<VV> Car Display

[Bill Elliott]

Lord knows that I'm not a Concours guy... but since I think the primary 
function of a club it to restore, protect, and preserve our marque I 
think it's absolutely necessary and I fully support it as a formal 
judged event.

Many other marques have done away with formal concours and I think the 
shows (and the marques) are worse off for it... and the same concours 
levels car tend to win any other version of show anyway.

I think that Corsa has it just right...two events, same time, (usually) 
the same venue, your choice of being judged or not judged. While you 
might argue about the "trailering points", I don't see any real weakness 
with the concept.

If you think you have a driver quality car and you want formal judging, 
sign up for the concours... you won't win, but you will know where your 
car needs improvement. If you don't want to detail the underside of your 
car (I try to keep mine smeared with oil and grease) then you don't 
really want to be judged anyway, do you? (And you know that if a second 
level of judging were set up, human nature would cause those at the 
bottom end of the top level to "move down" and trophy in the lower level.)

Every time this comes up, we have to point out somebody who DOES have it 
both. While he generally trailers to events (due to comfort, not due to 
trying to protect the car) he takes his senior level concours car out 
and flogs it on the track, runs all moving events with it, and yet takes 
the time to prepare it for concours. (Yes, I'm talking about Chuck with 
Darth Vair). While we all might not possess the drive that Chuck has to 
have his cake and eat it too, we at least have him as an example of what 
can be done with sufficient desire and effort...

My only suggestion might be that the People's Choice competition split 
the classes into "stock" and "modified" (or "personalized" if you 
prefer)... allowing a nice driver quality "stock" car a chance at a 
trophy over a flashy highly custom job.  Those of you who know me would 
be surprised to find out that at a British show this summer I scored 
_two_ firsts in class in the "stock" category with two of my cars... 
shocking me so badly I had to sell one (and replace it with a beater 
project) lest I feel the urge to trailer it to the next event! ;-)

Bill Elliott


Norman C. Witte wrote:

>So now I have to compete in concours if I trailered my car?  The whole point
>of the car display is to get away from the Rule Nazis.  
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>I drove one car and trailered the other.  I trailered a car so that my kids
>would be able to ride in an airconditioned car and watch movies.  The motive
>was to keep the event fun for the family, not to kick somebody's butt in the
>People's Choice.  I didn't wax the bottom of either car.  
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>You're trying to take the fun out of the event with rules like that.  Be
>more laid back, dude.  The event should be as open as possible.  If you are
>crazy for competition, do concours.  If you want to look at the shiny cars,
>kick back and enjoy the day, that's what the car display is for.  
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>IMHO.
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>Norm 
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