[Healeys] Fwd: concours judging

[Curt/Nancy Arndt]

Chris,

Thanks for the kind words. You are someone who obviously get what we in the
US and Canada Concours Committe are trying to accomplish.

I've often wondered what would happen if someone could go back in time and
bring back a brand new Healey and then have it judged in our brand of
Concours.

Cheers,

Curt

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Chris Dimmock [Healey] <
austin.healey at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is just a personal opinion.
> Firstly, I totally support the concept of a "unified" world standard for
> Healey concours judging, and have championed that end for over 12 years
> here
> in NSW Australia - despite not actually owning a bog standard original car.
> I truly believe that having a consistent global standard, with consistent
> judging guidelines, administed by passionate people, with published
> guidelines, and accepting newly uncovered evidence, and discussing it, and
> modifying the published guielines,is the ABSOLUTE best outcome for our
> Marque globally.
> And once again - a sincere thank you to all those involved in the US, and
> anyone else - who has conributed to the wonderful resource of concours
> originality guidelines from the US club. Thank you all.
> Our friends in the US have provided that framework.
> In answer to Josef's question, I've thought long and hard about his
> question
> for 30 years. And I'd like to rephrase it, if that's ok Josef.
> Let's go back to 1953 and talk concours.
> Imagine it is one or two months after the delivery of the first 100's to
> your country, in 1953, wherever in the world you are...
> Imagine that say 2 or 5 or 20 or 50 guys turned up to your 'first' club
> meeting, in their brand new BN1's, and it was a concours.... And the oldest
> BN1 was now 30 days old....
> In my personal opinion, given that almost every car was "original", I think
> the "best" car would have theoretically been the one which was driven home
> from the showroom, and "put together properly" by the owner. And cleaned
> and
> scrubbed and polished all over.
> The guy that fixed and adjusted the door gaps, bonnet gaps, etc, and
> cleaned
> off the overspray, and adjusted the bumpers, door openers,  etc. And fixed
> the oil leaks.... And cleaned it until it shone all over
> The car that actually was 'best built' , or "best put together" amounst a
> whole pile of brand new cars..
> Think about which would have been the "best" car when they were new.
> Bog standard cars, judged by their peers..... Back in the day.
> Just my opinion.
> Me? I'd rather have triple webers, all original numbers, with minilites and
> heaps of negative camber; yet .... I still run a Lucas generator, Lucas
> starter motor, and Armstrong lever arm shocks (cause they are original....
> And you just don't change things like that!!!)
> Thanks for the opportunity for my few cents M.J.B, and this resource that
> allows us to discuss this stuff!
> Chris
> www.myaustinhealey.com