[JWilly]

I drive mine and I do occasional shows (2-4 per season). When we show it, We don't spend all day cleaning and detailing but my wife and I do make a good effort to make it presentable.

There is a special show near us that we do every year. We enjoy it. The first couple of years at the show when the car was in pristine condition, we won nothing (which was OK with us, no big deal). The third year we entered we took second in our class and the car was clean but certainly not pristine (road use was showing). The fourth year, they read the winners for my class and we were not one of the winners. That was understandable because the car is a bit pock marked in the front now. After all of the winners in our class were announced and we got nothing, we headed home. A couple of nights later, at a car club meeting, a friend bought me a trophy I had won at the show. We had won Best of Show. We had left before they named the BOS winner. We were very happy with the results but also very surprised and a bit ashamed that we left too soon.

We enjoy the shows but we try to not let our egos get too tied up in these shows. You never know how these things will turn out...good or bad.