Either a car meets the concourse standards or it doesn't. Can "driving for
points" contribute to any kind of objective evaluation?
JR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
To: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>; "Patton Dickson"
<57healey@gmail.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Tires (for concours)
>I don't know where all you people have been but these Dunlop RS5's in the
>5.90x15 size have been available
> for the last dozen years or so. This is nothing new.
> These tires of course always allow full points with no deduction if all 5
> are in good condition.
> As an aside, last June, fellow Southern Ontario club members and good
> friends, David and Janet Koch drove their freshly finished BN2M some 1600
> miles each way, unescorted from Guelph Ontario to the Conclave in San
> Antonio Texas on new 48 spoke painted Dunlop wheels shod with new Dunlop
> 5.90x15 RS5 Roadspeed tires, and won a Gold level. Then these grandparents
> drove home again! These were the best tires to be had 50 years ago, so why
> wouldn't they be "safe", though admittedly not the feel we're used to
> today. Gawd, are we spoiled!
> As for "wiggle room" how about this.....the National Concours Committee
> introduced a clause last year in which if a car is fitted with the correct
> original radial size specified by the factory at the time of 165x15, and
> all 5 match and are in good safe condition there would as always be a 1
> point deduction per tire (5 points). Now for the good part...because we
> the Committee try to encourage the use of these so called Concours cars,
> we have added the clause that 1 point per 100 miles driven in the 30 days
> prior to the judging would be awarded back to a total of 5 points (500
> miles). This would be taken at one's word, i.e. we would not ask for
> witnesses or further verification.
> This was done to encourage the trailers to be left home and these cars to
> be driven to the event for judging, or at least be deemed totally
> roadworthy.
> Howzat sound????<grin>
>
> Rich Chrysler
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