Ive only been doing the car show thing for about 2 years and have started to notice that (we) really are at the mercy of whoever they (show sponser) decides to pick as a judge. This last weekend I participated at a show that had 146 entries. The only other car close to mine was a honda s2000, other than that it was the garden variety of some very nice vintage OLD school hot rods. The awards were for top 25. Im not crying sour grapes because the winners really did have fantastic cars that were enjoyable to check out. The thing that bugs me is the judges. From what I saw, they were comprised of some good ol boys and simply milled around with what appeared to be a yellow post it note and a pencil. The judging went from 1130-130 and I sat diligently by my car only to watch them fuss over what appairently gave them a good feeling about their past..my car didnt even get looked at! The wierd thing was that I saw this happen to many others around me too.

Just seems the professional and polite thing to do would be at least spend a few minutes with every entry and just talk to the guy.