| Re: '84-86 RPO D98 Pin Stripes - Unicorn or Real |
Subject: Re: '84-86 RPO D98 Pin Stripes - Unicorn or Real by j3studio on 2012/5/13 17:45:55 Quote:
I was a member of the NCRS, but am no longer one. The first edition of the 1984-1986 judging guide did have a bunch of errors, but any conscientious C4 judge (and that describes almost all that I met) has a many annotations and updates in their copy. The C4 team leaders have also been able to photograph many of the strange early C4 exceptions (my early 1985's emissions label placement, for example). I am confident that the second edition will be far superior and I will purchase it, even though I'm no longer playing that game. Any NCRS judging guide is intended as a starting point - no more. When judging, I would routinely tell owners not to change anything unless they were sure it was wrong. Despite the intentions of McLellan to get the C4 right the first time, there were hundreds of changes just in the first three years. Only starting to judge a lot of cars in a somewhat rigorous fashion would bring these differences to the fore. So, kind of a chicken and egg thing. In hindsight, it might have been better to write the C4 guides from the ground up instead of basing the format on the late C3 guides. However, this wasn't easily knowable: adding mid-years and sharks had been done that way and it had worked out. The later C4 judging guides are far superior - in particular, the 1990-1996 guides are excellent. |
