Re: What's Your Opinion?

Posted by Wayne on July 19, 2003 at 22:23:52 from (64.12.96.236):

In Reply to: What's Your Opinion? posted by K-Mo on July 19, 2003 at 18:48:00:

I don't show any tractors, but I used to show my 55Chevy 2 door 210 wagon at local shows. It was a daily driver but it still looked really good. I could spend all day before a show cleaning and polishing, and still never win anything in the way of an award. That didn't matter though because it wasn't the awards I was there for, I just enjoyed being around others that had a love of old cars and enjoyed all the fellowship. If a show has awards, so what, that's no reason not to enter anyway. If nothing else having awards voted for by the crowd promotes audience participation and lets even those without a tractor entered get involved. What better way to get others involved with restoring old equipment than giving them the oportunity to really look at what's out there and letting them decide what they like? Heck, I used to go to shows and vote for others cars even when mine was entered because I liked what they had, and who knows, they may have voted for mine as well... I've seen cars win awards that were bone stock, and ugly as heck, and I've seen others that didn't have one stock part on them win and were beautiful, and vice-a versa. Either way the award was for the attention to detail, the labor of love somebody made by working on that particular vehicle. Like I said stock or modified, everybody has their own idea of what beauty is, and what's the harm in awarding their efforts? So what if your stock, fresh out of the field, baby doesn't win and somebody else with a fully chromed "whatever" that never leaves the fully carped, climate controlled trailer except to pull out for a show does... WHO CARES your all there for the same reason, a love of old equipment. In the end that's all that matters.
So, go to the show, enter your tractor, and have a good time. Talk to the kids that come up and tell them that yes you use your tractor, that they don't build them like this anymore. Who knows, maybe that kid will get the fever and one of these days will design another tractor that will last as long as the old ones do, and we'll all be better off. Menwhile other guy may walk away with a trophy that will do nothing but set on a shelf and collect dust, but in the end when your able drive your baby out in the field and put her to work and get her dusty and dirty, that's when you know who has the REAL trophy.
Just my .02+

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