"Charles D. Sorkin" wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> No LBC content, but I wanted to share an interesting story from a colleague
> who was showing his Ferrari this past weekend. In the battle for best of
> show, his 1964 GTL was in competition with a Porsche (don't know the model)
> for the fully-judged award. The cars were of comparable quality in
> virtually every respect. No rust, flawless paint, perfect carpets,
> spotlessly clean engine bay, etc. In order to break the tie, the judge
> first ran his finger along the INSIDE of the rim of the spare tire (which
> has never been used) and found that it passed a white glove test. (How many
> LBCs have impeccably clean spares?)
>
> The next test was the killer and the tie-breaker. The judge inspected the
> sets of original tools that came with the cars. He examined the set of
> pliers that came standard with Ferraris and noted that there was a tiny spot
> of grime in the joint. And thus the Porsche (which did not have a set of
> pliers in its original equipment) won.
>
> Wow.
>
> Now that's competition.
>
Charles,
In my book, that's not competition, it's BS!
I have always been interested in and most appreciative of originality but I have
never understood what extreme cleanliness has to do with judging. White glove
judging is nothing more than popularity judging amongst a chosen few.
Jay Fishbein, CT
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