Personally, I have never cared for people putting flyers in my car at car shows. They should just hand them out. If we happen to step away for a bit, we can come back and have paper in the seat of the car. While I don't think that it is cool, I haven't made an issue of it. At least not like a phord guy that was parked a car or two away from us at a Saturday car show. He went off on some guy dropping a show flyer in his car and it almost got out of hand. Quite a show at the show.

So, most of us here hit car shows. Or at least used to. Are you okay with strangers coming up and dropping show flyers and other such papers in the seat of your car? Personally, I think it would be better if they just handed them out to people rather than to put them in our cars.

What say you?

It's just a piece of paper with info about other shows so it's no big deal to me. It's not like they opened the car to let a few toddlers in with ice cream & a box of Sharpies.

Yeah, it's cool with me. In some cases it's the only way I hear about shows near me, so I'm happy to get them.

easy solution.. if you don't want flyers in the car, roll up the windows. if you don't mind flyers in the car, leave the windows down..

If ita car show related great.. Unless its advertising an all chevy show.
If it's a flyer for something stupid like a roofing company or driveway sealing that's a problem.

It's a good way to advertise other car events. But wouldn't handing them out to people directly do a better job of getting the word out? Folks other than just the car show participants would get them.

It did get a little more involved this weekend, there were restaurant flyers as well as car event flyers. Probably a dozen or so different ones.

Or just relax. It's a piece of paper. It's not going to hurt anything.

Life is short, fight the big stuff.

If is really a big concern, hit where it hurts, just take your business elsewhere.

I appreciate the flyers; they have led me to some great events I might not have otherwise known about. I also help promote a few shows, if there are people in lawn chairs near the car, I ask them if they prefer I hand them the flyer. Otherwise, I drop it into the car. Sometimes I will put it on their lawn chairs. Printing can get expensive, no way I can afford to randomly hand them out to the crowd as the money from the local shows generally goes to a charity.

Man, no kidding! If it's nothing I'm interested in, the flyer goes straight into the round bin, no worries.

Since most car shows are in the warmer months, rolled up windows create an oven. And then they might just shove the flyer under your wiper blades. Better the show producers ban the activity, same as spam in your e-mail box.

I Like what Old Mopraz said: It's just a piece of paper with info about other shows so it's no big deal to me. It's not like they opened the car to let a few toddlers in with ice cream & a box of Sharpies. 😂🤣

Non car related IMO is a no-no. Restaurant flyers? If it's a big out of town show MAYBE
If it is something that bothers you PLEASE read the following

When I decided to take my business full time, I had just been laid off and had about 1K in the bank. I will mention it was limited to repairing and restoring pre 1980 vehicles. The 1K wasn't going to go very far. I clearly remember thinking I was nuts as I took about $350 of it to by a color inkjet printer. But I thought if I was going to make flyers for the business, they had to speak for the business and B&W wasn't gonna hack it. So I proceeded and spent quite a bit of time learning how to do so.
We went to the first local show and I sat in the truck intimidated at the thought as I felt like I was asking for a handout. My wife sensing this grabbed a stack and started walking . I thought if she can do it so can I. We came home with two new customers At the smaller shows I would take both cars with a Small table set up between them with flyers and business cards.
Somewhere along the way I stopped as the business had grown to the point I no longer needed to do so. I eventually was supporting 4 full time employees. That was partly because of the flyers
At the beginning I made a commitment to myself that as soon as I had enough business and a bit of reserve I would drop unemployment. That happened within 6 weeks due to the Flyers. I could have stayed on it for at least 6-9 months but that is not what it's for IMO.
Occasionally people would stop me and ask for one, I would hand them one and say "I'm just trying to stay off public assistance" 😉.

In the 1 or so years (?) I papered interiors I only had ONE J-O get excited about it (he was a Ford Guy as well ?). During that time I'll guess I probably distributed 7500 flyers maybe more . 1 out of 7500? That might say something about the individual The cars I could remember having previously done, I did not do again. I also had a few that said "hey I've already got several in my glove box" to which I'd reply I'll give you.03 apiece as they cost me ~ about .05 cents LOL. I'd try to remember not to do them again.

So, I'd like to ask those that are upset by it, think about what the person, business or organization my be struggling with and remember it's just a piece of paper I hope this was not offensive to anyone and if so I apologize. It's just looking from the other side of the fence

Another good alternate idea is to have them put in the 'goody bag' if there is one. There were several businesses that did that this weekend.

There just seems like there are better and more productive ways to advertise than to put flyers in stranger's show cars. Not everyone appreciates it even if it appears that most Mopar guys here do. Still, it could lead to more entertainment at an otherwise boring show. It looked for a minute Saturday that those two guys were gonna give us a real show. The phord didn't like them being put in his car and the guy with the flyers didn't like the way he was told not to.

Or have a table dedicated to flyers wherein everybody can take the ones that interest them...that way everybody at the show can see/choose, not just the participants.

Wait, their flyer says they treat EVERY customers car as "though it were their own?" I don't want a shop going out and doing burnouts in my car!

This

Seen it at more then a few shows in WI

When you are registering your car for the show , paying , your already at the tables , have another table set up with all the flyers like mentioned

Our first local show is usually around the first weekend in May - Huge show if the weather is decent , have seen snow flakes more then once

Everyone and I mean everyone is there handing out flyers - One year I had over 50 in my car as I had left my car there and disappeared for awhile

Lesson learned on the windows - I don’t mind it , took five minutes to clean out , but didn’t look very good at a Car Show

After detailing my interior so that it looks it’s best, it ticks me off to come back and find flyers scattered in the front seat…

Harmless paper so it would not bother me.

Odds are those that are super offended are the same types that walk around their car 25 times during the show with a car duster and micro fiber towels trying to keep every last thing from touching their car.

Yeah then they stick them under the windshield wiper when the windows are up.