Could be registration price,parking,how long of a day 4hrs,6hrs,8 hrs ,divisions,new/ old?trophies,dash plaques?goody bags?

Attending and leaving the show.

All the punk ass bitches who think they know it all, and their crap is better than everyone else's vehicles.

We lost the only Mopar club and show we had like 10+ years ago here. I was hoping a new club would sprout up, but unfortunately the # of Mopar guys that take their cars out often enough may have shrunk enough that I'm not sure a Mopars Unlimited Show and Shine 2.0 would take hold again. Other multi-make shows have grown to be pretty large, but so many of the Mopars I used to see at those old Mopars Unlimited shows just kinda disappeared from the public after the club folded. Not sure if people sold their cars or moved away or what but it all dried up pretty fast compared to what it was years ago.

From memory when the club show existed it was cool to see people from Oregon, Washington and Nevada all show up with nice stuff and some of it was actually driven to the shows. There was always new cars coming out each year so it never got stale with the same cars over and over.

Worst thing? Not really much shade in the park where the cars were parked, and it was always in the middle of the hot part of summer so you could get cooked up pretty good. Also they let the grass in the park grow out really long so it was not easy to walk around on. I know that sounds like an odd gripe, but it was strange and was just hard to walk around on for any length of time. I think the park people let it grow long so they didn't need to use as much water to keep it green.

No real swap meet to speak of. I recall they tried doing a swap meeting thing off to the side for a few years and it was pretty small. Most Mopar guys here are hoarders and do more buying than selling so it's always been tough to pry something loose from them.

Yeah gotta love shade!Don't wanna be melting in the show or the car.People usually park with their friends.Swap meet hmmmm

Lack of shade is nearly always a problem.
Wouldn't hurt to cut it about an hour shorter.
Neither are huge problems.

I quit going to the Mopar show with all the car owner pricks, and started attending the one with the more laid back car owners. That made life a lot better, if we had not found that more laid back Mopar show, we probably wouldn't be attending the shows now.

I've encountered a couple of people like that over the years,but most of the time people are cool.

Guilty as charged.

Flyers?

Do you guys think that a good mopar show needs to have swap meet area?

We do a successful Mopar show in a park setting with no swap or for sale section, works out great for us! I am a parts hog, but I like all pure Mopar shows, I don't have time for open shows, if I want to go to one of those I just do national auctions...

Yeah there's alot of open car shows that's for someone else.Open car shows help with numbers of cars and people,but we just enjoy mopar car shows.

Besides the heat/sun my biggest problem i have with the Carlisle meet is playing music during the burnout contest. And every other second they are not talking. It's not needed and annoying. I actually e mailed them because they wanted peoples opinion of what they thought of the show. Got a response saying they will take into consideration or something along those lines. You could also say the parking and traffic situation. Other than that it is all good.

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.

My wife and I couldn't take the heat at carlisle this year as I said before.Still a great show though.

There are two Mopar only shows in my region. One is a show only, held at a Dodge dealership. The other is a combo show, race, swap held at a race track. I've enjoyed both of them although I've attended the race version more.

Biggest beefs are usually listening to the fender tag crowd belittling other people's cars. Although they are a minority at both shows, they do exist and they tend to be pretty vocal. The sun at the race centric event is pretty intense. Makes for a hot, long, day. The dealership show is held in their parking garage, so it is all out of the sun. The race event always gave out commemorative license plates, which were kind of neat. Got a wall full of them. I never had a car nice enough to win any sort of judging, so no opinion on that. It does seem a lot of guys do have heart burn over how judging is done.

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.