This one took me a long time to finish writing because I just wasn’t as interested in this show and felt like I just did not have a lot to say. Anyone that knows me knows this is not the type of show I’d usually attend. Most of the cars there aren’t my style but Road Atlanta is right down the street from me so I went with an open mind looking to experience a part of the car scene that I normally wouldn’t seek out.

The amount of times I saw the show mentioned on the local Facebook car pages made me think the show would be better attended than it actually was and made me willing to pay the $25 entry fee for spectators. After paying at the gate, I had to drive around the show lot to get to the spectator lot down the hill on the other side. I don’t really show my car because to me it’s just a bagged daily driver, but I wish I had simply because then I wouldn’t have had to walk all the way from the spectator lot in the summer heat and the show tickets were the same price.

That’s it for the negativity though; my only real gripe with the show was that it was overpriced for the size and that definitely started my day on the wrong foot.

There was a surprising variety of cars and at least one car there for almost everyone. Some of the highlights for me were the MK4 GLI and MK5 Jetta with a Rabbit front clip because I’m definitely biased toward VWs but the car I spent the most time around was probably the yellow 3rd gen Prelude that was really tasteful and incredibly clean.

One thing I noticed a lot of was families and groups of friends and felt less like a serious car show than some of the others and more like a place to hang out. People seemed friendly and I didn’t get the sense that there were people there that felt like they were better than others because of their cars, which is something I’ve often noticed at the more serious car shows.

Overall the show was good and would have been more enjoyable had I not had to pay so much to be a spectator because I felt that the show wasn’t large enough to justify the $25 fee and that would keep me away from another Clean Culture event.





















