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Its Saturday morning and I pack up my truck and head to the show grounds of the current show. As I am getting registered and cleaned up for a good showing my friends and I watch as the other participants roll in. While cleaning I am joking with my friends, checking out the ladies and watching my wheels get shinier and shinier, when one of my friends points out a truck that is what some would call “old school”. As we finish our cleaning we sit around watching this guy shine up his five stars and dust off his ground effects and laughing about how sorry his truck is. We laugh and we laugh and then once he is done putting out his library of magazines he starts heading our way. “Oh no here he comes” whispers my friend to me as I open another beer and hop out of my chair to go find some dirt on my truck somewhere, anything just to dodge him. Everybody blows him off, when all he wanted to do is say hi or maybe get some pointers or maybe even get our opinion on something , but we disregard him so he goes back to his chair behind his truck to sit by himself. Well, as the hours press on and the show comes to an end it comes time for the awards. Awards, the time to separate the men from the boys. Of course all the best rides will win, so of course I will place in my class, hell I might get a best of. As the announcer speaks his pre-award bullshit (that nobody listens to) we are still sitting there laughing about the guy with the ghetto truck. Here comes our classes 3rd, 2nd,1st, he did not call our names, there must be a mess up. After we see there is no mess up at all we walk back to the truck to pack up. While I am packing up I look across the lane at the guy with the ghetto and see him packing up his first place trophy that he had just won. Then the guy with the ghetto truck gets in his truck and drives past us honks and waves bye, But he left something behind, it is his classification card, so I ran over to grab it and see what kind of easy class he was in. Well needless to say that easy class was my class.
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Losing is not a big deal to some of us, we go to these shows and we get beat by some worthy trucks. But for this guy winning is a great accomplishment for him. This might have been his first show and his pride and hard work has won him this award. By winning this award it might change his whole outlook on this great sport. The sad thing is that instead of people changing his views it had to be a ten dollar trophy. We are all in this sport together trying to get more people involved, so no matter what the ride looks like, the person behind it has pride in it. So before you go laughing at a ride, laugh with the owner first and lets get this “trend” larger than life. - Chas Nichols
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