[SCG] [Corsabod] Making stock class,Concours

[Bill Hubbell]

Tim,

I think you hit the nail on the head about one thing that has NOT been done in the past and which SHOULD be done, and that is to maintain a running historical record of all official CORSA awards, designations,  etc . As you know, I started this thread by researching and then posting a record of all Factory Stock cars and owners, plus Preservation awards since 1997. Apparently nobody had ever done that before, which makes me wonder how the Board or its committees make decisions without good data. 

As I think over some of the Concours questions I have raised in the past I wonder how decisions might have been different had anybody kept records spanning several years to analyze trends. 

Keeping and compiling information of this sort should be a required function of either the Executive Secretary or some other designee of the Board.

Bill
------Original Message------
From: tim mahler
To: William J Hubbell
To: Duanne Luckow
Cc: CORSA/CPF BoD
Cc: Stock Corvair Group
Subject: Re: [Corsabod] [SCG] Making stock class,Concours
Sent: Sep 5, 2009 7:03 PM

Thanks Bill, Mark, Larry, Kent and others

Duane is the Concours Chairperson.  Let's work with Duane and the 
Classification Team Leader (Larry Claypool)  to resolve some of the 
subjectiveness and the leeway proposal (someone has to document, and retain, 
year to year, to prevent the same exceptions from recurring)

The NEW concours classification has been drastically simplified -- Specialty 
is gone, Radical is gone.  Modified is gone.

Stcok  (factory, street)
Improved (all corvairs with non factory stuff,  sprints, yenkos, mag wheels, 
cd radios etc)
Engineering (Corvair bodied but not powered,  or those Corvair powered but 
not bodied)

Is that not Mark's -- Stock or not   ???

Sorry the new rules are not posted -- will see If that can be done in the 
next few days. (it is a holiday weekend)

As to being on the board's agenda?   I think it is WAY too early to be on 
the board's agenda.  The concours committee, the SCG, and whomever else 
wants to discuss the topic,  need to further hash things out.  The board 
would likely muddle things at this point since few of us actually 
participate in Concours or Judge Concours.  Besides,  I really would like to 
see how the new rules work since a lot of effort and discussion went into 
those rules.  Improvements to the Stock participation topic may be more 
procedural then rules.  Or the SCG may be able to help, as I think the SCG 
has in the last 3 years.  Keep up the discussion.  Some interesting thoughts 
have been made.

Tim mahler