Here’s a reminder that if you’re in the area, or want to come here for a bit of summer magic in Curbsidelandia, the First Malaise Invitational is on June 26th. The venue has been changed, from a winery to Brooks Cut Rate Auto Parts; somehow that seems appropriate for a show focusing on Malaise.
CC is a sponsor, admission is free, and I’ll be there. My ’66 F100, the official CC-mobile, is to old to be an official entrant, but it will be there nevertheless. See you there, assuming I don’t get lost or broken down in the wilds of Eastern Oregon on EXBRO6, which ends that Saturday.
What would be hilarious is seeing these awful cars and keeping your opinions to yourself and having an open mind enough to let the owners loving these POSs teach you how to enjoy these lemony nasties with new respect. A lot of these cars are so gruesome, my head hurts just thinking about them.
What is even more amazing, is that in many cases, these cars were IMPROVEMENTS over their earlier generation. Crikey!
I thought that the first show was last year. Is this for the 2022 edition?
Good point on keeping your negative opinions to yourself, these cars are reminders of the recent past, and kudos to their owners for preserving them. I imagine that there might be overlap with the Radwood concept.
No. I first posted about this event back in February:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/car-show/first-annual-malaise-invitational-car-show-in-eugene-this-june-the-malaise-era-ended-rather-well-before-1995/
The change of venue is appropriate as a “farewell” to the legendary Brooks Cut Rate Auto Parts. My oldest vehicle is 1963 and I would not trust it 600 miles; and my next oldest is a 1995 Dodge Intrepid daily driver which is within the “letter of the law” but not the spirit. I’d rather take a nice train ride anyway so if I go it will be in a sleeping car room on the Coast Starlight.
Of course if I still had my Dad’s 1979 Cadillac Eldorado Diesel…I could smoke up I-5 all the way up! And I would not even MIND others’opinions about it!
Wish I lived closer…would love to have an east coast Curbside Classic malaise meet up!
Can’t wait to be there!
I’m planning to be there, as a spectator – no malaise-mobile currently in my fleet. And even the last five or six that I’ve owned from that 1972-95 period hardly qualify as “malaise”. I’d say my ‘73 Vega, as much as I defend its charms, was worse than malaise, so only my long-gone ‘81 TransAm with electronic carb and 150 hp from 5 liters really qualified. Anyway, I hope to see some other PNW CC’ers there.
I wish I had known earlier because just yesterday I booked the rooms for my annual Rocky Mountain Romp.
Too bad because I would have attended.
I posted this first back in February:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/car-show/first-annual-malaise-invitational-car-show-in-eugene-this-june-the-malaise-era-ended-rather-well-before-1995/
And of course, I didn’t notice it.
February? What happened in February?
Is that an ’80 Mazda GLC? (Not a ’77 – ’79, because it has the less attractive rectangular headlights.) If not, it must be a 1st-gen 626.
In any case, I don’t think of either as a malaise car. Nor the Volvo for that matter.
626. Most of the examples shown on their site are better cars than we typically think of as most representative as ‘malaise’.
I haven’t attended a car show with my 293 thousand mile 1989 ‘Chrysler’s TC by Maserati’ for some time now due to Covid restrictions and mandated mask wearing in many states though I would like one here in Arizona, BUT it appears to me that this Malaise is not a show worthy of an appearance of my great driving automobile, though so many, for so many years, have had the opposite opinion. Unfortunately for them, they were all wrong! So, my TC will do it’s showing here for your delight.
I think this is the one I had a brief test-drive in, wasn’t it?
Yes indeed it was Daniel, my first and my last TC. At the rate gas prices are going, my hopes of seeing 300,000 on the odometer seem to be slipping away.
But you would be welcome to a longer ride any time. It still runs as well as ever.
If I lived on the West Coast I would drive up my 1980 bustleback Cadillac Seville. Everyone loves them! (I see all those snarky eyerolls)
Ah, a little too far for me to drive just for a car show otherwise I would use this car. It even still has the distinctive medallion mounted on the C pillar. How about that! As far as wood grained trim you can take that with a grain of plastic.
I will be there, with my magnificent 1992 Geo Prizm.