Unpopular opinion. I'm so frustrated I hate car shows/cruises.

Anytime I can meet a person that becomes a good friend or even a source of parts, info, whatever, the car show is worth my time and gas, even though I car less about taking my car or the
dog and pony" show itself. Closest one ever is about 20 mi.
I always gravitate toward conversation with the young kid there with a slant in progress, rust and all, or the really old fart that drove his C body 75 mi to get there.
At the fall show I always attend by the big lake, I meet an older couple (like me) (OK maybe not quit as old) that drove their super cool Stude Hawk there. It was pretty nice, he built it, not a $80,000 job but cool they were proud and I enjoyed the conversation and maybe made friends.
At the Branson,Mo/ Mopar show 7-8 years before I moved to Texas, there was kid in his early twenties maybe, that had the rattiest old early slant Valiant ever, he and his dad drove it there, they not a soul ever walked up to them to say boo or anything, they said, but I loved talking to them because the kid did all the work dad gave advice, and both of them could not have been more proud of that car if it was a hemi superbird!
Another little local ish show we were walking around looking, and we stop to talk to a young coupe maybe early 30s with a four door 56 Chevy. Pretty nice ride. They explain how THEY had don all the work, still a work in progress, and apolgized because it was NOT a two door! I said don't ever apologize to anyone for such!