Hi Brad,
I've got one better I went to an all marque show here on the central
coast of Ca. with my 65 MKII. They had the MGs in about 6 different
classes A's, B's, C's, chrome bumper, rubber bumper, and broke down to
production years. But they lumped ALL the Triumphs into one class! While
I didn't go to win specifically, how could I compete with totally different
models. I still enjoyed the camaraderie of the British owners. I just
chalked it up to the club sponsoring the event knew nothing about Triumphs,
let alone Spitfires, but was fanatical about MG's LOL
Rob
>From: FODFARTS@cs.com
>Reply-To: FODFARTS@cs.com
>To: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: Spitfire classes at shows
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:33:08 EDT
>
>Hey list,
> I've got a question for all the show go-ers and participants. My local
>British car club just had it's first show last weekend. While it was great
>fun and my 64 Spit performed flawlessly I was a little bothered by the
>results of the car show judging. My Spit was the only round-tail model in
>attendance so I kinda figured I had first place in my class wrapped up. But
>at the awards ceremony I was surprised to hear that I got second place. I
>lost out to a very nice 74 square-tail Spit that was parked next to me. It
>seems that the Spitfires were divided into two categories, chrome bumper
>and
>rubber bumper. That works just fine for MGBs and Midgets but I feel it
>doesn't quite cut it for Spits. They never really got a full rubber bumper
>like the MGB, did they? I feel maybe the class split should have been body
>style, separate the square-tails and round-tails. They are definitely two
>different body styles, similar but obviously different. It doesn't bother
>me
>much about the second place, but I would like things to be fair in the
>future. Any honest opinions on the subject would be great, any advice on
>future class splits would also help, our club is mainly MGBs and Jags, I'm
>the only Spitfire nut in the club so far but I keep hoping to get a few
>more
>into the fold.
> Brad
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