<VV> Top-25 (was: Some facts)

[Michael Kovacs]

I was there too. I like the idea of having all the Corvairs on display one day 
for all to see, regardless of their condition. Tim Cotrofeld's little 'monster' 
was not the nicest, but got lots of looks anyway.
 MIKE KOVACS




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From: Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net>
To: Virtual Vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Mon, August 20, 2012 12:15:46 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Top-25 (was: Some facts)

I LIKE this!

At Sturbridge we distributed 24 awards in the car display, three each in 
six classes.  The "Top-25" concept adds only one award to the number 
required, and it makes all the awards identical.

It eliminates all classes (open - closed - FC etc) and makes the event 
clearly a casual counterpoint to the concours.  Want to have your car 
judged and possibly receive a formal trophy?  Enter the concours.  Want 
to show your car and possibly receive a popular-choice award?  Enter the 
car display.

I'm an old guy who was there "at the beginning."  The car display was 
first added to the CORSA convention in 1984, as a means to lure onto the 
show field the many Corvairs that attend a convention but which are for 
whatever reason not entered in the concours.  At the time I was on the 
CORSA Board, the 1984 convention committee, and the convention concours
committee, so I know of what I speak.

The original car display was very clearly NOT intended to be a 
substitution for the concours or a junior concours or a beginners' 
concours or a discount concours or any other flavor of concours. It was 
intended to be a car show.

Originally there were only three popular-choice awards:  Most popular 
early model, late model, and FC.  In the years since it has grown to 
where there are now multiple classes and guidelines and whatnot.  None 
of which enhance the fundamental idea, which is to put on display all 
the Corvairs in attendance at a convention.

Those who have their knickers in a twist over the car display awards 
given at Sturbridge have lost sight -- if they ever saw it in the first 
place -- of the fact that the car display is not the concours.

--Bob