That's easy Darrell. We don't believe in the "holier than thou" concept of
the concours scenario.
Joe
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From: triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of TR250Driver@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:37 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] P/C @ VTR & Driving Requirements
One More thing Guys & Gals,
There always are really nice Triumphs that do not show in Concours and
prefer Participants Choice. I often wonder why? Perhaps they know the have
a
good chance to win by popular vote. Truthfully I don't mind much because
with 60 to 85 cars to judge in Concours we have a decent work load with a
limited amount of time. BTW, lesser cars in Concours by Rule may be
visually
judged with general deductions if a team has several cars to judge. The
important job is to get the 1st, 2nd, and third place cars correct.
Then I must admit that I am the one (perhaps the only one) who would like
the toss the driving requirement. So the talk that Dave referred to may be
coming from me alone. I believe if a Triumph is driven on to the show field
under it's own power that is enough. During over 20 years of going to
Triumph national car shows I have seen exactly two cars rolled out of
trailers
onto the show field. Once at a TRA National Meeting and once at Canadian
Classic. The one at TRA got hammered in Concours. On the other side I have
heard of a few instances where Triumph owners drove to the convention and
did not realize they needed a driving event to show. Should driving to the
convention be a driving event? I had a TR8 beat my TR8 in Concours when
he did the Gymkhana in reverse gear because he had lost all forward gears
driving to the convention and came in on a trailer. I did not mind. His
car
was better than mine and he was a fine person by the name of Bill Wood.
This year a very good friend of mine drove his TR6 850 miles to Jekyll with
a
leaking water pump. He took it on the dinner runs the nite before the
Concours to get a sticker but just didn't feel like cleaning it anymore
and
left it out of the show. I was prepared to wave the requirement if he
asked.
The requirement has been waved before for good reasons.
Off my soapbox for now and yes I will now put on my Flame Retardant Suit.
Darrell
Cheers,
Darrell
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