For only the second time this year I spent a weekend day at a car show. My roommate and I went to the NAPA Auto Parts 10th Annual Joe Mama's Car Show in Jerome, ID. My roommate and his dad entered their cars and I just went to take pictures and just enjoy a weekend that I wasn't working on my car. Since it's a car show in Idaho of course the majority of cars at the show were hotrods and muscle cars but there were some other stuff as well.
While Jerome is a bit of a drive on our way down there we passed several of the cars that would eventually show up at the show as well. We passed a few members of the Idaho British Car Club even slowing down to take a closer look at the very clean looking Bug-eye Sprite. Once there we got parked in a section past all the other import cars and next to a Buick Turbo Regal and a large jacked up Jimmy so the Mazda RX-8 seemed a bit out of place. Guess that happens when you show up just a bit late to the registration. There was another Mazda RX-8 there but other than smoked lenses rims and a cold air intake it was pretty standard fair. Actually for import cars it was pretty meh nothing to exciting and pretty generic really. I did see one EVO with a different Carbon Fiber spoiler that I liked there.
Then I found my holy grail of the show a lovely white Porsche 911 Turbo only slightly ruined by the vinyl graphic. Sadly though it was the only Porsche there. Although I did find some restorods/ratrod Volkswagens there close by and while I don't really care for the look there was a very nice pristine looking VW bug just sitting outside the show. It of course had to park next to a bunch of outhouses so made for an interesting picture. Then we found the group of cars from the British Car Club that we had passed earlier and say a nice example of a Morgan and the Bug-eye Sprite that when it left the show didn't sound anything like a little British car taking off.
Then there were was everything else from the new and old muscle cars to the trailer queen show car hotrods and other hotrods to even the large turn out of the new ratrod collective. Flat/satin color schemes were popping up everywhere but at least it wasn't all black this time around. Also say a bit more non-metal parts being covered in Rhino-lining type material as well. There was even a selection of Rock-crawlers and other off-roaders including one decked out Suzuki Samurai.
I didn't see much that was just awful but as I really hate gaudy lowriders I did snap a picture of a very lame lowrider that I just couldn't see how it won trophies but hey it's one of those two each their own and while I'd just as soon use it as a target for a well aimed RPG I'm sure the owner loves it.
In addition to all of that were some race cars. A few "real" Nascar cars and a handful of drag racers and while I wasn't really interested in them they did put on a spectacular show. Probably one of the less politically correct things going on at the car show actually was the demonstrations and show offs done by the race cars. One of the Nascars did a pit stop show and revved it's engine. While the drag cars fired up their engines as well with a bit more flame involved. The Jelly Belly funny car did a spectacular fireball show that smelled a bit like candy. When the jet powered funny car did the same it was really large fireball and smoke show. There was even a short little burnout down the street by one of the drag cars as well. We didn't really get up close and personal to that stuff though as it was really load and the throng of people at the front was pretty insane.
All in all it was an OK show, I would have liked more, nicer, import and euro cars and less well you pretty much know the rest. It was great to get out of the house and look at cars even if I didn't like them all it was still fun. There are a few more shows during the rest of the year the Italian and Porsche shows are still around the corner thankfully so I'll be looking forward to those two shows.
