QUOTE (INSPIRED-IMAGES @ Jul 10 2009, 02:05 PM)

thanks for your time and knowledge

guys like you i respect who share info with others
It's all good man, and in the big scheme of things, i'd probably be the least knowledgeable vs others cruising boost. Things like this though, is something you really have to figure out once you've hit the place you're going to shoot. Use your camera's meter and adjust accordingly and most of all, test shoot - review -adjust -reshoot. that'll garuntee you with shots that you're happy with rather than blind trust in what someone (say me for instance) has told you.
An easy method to implement what I told you above is to put your camera in Av mode (so you only control aperture) and make sure it's as wide as possible, set your ISO to something like 400 for a starting point and meter the car, see what it sets your shutter speed too and adjust your ISO up/down if you need too. Just watch for camera shake (keep above 1/80th as a rule).
This stuff should be automatic, the stuff that's harder to get right is composition, making sure you've framed it as well as you could have, making sure that you don't have distractions in frame etc.. being really aware of what's in the shot is harder - especially in a busy joint like a car show.