Crash and Val had a great time at the North Georgia Mopar Club‘s 2011 Mopar Challenge show. Val didn’t win any awards, but she garnered a bunch of grins, elicited more than a few laughs and raised a great deal of awareness about the great work of American Diabetes Association and March of Dimes. Read on for additional show highlights, a slideshow of all the great Mopars featured at the show and a few funny moments involving Val.
There were so many wonderful Mopars at the show that Crash quickly lost count. Click the image below to view the slideshow and see if you can count them all!
Judgement Day
Crash didn’t realize it at the time, but when he registered Val for the Mopar Challenge show, she was entered as a contender in the “Survivor” class. For the first time ever, the North Georgia Mopar Club had engaged a team of professional show car judges to examine all the contenders and select winners. When the judges showed up at Val’s sunny patch of the show and asked Crash to open her hood and trunk, Crash just couldn’t say no. After all, Val was looking as best as she was going to that day. As a bonus, the fire extinguisher in Val’s trunk had discharged for no apparent reason only a few minutes before, coating the trunk and much of the interior with a layer of fine white dust.
The two distinguished gentlemen judges did their best to keep straight faces while completing their examination, but were grinning and chuckling by the time they were done with Val. (And, hey! They awarded her the five points for having a fire extinguisher on board, despite the fact that it just had discharged.)
Bigger is Better
As part of the Mopar Challenge show, the organizers conducted a 50/50 raffle wherein half the proceeds would go to the show’s overall winner and the other half would go to the person holding the winning ticket. One option for buying tickets was to put $20 into the kitty and receive however many tickets fit into the length of the buyer’s car. Well, the organizers apparently hadn’t considered the sheer distance from nose to tail of a 1973 Plymouth Valiant, and wound up forking over 80+ tickets for a measly $20. No car at the show, except perhaps the 1970 Superbird, could have provided a better bargain.
(Despite the record-setting number of tickets, Crash and Val did not win the raffle.)
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