Yea, I did the rainy car show thing this past Sunday. The day started out great. The show was about 50 miles from the house. The SWMBO came down separately in the afternoon. As it got closer to awards time the skies looked very threatening. I bailed on the show early to try and get the car home, but didn't make it 3 miles b4 all let loose. Got the car home, and took the wheels and tires off to clean and dry the lugs and backs of the wheels. The engine compartment stayed pretty nice even with the driving rain storm. The funny thing was I even checked weather.com and the radar b4 I went, and all looked ok. You just never know. Bottom line: if it's a driver, drive it. If it's a pampered car, don't go if you don't want to clean it up. I've done 4 shows so far this year, and would've done a 5th, but the closer I got to the destination, the worse it looked, so I turned around and came home. It did rain shortly afterwards. If you get to a show, and it starts raining immediately, it definitely ranks up there on the sucking scale. If it's promising to be bad weather, I simply don't go. There's always more car shows.