We’re on it!
We’re now getting ready for our 15th season, which is really our 14th because of the lockdown, and, no we’re not 15 years old yet. That happens in April 2024. Come on, most of you are still wearing socks older than us! Let’s be honest.
Our first rainout of the season is expected on April 1, as usual. We’ll then have a dozen more rainy days, but somewhere in there will be opening day. We just shoot for April 1 like a fat guy shoots for a diet.
We’re working on our calendar now and it should be up soon with all the special dates and invisible shows. No, the 20th is NOT German Car Day yet, in spite of what a club has down. We’re working around a lot of considerations and want the best possible weather for all special days. We do what we can to pick the best possible special days, which is why they are special.
We’ll also refresh our criteria page so watch that before opening day as well. We’re always allowing something new while taking something off the list because it’s not what most of you want to see. Still no Type Rs until 2079.
It’s amazing what doesn’t show up on our invisible show days. Think of any of the greatest movie cars of all time. They were not here. Think of Evel Knievel’s rocket bike. You can’t see that either. We’re guessing there will be two or three invisible shows in 2023 because of Monterey and other Redmond Town Center schedule conflicts.
We’re having an internal debate about an American Car Day (Including Canada and South America), but we have no idea what that would look like. Other than Corvettes, Ford GTs, and classics, we’re not sure what we should or shouldn’t allow. We’re not thrilled by the Mustang car-show-killers that plague other shows. YouTube has those archives. We’d love your comments on it so write us. We will have the other usual special days this season.
Even though we have incredible volunteers who are all coming back, we could always use more to give the Thugs a break. Write us if you’re interested in joining the Beloved Thugs. You will make some new badly needed friends. You may even lose a few, but it’s still fun.
We love it when you write us about your thoughts on how we can improve. That one guy who hates the blog, well, there is just no pleasing everyone. We’re here to have fun. That’s the spirit of all this and heck if that’s hard for you, Disneyland will really suck.
For the last few years, we’ve gone to a no-warning-complete-ban on cars that behave badly with great results, so we’re going to continue that rule. Come in or exit hot, or do a high speed flyby or behave badly in Redmond, and we boot you out for good. Yes, GramGram, you too. We don’t want you kicked out of the home again. Don’t even start.
We want a safe well-respected show and we won’t let basement dwellers in dad’s car ruin it for us. We’re going to start talking about it now because opening day is always when the police get to make a yummy dinner for you in jail. They call it a Really Unhappy Meal.
Stay tuned!