OT, Talk about friendly and help people

I have two old mustangs along with three tractors. I belong to several mustang groups. The thing that gets me though is how the car guys are just not as helpful as the tractor guys. I have asked question many of times on the car groups and never get an answer. I ask the same question on here (off topic) and it seams everyone gives in. Thanks to all of you guys. It always feels like I get a good answer here. I just don't understand why the car guys are so stuck up. I think they put there jeans on the same way I do.

I have always wondered the same thing. Seems like when you go to a classic car show most of them have a board up their wazoo. I imagine it might be because keeping a show car in show condition is one heck of alot of work.

different outlooks, i hang with both types of people, tractor guys are normally good ol boys, and will offer any advice they can to help or just check out your tractor, they want to see what you brought weather its shiny and restored, or just driven from the field to the show with the mud and crud still hanging from it,either extreme or somewhere in the middle is all good, car guys are pristine, they are into their car not yours, they may offer help, but only if your ride is not as good or valuable as theirs is, i have the rare pleasure of showing someone else s cars on occasion , classics, race cars, muscle cars, one of a kinds and cars so rare he has the only known one still known to exist, he's rich and he's a car guy so we have some fun, as well as a close group of us, its the ultimate deal we enjoy cars, and we dont have to pay for them, now the rub is when we get us, who are good ol boys at a show with the nose in the air types, we talk, or try to talk to folks, if somebody is being too obvious that we dont meet their social standard, leaving with a deuce roadster that was nice, and returning a couple hours later with a numbers matching all original shelby mustang gt500 kr, or a nice 63 split window corvette, or numbers matching hemi cuda, [ the original one not the new one ] usually quiets them !yeah we dont own 'em but they dont know that

I noticed the same thing. I really find car shows boring. I finished my first pickup truck project a year ago. A 1947 International KB1 pickup. The first thing I took it to was a local cruise night gathering at a restaurant. They do this cruise night twice a month in the summer. I walked around and tried to strike up conversations with other people and people acted like I was annoying them. They all gathered in there clicky groups and sat in lawn chairs. No one took a look at my pickup. I left after an hour and never went back again. I really like taking my pickup to tractor shows. The flea markets are also great. I came to the conclusion that most people who own a nicely restored car or pickup bought it that way or had it professionally done. Most tractor people are do it yourself guys. I like do it yourself people much better.

I had to laugh once. When I farmed, I had a 1948 Dodge farm truck. I'd cleaned it up, painted it, and kept it up so I could put it in an occasional parade or car show. Underneath it all, it was still a working farm truck.

Once when I was lining up for a parade, I was behind a doctor with a beautifully restored '56 Cadillac. While he was looking my truck over, I commented that I'd hauled many a load of hogs with the old gal. The good doctor was horrified at the thought of hauling hogs in a truck you'd drive in a parade.

That can go either way . Some guys will talk ,others group up in cliques in the lawn chairs. Some guys ,like the Packard guys don't talk to anyone but other Packard guys. If a guy has a really interesting car or unusual engine. I will talk and get info from him. Kind of if he likes to talk or not.

I take the family's rusty Farmall H to
the car show in the suburbs, people
love it, here it's something different

The Two Cylinder Club folks don't exact appreciate new
generation tractors parking by them at shows either (at least
in my experience). Guess they think they were made by
different manufacturers.

I have 3 model A fords. One is a 2 door sedan, one is a coupe and the other is a pickup. I used to take them to car shows but got tired of people thinking that it was ok to sit in the seat or open the hood. I do not recall anyone looking down their noses at my poor mans vehicles and I never had to worry about people talking about my cars as it seemed everyone remembered a family member who once had one.

It seems different at the tractor shows though. I noticed that the crowd seemed to hang around shiny, over painted models that never looked like that, even when new. Sure they looked nice but a little unreal to my eyes. There is a town nearby me that has a farm expo every fall and they do have some tractors that local farmers bring there. They are not restored but straight from being used on the owners farm and are displayed in their work clothes. A lot of them are Olivers and many are IH ones like 1206 or Super H or M models with other brands on display. I enjoy that event!

Been on both sides of the fence, grew up on a farm around tractors, later on got into cars, and showing them, times changed, priorities changed, and got away from the
show cars, but still enjoy the automotive hobby, just not into showing any longer. It is easy to get caught up in competing with others at shows, and literally worry
about dust on a bolt head, and I have had car show judges tell me that at times the cars are literally that close that they have to knock points off for trivial things
such as dust on a bolt head (for example). You are right that some (not all) the show car group can be snobs. And maybe it is my imagination, but it seemed like the
worst were the hard core Mustang, and Mopar muscle car guys, but I never was around the higher end stuff much, mostly GM, Ford, Chrysler stuff at shows I attended, and
muscle cars were just getting popular then, yet affordable at the time. I always preferred the professional points based judging, and those never got into a popularity
contest or a large club attending and the club filled the ballot box with their favorite or the club president.

Have you been to this forum? This is pretty much the Almighty of vintage mustang forums. Very helpful group. I have a '66 btw.



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