<VV> Display Awards

[Rick Norris]

I was there and well remember that event. I didn't have my V8 Vair ready to 
show then but, I always brought the latest progress photos.
I believe it was Al Kidd that said I should enter the Concour and just 
display my photos! Some Canucks ARE funny.
Rick


> Concours in 1998 was then, as it still is today, a two day event, with
> Classification and Unit 6 (Operations) judging the first day, and all 
> other
> judging the next day.  The first part of the Concours was conducted 
> without
> any difficulties, but the next day was cancelled due to foul weather, as 
> was
> the Car display.
>
> However, the next day's weather was good and they managed to put on the 
> car
> display that day after all, but they refused to reschedule the Concours.
> Worse, they also would not allow the Concours folks to join in the car
> display, although they did allow the Concours cars to park in a nearby 
> lot,
> away from the rest of the cars.  The final insult was when they reversed 
> an
> initial decision to base the Concours awards on the first day's judging
> results and instead decided to give those awards to the 4th, 5th, etc.
> finishers in the other events (Autocross, Economy Run, etc.).
>
> Also, the convention organizers refused to automatically refund the 
> Concours
> registration fee, instead doing so only if a registrant "requested" it.
> Since most registrants did not know about this decision, most did not know
> they had to ask, and the organizers therefore kept most of the fees.
>
> The last insult was to reconfigure the Ed Cole award that year to remove 
> the
> Concours requirement (since they had cancelled the Concours).
>
> So there ended up being no Concours awards that year, and the Ed Cole 
> award
> was tainted.
>
> The "Official" convention awards featured the St Louis Arch.  When I
> returned home I made up several awards and gave them to the members of my
> chapter (Tidewater Corvair Club) who had attended the convention and
> registered for the convention.  I called it the "Broken Arch" award, photo
> attached.
>
> Bill Hubbell
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Howell [mailto:32chevy at 0306.org]
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:35 PM
> To: Bill Hubbell
> Subject: Re: <VV> Display Awards
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Can you describe what that was?
> We should all strive to make sure any award issued at a CORSA 
> International
> Convention is up to the standards of a national convention.
> Why can we not learn from one convention to the next how not to let these
> things happen?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On 8/18/2012 6:09 PM, Bill Hubbell wrote:
>> Any award, no matter how crappy, would be better than what was given to
> the 80+ folks who registered for the 1998 Concours at the St Louis
> convention.
>>
>> Bill Hubbell
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:54 PM, John Howell <32chevy at 0306.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Easy now Cliff,  those awards did look kind of crappy.   You need to
>>> understand that with that many cars entered paying $10 each someone
>>> made some money on that!
>>> I paid $10 and then was not able to take my vehicle, probably some
>>> others did too.  The Detroit Convention was the last convention that
>>> treated the "Peoples Choice" or "Car Display" as they now call it
>>> with much respect, these people are proud of their cars too and they
>>> are the larger group paying dues to keep this national club afloat
>>> but they have been put to the back of the line.  This was a national
>>> event and the awards should have looked like a national award, no
>>> something from an elementary school event!
>>>
>>> Cliff you probably have not been a CORSA member long enough to
>>> remember when things were different.
>>>
>>> John Howell
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