I remember my Dad taking me & a buncha my buddies to a car show for my 8th birthday. Growing up a TV baby planted in front of the console color Magnavox in SoCal, If you saw something in the flesh that was on TV it was a big deal.This show so much cool Hollywood themed stuff it was incredible.
The Batmobile
The Monkeemobile
The 007 Bond Aston Martin
The Munster Koach&Dragula
Sonny & Cher's Mustangs to name what I remember.
Plus Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in a booth personally highlighting
his Rat Fink T-Shirts with airbrush
Pretty heady stuff for a little kid.I still fondly remember it as my best B-day party ever.
The Batmobile
The Monkeemobile
The 007 Bond Aston Martin
The Munster Koach&Dragula
Sonny & Cher's Mustangs to name what I remember.
Plus Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in a booth personally highlighting
his Rat Fink T-Shirts with airbrush
Pretty heady stuff for a little kid.I still fondly remember it as my best B-day party ever.
My dad was never into cars as much as I am, so we didn't frequent alot of car shows back in the day, but I love them. When I have kids, they'll be well schooled in the awesomeness of the American car show, and they'll probably get mad at me for never shutting up about the details of each and every car out there.
My Dad wasn't much on car shows - which is good, because there really weren't any organized shows around here until after I became an adult - but we would go down and look at the new Fords/Mercury's every year. Every once in a great long while, we'd come home in one, too!
At the risk of being 'politically INcorrect'; "Take your kid Fishing and Hunting" It's a great way to teach them about "the outdoors" (without them "learning" it from some Xbox fantasy game); teach them respect for the open areas of this land; and (in today's society, this will be REALLY "politically incorrect") teach them how to become self-reliant!
That last I fear may be very necessary sometime in the not-too-distant future.
At the risk of being 'politically INcorrect'; "Take your kid Fishing and Hunting" It's a great way to teach them about "the outdoors" (without them "learning" it from some Xbox fantasy game); teach them respect for the open areas of this land; and (in today's society, this will be REALLY "politically incorrect") teach them how to become self-reliant!
That last I fear may be very necessary sometime in the not-too-distant future.