1988 Oregon car with equipment

[litsnsirn]

I am going to drift a little, but hopefully I've tied it back in by the end.

I saw this at my hometown's cruise night(emergency and military vehicle night) this evening and it really made me think of this Mustang. This had corner strobes, a Whelen Edge that was way too new, LED's in the top of the windshield, and mounted on the outside top of the roof, pointing to the rear, were the factory LED deck lights from a CVPI, still in their CHMSL housings. You can just see one as a green hump above the rear window. It is a great example of how something cool can go really awry, though, I think, the CUCV is worse off than the SSP.




Then, at the same event, you have Dave Neuman's fabulous 86 Ford, which to me, is just about as perfect as it can get.




Which leads me to my question. When you compare these two, they show up at the same event, and the wrong one is the showier(I guess, I lack a word for this) vehicle. If you had this Oregon SSP and a properly restored one together, the educated enthusiast would know the difference, but how does the casual car show attendee know the difference? I know that a certain amount of our devotion is really for ourselves and maybe there is no way to share that.