Re: For Your Amusement: Recent Flight Judging Results
Subject: Re: For Your Amusement: Recent Flight Judging Results by bogus on 2010/10/6 19:48:44
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bogus wrote: I have to give you props for this, John. Serious props. The dedication, the commitment, the success. No question...
But for me, it's just too anal and I am not allowed to make fixes without spending 6 months tracking down the right replacement part. I don't have the patience for that!
It's the game I choose to play.
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bogus wrote: Also, as much as you enjoy driving that car, it will come to a point that driving it will be counter productive to judging it.
Congrats on making the grade!
I'll tell you the truth: if I had not gotten the 97%, I would have retired the car from judging for a couple of years. C4 judging is getting steadily tougher as the judges learn the cars and Lauren was just about as good as you can get a 66 thousand mile early C4 without trailering.
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bogus wrote: I do question one thing... why do they ding you for a "correct, but not original" muffler? What am I missing in that sentence?
Correct part number, wrong date - and no question there: they came off a 1987.
Interesting... the part number isn't good enough, it has to have the right date code. To me, that will be damned near impossible to overcome. Lets say GM still makes the mufflers for the 85-88 Vette, but now they are all date coded 2010, cause that is when they were made. This means, you have to find NOS or used from 1985 to not lose points.
I guess this is the anal aspect that gets on my nerve... I start to feel claustrophobic when dealing with rules of that nature.
Sure, if this was a 1963 Z06 coupe, I would endevour for all the originality possible... For me, I still see C4s as being daily drivers and candidates for hot rods!! I must change that perception.
I know what this means, John... when you start trailering Lauren, you can get a later ZR1 as a drivable toy.
