in favor of people in the norteastern part of the country, for such a national event. We may have some different results. As far as the drag race issue, I brought it up to illustrate that you shouldn't to have to do any performance events to qualify, other than fire them up and drive them into the gate. What if the owner feels uncomfortable doing these manuevers, or isn't as good of a racer as some of the other guys, or God forbid, loses control of his car and crashes? Does that make his car less worthy of consideration? It is after all a CAR SHOW, the race part of the event is held a few miles up the road.