God’s Country Pontiac Sept 7 2008

[GTO Man]

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[Anonymous]

I don’t get to too many shows. OK, that makes sense about the one trophy per vehicle. I understand what you are saying, generally though they are broke up in years to deter away from that type of situation. thumbsup.gif

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Paul,
I dont know if you go to a lot of shows or not, so bare with me on this one….I beleive the show was a “one trophey per car” rule, which would explain why you one for best of, and not in your class. As for judging in general, its not always how clean the car is (although that is a big factor), depending on the category, the judge also takes into account the quality of the installs, mods, custom painting, etc. Just because its a marquee car doesnt necessarily mean its a show winner…take this scenario as an example: Lets say there is a class called Mustangs stock, all years…and there is a 2008 Foose Mustang and a fully numbers matching 1968 Mustang Fastback that was fully restored…The 1968 gets the win because there was work involved, whereas the 2008 is fresh from the show room.

Now, Im by no means trying to defend the judging this past weekend, cuz there were a lot of questionable issues. Im just offering my perspective on judging in general.

[Anonymous]

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Good answer,

People who drive them new cars to a show should just get a slap on the back and a thanks for bringing your car…. The people who actually wrench on there cars deserve the awards…

again, I agree in general..but “new” is a subjective term meaning different things to different people. Like I mentioned before, most of the time they have classes that will accomodate what the show labels as “new” to try to avoid situations of comparing a showroom stock car to one that has been restored. Also, just because a car is labeled by some as being “new” doesn’t mean it hasn’t had any wrenching done to it, but I do understand where you are coming from.

Having said that and even though my Firehawk has had it’s fair share of wrenching done to it, I don’t feel like I deserved the “best of” Pontiac award. There were a LOT of nice older Pontiacs there that, IMO, were more deserving than mine. I was just questioning how I could take “Best of Show – Pontiac” but yet fail to place in my class, where it would have made more sense to me.

[stupesnova]

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Jeremy,

Get your Corvette’s straight – the two year best of show winner was a ’92 Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif I see that car around quite a bit, there’s no reason whatsoever for that car to win Best of Show anywhere.

I also do not attend this show anymore for the same reason above and for many other reasons, one of which was mentioned in another post. It does seem that even though this is an all-makes show, a hell of a lot of Pontiacs always win.

80’s-90’s whatever dontknow.gif Rachel NO disrespect was intended towards the owner of said vehicle, I hope he is doing OK and recovers from his ailments. My point was about how poor of a job the judges do at this show! Hopefully they can do a better job in the future and then MAYBE I will attend again.

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