The organizers of the Coffee and Cars event, not to be confused with Cars and Coffee, has announced muscle cars are banned from future meetups. More specifically, Ford Mustangs, Dodge Chargers, and Chevy Camaros are officially uninvited. Apparently it’s okay if you show up in a Dodge Challenger, Pontiac Firebird, or any other muscle car, in case you were concerned.
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What allegedly spurred the muscle car ban, or at least the selective muscle car ban, was burnouts and engine revving at a gathering on November 4 in Houston. That means at the next Coffee and Cars meetup on December 2 will see the first enforcement of this shift.
It seems organizers think banning those three muscle car models will avoid more problems with revving and burnouts. We get it, city governments, residents, and most importantly cops don’t like those sorts of things. The more it goes on at car meets, the more likely future meets are shut down.
If this muscle car ban doesn’t work, and we really question if it will, organizers say they’ll do invitational only events in the future. Considering how much tomfoolery we’ve seen from Corvette, Ferrari, BMW, etc. drivers at car meets in the US, we really wonder if Coffee and Cars won’t become super exclusive in the future to keep the riffraff out. Sad.
One thing we absolutely agree with in the original announcement is organizers asking people attending meets to “stop encouraging” drivers to do burnouts and rev their engine. So many guys who can’t afford a nice car show up to pressure those who can into behaving recklessly, hoping they can get a cool video of a crash to upload onto social media. Most people just get mad at the Mustang driver who plowed into a crowd, ignoring that people in the crowd were egging him on just seconds before.
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