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Re: Concours Question

To: Richard Seaton <rsh17@msn.com>, "Robert M. Lang"
Subject: Re: Concours Question
From: Todd Bermudez <red_tr250@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:41:58 -0800 (PST)
Yeah, you might fall & break your OVERDRIVE
AGAIN...don't forget to pull your frame off VTR

Toad

--- Richard Seaton <rsh17@msn.com> wrote:

>  Some concours judges might not know what  things on
> a particular year car
> were actually different from other years. While a
> judge may recognize some
> parts as being triumph, they might not deduct for
> the wrong parts or recognize
> year appropriate parts and give points for that.
>  While my car is at present concours modified. I'm
> sure that past judges
> haven't recognized or appreciated to the extent
> which the mod's were  made to
> keep certain parts that are year specific. Little
> things like vacuum lines,
> carbs, distributor, windshield washer bottle and
> certain stickers which are
> only on 69 TR6's. Sometimes the owners know there
> year car better than the
> judges. Yes I could be a great judge for 69 TR6's,
> but other years would be a
> problem.
>  In the class of modified the judge may not
> appreciate the motivating factors
> of flavor of the restoration.
>  But this is concours modified and pure concours I
> would have to agree with
> Robert, as left the factory. It would have been
> cheaper for me to do concours
> and stay away from modified, but you know what, when
> it boils down to it the
> restoration was done for me and only me and what
> would make driving my TR6
> most enjoyable to me and yet keep the what makes a
> 1969 TR6 a 1969 TR6, which
> in all likelihood only I could appreciate.
> 
> 
> OK, I'm done toot'n my own horn, and besides I'm
> starting to get a little
> nervous standing on such a high soapbox......what if
> I fall and break
> something?
> 
> Richard Seaton
> RSH17@msn.com<mailto:RSH17@msn.com>
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