Garage Queens and Show Cars

[ConorE]

As an opposite of the 'Used and abused' thread, let's show the care that we can give our cars, and present the passion put into making than look as they are. So, let's see your restoration projects, garage queens and show cars...

[DanielSan]

Garage queens - the one thing I can never understand. It's a car, stop polishing it and go and use it!

[Cotty]

My E30 touring on the E30Zone stand at the Ultimate BMW show at Santa Pod. Also featured in Total BMW Magazine. But definitely not a garage queen, had a few runs down the strip as well.

[vixen1700]

Can't understand it either.

Remember going to a lot of MG events in the late '80s in my scruffy BGT V8 and seeing people cleaning wheels for the concours with toothbrushes. WTF? Drive the damn thing!

[Cotty]

vixen1700 said:

Can't understand it either.

Remember going to a lot of MG events in the late '80s in my scruffy BGT V8 and seeing people cleaning wheels for the concours with toothbrushes. WTF? Drive the damn thing!

Why can't you do both?

[B'stard Child]

DanielSan said:

Garage queens - the one thing I can never understand. It's a car, stop polishing it and go and use it!

Sometimes you have to fix em in the garage - does that make them a garage queen (5 years and counting for one of mine)

[ConorE]

I guess it's just different mindsets. I personally like seeing vehicles looking as pristine as possible (probably the perfectionist in me ),and others like to just get in and drive.

[Steve Benson]

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No garage queen though, no point in building it if your not going to use it. Will be out later today, good job it has a good heater.

[Cotty]

I was getting an MOT a few years back and there was a 911 in front. The only miles it had done that years was to and from the MOT station, what a waste.

[B'stard Child]

Steve Benson said:

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No garage queen though, no point in building it if your not going to use it. Will be out later today, good job it has a good heater.

Please tell me you have a build thread on here?

[ConorE]

Steve Benson said:

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No garage queen though, no point in building it if your not going to use it. Will be out later today, good job it has a good heater.

Top work sir.

[Spoof]

its not seen rain in nearly 3 years now. I used to track it quite a bit, but its too rare and valuable now so unfortunately spends most of its time here.

[vixen1700]

Cotty said:

Why can't you do both?

Well done.

Some of the cars I used to see at those MG events were trailered there and cleaned again on arrival. With toothbrushes.

[ConorE]

Spoof said:

its not seen rain in nearly 3 years now. I used to track it quite a bit, but its too rare and valuable now so unfortunately spends most of its time here.

These are the sort of cars that I was talking about when I started the thread- they don't have to be kept in a garage, but just kept as close to perfect as possible whilst still being enjoyed!

[DanielSan]

B'stard Child said:

Sometimes you have to fix em in the garage - does that make them a garage queen (5 years and counting for one of mine)

That's slightly different. Anyway, what are you doing on here - go and fix more things

[DanielSan]

ConorE said:

These are the sort of cars that I was talking about when I started the thread- they don't have to be kept in a garage, but just kept as close to perfect as possible whilst still being enjoyed!

I'd argue that's no longer being enjoyed, no longer sees rain and isn't tracked anymore. It's just an ornament. Go forth and track it. Just make sure its insured and an agreed valuation is done, all is well then. No financial loss if you bin it, and still doing something the car was intended to do.

[B'stard Child]

DanielSan said:

B'stard Child said:

Sometimes you have to fix em in the garage - does that make them a garage queen (5 years and counting for one of mine)

That's slightly different. Anyway, what are you doing on here - go and fix more things

[rossub]

These threads always end up the same. You don't NEED to understand why people do this. It's THEIR car and they can use it (or not) in any manner that Pleases THEM, not others.

I hate to think of classic cars being used on salty roads, but if people want to do that, then its not my place to try and tell them not to.

....I don't clean wheels with toothbrushes however

[Steve Benson]

B'stard Child said:

Steve Benson said:

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No garage queen though, no point in building it if your not going to use it. Will be out later today, good job it has a good heater.

Please tell me you have a build thread on here?

Yes it was in classic cars and yesterdays hero's but can't see it now, search Healey 3000 restoration - which direction? and it should come up.

[B'stard Child]

Steve Benson said:

Yes it was in classic cars and yesterdays hero's but can't see it now, search Healey 3000 restoration - which direction? and it should come up.

Found it

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=101...

Steve you know you can "bookmark" your own threads so you always know where they are