[SCG] Making stock class, was: [Corsabod] Factory Stock Corvair Entries and StockPreservation Award history in CORSA Concours 1997-2009

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I think that having the concours the first convention activity out of the
gate contributes to this problem. There is a rush to get cars classified,
so that the concours can happen on-schedule. Unfortunately, with the
current format, this is unavoidable.

Perhaps what we need is to make the convention's "first" day activity a
"how to get your car into Stock class" day. It would be part seminar, part
tech session, and part pre-classification session. The emphasis would be
not on finalizing classification, but rather, on throroughly going over
each car in an effort to find AND CORRECT any item(s) that would keep it
out of Stock class. It would also be an opportunity, after all efforts were
spent on bringing each car up to par, to "pre-qualify" each car, so that
those cars could skip the "formal" classification process. Just this
feature alone may encourage participation. Plus it may also serve as the
SCG Event day, for those who's cars aren't even going to be in the actual
concours. (The SCG meeting would be held later in the week and during the
day, so as to pick up any late-arrivals).

Any thoughts anyone?

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: Kent Sullivan <kentsu at corvairkid.com>

> Subject: Re: [SCG] [Corsabod] Factory Stock Corvair Entries and
StockPreservation Award history in CORSA Concours 1997-2009
>
> What would be interesting to discuss is some way of helping people who
want
> to try for factory stock BEFORE classification occurs, or some way they
> could go back through classification AFTER getting help from the SCG
folks.
> In both cases, doing this would make sense only if the things they need to
> change could be changed while at the convention. Sometimes this is
possible,
> in the case of Bill Hubbell rounding up some correct bolts. Sometimes it's
> not, because the part is very obscure and the reproduction doesn't look
the
> same.
>
> Of the two choices, I would like to suggest the latter, since that means
the
> main SCG event could continue to be at the same time as classification,
> which seems to work pretty well, and holding the SCG event before
> classification poses scheduling problems since classification is pretty
much
> the first event of the convention. Since classification these days is
really
> about whether you get into Factory Stock or not, I would think we could
> modify the concours rules to allow people to try twice at a given
> convention--it should not be that much work given the low number of cars
> trying.
>
> I think small changes like this to the concours rules could really help
> people who are interested in Factory Stock (Original or Restored) feel
more
> positive about their chances of getting in, and these changes reflect the
> ideas behind the SCG, which are to learn from each other and encourage
each
> other as a community, rather than foster an exam-like situation that is
> tense and stressful. There are too many cars that are very close to making
> it into the Factory Stock classes but the owner has given up.
>
> If we wanted to go slightly further, we could make official some sort of
> policy where people who were very close to Factory Stock could get a
limited
> number of exceptions and those exceptions would be documented, with the
idea
> being that the next time the car was shown, those things had to be
> corrected. Meaning, the exceptions would be for that concours only, not
> future events.
>
> --Kent
>