I'm headed to one of "The Least Significant" car shows on Saturday, March 21....Billetproof's second annual Florida Free-For-All, at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing just off of I-75 near Ocala, Florida.

This is a show where "traditional" hot rods and pre-'64 Kustoms are celebrated. In fact, the show field sometimes looks like it jumped from the pages of the earliest editions of our brother-in-law magazines, HOT ROD and Rod & Custom.

About a decade ago, Billetproof started in the San Francisco Bay Area as not only a protest (of sorts) against the high-dollar, trailer-queen show cars that wear lots of billet-aluminum parts in and on them, but also to showcase the skills and creations of a lot of  folks who build, enjoy and (especially) drive "traditional" hot rods and vintage Kustoms.   Each year, the NorCal Billetproof show found itself needing to move to a larger venue for its subsequent shows to have room for all the particpants who wanted in, until finally finding a big enough home at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch. (That show's coming in September, by the way.) Word of Billetproof was too good to stay in California, so other Billetproof events sprang up around the country. (Go to www.billetproof.com for the complete schedule.)

To be sure, there will likely be lots of Blue Oval and Bow Tie-related iron there. But that doesn't stop the devotees of vintage Mopars or Mopar-powered rods and Kustoms from showing up!  

Spectator gates open at 9 AM, and spectator admission is free (though they ask you to buy a Billetproof T-shirt as a way to support the show).