Scottish Italian car day a waste of time.
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I arrived at the Scottish Italian Car day at 2pm but cars in the display were leaving. I then decided to get some lunch but the cafe only had coffee and cakes. At 2.20pm there was a mass exodus of cars. I complained that they should not be accepting people’s money if cars were leaving. Arriving at 2pm is not late for a Sunday and a show should be on until 4-5pm. A waste of time and money. Very disappointed.
Apologies. Advertised at ten means get there at nine.
On reflection it may be a southern thing that is slowly contaminating the north. But an early start does mean you can do something else that day.
The very early start, irrespective of the official start time, definitely accompanies events with autojumbles. If you're not there you'll miss the best stuff.
At 8am one Sunday morning, I met up at a Goodwood Breakfast Club with the chap who bought a car from me. He had driven up that morning from his home near Lands End.
On reflection it may be a southern thing that is slowly contaminating the north. But an early start does mean you can do something else that day.
The very early start, irrespective of the official start time, definitely accompanies events with autojumbles. If you're not there you'll miss the best stuff.
At 8am one Sunday morning, I met up at a Goodwood Breakfast Club with the chap who bought a car from me. He had driven up that morning from his home near Lands End.
The note about the event on the Hopetoun House website (assuming this is the one you are referring to) says:
"All vehicles will be at Hopetoun for opening at 11am and some may depart throughout the day from 12noon onwards."
The AROC website says:
"Whilst we appreciate some exhibitors have a distance to travel to get home and therefore wish to get on the road early, we would appreciate as many of you staying on site until 3.00pm as possible. Many people come to view our beautiful cars and not exhibit and have paid to see the great selection of Italian motoring heritage and design. It is disappointing for them if most have left early. Thank you for your support."
"All vehicles will be at Hopetoun for opening at 11am and some may depart throughout the day from 12noon onwards."
The AROC website says:
"Whilst we appreciate some exhibitors have a distance to travel to get home and therefore wish to get on the road early, we would appreciate as many of you staying on site until 3.00pm as possible. Many people come to view our beautiful cars and not exhibit and have paid to see the great selection of Italian motoring heritage and design. It is disappointing for them if most have left early. Thank you for your support."
Driver101 said:
Vasco said:
Difficult to understand why someone would turn up at 2pm when event has been on for hours. At the best, entrants will start leaving soon afterwards.
Is it? When an event is scheduled to run over a 5 hour period, what is unreasonable about turning up for 2 hours?
It is a disappointment if you pay for any show and arrive to find most have decided to go ,but in fairness to the owners most would have been on site early to get set up .I recently did the PITG show and was a free to enter to all insisted the owners be on site by 11.30 and no early leaving till 3.30 out off 186 cars only 2 made a excuse and left ,we had thousand of visitors and all enjoyed the day .
woodysnr said:
It is a disappointment if you pay for any show and arrive to find most have decided to go ,but in fairness to the owners most would have been on site early to get set up .I recently did the PITG show and was a free to enter to all insisted the owners be on site by 11.30 and no early leaving till 3.30 out off 186 cars only 2 made a excuse and left ,we had thousand of visitors and all enjoyed the day .
It's common for car shows to ask displaying cars to arrive early and leave late. Your show was free which makes a difference to me. If I was paying ticket money I wouldn't expect a mass exodus 3/5 the way through the day.
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