trounced....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhO2M7YFT5w#
I've seen far worse at a Cars & Coffee, and that's why I make a point of NOT attending.
Kopec used to have a saying about kids with ice cream cones and little league bats attending car shows.
But that's a "bad" on the parents.
Children are very inquisitive, parents need to supervise at ALL times.
What I dont comprehend is when adults want to violate your space or property. Case and point this reporter opening vehicles, hitting doors, sliding on top of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUD50ilBXTg&feature=share
Quote from: CSX 4133 on December 10, 2019, 01:35:39 PM
I've seen far worse at a Cars & Coffee, and that's why I make a point of NOT attending.
He was fired
Total lack of respect for others property...If "Mr. Reporterman" sat on my car like that he wouldn't be sitting (or doing anything else) for very long......The kid??? I would settle for an appropriate quantity of Daddy's money...... ;)
These cars are meant to be sat upon, so enjoy the hell out of all of it. Not just the look of it when its all clean and dent free. Carroll Shelby
(Sorry Tony).
Sit on my 52 year old fiberglass hood?Nope....
Smack em on the side of the head !
Quote from: 557 on December 10, 2019, 07:10:25 PM
Total lack of respect for others property...If "Mr. Reporterman" sat on my car like that he wouldn't be sitting (or doing anything else) for very long......The kid??? I would settle for an appropriate quantity of Daddy's money...... ;)
Quote from: 557 on December 11, 2019, 12:12:16 AM
Sit on my 52 year old fiberglass hood?Nope....
+ 1
You are preaching to the choir...old and new, amen !
Quote from: deathsled on December 10, 2019, 11:51:04 PM
These cars are meant to be sat upon, so enjoy the hell out of all of it. Not just the look of it when its all clean and dent free. Carroll Shelby
(Sorry Tony).
Biggie do tell us about the icecream and bats....
Quote from: Bigfoot on December 10, 2019, 02:03:49 PM
Kopec used to have a saying about kids with ice cream cones and little league bats attending car shows.
But that's a "bad" on the parents.
Can you expand on this because we also had heard he got fired
Quote from: Coralsnake on December 10, 2019, 05:23:50 PM
He was fired
Happy to provide knowledge and context to the discussion.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/10/23/tv-reporter-fired-climbing-classic-cars-during-live-broadcast/4072922002/
Quote from: FL SAAC TONY on December 11, 2019, 06:57:59 AM
Biggie do tell us about the icecream and bats....
Quote from: Bigfoot on December 10, 2019, 02:03:49 PM
Kopec used to have a saying about kids with ice cream cones and little league bats attending car shows.
But that's a "bad" on the parents.
It's a "Rick-ism"
I think only he can do it justice.
Kids will be kids...
Back in the '90s, I got to be friends of one of the guys who travels around with, and handles logistics of, Ford's auto show vehicles. He told me that the wear to the driver-side seat and door hinge/handle during the course of the two-week Detroit (for example) auto show would be equivalent to more than ten years of heavy use.
One season, they kept track of the amount of times the driver's door of a particular F-150 was opened, and it was something like 25,000 times per big auto show. With the vast number of spectators at the big shows, that made sense to me. Thus, they changed out the vehicles at each auto show, and sometimes even during a big show.
He told me: Don't ever buy a "super-low-mile auto show car." The odometer may say 50 miles, but the driver's seat says 50,000.
He also said that people will steal everything that's not strongly secured. Shift knobs and cigarette lighters are child's play compared to the missing control stalks, emblems, and various interior pieces. One guy was caught trying to leave the show with a spare tire.
No wonder that the expensive car makers lock their show cars...or don't bother to display at all.
1. It all makes sense now, spoiler is to be used as a step up.
2. Once up grab the hood grilles to propel you up.
3. Then slide down.....weeeee!