"HEY! You Missed A Spot..." or,Can You Polish Plastic TOO Much?

[Al K]

So...I was gonna put this in the "Jokes..." section,but it fits just as well here. Ran into a guy I used to work with in GM Engineering at the Armada show;he's got a radical '67 Impala Pro Street car. Don't laugh;with over 500 inches of BBC,it ain't no slouch. Anyway,we were commenting(he's as big a smart-*** as I am) on some of the various folks at the show. In particular,those who feel the need to incessantly "clean" and "polish" their cars. It usually involves a certain sub-group of the automotive culture;you'll recognize them. My buddy and I started to count the number and ran out of fingers. At one point,LW(name hidden to protect the guilty) and I noticed four of them within earshot of us,and ol' L-Dub says into the air: "...Hey,you missed a spot",and quickly turns back to talk to me. Four heads look up from their "duty",and immediately started looking their cars over again. It was funnier if you had been there...

 

[1badgtx]

Took a budddy to the local car show...He,s an older guy getting ready to retire...800 cars were entered...A few nice mopars...Yeah the guys were dusting off their rides constantly...Then took him to the dragstrip for an all mopar event...he had a blast...He said that this is were the action is at the track...The real men are here and they are running real cars!!Not like at the car show!!!MOPAR OR NO CAR!!!
Petty Blue 67 GTX

 

[1badgtx]

One other note,Newer corvettes are for old retired guys...Since the viagra doesn,t work anymore they buy new vettes!!!Sorry about your Penis!!
petty Blue 67 GTX

 

[Aussie Coronet]

aah, the small penis brigade! Notice that everyone else is off socialising and checking out the other cars!

These are the guys who secretly admit to wanting a more manly car, like a late 60's Big Block muscle car but 'had' to settle for a show pony because thier wife/girlfriend/mistress/boyfriend likes them more. Endlessly polishing them keeps the owners from sitting still long enough to realise he'd actually like something else.

 

[69 Runner]

They buy them because they have TRACTION CONTROL cause they can't keep them pointed straight if they mash the loud pedal


wait...........keepin it straight....??

that another penis reference?

 

[rumblefish360]

Ba ha ha ha ha

 

[1badgtx]

You can,t polish a turd,It,s fun to watch them do it though!!!
Sorry for stealing somebodys line..I wonder how many of those cars have rubber under the fender wells?
Petty Blue 67 GTX

 

[Al K]

You can,t polish a turd,It,s fun to watch them do it though!!!
Sorry for stealing somebodys line..I wonder how many of those cars have rubber under the fender wells?
Petty Blue 67 GTX

If you're referring to rubber from spinning tires;probably NOT. These cars are for "profiling",not actually driving-except to shows where the owners can polish some more.

And,I'm sure they clean the wheelwells as well. You never know when another Corvette owner might come around and check for the residue of hooligan activities. Can't have none of that,ya know.

One of the funnier incidents involved a bird that dropped a load on a new Vette,just as the owner was finishing up another round of cleaning. The guy went ballistic(THAT,I should have captured on video) trying to get his cleaning stuff out of the trunk to clean up the doo-doo. He did the WHOLE car over again. I wonder if he ever left his space to check out the other rides? Probably not;there are no "other" cars in their world.

 

[Redpolara]

The funniest part is, apart from the owner.......the bird was the only one to pay any attention to the car and look what he thought of it.
Maybe you should've taken a dump on the hood as well Al.

 

[Al K]

The funniest part is, apart from the owner.......the bird was the only one to pay any attention to the car and look what he thought of it.
Maybe you should've taken a dump on the hood as well Al.

Nah,that would be very uncivilized;I'm not like that. I do admit,I envy the bird's ability to randomly and nonchalantly relieve itself in such a strategic manner. Damn,I wish I had caught that moment on video;I had just put my camera back in the Sport Fury and was about 100 yards(or what,30 some meters...) away when it happened.

 

[Propwash]

That's friggin hilarious, walking around the show snapin shots of all the goof balls buffing wax...priceless.

Probably about as entertaining as drinking 5 dollar beer, eating the over cooked overpriced hot dogs and listening to some chum desperatley try to convince you he is the only man alive that can fix his 1 of 2 cars ever made with vinyl dash stickers and the last known to exist in this solar system.

 

[Al K]

That's friggin hilarious, walking around the show snapin shots of all the goof balls buffing wax...priceless.

Probably about as entertaining as drinking 5 dollar beer, eating the over cooked overpriced hot dogs and listening to some chum desperatley try to convince you he is the only man alive that can fix his 1 of 2 cars ever made with vinyl dash stickers and the last known to exist in this solar system.

You know,I hadn't intended on photographing obsessive-compulsive behavior;it was just there. In abundance. After I saw my fourth or fifth one(must have been the Trans-Am guy),I knew there was an opportunity to provide some laughs for you folks-and myself. I just walked by,and centered the subjects on the back screen on the camera and "Presto!"-instant fame(?). It would have been better if I had actually asked them to "pose" while spraying the car for the umpteenth time. At some point,one of them may have caught on to the satirical nature of my endeavor,and called me everything but a Mopar owner. It would have been worth it. Maybe next year...

 

[69clone]

Haha I can't stand those people I was at a show last weekend and a group of these polish and shine guys with there mid 80's through early 90' corvettes that had them shined up so much you just couldn't help but wanna bash them. As we walked by I jokingly said " man those tires look like plastic I wonder how he can control it and my dad said well these only had like 175hp so it can't be any different then driving the van! Well these guys looked like they were going to kill us but somehow they didn't perhaps it had to do with the penis/balls jokes.