A&Q about Lotus
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So, having been very active with Porsche for the last 7 years, I went to enjoy it, and drove the Elise. They talked me into showing it as "display" even though it was a Porsche Concours.
This little car showed very well. I was next to one of the Carrera GT's and literally, it still stole the show. The down side is there are a lot of inconsiderate people who put their paws all over and I picked up some light scratches, but oh well, I can fix 'em.
There was a photographer there and he took some nice pics. The link is below.
My car is the only Lotus out of all these.
Porsche Concours
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Ahhhhhh, the joys of car shows, yep never ceases to amaze me the behavior of people walking around other peoples cars!!
Great show! Guy took some nice pics.
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It's a car. I understand if people were groping a painting, but it bugs me when people get mad that someone "touched" their car.
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I was invited to a car show a few weeks ago held at the university near here (UNC-Charlotte). It was organized by a student group. Had a good turn out of around 50 cars.
I was directed to park on the edge of the lot. The little Elise was surrounded by a Maserati Quattroporte, Bentley Continental, AMG/Mercedes V12 (i didn't get the model number) and a BMW M6 with a carbon fiber roof. Easily over half a million dollars of machinery.
But the little Elise had a advantage. All of the high end cars on that side were silver or black. The Chrome Orange was like a flame! I had a crowd of folks surrounding the car and asking questions.
At the end of the day I was surprised to learn that I was voted best of show, and received a trophy to boot!
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Originally Posted by AnsisK
It's a car. I understand if people were groping a painting, but it bugs me when people get mad that someone "touched" their car.
Ah Ansis, you must not have done too many car shows. The touching isn't the problem, it's the mothers opening the doors of your car and helping their little kids get in it to climb all over the upholstery with their ice cream covered paws, this really happened to be, never would've believed it.
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Originally Posted by AnsisK
It's a car. I understand if people were groping a painting, but it bugs me when people get mad that someone "touched" their car.
Well, I think if it's not yours and you did not ask permission you should not touch someone else's car. Unless your willing to pay for it on the spot. People pay a lot of money for these things so you can at least respect that fact and give the vehicle a little space.
This is something I keep in mind whether at a car show, at the mall, wherever.
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Originally Posted by AnsisK
It's a car. I understand if people were groping a painting, but it bugs me when people get mad that someone "touched" their car.
Wow... what a clueless statement.
So I guess it's ok to grope, potentially scratch, and do whatever with someone else's property as long as it's not a painting?
It's not about "touching" but touching leads to scratching and other worse things that can happen.
It's also the principal. It's ignorant and worse, inconsiderate.
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Originally Posted by JnC
I was invited to a car show a few weeks ago held at the university near here (UNC-Charlotte). It was organized by a student group. Had a good turn out of around 50 cars.
I was directed to park on the edge of the lot. The little Elise was surrounded by a Maserati Quattroporte, Bentley Continental, AMG/Mercedes V12 (i didn't get the model number) and a BMW M6 with a carbon fiber roof. Easily over half a million dollars of machinery.
But the little Elise had a advantage. All of the high end cars on that side were silver or black. The Chrome Orange was like a flame! I had a crowd of folks surrounding the car and asking questions.
At the end of the day I was surprised to learn that I was voted best of show, and received a trophy to boot!
LOL! I got that award too, but they had to give it a Porsche instead.
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I've worked for a Ferrari club doing security for their little shows. I can understand if someone is pushing their bicycle between two parked cars, something can definitely go wrong there, but 99% of the times where a car was touched, they weren't approaching any damage to the car or the finish. The required energy to scratch a car is something I'd maybe see once a night, and then it's a case of blatant ignorance (or drunkedness) that could get the person removed from the event. I don't mind those kinds of cases, because that kind of "looking" is not appreciated, but when owners are constantly breathing fire on me because someone ran their finger along the taillight of their 308, then I get a rather bad taste in my mouth.
You cannot prevent people from touching your car in a public space.
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I hear ya. So, would a 18 or 19 year old girl sitting on your car with rhinestone studded jeans bother you?
That's a little too far, and not once by twice did I see someone w/ jeans sitting on my car.
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Cool of the Porsche folks to include others in their show. Sure a lot of pictures of your car.
On the touching issue, I think most people are careful when they touch. Its the inadvertent scrapes and scratches from people not paying attention when they walk by that causes the most damage. Car shows are great fun. I had mine at a British Car Show up here a couple of weeks ago. There were over 1000 British cars. It was in a big park with a gravel road that you had to take to find your spot on the grass. IMO its worth a few little scratches.
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I didnt mind this at all.
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The keys in the blond's right hand will scratch the car!!! I guess she will "buff it out" with that skirt.
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It wouldn't scratch the plastic bit she's got them resting on though...
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Originally Posted by AnsisK
It wouldn't scratch the plastic bit she's got them resting on though...
I don't care what anyone says, its extremely rude to touch someone's car...especially when a paint job on a car like this would cost an arm and a leg due to the metallic paint. When I first got mine (and was much more protective of her) I came out of a mall to find a fatass leaning over the rear of my baby trying to look into the engine compartment and the cockpit. Needless to say his beer gut rested nicely over his WWF sized belt buckle which was resting nicely on the top of my rear clam. Luckily for him I didn't find any scratches back there...which still amazes me. And although there isn't anything much cooler than having a hot chick sit on your car....I don't know if I could stomach it...my last car got some nice scratches from rivets on a pretty girls jeans.
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Originally Posted by AnsisK
It's a car. I understand if people were groping a painting, but it bugs me when people get mad that someone "touched" their car.
It's just a painting.
It bugs me that people think it's ok to touch other people's property because it's just a ________. So what if it's harmless? It's not yours. Don't touch it.
It's a car show, not a petting zoo.
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Originally Posted by Keeper
It's just a painting.
It bugs me that people think it's ok to touch other people's property because it's just a ________. So what if it's harmless? It's not yours. Don't touch it.
It's a car show, not a petting zoo.
+1
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If you're displaying your car in a public space you cannot expect nobody to touch it.
It's not ignorance either, it's curiosity. It's the same thing as your lovable appreciation of other people's eyes following your car wherever you drive it. It's part of owning anything expensive or unique, people will want to know more, want to see it closer, want to touch it. It is human nature. It's a risk you take when you show your car in a public space, also when you bought it.
What can you do to prevent human nature? Not much, maybe block off people's access to be near your car wherever you go. I wouldn't bring my child to see a car that they can't get closer than 25 feet to. That's why you see charity events where people can get as close to the car as possible, including drive it. The closer you get, the higher the exhileration, which generates interest, and more money if that is what you're going for.
People will always want to get close. It's not because they were raised wrong.
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If they get close that's fine. If they touch it, they were raised wrong.
I understand the risk when I show my car. That's not the point. The point is you shouldn't touch it, just like the painting you referred to early. (And I've been to art exhibits and I've seen people touch paintings as well.)
Human nature isn't an excuse for improper or unaccepted social behavior.
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For myself, there are far worse social issues to worry about than someone simply touching my car. I'll save my energy for those matters, which for anyone raised right, are far more important than a scratched car.