The club had its fourth annual car show Saturday in the Spartan Stadium parking lot, which featured 600 cars spread across seven decades and hundreds of enthusiasts who came to buy.
“It’s like anything you do, you want to show it off,” club president and agricultural industries freshman Andres Torres said. “This is like works of art for us.”
The show typically is held in the parking lot of the Engineering Building, but club members had to move locations to accommodate growing popularity.
“For every one of the four years, we’ve doubled in size,” he said. “This is our biggest year yet.”
The diversity of cars is what makes the show special, Torres said.
“People love showing off these things that maybe our generation didn’t get to see,” he said. “It’s a good way to show it off and meet other people that are just as interested as you.”
Not every car shown was street legal. RSR Racing, a team based in East Lansing , races in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and had two race cars in addition to their trailer .
Strutting their stuff at statewide shows only increases their popularity, RSR mechanic Brandon Post said. Despite the fact that their races are televised every week, he said not many people know about they exist.
“We’ve been around a long time, but not a lot of people know there is a race team here,” he said. “It’s not just California and Florida and those kinds of places.”
Although many students didn’t have the cash on hand to buy, simply looking at them on a sunny Saturday was good enough for marketing junior Zach Doerr .
“None of us have enough money to afford anything like this, but I do appreciate looking at other peoples’ cars,” he said.
Doerr partially came to look for Ford Mustangs, one of his favorite models.
