Thread: Would You Go to a Car show In The Rain?

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I wanted to go to at least one Car Show this year since so many other things have taken place surgeries, wife working, etc.

Its one thing to be at a show and it start to rain but to get in the car you have worked on preparing for a show and start out in the rain is another story. Went out yesterday to get a new 6-volt battery just to make sure we would get there and back. I changed the oil and filter. I bought a cleaner & dressing for the vinyl top, white wall cleaner, car cleaner & wax.
Lying in bed this morning I could hear that distinct sound of rain, it’s coming down pretty good now with lightning and thunder.
I’m going to have to pass on this one; there may be one more before the end of the year. I know the James Dean show will be in September. We would have to drive there and back the same day because every Motel has been booked way in advance.

We have been caught in the rain quite a few times but that was when we were hundreds of miles into the trip. It has rained on the way home from and even during the show. We were in Louisville Kentucky when the big flood came. One minute is was nice sun was shinning the next the rain came down and flooded the place, cars were under water that was really bad.

So what would you do?


Richard

It rains just about every Summer day here in Florida, Richard, so we get wet a lot. You've got a roof, so head out and have some fun. It might clear up.

Don

rain or 105 index heat. uuuh Rain. Have fun

Hell yeah .
1/2 the fun is goin and comin back.
My ole line is

Any day in a roadster is a better day than stayin home.
Wet or dry.

I haven't been wet with this car - yet, but expect that little deal will happen sooner rather then later. I had a T-bucket a few years ago and even with the top on it, often got wet as the front tires throw whatever is on the road directly in my face on a turn With the top off - I just went fast enough for the rain and road spray to go over the car (until I made a turn).

Now, would I go to a local show in the rain with an open roadster - nah. I can BS with my buddies another time.

The show started at 10;00 a.m. and now at 11:20 it's not raining. I just missed out; I didn’t want to get it dirty since I spent time getting it ready. I have been watching the weather and they were calling for Thunderstorms all day. You cannot trust the forecast now the sun is shining.

I've gone to the Street Rod Nationals and seen T Buckets with people getting wet it would be raining so hard. Some cars without tops passing me in my closed Coupe.

Richard

I would go, let her rip. I went to a show here a couple years ago, left my house and it was clear 10 minuets later I looked like a jet boat going down the freeway. I was soaked, but still had fun.
I vote, go for it Richard!!
Ken

Thanks guys she coming out.

I'm going to get it out of the garage at least I'll spend a little time there even if it's just driving to and from. I have been in a closed coupe where the rain was coming down so hard my pant leg was soaked from water coming through the cowl vent. My leg was blue from the blue jeans.

Richard

We get rains here in Florida like I have never seen anywhere else, and I've been caught in them driving one of my roadsters. The last time I drove my 27 about 11 years ago I drove home from Turkey Run in Daytona Beach.......5 hours of rain so bad I couldn't see my Girlfriends car following behind me or the car in front of me. The rain was like bullets, stinging as it hit me in the face.

We stopped and I bought one of those yellow hooded vinyl rain suits.....jacket and pants. I looked like a big yellow banana driving down the road. For 5 hours I was feeling water trickling down the neck opening in the jacket and running down my chest. As I got close to home my butt was a little tired so I shifted around in my seat and all that water had accumulated in the back of the vinyl pants..........I was sitting in about 4 inches of water. When I got out of the car it was like a flood running out of my pants legs.

Roadster people are a different breed..........coupe guys would never understand.

Don

Originally Posted by ford2custom

Thanks guys she coming out.

I'm going to get it out of the garage at least I'll spend a little time there even if it's just driving to and from. I have been in a closed coupe where the rain was coming down so hard my pant leg was soaked from water coming through the cowl vent. My leg was blue from the blue jeans.

Richard

Sounds like cheap jeans and a lot of fun.
Drove to louisville 1 year from So-Cal in a roadster.
First 4 - 5 hrs was great, rest of the trip was in the rain, that was great also.
Get 'em out and drive 'em.
Don't do no good sittin in the garage.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

We get rains here in Florida like I have never seen anywhere else, and I've been caught in them driving one of my roadsters. The last time I drove my 27 about 11 years ago I drove home from Turkey Run in Daytona Beach.......5 hours of rain so bad I couldn't see my Girlfriends car following behind me or the car in front of me. The rain was like bullets, stinging as it hit me in the face.

We stopped and I bought one of those yellow hooded vinyl rain suits.....jacket and pants. I looked like a big yellow banana driving down the road. For 5 hours I was feeling water trickling down the neck opening in the jacket and running down my chest. As I got close to home my butt was a little tired so I shifted around in my seat and all that water had accumulated in the back of the vinyl pants..........I was sitting in about 4 inches of water. When I got out of the car it was like a flood running out of my pants legs.

Roadster people are a different breed..........coupe guys would never understand.

Don

Been there done that Don.
What that ole sayin ???
"Coupes are for chickens"

No! But I'm sort'a odd that way. I think I might have the "hydrophoby"; look where I've chosen to live.

Used to go to the "inside shows" as spectators in the rain

Seems to be standard roadster weather here in england

Summer in England is a Tuesday in July.

Don