I have been subscribing to a regional magazine that swears that all of the vehicles are "drivers" and they recently featured a vehicle that was "perfect" except for one detail-it had no room for a tag! No flip up,no brackets,etc and they tell us this is a driver!?! (maybe on and off the trailer) I'm one of those people that will drive in the rain to go to a show and have a heck of a good time doing it! Sorry guys I just had to vent a little-this kind of "hide the trailer" game just bugs me.

i second that motion.... all in favor..........

Way too many important things in life than to get worked up about trailered cars. Its been my belief for a very longtime that my ride only has to please me, if it pleases anyone else that's just a bonus. If someone gets pleasure trailering their "ride" then why should that upset me, he's happy and that's all that matters.

WE shouldn't fall into the "Divide and Conquer" camp, we have enough enemies outside the hobby.

My 2 cents......

I agree,There are many reasons people trailor thier cars.I don't much care for the guys who unload,"Display" thier Prize,then load it up and put it away in the garage.However many of my friends(and myself included) sometimes trailor our cars if the event is a great distance away for many differant reasons but we drive the heck out of them the whole time we are there and also put many,many miles on them around town and driving to closer events.Having two vehicles along, if we are out of town for 4 or 5 days, makes for a much more enjoyable outing for my wife as she likes to shop and sight see while I'm at the fairgrounds all day!It's usually a car owners attitude that bothers me,not whether he drove or trailored his car!!See Ya!!
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DARYLE

I always appreciate driven cars more than trailered cars, but I don't get worked up about trailer cars. I can appreciate them for a work of automotive art, but at the same time I am amused by the fact that I have a lot more fun driving mine than pampering it like it was a piece of modern sculpture. However, I think there are exceptions. If I had a pro-street '41 Willy's, you wouldn't catch me driving it seven hours to Louisville even though I would drive the heck out of it around town and on short trips on sunny days. FWIW.
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Lynn
'32 3W

If you cant drive it why build it??? Then again most trailered cars are not built by the checkbook tourists anyway.Trailer is a nice place to store it in the off season.

I personaly like the drivers but some time a guy has to trailer there ride for some distance.
I drive mine everywhere. What gets my goat about trailers is when they take up most of the parking spaces at the hotel. And the guy that drove his ride all the way has to park his down the block because of the trailers took up all the spaces. I can't understand why the trailers can't park down the block or someplace else and let the drivers park in th parking lot of there hotels.
If you want to trailer your car there that's fine. but don't take up three parking spaces with your trialer.

just my 2 cents
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awsum34

Remember the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

Why would you Have to trailer it??Build it! Drive it! Or leave it home!! Half the fun is driven your old wagon to the show.If its a show car build it a nice garage and call all your fiends at Hot Rod ,Rod and Custom,Good guys and have them over to take pictures and tell everybody how much you spent on it .After all they are not rodders.A rodder drives his car.Just like the show cars on the NASCAR circuit,the driver of the truck and trailer is no racer.Just a truck driver showing and old outdated racecar.

I agree with cruzr.There was a truck with a kw tractor with a 25 ft. sleeper towing a 25 ft. enclosed trailed that had 50 merc in it he brought a friend that had an open trailor the two of them took up 21 parking spaces at the hotel last week at crusin the coast.A couple of the clubs that were there are going to write a letter to the manager and to the ramada corp office and see if they can correct this.I'm almost sure they weren't paying for 21 rooms.
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Only in america!

Just goes to show ya....when ya got the money.....you win! Who cares about the other guy. Or the other 21 guys.

That kind of rude behavior only goes on because no one complained to the hotel management. If Mr. 21 Spaces hoggedthe parking lot and you were denied an offstreet parking spot you should have complained then to the manager, after all a guaranteed parking spot is implied when you rent a room. Out west most motels assign you a spot by room assignment, and can't imagine that the 20 rodders whose spots were taken would have tolerated this kind of treatment by the motel. but if its first come first serve and no spot assignment and you still got your spot there's no gripe. And then 21 spaces almost enters into the "urban myth" category.

I agree with you on that. What is worse is they don't know it is bad manners to take up all the parking spots and it doesn't bother them that it pisses alot of rodders off. The best way to combat this is park right in back of their trialer so they can't get the door open, heh, heh....
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Grump

Grumpy, I'll have to remember that one. :)


Rick
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awsum34

Remember the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

Amen to that, cruzr, that's exactlly what happened to me in Louisville this year at the Executive Inn (east)
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Lance B.

Owners of trailered cars can be fun though. Had a conversation with one one day trying to convince him that he didn't even NEED a car. He had an enclosed trailer and a big rig pick-up. I tried to tell him that with the trailer doors closed, no one knew whether or not he had a car. Save your car money, buy a bigger and better trailer!

Good grief!!! This old subject again????!!!!! Who gives a crap what others do? This argument will go on till petroleum is no onger an accessible resource, and we all have to trailer them with our electric cars!
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Damn, I wish I had more time.
35 Ford Pick-Up

Why can't we be glad that people are participating in our hobby, and making it stronger? The real enemy is the right wingers who want to crush old cars because they sit in YOUR YARD and they have to look at it, eye sore they call it. The more parts that are being sold, the more manufacturers that get in the game, the more supply, prices go down. As long as this keeps snowballing, the hobby will grow. And trust me, we NEED it to grow. By the time I'm retired (30 yrs.) their might not be car shows for Hot Rods. There might not be "trailered" cars, becuase everyone will want to look at antique 96 Honda Civics by then. WE NEED ALL RODDERS. WE NEED TO BE A FAMILY, Not divide and differentiate between trailered or not, steel or glass, pro show or pro street. I like ALL hot rods, and I'm glad that someone brings them to the show, and I sure don't open a conversation with a fellow rodder , "nice car, did you REALLY dirve it here, or is it a trailer queen?"

I couldn't agree more. If we separate based on "this and that", we have no power as a group to fight to keep our hobby alive and well.

Where do you think the NRA would be today if all the .22 caliber owners talked down on the .44 caliber owners just because they liked something different?

The hobby needs all types of people.If someone wants a street rod,custom,hot rod,or any other kind of vehicle and can't do the work themselves,they have very few options.SO,if they want to spend their money with the local builder and get them a street rod built the way they want it,then a minimum of two people are satisfied,the guy signing the check and the builder.Some of us small business owners appreciate the fact that not everyone can build cars.Keeps food on the table and keeps us from having to get a "real" job!I have personally met Fred Warren,Troy Trepanier,Sam Foose,and many other guys with real talent for building cars.These guys represent just a minute fraction of our hobby.Troy has built cars that are drivable trailer queens,but are also works of art.AND, he doesn't live on either coast,right here in the good ole midwest!

The way I see it is ,You pays your money and takes your choice. RP peggys other half Hell I may not live long enough to build another car so if I see something I like or want I will buy it regardless of what it is made out of or who made it .
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Peggy Diegan

What if your trailer vehicle is also a hotrod?

Consider yourself lucky. You got two to play with.Last year at louisville I saw a chopped rod sedan with a 5th wheel hookup on the roof that towed the other rod. How lucky can a guy get ? Rp peggys other half
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Peggy Diegan