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Let the car show season begin! First show of the year with the TTA 07

PhillyTurboSix

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Finally got the TTA out for some fun in the sun! Local show with about 145 cars. Stock and modified were the only classes. It was at a Pontiac dealer that sold a few TTA's back in the day so I figured they would like to see one again. One older guy walked up to me and told me how he bought a TTA off the showroom floor in that dealer in 89. Was a low car number 2 something. Said he daily drove it a few years and showed it. Was one of his favorite cars. It's always nice to shoot the bull with other TTA owners. I always hit them with some pretty easy to answer questions just to make sure they are the real deal! :) I also had some younger guys come up to me and hang out most of the day. They were friends with the guy who had his in GM High Tech last year. They knew the TTA inside and out. It was a blast chatting with them till the end.

As far as car shows and trophies I could careless. I'd rather them give me some money other then some $5 trophy I'll have to throw out when I get home anyways! But these people were pretty creative. It was like a ice cream float. So if it's not money at least they can give out a cool trophy like the one below I got for the TTA. I was shocked as there was a 69 Hurst Olds there. Full frame off resto. The guy bought it from a museum in Ohio somewhere and paid well over 100K for the car. It was a low mile car so I'm sure the frame off made it a little more easy but it was perfect and correct in every way all stock. Well I actually gave him a run for the money. It was him and I in the end for the best of stock class. I didn't even think they would consider my TTA! Always nice to know your going head to head with a car that cost over 100K and me with my 14K TTA :rofl: Well he won in the end and I'm kinda glad because that prize was just a huge trophy. I like the one I got better! :drool: It was just nice to be out with the car. The pollen hasn't kicked in full blast here yet because May can be a pain in the rear to show as you wind up with a car full of crap at the end but I smoked a ricer in a Honda on the way home who thought I was in a GTA. He was very impressed at my half throttle launch when I left him about 25 car lengths behind me in a hurry! :rofl: Fun to teach these ricer kids whats up! I said to him at the next light... when you see "turbo" on the fender of one of these cars don't even bother next time. He thought it was a V8 turbo! So I left him another 25+ car lengths at that light and he turned off with his tail between his legs. So a kill and ice cream Sunday trophy! Can't beat it with beautiful sunny weather to boot! :hooray: :hooray:

Pic of the trophy

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Pic of my TTA in show form..

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And the 100K Hurst Olds I almost beat! :read:

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Very nice Jim! Do you always show it with that much crap sitting on/around the front end?

Oh for unique trophies look at what we gave away for the car show I ran here at Purdue:
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That's right those are all Champ Car parts (the big trohpy). We got some connections with Chip Ganassi now and they let us take whatever parts we wanted from their parts bin and then we epoxied them together. We got about a total of 20-30k in parts and we had a large trophy similar to that for every class winner. To show you the actual size here is one of the guys recieving a 1st place trophy (1st place trophies were made from a rotor, ring gear, connecting rod, and a piston)
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72firebird said:
Very nice Jim! Do you always show it with that much crap sitting on/around the front end?
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It's only my Hemmings article, a small frame with all the info on the car, and the indy tag. DontKnow: I don't like people walking up to the car and not knowing what it is and talkin crap. To just bring a TTA to a show and open the hood it pretty much useless when it comes to these cars. No one knows them and why bother showing it if your not going to teach and show people what they are and what they are about! People have commented me on pretty much everything I place out as they can learn about the cars and teach show their friends who are talking all this crap who don't have a clue what a TTA is. I do the same thing with the GN but not as much as most people know what a GN is. I go to a car show to walk around check out the cars and enjoy myself. Not sitting next to my car all day playing answer the stupid people questions. All the info I display does all that for me.
 
PhillyTurboSix said:
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It's only my Hemmings article, a small frame with all the info on the car, and the indy tag. DontKnow: I don't like people walking up to the car and not knowing what it is and talkin crap. To just bring a TTA to a show and open the hood it pretty much useless when it comes to these cars. No one knows them and why bother showing it if your not going to teach and show people what they are and what they are about! People have commented me on pretty much everything I place out as they can learn about the cars and teach show their friends who are talking all this crap who don't have a clue what a TTA is. I do the same thing with the GN but not as much as most people know what a GN is. I go to a car show to walk around check out the cars and enjoy myself. Not sitting next to my car all day playing answer the stupid people questions. All the info I display does all that for me.
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yeah I typically put maybe one thing out front and then put a bunch of stuff in the trunk. That way those who are interested and walk around the car will have plenty of info to read. I don't see any problem with the sign out front, I just don't like putting things on the front end. I think it just looks like there's more there from the pictures.
 
I usually keep my back closed up. To much shit blows in there and the sun beating on that plastic is not a good thing. I keep it popped a little to let some air thru the car but I don't leave the back open unless I'm inside somewhere. I've seen to many TTA's with faded carpet and faded to hell plastic trim back there to leave it open like that. You'll find out in a few years if you show yours with the back open
 
Nice show Philly! My dad had a olds just like that one when I was just wee little squirt. Those were killer rides and still are. I like that trophy, and a taste treat is alot better than some goofy ass heavy to deal with trophy.
your displays were tasteful and looked professional. Great representation for the TTA crowd:headbang: :clap:
 
Congrads!
I'll be taking my baby out this weekend for the Kingman Fun Run, a big Route 66 car cruise and show.
From Seligman to Oatman, with a big car show on Saturday.
Gets about 250-450 cars from all over.
You get a shirt, metal liense plate with a number on it, and get to hang out all day with Crobra and Vette clubs.
A few years ago, Hemmings was out here, saw my car, and said they would love to do a story on the car. They never called back, and you got the shot at it.
You only get a trophy doing the whole cruise, and I only do the car show.
It's fun, and we always seem to have some nice weather. Only one year, we had some wind come thru, and it blew over my car show display, breaking the 24x36 inch glass. Nothing was damaged, and I replaced the glass with plexi.
Question for you.
Does your framed display get fogged up with the heat and sun?
I can't display mine in the sun very long.

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Hey George.. as I was reading your post I knew it was coming to where it fell over! :) Mine took a fall a few times. I keep saying I'm going to stop at the local lighting company and buy some small black sand bags for it. I even told the guy to order me some last year. I actually had 2 frames made with the Hemmings article. He did some high rez scans and shrunk them down so it wasn't really huge. It's a little bigger then what I wanted but it grew on me. There is a frame shop near me who did the 2 of them. It was about 750 bucks for the 2 of them! :eeks: :eeks: But the guy told me they will never fog up. It's a very high end frame and the special glass they use. It almost won't even break and it's not plexi! Plus I figured how many times is my car going to be in a magazine so it was money well spent. One to display and one to hang on the wall. I'm going to take him all my Indy stuff next and have that all sealed in a frame. He even has really cool 3D ish frames for the belt buckles where you can see both sides still! I think the reason it fogs is because the glass or plexi is too thin. Try getting a thick piece of plexi and you should be fine!
 
One of these may be cool to use
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__ON508
and you wouldn't have to carry much, it files through up to 150 shots.
You could have someone photoshop your materials together in one personal presentation. You just have to mount it some way that thiefs out there wouldn't steal it. maybe put in the car with it in visible view with the windows up... Somthing to think about. Only $250:idea5: , hold up bigger injectors cost that much:eeks::rofl:
 
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