If you do this, you’re an asshole

"marshknute" (marshknute) 10/03/2019 at 14:20 • Filed to: None

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Every car show has that one asshole Boomer who makes it impossible to photograph their car because they cover it up with a mini shrine of awards, magazine article clippings, scale models, movie posters, etc.

Some random photo I found on Instagram

And they usually open the hood to show off the engine that nobody cares about, spoiling the lines of the car.

And even if you are opportunistic and try to get a photo before they assemble the shrine, they immediately hop out of the car and spend 45 minutes polishing it with a rag before parking their ass in a lawn chair so they’re always in the background of your shot.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:24

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Do you ever get the feeling somebody doesn’t like you?

HammerheadFistpunch > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:24

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like this asshole.

CalzoneGolem > HammerheadFistpunch 10/03/2019 at 14:27

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I just realized I missed the outcome of this.

Off to your post history.

atfsgeoff > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:29

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I don’t see how putting photos and awards around your own car makes you an asshole. Smug, sure. But I think asshole is a bit harsh

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:29

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M aybe he is proud of his car and feels that the vehicle history offered by the numerous posters is relevant ?

HammerheadFistpunch > CalzoneGolem 10/03/2019 at 14:31

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you won’t find it there... there isn’t much to tell. the judges got a chuckle out and that’s about it. they only gave ou t 4 awards and “lamest attempt at humor” wasnt one of them

carcrazydan738 > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:33

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I’ve been to enough car shows in my life that I think it’s cool to have a scale model to match the show car and it’s probably inevitable that someone maybe the owner of said show car will be in the picture. So what?! If all that makes you unhappy then go to a different show or don’t go at all.

Ash78, voting early and often > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:38

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Where’s the 1/4-scale plush Jaws doll with the backwards baseball cap peering into the engine?

CalzoneGolem > HammerheadFistpunch 10/03/2019 at 14:38

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Not even an award for best photoshop of a car show award?

functionoverfashion > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:41

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I think it’s people like that, that make me not want to visit antique car shows with my truck. I get enough of it at gas stations, “ ayyy what year is that cool i had one just like it well actually it was my uncles and it was a 77 chevy and it was black but yeah the same truck cool how much ya paid fer it”

Yeah, nope

user314 > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:42

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Your take is bad and you should feel bad about it.

Unless he’s put up a tent and is charging $ 15 a pic, the awards and what not are part of the car’s history , and add to the story .

Sovande > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:44

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Lot of anger aimed at others doing what they want with their cars. 

user314 > carcrazydan738 10/03/2019 at 14:46

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‘Zactly, especially for something like the Lotus sub (yes, it’s stock photo, not the point). I love seeing the photos documenting major restos of rare cars like that posed with the final product .

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:48

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He’s just keeping the British end up, sir.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:49

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This is accurate

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/03/2019 at 14:50

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I feel like the millenial version of this would be printing off the Wikipedia article on the car as well as a few forum threads and taping them to the front.

Nick Has an Exocet > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:50

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Extra points for the guy in the popup chair.

marshknute > functionoverfashion 10/03/2019 at 14:51

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I’ve literally killed myself on multiple occasions just  to get out of those exact conversations.

MonkeePuzzle > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:52

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I’m also usually uninterested in having a pudgy middle aged man with branded tshirt tucked into demin shorts with sneakers in any of my car photos either.

but I guess car shows can’t allocate an individual field with autumnal foliage backdrops to each car

etc.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:59

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Reminds me, i was at a C&C and there was a Camero ZL1 1LE with some interesting aero bits. He had his hood open, so I go take a peek.

Stock LT4, reasonably clean. I mean, why bother? We can all google what it looks like in 20 seconds. Rather have the nice lines for the photo with the hood down. 

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 14:59

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I used to get them with the NSX but nobody talks to me about C7s. I just thought nobody likes Corvettes any more. It might be just me, I have resting bitch face. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 10/03/2019 at 15:03

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This is a good  idea!

marshknute > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 10/03/2019 at 15:05

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No, Millenials don’t have printers.  We just leave the car undecorated and go look at other cars.  If someone’s interested in our car , we expect them to  type “white car with fins” into google, find 300K results within seconds, and read up about it later if they ’re interested.

thejustache > functionoverfashion 10/03/2019 at 15:10

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I’ve gotten the same conversations when out on any of my old motorcycles. “I had the same bike! Except it had 2 extra cylinders and 20 0 less CCs and was made by honda” etc. One person will be like “those were fast bikes” and another “oh that model was a pig”. 

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 15:22

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Giant airbrushed signs are the worst.

( Sir, you own a white base model C5 Corvette with half a JC Whitney catalog thrown at it, no one gives a solitary fuck.)

bwp240 > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 15:27

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A friend and I thought about doing this with my Saturn as an elaborate joke.

1 of 94,034 made

1 of 42,865 in tan

Touted as the most boring car made in the late 1990s by Jeremy Clarkson.

We decided that it probably would have coast more to print the sign at Kinko’s than the car was worth.

Pixel > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 15:41

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Many years ago I took my ‘78 Nova to a pretty big-deal car show in the area (they close off an entire block of downtown and have the show there). I didn’t wash it, or lean the junk out of it. So I made a sign for the window with a sharpie that read “Please D on’t To uch. You’ll get dirty.” Neither the sign or the car endeared me to anyone.

The pic makes it looks way nicer than it was.

I regret not taking it back the next year after its transformation.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 10/03/2019 at 15:58

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I will print this out and put it on my windshield. 

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 16:27

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Figuratively 

glemon > marshknute 10/03/2019 at 21:34

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So you take your car to a show, it lasts 2-3 hours, you walk around once or twice killing maybe half the time. What else are you going to do but sit by your car. I like it when the owner is nearby if I have questions about the car. I figure a photo op is a privilege, not a right.

But I am not so much into the build a shrine to my car at the show thing.

functionoverfashion > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 10/04/2019 at 08:49

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m illenial

printing

hmmmmm

Oh but the build thread, that’s a good point. Lots of people have like, 10 pics of their restoration, or of their house being built. But a build thread is like a novel. 

functionoverfashion > MonkeePuzzle 10/04/2019 at 08:51

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No, but green screen! Put one up behind your car and I’m sure people would get it. 

Nauraushaun > marshknute 10/09/2019 at 05:54

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I’d say that there are a great many things you can do with your car that make you an asshole. But turning up to a show so people can see your car and not quite letting them get flawless pics isn’t really one of them.

Its pretty vain but

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > functionoverfashion 10/23/2019 at 12:22

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Years ago I had a ‘69 Stingray roadster, and would be approached by folks at the gas station often. I didn’t mind talking about the car, even if it was usually the same questions. That’s part of owning a cool & interesting car I guess. 

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 10/23/2019 at 12:26

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A few years ago I was at a car show, and some dude had entered his brandy-new Camaro SS that he’d just taken delivery of three days before. It looked weird parked among 60s and 70s Camaros, but whatev..

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 10/23/2019 at 12:28

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Seems like one of those guys that would type out STILL IN MINT CONDITION somewhere on social media in caps...

but whatev sounds about right tho.

Corkscrew'd > marshknute 10/23/2019 at 17:57

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I don’t really see the problem with this. If something is in the way, why not refocus on the details, like fins, the c-pillar, and the slats?

Actually a great shot would be right behind the tail l ights looking over the side of the car toward the front, so you could get that body line and the fins!

I’d even take very low picture looking up to the front of the car with the awards in the foreground. Sometimes limitations force you to be a little more creative.

Corkscrew'd > MonkeePuzzle 10/23/2019 at 17:58

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Oh that’s just GORGEOUS! I miss weather. California is kinda boring.