I agree with Kennyd for the most part, I, too, know some of the people involved with these shows, and what the shows project is not neccesarily the way the people are in real life. I think they are trying to copy the sucessful patern of OCC. I have to disagree with Streets. I have been streetroding since back in the 1960's, built my first streetrod in 1967, a blown T-Bucket, was in drag racing and had a lot of extra parts, etc. therefore I was running a blower on the street back at a time when there werent a lot of them seen on the dragstrip in this part of the country. But anyway getting back to Streets comment, back in those days there were no mfg of neat and safe street rod parts and components, therefore we were faced with adapting junkyard parts and/or doing our fabrication, altho I was as good as any at this, I have built many cars back then that I wouldnt want to drive 5 miles today, because they werent all that safe or well engineered as todays standards, back then we were concerned with making them go fast, first and foremost, today our first conerns are/should be safety. But, anyway, I welcomed the entrance of the big money people, because of them, overnight, there seemed to be companys starting up and spending money and time in research and development and making safer and better parts and components available to the little guys, like myself, as well as the rich guys. While I am here on this subject I will add my 2 cents on this age old subject of guys with big money buying their streetrod. Make no mistake I am for it because I realize not everyone has the talents or the equiptment, etc to build their own car, but if they have talents in other areas and are able to afford one I feel they have the right to be proud of and enjoy it as much as someone like myself, and further more its those people that I am able to sell cars that I build, therefore allowing me to have money to put into my cars. I say more power power to them and hope they continue to do so therefore securing the future, in part, of our sport by keeping mfg on the ball coming up with newer and better components, and making them readily availabe to the little guys like us. Boy I know I am gonna catch h__l over this one, but thats ok, I'm a big boy I can take the heat, bring it on! Jack