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Originally Posted by Three Peaks
We have a very large show here in the summertime every Wednesday night sponsored by Beaches Restaurant at PIR. Most of the time there are anywhere from 1200 - 1700 cars/trucks there on any given night.
You can tell "most" of the Cobras there are driven daily and aren't as detailed as some of the cars. Most of the guys in our club are drivers- in fact, they seldom stay around for the whole show- preferring to go for a drive than sit around at the show.
There is one Everett Morrison owner who refuses to park next to the rest of the Cobras. He likes to talk about his $15K paint job and his $20K engine and all that, but ask him about driving the car or tracking it and you quickly learn he only takes it out to trailer it to shows and drives it very little for fear of damaging the paint or getting the engine dirty.
At the same show I saw a completely worn out 289 slabside last year. The seats were complete cracked and broken down, the engine compartment was dirty, the body had tons of "patina"- in other words it had been driven hard and put away wet. Turned out it was the only original CSX 2000 series car at the show and he is a regular. Great guy to talk to as he bought the car new in '68 and just drove the piss out of it this whole time. I think he said he has something like 200,000 miles on it.....
Bob
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I plan on attending a few of the Beaches events. I tried to go to a couple last year but each one was rained out. I'll be bringing my 'new to me' FFR mkII and it will be the first car show that I've ever brought a car to. I'm pretty excited. I'll probably wash my car and vacuum it out...that's about it though.