Thread: Nsra 2010

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Originally Posted by pro70z28

The old saying "you can't please all the people all the time" seems to apply here.

Hey Gary, ya know how that translates to Norwegian...??????


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As with anything, change is inevitable. Deal with it!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Hey Gary, ya know how that translates to Norwegian...??????


WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

As with anything, change is inevitable. Deal with it!

Ya, shooore, ya' bettcha.

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Ya, shooore, ya' bettcha.

WOW!!! No idea you spoke Norwegian too!!!! Is it true that Ole and Lena are originally from yer hometown in Iowa???? Always wanted to meet them, from all the "stories" about them they've had a very interesting life!!! Can either of them read and write? Sure would like to get their autograph!!!!

Ya, I bee Iowegian. I even had an Aunt named Lena.

She would "lena'' but not so much that she would tip over.

My biggest claim to fame is being the only Norwegian to have rolled a car into the city square in Pella, Ia!!!!! (For those of you not in the know, Pella is "Mecca" to all good Hollanders and in the old days us Norweigians had to sneak into town.) Anyway, wasn't a major wreck, my old Ferd just got drunk and fell over into the square one Saturday night!!!! ----I was banned from Pella for life!!!!

It's a small world Dave. Next Weekend we are pullin' Jeff's car out to the DragList Nats. V. Jeff is going make another run at my best time from back in the early 70's "8.48". His best time to date is an 8.87. Today we are headed to the dyno to get the computer familiar with the engines after market parts and the new set of 32 lb. injectors he picked up to replace the 19's. I think my old time is in jeopardy.

Anyway I digress. A week from today we will be headed for Eddyville. We plan to spend a day in Pella before the weekend @ the DLN's. I'll be sure to check out the square to see if I can find any lingering ferd scares.

Originally Posted by hottrodd57

I understand what some of you guys are saying, but I think the nsra f$&@ up !!! I do understand that the nsra is a buss.,BUT the nationals should have stayed pre-49. And at other shows raised the date to 1972 at the latest!!
. I agree that hotrods can be expensive, but I don't think that is the reason the 40 & younger crowd are not that large at nsra shows, these were not our first cars ( I am 40) it was late 60's early70's beater muscle cars so that's what most are drawn too.
The cost of a streetrods $$$$$ is not the issue for most 30-40 year old guys who are building a car , it cost just as much or more with 60 & 70's cars to fix up. (The guys who can't afford hotrods, are the same guys that can't afford any project cars!!!) they just don't want streetrods!!
I work construction,saved my money, learned to do everything that I possible can myself, had friends help!, built my 1939 chevy coupe myself!! Except for the interior!
The car cost $3200, & it took me six years. And being honest, I have another $22,000 in it. But I did everything to the highest standard I could afford or do, I could have cut atleat$5,000 off use less expensive items on the car. I knew that the cutoff for the the nsra was pre49 so I bought a pre49 car just so I could show at the nats. Had my car at the last 2 nationals ! If the nsra wants younger members they need to do something different not just let any car come to the nsra nats.!!!! All they have done is piss off most of there core members . If they won't atleast keep the nats pre49 I hope they do close up!!!
If they stay with the current 80 cutoff the the nsra is already dead!

Bob Reynolds and the other blue shirts can piss people even if they dont change the years. They forgot long ago that the people, cars and vendors make the show but they continue to treat people as just a number on the windshield and treat the vendors even worse.
That being said I think the old guard is staying away the past 5-6 years for many reasons. Most have just found better things to do with their entertainment dollar and/or staying closer to home. Not just the NSRA but ALL car shows and I will even go as far as ALL forms of racing.
What was once a National event has turned regional and what was once regional is now local. People just are not spending the dollars to travel as much as they did. 1 or 2 less nights in a hotel and food saves you $1000 do that a few times a year and now you have some good hard cash in your hand.
So the NSRA or the movie theater around the corner has to do what ever they can to get more people involved. More years for cars or showing a hooror movie and a comedy . The more you open the field the more rooms you sell the more dinners you sell the more T-shirts you sell the easier it is to get the local community to except you next year. This also is an easier sell to the few vendors that have not pulled their rigs off the road.
I can think of a dozen vendors that no longer have rigs and crews on the road or are down sizing

Originally Posted by Hot Rod Todd

Are we having fun yet? Just remember, we are supposed to be having fun.

Hey I see pikkys of US rod runs & I dont get the lawnchair thing & I dont get the cars arriving on trailers & I dont get the power parking stuff & i dont get the importance of trophies, but you guys do all of that and you have fun doing it.

The dumb thing with boycotts is that "they" are there having fun and "you" are at home having a bleat to your wife.

I think you boycotters got it wrong

And was the Louieville Nats full of 80s cars with silly 24 inch rims? And those gangster dudes?

Still a month to go until Louisville Street Rod Minus Nationals

It's so funny to me. Back in the day, I remember my father swearing at the NSRA for not allowing 49-51 sleds in. I guess nothing's perfect.

Originally Posted by pro70z28

It's a small world Dave. Next Weekend we are pullin' Jeff's car out to the DragList Nats. V. Jeff is going make another run at my best time from back in the early 70's "8.48". His best time to date is an 8.87. Today we are headed to the dyno to get the computer familiar with the engines after market parts and the new set of 32 lb. injectors he picked up to replace the 19's. I think my old time is in jeopardy.

Anyway I digress. A week from today we will be headed for Eddyville. We plan to spend a day in Pella before the weekend @ the DLN's. I'll be sure to check out the square to see if I can find any lingering ferd scares.

While you're in Pella, could you please check to make sure the warrants have all expired????

Originally Posted by iceburgh

Bob Reynolds and the other blue shirts can piss people even if they dont change the years. They forgot long ago that the people, cars and vendors make the show but they continue to treat people as just a number on the windshield and treat the vendors even worse.
That being said I think the old guard is staying away the past 5-6 years for many reasons. Most have just found better things to do with their entertainment dollar and/or staying closer to home. Not just the NSRA but ALL car shows and I will even go as far as ALL forms of racing.
What was once a National event has turned regional and what was once regional is now local. People just are not spending the dollars to travel as much as they did. 1 or 2 less nights in a hotel and food saves you $1000 do that a few times a year and now you have some good hard cash in your hand.
So the NSRA or the movie theater around the corner has to do what ever they can to get more people involved. More years for cars or showing a hooror movie and a comedy . The more you open the field the more rooms you sell the more dinners you sell the more T-shirts you sell the easier it is to get the local community to except you next year. This also is an easier sell to the few vendors that have not pulled their rigs off the road.
I can think of a dozen vendors that no longer have rigs and crews on the road or are down sizing

Unfortunately, it's not just car show that are suffering, attendance at most any national type event is down, automotive related or not... That disposable income just isn't there...

There are so many things competing for that disposable dollar!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Unfortunately, it's not just car show that are suffering, attendance at most any national type event is down, automotive related or not... That disposable income just isn't there...

There are so many things competing for that disposable dollar!

My disposible dollars that normally go towards the Street Rod Nats are gonna send me and my son to Bonneville for Speed Week this year. We are going to Frog Follies a week after we get back.

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

While you're in Pella, could you please check to make sure the warrants have all expired????

I'll check Dave. What dates are we talkin' about again? I wonder if Lena still works the front desk down at the courthouse?

Originally Posted by pro70z28

I'll check Dave. What dates are we talkin' about again? I wonder if Lena still works the front desk down at the courthouse?

Just a couple years back....either '66 or '67.....

I haven't read this entire thread so I'm jumping in kinda' late here and I'm probably not saying anything that hasn't already been said. But, let me preface this by saying I LOVE street rods, rat rods, lead sleds, street machines, and traditional 60's/early 70's muscle cars. I very much enjoy the Good Guys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines and take my car (chopped, twice "Z-ed", slammed, '40 Chevy Sedan with full roller 496" BBC) there every year.
However, I really don't see anything wrong with events that include certain types of cars and exclude others. I mean muscle cars have their exclusive events, as do street machines, Corvettes, Fords, Chevys, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Pontiacs, Mopars, etc. Some people just want to get together with others that have interests and cars like theirs. What's wrong with that? Not a thing, IMHO. That's the very reason the NSRA was founded.
And who's this "overwhelming majority" the OP is talking about? Seems that if this thread is any indication, the "overwhelming majority" are those who are against including 30 y/o and newer cars. Personally, I could perhaps see a need to include cars up to '54 so as to give the lead sleds somewhere to go. But all the way up to 1980? Sorry, but I'll have to respectfully, but strongly disagree.
For my street rodding buddies and myself, part of the problem is we can only take so much time off from our jobs. So, like most people, we have limited choices for car shows. When the NSRA was strictly a street rod organization we would go to the Mid America Nationals in Springfield over the Memorial Day holiday, then to the Good Guys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines over the 4th of July holiday. That way we would get our street rod show fix, see all our street rod friends and vendors, talk street rods, admire almost 3000 street rods, get new ideas for our street rods, and then we were ready to go see everything else at the Heartland Nationals in Des Moines. That's the reason I sold my '66 Nova street machine...so I could buy a street rod and participate in both events with all my friends. Then after Des Moines we would go to the Early Tin Dusters street rod only event in Quincy, Il in October.
I personally know of 9 street rodders and their families from our area in southern Iowa alone who will no longer be going to Springfield and who will be discontinuing their membership with the NSRA because of the decision to include 30 y/o and newer cars. I'm not really angry or pissed off so much as I'm just really disappointed with this decision. We need an exclusive street rod organization like the NSRA used to be. The only street rod exclusive event we have left within a few hours drive is Quincy and it is just a show, not a national organization and show. However, it is extremely well run and it remains my favorite event to participate in.
Well, I must say it was nice while it lasted for my street rod buddies and myself. Springfield (NSRA Mid America Nationals) was a great time. We would stay in Osage Beach, Mo. and drive into Springfield each day of the event. The drive was a beautiful one and half the fun. But since we already go to an all inclusive event in Des Moines, Springfield won't reveal much new for us so we'll spend our time elsewhere. Really too bad...and I do mean that.
OK, those are my feelings as honestly as I can state them. But it's only one person's opinion. And apparently I'm not in the "overwhelming majority". See ya's in Quincy.


Tom