[SCG] "Bloomington Gold" for Corvairs?

[Wrsssatty at aol.com]

Despite our less than complete knowledge of just what is stock/original, I  
still think that more of an effort should be made to acknowledge and reward 
the  efforts of those who endeavor to preserve Corvairs in the condition 
which God  and General Motors intended!
 
~Bill Stanley
 
 
In a message dated 6/9/2009 4:13:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dellis1 at rochester.rr.com writes:

AH  yess...there is the rub.....the Corvette folks
took on the task of  extremely thorough documentation
of "what's stock",  many decades  ago..and have that against
which to judge their autos....hard copy master  reference
documents that are extremely functional, both in text and  
images, for each year are available to one and all...
CORSA chose to  ignore this effort...one would think it would
be an early on, bedrock  activity, for the national organization...
and just recently the   group of folks who saw the need, independently
started SCG started down  that path..however the effort has been less than
strongly supported by  CORSA or the general membership...in both
the pocketbooks and their  efforts...

Until the hurclean task of completing that  documentation
occurs..and it is made available to the rank and  file...
one can just forget about cloning the Bloomington
Gold approach  in the Corvair world...

Dave Ellis...a charter SCG  member....

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Subject: [SCG] "Bloomington Gold" for  Corvairs?

I was recently reading an article about the Bloomington Gold  Corvette show 
 
and how it recognizes Corvettes that have been  preserved or restored to 
factory  authenticity and condition.   As the award procedure was 
explained; 
"It's  not really a  competition, it's a measure of how well you've 
preserved
or 
restored a  car to factory authenticity."  Corvettes that are deemed 95% or 
more  stock get a gold certification.  90-94% originality earns silver  and 
 
85-89% earns bronze.

I was wondering of something of this  nature has ever been considered for  
Co
rvairs.  I know that  Corsa concours has a stock category but Corsa  
concours, to me, has  always seemed to focus more upon the quality of the
work  done 
on  a car rather than the authenticity ("originalness" or "stockness") of a 
  
car.

~Bill Stanley
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