We have a fairly new Mopar club here locally. But it is populated mainly by younger guys with the newer stuff. While I don't have a problem with that, I like the cars, we have different interests when it comes to our cars. The young guys talk about which stereo they have, or does their steering wheel light up, or what shade of black their wheels are. I just can't get into those subjects.
But my biggest complaint about Mopar shows is that there in no longer a good one in or around St. Louis like Monsters was. I really, really miss that show/race.
The Mopar Blast was originally hoping to fill the void of Monster Mopar Weekend, but the lack of actual real promotion and they seem to also always put it on the exact same date as the Belevidere Mopar show doesn't help make it grow.
The main people behind it are racers and it feels like the car show is completely secondary to them.
The car show people hate being put next to the track and hate the race car noise of the cars going down the track.
It is very hard to have a conversation when it is repeatedly drowned out every couple of minutes by someone making a pass. And although I realize that many feel that the track noise is music to their ears, to others it does get old after a few hours. Let alone after a couple of days. But that never stopped me from going. It was just part of what it took to have a really good Mopar get-together that close to home.
The real Monster Mopar show had the show field and swap meet in the infield of the oval, when that stopped so did the need for me to go to that show, even though I did go a couple of times, but like said above, the show is now put on at the wrong time of the year and in the parking lot of the race track...
The car show isn't in the racer pits parking, it's literally off the end of the grand stand next to the racing area of the dragstrip.
Essentially all along the 2nd 1/8th mile of a quarter mile run, when the racecars are at top speed and loud..
It's kinda where you expect vendors to be if it was a big event..
I tried to get the guys that do the event to move the car show to the area behind the grandstands of the oval track so the noise would be lessened some and that fell on deaf ears.
The do the event on a cheap budget, it's always put on simultaneously with a Points Race and essentially it's the track that gets most of the money.
Getting the use of the oval track doubles what it normally costs to rent the track, so that isn't going to happen.
