People knitpicking your car.

I made it through about 3 pages. I guess I'm old school and times have changed. If you go to a car show you get what you get. If you open your hood, you're inviting it. I've owned muscle cars my entire driving life, and in the '70's, that is what you did. I was cool with my car club, and I gave the Poncho crowd the benefit of the doubt, but anything else was fair game. Cruising was "put up or shut up" and if you didn't like people picking on your car... hike up your skirt and go home. As for confrontation...are you kidding me... I've seen plenty of that. I actually had a guy flick the ashes off his cigarette into the hood scoop of my Judge. Guys had padlocks in ther hood pins, or chains welded to inside of their hoods that chained the hood down. NO ONE saw the engine compartment, and if you got called out...you got called out. Where do you think the term "sleeper" came from? Pry open the wallet and pay to play. If you got a mini van, you're F'ed. Anyone who sounded complimentary would be shown the MOST IMPORTANT OPTION OF ALL, the cooler of beer in the trunk, and he'd be offered one. There was plenty of ego wrapped up in those cars, but we weren't out there for a love in.
Ahhh...good times.