[SCG] SCG evaluation

[Richard W Thompson]

Just a general message and question to the group:

This in reference to Mark's e-mail below.

I agree with Mark 100% that the group should not bar any vehicle that an
owner wants to put through the process of evaluation. It should be open to
anyone wanting to do this for whatever reason.

If we are the "Stock Corvair Group", and the empahasis is on originality
and correctness to stock vehicles as provided by Chevrolet/GM, this is just
that, correct? We are not just considering the "correctness and
originality" of the components, right? Example: if someone brought in a
complete clone of some kind of a known model and option package for that
year (say a '66 Corsa turbo), but the body tags, VIN, etc. tell the real
story that is was a '66 500 with a 95 hp and Glide originally. Is the Stock
Group's judgement to say because they got it right that it is verified as
stock??. It is my interpretation that is not what is trying to be done
here. If the part of the effort here is to match up the vehicles with what
we know were the offerings each year by Chevrolet, either by model,
options, dealer optrions, colors, etc. and what the factory would provide
those cars by way of components to put that model/vehicle together, isn't
that exactly it? And what is meant by "passing judgement on political
correctness"?

Orginality vs. correctness: now there is a great question. Do we look at
all stock pavement-up restorations, regardless of all the correct, as
prescribed by assembly, date coded componenets, etc., as not original and
score that car low? I am not sure about that.


Maybe I am misreading the commenets below, but I would like to hear back
from some others on the list to find how they see it.

Regards,

Rich




                                                                           
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All,

A thought just crossed my mind, something I figured I'd share with the
group before the thought passes.

In our evaluation "scoring" we should be judging only two quantities,
stockness and originality (perfection and quality, of course, being left
to concours). Our "scoring" should assign a percentage point to every
item and aspect of the car, right down to the last fastener, and add up
to a total in each of the two quantities of 100.00%. I realize that this
idea may be too late to make a difference in how we conduct this year's
scoring, but I offer this FWIW.

A car that is mostly original will score high in both quantities, but a
pavement-up resto will score little if any on originality. Certainly
things like instrument faces will often be used as delivered, rather
than being refinished or restored. And we should not bar any car from an
evaluation (even my infamous '69 Corsa.) Our purpose is solely to judge
how close a car is to factory stock in its components and those parts'
originality, and not to pass judgement on "political correctness."

Thus each car will receive two scores, one on originality and one on
stockness. Of course, neither will entitle anyone to any "award" but
rather only the personal satisfaction of coming as close to 100% as
possible. THAT should be our message, and our purpose, in SCG
evaluations.

-Mark Corbin
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