[TR] Trophys & TR's

[MMoore8425 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/28/2008 6:29:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  TR250Driver 
writes:

All you have said is right on Mike. It really is an imperfect  world when it 
comes to car shows. I have seen all of those peeves. I would  like to add one 
more pet peeve of mine. Every now and then results get screwed  up and the 
organizers know it.  I once witnessed a person read the  results of a Concours 
competition backwards.  In other words the 3rd  place car was announced as 
first, 2nd was 2nd and the first place car got  3rd. That can happen and whenever I 
am asked to announce results I am  sweating bullets. In this case everyone in 
the room knew something was  screwed up but the person who did it and the 
organizers of the event did  nothing to correct it. I was the guy in second so no 
problem but the guy  who was screwed out of 1st was never seen again. 
Way Ouch!
Darrell



That's bad. If I see something wrong with someone else's judging, I'll do  
whatever I can to get it fixed, and I have been successful sometimes in the past 
 just by pointing out the mistake. I will do it for others (if its an  
obvious mistake) but never for myself. Judging is a huge responsibility because  it 
can quickly become so personal. I wish attendee would realize it is an awful  
lot of work and very stressful.
 
My club was once invited to judge our car make class at a large meet. Two  
"new" cars showed up in our class which we had never seen before. They were  
owned by the same guy who had just paid $85k for the pair (1991). We graded the  
cars down for chrome plated air filters (not stock),orange ignition cables (sb 
 black), blue coil (sb black), red heater hoses  (sb black). 
 
The owner was furious. He was apparentally pretty influential and brought  
the show organizer to see me and we discussed each point. I made the mistake of  
suggesting he join our club and he would learn what was stock and what 
wasn't.  He then assumed we had given the top places to our friends in our single  
make club. (The "restorer" had told him these were concours cars and would win 
a  lot of trophies). My club was never invited back to that show and oure 
class was  merged with another class.
So it goes.
 
Mike Moore 



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