Everyone has there opinion and that's cool.
I drove on the SS tour and saw an Oldsmobile Alero with huge wings, winglets dual "LED" exhaust tips... blah... blah, but I also have video of RX-7's and Supras, M3's and many other turbo, SC and Nitrous powered beasts blowing past us at 110+.
So it was a combination of rice and nice.
I also saw some "eurotuner" stickers on Hondas... what's that about?
I think we can all get along. There's the show crowd... like the truck on bags that dropped to the street with a roostertail of sparks behind him...
And there's the performance crowd... like the stock-sleeper civic with the totally built bottom end and turbo spinning tires from 30mph.
BTW: I can't agree with you more about APC and it's annoying presence at the Nats. I pissed off a few Cavalier and Focuz guys with my modified APC banner that read
"A C P American Crap Products"
made from an APC banner that was in my SS Tour bag.