I’m just curious, how do you get invited to this event anyway. How does it work. Does someone have to recognize your car at another show? Do you put in an application?
The short answer is “it depends”!
Bob Ashton attends car events like Carlisle, Bloomington Gold, Mecum Auctions, and many more throughout the year and sees prime cars he invites to be in the show.
Cars that fit into a years feature class are actively recruited and if you are on the MCACN email list you’ll see emails from time to time saying for example “we’re still looking for more max wedges for our max wedge feature, if you have a nice one please consider joining us!
Enthusiasts come up with feature ideas and if Bob likes the idea he might say if you can recruit enough cars for it, we’ll do it! That’s what I did for the 2022 Malaise era muscle feature. I started getting the word out at the ‘21 show, and by January I already had 7 or 8 cars lined up. The idea took off, and I spent spring and summer chasing leads, and by the time fall came we had over 30 cars in the feature!
Some other feature ideas just never take off. They tried to do a 70s custom van feature a time or two, but just never could get more than a couple vans signed up, so the feature never happened.
Dan Pausch came up with the idea for tuxedo (black with white interior) Mopars for this years show and ended up with 6 or seven prime cars in the feature.
There is an area at every years show called Mopar Alley that typically has three dozen or more Mopars in it. Any cool factory performance Mopar can qualify for that feature.
Of course many rare but neglected Mopars end up in Ryan Brutts Barn Finds display every year.
The show has gotten popular enough that many features get full by spring. So if you’re thinking about applying, don’t procrastinate too long!
Here is a link to submitting a car for the show-
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