Re: [DML] Concours Judging For Options & Accessories

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

On that same note, a friend of mine was once at a car show where 
there were doing concourse judging for several Chrysler vehicles. One 
guy who had an early 70's B Body had gotton marked off points for 
incorrect washer fluid color. After arguing with the judge, the guy 
pulled out his drivers license, build sheet, and several old pay 
check stubs. When they compared signatures, it was indeed proved that 
he himself was the one whom had signed-off on his own car @ the 
factory when he built it! And as he blatantly put it, workers only 
concerns are to install what they have on the build sheet. And 
sometimes the lack of specific parts on hand at the time will result 
in lack of certain builds, as well as the use of substituted parts, 
per what certain specs require. Workers' only concern @ the factories 
are to assemble cars, and get them out asap. When building a car, 
workers don't say to themselves, "20 years from now, will this car 
meet the stringent requirements of a concourse competition?" This is 
the last possible concern assembly line workers have. So what's 
actually original, and what's "considered" original can be two 
seperate things.

DeLorean specific, the question that I'd have is in regard to 
accessories. Granted, I wasn't there when authorized dealers were 
selling DeLoreans off their lots, so I've no idea as to what went on. 
BUT, every car that I have ever seen on a lot will have 2 seperate 
stickers. The MSRP factory which states what comes standard/optional, 
and a secondary one which lists additional charges for Dealer Prep, 
and Dealer Installed Accessories, etc... The problem that I'm seeing 
here is that the Millennum Concours manual does NOT differentiate 
between "Dealer Accessories", and "Dealer >Installed< Accessories". 
If you've got a Luggage Rack installed, and NO delivery sheet to 
prove that it was an accessory that was installed @ the Dealership 
prior to delivery/purchage, shouldn't that be considered for a 
repremand for points deduction since the car has been modified by the 
owner(s)?

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mike.griese@xxxx wrote:
> Marc - the process DMCH uses is not very different than
> how the Mustang Club of America or the National Corvette
> Restorers Society run their concours events.  The 



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