I've been following this thread with interest and would like to toss out
one more variable/question: what constitutes modified? I suspect that at "
Triumph only" shows, the majority of participants voting, favor cars that
are restored to "as close to original" as possible. Obviously someone with
triple webers, a supercharger or a V8 would be considered modified. If
original is defined as *how you could have bought the car equipped when
new*, wouldn't that throw a lot of our cars into the modified class? My TR6
has a lot of "enhancements" that would/should keep it from being considered
original: Koni & Spax shocks, mohair top, burlwood dash, Grant steering
wheel, Hayden Aux Fan, K&N air filters, spin on oil filter, Bridgestone
tires, AM/FM cassette stereo.. etc. etc. It was also driven over 5,000 miles
in the past year. My question for the list is twofold: should there be a
more liberal interpretation of modified to include cars such as mine
and..... in a participant's vote, do you favor the Triumph that has been
restored to original specs over one that has been "modified", <even if the
modified one were a car in better overall condition>? My guess is that at a
mixed event (Triumphs, Healey, Jags etc), the participants vote for the car
they like best. At a single marquee event, they vote more on originality.
This isn't meant as a flame by any means....... just curious as to how the
list feels (and votes) about original vs. "modified".
Bob Danielson
75 TR6 - Status at
http://pages.cthome.net/BobD
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Gentry <tgentry@execpc.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 2:32 PM
Subject: RE: Judging "New" Triumphs, was Trailer Queens
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>Joe said:
>>>As for
>telling if someone is lying, I think it would be rather easy to tell the
>trailer queens from the drivers.<<
>
>Now we open up a whole new can of worms. What constitutes a "driver"? 100
miles per year? 10,000 miles per year? Driven only to local shows? Driven
rain or shine? Driven only on nice Sunday afternoons? As an owner who
believes that cars should be driven, I would love to see a class like this,
I just don't see how it can be done.
>
>I've only been to one Mustang show, and it had no concourse, only
participant's choice, broken down into like model years and modified or
stock. Modified was determined to be 3 or more non factory options, and I
saw many cars registered in stock class that should have been in modified.
I took 3rd in '94-'98 Mustang (stock) beating out another Mystic Cobra with
only 1800 miles on it, to my 21,000. I think that shows that the Mustang
crowd appreciates the cars that are driven, too.
>
>Tom Gentry
>Life is too short to drive boring cars!
>'96 Ford SVT Cobra Mystic #1345 (mostly stock)
>'72 Triumph TR-6 OD (highly modified)
>'59 Triumph 10 Sedan (in boxes)
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