At Car shows why do some people

[TRWRacing]

find the need that they need to touch the vintage vehicles. I get upset when they touch mine or someone else's automobile. I once had someone scratch my 1971 Dodge Demon with original top bananna paint and it went the length of the rear quarter panel with the button on their jean jacket. I saw the event in person as it happen.

[jmitch8011]

Re: At Car shows why do some people

too much ahhhh this feels nice and not enought ohh I better not touch that that!

[Mr Mustang]

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I lean in really close, but being the clean paint freak I am, I hold my breath, so I dont even breath on the car!

" It could get wrecked, stolen, scratched, breathed on wrong... a pigeon could [] on it! Who knows?" - Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off


[Edited for implied language. Please refer to the Forum Rules, Thanks, Tim]

[Superior_Details]

Re: At Car shows why do some people

just hearing that freaks me out, most people outside of all of us that suffer from OCD dont really care about cars

[03mach1]

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I was showing my Mustang someone had to touch it and left a nice hand print on the fender. They were leaning into the engine bay to get a closer look at something so they used my car to lean over it. (politly) I told him to get off my car and to not touch. When ever I go to a car show I do not wear a belt or jeans becuase of the studs on the jeans and the belt buckle.

[RaskyR1]

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Drives me nuts too! My father schooled me in the DO NOT TOUCH the cars when I was very young.

I usually had mine roped off, of course then you had to worry about people knocking them into the car.

[J. A. Michaels]

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Rasky I like your solution. That works real good.

[sdprius858]

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just hearing that freaks me out, most people outside of all of us that suffer from OCD dont really care about cars

What are you talking about? I dont have OCD, i have CDO

[Sal329]

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I am extra carefull around cars at shows, like walking around a store with fine china (except Im not being dragged against my will lol)

[TimG]

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Some people are just attracted with the shiny paint job/car itself. Their natural intuition is to "touch" and feel the paint/car.

There was a car exhibition last weekend at my place and I purposely went to see them 1hr before they closed and guess what! - cars- full of handprints (not finger prints but full hand prints) all over the cars, scratches and even ice cream on the interior.

Funny part is even there some kind of barricade around the cars, people still can push it somehow to lean closer to the cars.

me - i dont touch the cars as I respect the work and passion went in to prep the cars for shows.

Tim

[chris-sd]

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scratching by any means ,accidental or not, is not cool

i want to touch,talk,smell ,sit in a car

maybe car shows in the future will just be pictures of the actual cars

[ClassicConcepts]

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I hate when a person taps on the car and asks "is it real?" Some people have no clue
I've even had people crawl into the teardrop to "try it out"!!! I have a rope across the doorway with a sign that says this is my bedroom, look but don't touch and they crawl in anyway.....

[TRWRacing]

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I have had them bang on the fenders step onto the running boards and shake the whole vehicle on my vintage Model T and I say something and they react like that don't understand a word I just said. I put signs but I think certain individuals see what they can get away with like playing with the horn.

[Mike Phillips]

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At our Saturday classes, after we wipe the wax off the test spots, there's always a handful of people that instinctively walk up to the car and touch the paint.

I usually watch for this and if I can stop them so that they don't leave any fingerprints or smudges on the "after" sections so that we can pull the car outside and everyone can inspect the results and we can get pictures without any smudges or smears.

Happens every class....