Shows and Awards

I mentioned in my previous post that this car has gone to three shows and one cruise-in. It has won an award at every single one. I figured I should do a post about each of the shows since I haven't been really good about keeping this blog up.  So here it goes:

Tuacahn was the first show it went to in April 2012. I actually did an entire post on that which you can see here. That was the first show we took it too. The car got second place in it's class. This show had strict MCA judging, which I actually should have read more into before the show. I was told after the show that the car would have gotten first place had I taken out the floor mats (which I didn't know I had to take out). We also had little things we weren't able to correct since we had been rushing to finish the restoration. I still think 2nd place is great considering a few weeks earlier the car was just a shell. It was still exciting getting an award.

The next show it went to was IMAFS (Intermountain Mustangs and Fords Stampede) which is held in Park City, UT every year. This show was held in August of 2012. I actually talked a little bit about this show in a previous post you can get to from here. The car took home an Award of Excellence in it's class. This show did not have strict MCA judging so they didnt have 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. They picked the top cars in each class to receive an award of excellence:

We then took it to a Cruise-in that was held at a Scaddy's by our house. I was actually surprised to get the managers choice award. The manager came and chatted with us for a few and absolutely loved the car.

Yesterday we took it to the 2013 IMAFS in Park City. It was a really fun show. We actually just put a new brake booster in it since the one we had was not working very well. It is so nice having good working brakes now! Anyways we took home an award for "Best Interior".  I was incredibly shocked at this one. There were over 200 cars there. It was just crazy for me to think that my car had the best interior out of all of the cars there. We were around when it was being judged, and the judges had only good things to say about the car. I had hoped it would get an award, but never would have dreamed it would get "Best Interior". 

So far these are the shows we have made it to. I had hoped to be able to make it to more, but life gets busy. We are trying to get the car out and drive it as much as possible so we can be sure it will be ready for Mustangs Across America in April of next year. We plan to drive it across country to attend the Mustang 50th celebration in Charlotte. So  far the car seems to drive and handle well so hopefully it will make it!