I am restoring a 1961 vette red and I would like to put a white stripe on the car.Would I be disqualified from NCRS or Bloomington Judging for this.Or would it be a small point deduction.I want to personalize this car a little.
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Re: Paint Stripe on my 61
Both NCRS and Bloomington are factory concours events. NCRS is closed to the public (for members, by members) as a non-profit club/organization. Bloomington is open to the public (based on random lottery for cars to be judged) and is a privately held for profit organization. Many of the senior NCRS judges also participate at Bloomington....
NCRS has published rules for scoring cars while Bloomington has general guidelines and relies more on its selection of judges and their personal knowledge of the cars. In any event, BOTH organizations operate from the same basis: restored cars to be judged are scored based on the degree of compliance they bear to what the vehicle resembled when it originally left the final assy plant as new and in conformance to then current dealer preparation standards.
Sooo, the degree to which you deviate from factory original appearance and configuration norms will affect the cars factory concours score. Presuming you maintain the original paint color for the body AND use then current factory paint materials (lacquer instead of contemporary enamel) and application methods (no obvious clear coating), both organizations should view the car similarly....
Where you've applied factory non-standard finish coating(s), you'll exact an originality deduction commensurate with the degree of surface area (estimated vs. measured) that appears to be factory non-standard. Will this 'Deep Six' your chances of gaining a specific award? Depends on how the rest of your car's restoration stacks up against known factory originality norms....
There's one more difference between the organizations that comes to play in your benefit. At Bloomington, each car stands on its own against the judges. At NCRS, we encourage and promote the use of Corvettes on America's highways. We recognize driving a concours vehicle risks wear & tear and detracts from other aspects of concours (E.g. cleanliness), so we provide milage driven bonus points in our scoring system to compensate for actual use of the vehicle to/from a judging event. This 'bonus' point system can and is used to compensate for certain 'defects' of a given Corvette. Without going into the nuts and bolts of our judging/scoring rules (all this is in print and open for public view if one purchases the applicable manuals), the big picture is you can 'bump' the car's base score by 10% through judicious use of the car enroute to an NCRS meet....
At NCRS, there is no single item that constitutes 10% of the overall scoring system and there are no Catch-22 areas that disqualify a Corvette from achieving a given Flight outcome. At Bloomington, there ARE certain areas (engine, certain body components, Etc.) that are viewed as critical and failure to live up to their standards in any one of these categories automatically 'boxes' the vehicle out of top honors category regardless of the actual scoring summary.
Hope this helps you! Remember, there's no such thing as a bad Corvette and in the end the car is your personal asset and you should be (and ARE) free to do with it as you please.... -
Re: Paint Stripe on my 61
If it trips your trigger then go for it! You might win an "ENJOYMENT AWARD",not presently extended by either Bloomington Gold or NCRS! It's your car do with it as you please in order to satisfy yourself. Striped straightaxles probably would fare poorly in the shows.Comment
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