imagine being invited to a car show, to arrive and then be turned away by the mooks at the door

Gray Baskerville’s drove 370 miles in the rain from his Pasadena home to the Oakland—at the personal invitation of show promoter Don Tognotti—only to have his legendary Deuce roadster “deemed unfit for display” on the main floor.

So he drove home

That's very effed up

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/hot-rod-highlights-20-40-60-years-ago-inside-june-1959-79-99-issues/