eq. Survivor Awards

[Brian J.]

Why doesn't NCRS offer an award equivalent to the Survivor Award at Bloomington? I have a 66 that has 4 owners and has almost all of the original parts, but they are not in excellent condition. I have all original paperwork ie. Protecto-o-Plate, Dealers invoice +. I met the original owner through the Drive Line. I would like to go for Survivor status but i am not interested in Bloomington. Any feedback would help.

[Rich Grant]

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Brian

The NCRS offers the Bowtie award for an original car such as yours. The NCRS website has a section that outlines the award and included in the most recent addition of the restorer is an article that talks about the changes in attaining the award. You might want to buy the judging reference manual from the NCRS. In sumary, I believe the Survivor Award is based on 50% originality and the NCRS is probably closer to 80% and I believe that the new rules require you to submit the car for fligt judging on orinality alone at a reginal meet before it can be judged at the national event. You might want to check with the master judge for your class to make sure the car has not been submitted for a Bowtie previously, because a CAR can only be judged once. The premise being that a car can not become more original. Good luck.

Rich Grant

[Mike M.]

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Our illustrious judging chairman(aka dipstick clark), back about l990, devised the Star/ Bowtie judging class for unrestored vet examples. I've seen cars that have been thru both survivor and NCRS Star/Bowtie judging and believe me, ncrs has a much better handle on evaluating such cars. Pick up a Judging reference Manual from the Mortimers, peruse it , see if your vet is a possible candidate, then arrange for the 66 team leader(ray morrisdon, page 3 of Restorer) to look it over at a chapter or regional meet, and if ray feels its deserving of being a Star/Bowtie candidate, it will be accepted for such judging at a national convention.Good luck and try to erase the term Survivor from your vocabulary. mike

[Paul B.]

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Brian, the "Survivor" Award is only done at Bloomington Gold show out in Chicago area of St. Charles. As others said it's a 50% deal, but it is also just ""a LOOK OVER" by the judges. It takes about 15mins for 3-5 judges to come up with an "opinion" that the car is "at least 50%" OR BETTER in four areas of "originality". These are PAINT(or exterior, PAINT of course being the largest part of exterior scoring), Interior, Engine Compartment & Chassis. Your car CAN FAIL one of these categories and still get "Survivor", but CANNOT gone on to BenchMark Award(must score a "pass" on all four categories AND score a 95% or higher in CERTIFICATION judging the next day). In Bowtie judging, there will be a TEAM of eight NCRS Judges(two on each category)and that "team" may spend on hour or more JUST on the area they are judging + NCRS Bowtie Judging the car gets put on a lift for the chassis team to view the car's chassis better. Exterior and Interior must score an 85% or better, Engine compartment and Chassis need to at least score on 80% or better on "ORIGINALITY". Being through both processes a few times the "Bowtie" Award is the "harder" Award to get because the judging is more rigorious, at least to me, anyways.

[Dennis C.]

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Rich, Mike & Paul give good advice. Get and read through the JRM and then determine if you feel your car is a worthy candidate. Comparitively speaking, there are few really original cars left out there. Judges really enjoy seeing and judging those cars. That is how we continue to learn. Best, Dennis
(Wish I knew how to use spell check on this post - sorry - DC)

[Brian J.]

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I will be getting a JRM soon to determine if my car is a worthy Bowtie candidate. Brian