Pardeeville Car Show 2009

as always a great car show for a wonderful cause. dedicated staff to help all people to have a enjoyable time.

great show

Been to all 6, largest by far of all shows I have been to. Must have been atleast 30 cars in my class, never thought I would have a chance to win, so left early to get out easier. I was told later that I ended up getting 2nd, that seems to be the way it goes the only show I don't stay for awards and the only one I would have one. It was a beutiful day with graet cars anyway, I will always go back.

This was a wonderful show and was one of the better shows I attended this year. It was primarily church supported with alot of community support as well. I met Vicki one of the main organizers of this show at the Blanchard-ville Char Show and promised I would attend. I am glade I did it was a great time.There was so many Volunteers working their tail off to give us a perfect experience and that they did. What impressed me the most was I did not see any of the volunteers grumbling. Nice show!

This show is the biggest judged show all year! One of my new favs for sure. Very very very well ran. tHE JUDGES HAD SO MANY CARS TO JUDGE THIS YEAR AND I KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS BECAUSEI JUDGED LAST YEAR!

Best trophies of the year!

My hats off to you guys. Good job to all those that put on the show! Ill be back next year for sure.

Overall a great show. Plenty of cars and trucks, and a lot of hardwork is put into this. Wouldn't want to be a judge at this one, too much competition to have to be judge and jury on!!!

Congrats to MMRJR, circletrack, Eclipse_Tuner, and DDHemi on there win's!

This show is a fundraiser for a Christian organization that sends missionaries overseas. We have been to it the past three years, first as a spectator and the past two as a judged entrant. We had two very nice experiences and this year quite a bad one. We have watched the show grow exponentially--to 526 cars this year. This is one of the problems I would point out—it has become large quickly and clearly hard to manage. We came to this show because it listed a class for Import Cars, 1900-1990. Last year the show people were friendly and helpful, and things went smoothly from the time we arrived. This year, with two exceptions, show people were short and unfriendly from the time we arrived.

When we pulled up we were asked if the car was stock and we were put in the wrong class. When we noticed the problem and asked to be put in the right class we were repeatedly questioned as to why we were in the wrong class in the first place. Our car ended up being judged partially by two judges (in part because a different judge who was about to look over our car needed to leave the show, and according to an organizer, it was hard to find a replacement). The first judge studied underneath the car, and the second judge did not read the information on the windshield, including the show’s placard. When we had inquired nicely, one time, late in the judging period as to when our car would be judged, an organizer was defensive and rude.

Alone, these things would not have mattered and could have been regarded as just things that can happen. But as the trophies were being awarded, we heard a car announced that was sixteen years too new to be in the class. I immediately made my way to the back of the awards area and spoke to the organizer (the same person with whom I had spoken about getting into the right class, he is also the person I was referred to regarding when/if our car would be judged). I calmly and nicely said that a car had been announced that was the wrong year to have been in the class, but from the moment I mentioned this it was clear he did not want to deal with it. Among the things this organizer said was that I should have come up earlier to tell him, and when I tried to tell him that is just what I had done he interrupted me and asked me if I wanted my money back, and continued to interrupt/talk over me each time I attempted to speak. He made excuses for how it happened and why he was not intending to do something to fix it. At one point he looked at his score sheet and it was clear that the next car in the order was also several years too new to be in the class. Among the other things he suggested was: that I shouldn’t make so much of this, that the import class is something they started because people were asking for it and that it’s difficult to manage; he also repeated himself, kept moving away from me as I tried to talk with him, and very angrily said I shouldn’t have seen the sheet with the order of cars because it was personal information (but he basically showed it to me) and very importantly, he never acknowledged the mistakes nor offered any apology for them.

One of the Pastors, at the beginning of the awards presentation had said a prayer that included a mention of how much talent and time is put into the cars. Our time and energy was not acknowledged by this organizer and further, I was criticized for caring too much because I wanted the awards to be given to cars that belonged in the class. One final comment: judged shows are subjective, there is no way of eliminating it and “beauty” is always, and should be, “in the eye of the beholder”. But at a judged show, especially one that emphasizes trophies, there should be consistent standards applied to evaluating cars. Theatrical props, for example, are not part of a car, and should not affect the points awarded for the overall quality of a judged car presented at a show.

It was a great show, huge variety of cars covering pretty much all genres.

We will definatly be back.

Only things they need to adjust is getting more garbage cans around the grounds, and break down some of the classes...and add a trailer queen class!!!

Geat day for a car show. Over 500 cars, must of been hard to judge, many nice choices.