Concours Thoughts

["jtrealty@xxxx " <jtrealty@xxxx>]

Having a concours can only help legitimize the car. All of the major 
clubs and car Marques have them and it can only help to raise the 
values of the cars. Irrespective of the disagrements about the rules 
it will make the cars more appealing to collecters as a standard to 
judge the cars against. As the top cars go up in value so will all 
that are in "good" condition, the trickle down effect. Also some 
people like to participate in that manner just as some like to have 
road rallys. There are many different levels of enjoyment to these 
cars and some people prefer to have a concours. It is no small 
investment in money and time to even be able to compete.In Cleavland 
they were trying for 15 concours cars to judge got 6 and only 4 were 
real contenders. The effort put into judging them was intense not just 
in examining the cars but in tabulating and everything else. Remember 
the judges were all volunteers who spent most of the day doing it with 
no time to enjoy the show for very little thanks. DMC houston also had 
expenses with preparing the judging manual, the time spent helping the 
judges, phone calls, mailings, etc. I think instead of picking the 
concours apart for it's faults more people should get involved to help 
improve it and maybe help judge.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757