Well here we are the first part of summer and I was able to go to my 1st Carshow and this one was usually fairly small but this year instead of about 80 entries there was about 197 entries. Needless to say I didn't get get any awards.
But I got a few after show pictures.

 

Definitely a bit jealous- just as your car show season is kicking into high gear, ours is coming to an end

Your car is looking super clean!

 

Thank you!
I can imagine because of the Summer heat.after College Graduation in 2009 my son and his fiance moved to Phoenix, Az. We were traveling to that area with a Penske Truck and cars getting them moved. Last night was in Flagstaff he was giving me some static because of the way I was dressed Jeans and a T-shirt he told me it was well over a 100 down there and I would be over dressed, I said I will be fine.
When we arrived his wife said to me who had been riding with my wife, that she didn't think the brake lights were working on the Trailer that had his Monte Carlo on it. or the lights on the truck too.
I said probably not I never touched them, the truck was a manual. But then you could have fried an egg on the black top in the apartment complex.
My son and his Father in law had tried to unhook the trailer and chains and were getting burned. Shorts and a T will do that, I took one of the furniture pads and laid it out and put my gloves on and the jeans protected me too. Got it unhooked and all was well. later I changed into some cooler.
It was a fun trip we went there a few times even to the Race.
He is back up here now, and our humidity here is challenging. haha

 

Hi Dean, you have your girl tucked away in a storage unit all winter? Can't go wrong doing that for sure. You do anything about mice getting in or do you not have a problem with them. My storage is perhaps 30 ft away from a drainage ditch and the associated overgrowth. Fn mice all the time. Didn't know if you take precautions against mice. Hear stories of car wires and rodents having a go at them.

190 + entries versus the normal 80, yikes, that does widen the odds of pulling a win. You kill me in that you take full advantage of being retired and attending a rather fair number of car shows. Need to emulate you, get the Monte out and about. Think in the past 5 years maybe 2 car shows and perhaps 300 miles. Sometimes it seems like a forgotten dream with it living under a car cover, rarely ever drive it like I used to, walk right by it, pay it no attention. How many awards have you taken home, seems like you win a fair number of times.

Your car for it's age is in awesome condition, hard to estimate its that far from new. You have done well with it, staying on top of the issues before they become ISSUES, good pmcs habits.

Really like the rare 5 spoke Earnhardt finish wheels, look sweet, fresh look, are they 17"? What size tires are you running, stock width or ? I'm having a hard time finding wide 16" tires, thinking of jumping up to 17's or 18"s.

 

Dean, you have your girl tucked away in a storage unit all winter? Can't go wrong doing that for sure. You do anything about mice getting in or do you not have a problem with them. My storage is perhaps 30 ft away from a drainage ditch and the associated overgrowth. Fn mice all the time. Didn't know if you take precautions against mice. Hear stories of car wires and rodents having a go at them.

Well my daughter offered to let me use her Garage so I moved and then we went to Texas for a couple of months and she asked if I would move it to my house while my grandson was home on break. She said she would move it back. I said no just leave it.
While I had it stored at her place, someone opened the glove box and didn't get it closed and the car battery was dead. so I asked her if she wanted me to leave for the summer and I went and rented a new place. Women are nosy and they live to snoop in the Glovebox or console. As fragile as the console lids are on these I didn't want to have it get broken. Or have them want to Test drive it and get hit.
Some people regard a Car as a tool and they treat it that way, I don't!! Lol
My daughters garage was a dirty place for a newly built house, my car was filthy there. I did get some stuff for mice a few years ago and it works great it is a repellent. Smells good but mice hate it.


Get this it works! I use it in the basement and crawl space the garage and I don't have mice any longer, I can't find the droppings any more.

190 + entries versus the normal 80, yikes, that does widen the odds of pulling a win. You kill me in that you take full advantage of being retired and attending a rather fair number of car shows. Need to emulate you, get the Monte out and about. Think in the past 5 years maybe 2 car shows and perhaps 300 miles. Sometimes it seems like a forgotten dream with it living under a car cover, rarely ever drive it like I used to, walk right by it, pay it no attention. How many awards have you taken home, seems like you win a fair number of times.

I try to get to about 12 a year I used to win something like at least 8 awards but then things changed some the Categories got broader I think and then the carshow people started to hire out of state Judges to Judge the cars and all they know is a checklist, if you would ask them some about a Car they wouldn't know
So sometimes the category will be 1988 thru 2006, you can't use a check list for that but they do and Paint is the first thing so if you have a mid-90's daily driver and go up against a newer car you score will be low. That is wrong! similar to racing you should get a car link for slower qualifying time. Last year I went to 4 carshows and I got only 2 awards. One was with the Blazer. Another I got a 3rd place but have never gotten the Trophy, they never called my name at the show and then listed the winners on Facebook and it showed I was a winner, they said they would get me the award but I am not holding my breath.

Your car for it's age is in awesome condition, hard to estimate its that far from new. You have done well with it, staying on top of the issues before they become ISSUES, good pmcs habits.
It has like 200K on it all but 35k was from me driving it. last year I put new brakes on it and tie rod ends. and it works good now!

Really like the rare 5 spoke Earnhardt finish wheels, look sweet, fresh look, are they 17"? What size tires are you running, stock width or ? I'm having a hard time finding wide 16" tires, thinking of jumping up to 17's or 18"s
they are 17s with 235/55/zr17s that is what was on the Salvage yard Dale Jr car, 3 of them cost me 132.00 and I bought a wheel online at 175.00 and I got a matching close out tire for 50.00 for it so not to bad a deal. had to work for it at 79 at that time.