Every time the subject of Concours Judging comes up, there always seems to
be lots of folks who are NOT involved in, and know almost nothing about the
process who always feel the need to pipe up and talk it down, or otherwise
cloud and confuse the subject to the point where the onlookers repeat once
more "that once again reinforces my opinion about Concours".
I cannot speak for other Concours activities around the world, but I can
speak for our National Concours Registry, here in North America.
The National Concours Registry and it's steering committee was formed in
the
late '80's from a small group of like minded enthusiasts from the USA and
Canada. Our years of ongoing development of accurate Guidelines that people
can follow (as they wish) and the criteria by which we judge a car is very
different from separate individual events like Pebble Beach, from the
British and European judging criteria, and many others held round the
world.
1. We greatly encourage the driving and use of the car.
2. We are looking more for correctness and authenticity than how bright or
shiny the item may be. Over polishing or too deep a modern super paint
finish can actually be cause for a minor deduction if too "over done".
3. We look at the "intention" of the original manufacturing standards, and
are not looking (within reason) to accept the flaws that inevitably crept
into the assembly process, so for example, that drip or run in the paint
was
not intended so should have an appropriate deduction.
4. Our National Concours Registry here in North America conducts sanctioned
judging in which we do not compete car against car, rather the car is
evaluated against a standard. 4 cars entered may end up with one not
achieving a level at all, while two may achieve a Bronze award and one may
achieve Gold. It all depends on what the points ad up to.
5. The individual point score is never revealed to anybody but the entrant.
The Committee will only reveal the award level achieved; Bronze, Silver, or
Gold.
6. Our National Concours Registry does NOT belong to, nor are we
politically
affiliated with any clubs, so we are steered only by our Committee of which
there are currently 11 like minded enthusiasts who volunteer their time,
care and knowledge to assist in the annual review and updating of each
year's Guidelines, Score and Policy sheets.
7. A CD of this work is available to anybody who wants it anywhere in the
world, and it has become a very comprehensive tool to build your car,
whether you ever wish to have the car judged at one of our sanctioned
judgings or not.
8. It is very satisfying to observe the number of cars that have been
judged
and achieved an award level over the last 20 years, that have gone on to be
beautiful accurate regular drivers that turn up at meets all over the
continent.
Rich Chrysler
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