Whiners and Complainers

Joel Fillo wrote the following: “Bob only cares about cars that are old, original, slow and owned by an 80 year old.”

When I started this website in 2021 I posted a statement of its purpose: “My foremost consideration in creating this website was to offer a non-Facebook site for people to see photos of old cars from the various shows which I attend.” Fundamentally, then, this website was for non-Facebook people and old cars. Now there are keyboard warriors trying to tell me how to run it and change it. 

I’ll take it as a compliment as to the popularity of my website when people complain about not seeing a picture of their car on here. Thankfully it’s rare to hear whining after posting 276 photos from a car show. After insulting me on Facebook, I tried to explain to Joel Fillo in a calm and reasonable manner the rationale behind what I do and the decisions I make.

The name “Nice Old Cars” is self-explanatory. When there are hundreds of cars at a show, I am selective and tend to post only pictures of “nice old cars.” Bandwidth costs money and photos use a lot of bandwidth. I also leave stuff out, such as tuners, that are not a good fit for a website known as Nice OLD Cars. My readers are not interested in cars which they can see on the street any day of the week. Cars that are in partial shade or too close together are difficult to photograph and I’d rather not post an inferior picture of your car. If your hood is up and you aren’t around to put it down, I’ll take a picture from the rear or side if possible. 86% of my readers prefer to see the photos with the hood down. I try to avoid the gaping black holes. 

Joel Fillo wrote:  “I lost all respect for you when you badmouthed certain events, intentionally omitting them from the southern alberta calendar. For somebody who runs whats claimed to be the southern alberta car show calendar, youd expect there to be no bias towards certain events. I.e. intentionally leaving them out because it doesn’t fit your personal taste. WPCC is the only one worth looking into.”

I’ve asked Joel to give me some examples where I’ve badmouthed certain events or omitted them from the calendar. He can’t, because it’s a lie and it never happened. He obviously has me mixed up with someone else. I have the most complete and thorough car show calendar for southern Alberta and I don’t omit any events if there is a car show involved that has classic vehicles. 

WPCC(Western Pacific Cruise Calendar) copies directly from my website. If it wasn’t for my site, WPCC wouldn’t have many shows listed in southern Alberta. As it is, the WPCC site is missing lots of shows and has shows listed that don’t exist. 

Joel Fillo wrote: “You don’t matter to me or affect me in any way”

Really? The evidence shows otherwise. There’s a great opportunity for Joel Fillo to start his own website that features the cars he likes. He could call it “Nice New Cars.” As Henry Ford says, don’t find fault, find a remedy. 

In the past, I’ve had newer car owners approach me in a civilized and respectful way asking if I’d post photos of their cars and I made an effort to do so. 

Below I’ve posted some photos of cars that are old, original, slow and driven by 80 year-olds which have been featured on my website in the past month. Oh, wait…