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Car meetings are prominent festive events in the small world of car enthusiasts. They take place in public spaces (car parks, vacant lots, etc.) and consist of exhibiting, admiring, or telling the story of these eclectic objects. While most are organised by associations in collaboration with the public authorities, others are free from declaration and any explicit rules of organisation and/or regulation. This paper focuses on those ones, described as “savages” both in media discourse and in vernacular speech. Based on a long-term ethnographic observation of a frequent meeting in the suburbs of Lille (France), we will show that these are events that are “savage” only in name and will shed light on their mechanisms of regulating for “good conduct”. We will see that they are crossed by an extreme ambivalence between a norm of conviviality and strong logics of hierarchy, regulation, segregation or even exclusion.