Thanks Ron
You got my first point of sarcasm.
Judged to a standard. Not against each other.
But you missed the point of the second part. "Judged by their peers"
meant judged by the OWNERS of the 5 or so cars at my theoretical
concours in 1953.
"peer= someone with equal standing"
How is that a popularity contest????
So, my point was if you had 5 owners, of 5 'new' BN1s, back in 1953,
and one had "fixed" the obvious production related issues on his
original car, now 30 days old, and meticulously cleaned it, and the 5
guys - peers- all looked at each others cars as judges - which car -
based on the 2010 rules, would rate highest???
i.e. which car would those 5 guys rate as gold? All of them?
Remembering the cars are all 30 days old, so there is no originality
issue (in my theoretical example)
It's my example, so I get to make the rules! Ok Ron! I didn't say some
were crashed.
:-)
Chris
Sent from my iPhone
On 05/08/2010, at 10:24 PM, Ron Mitchell <healeyron@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 7:22:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Concours judging
>
> So - still no response to my question from all the concours
> critics .....
> "which BN1 would have won a concours in around June 1953 - given
> there were 5 entrants - all were original - and all are less than 30
> days old?"
> And judged by their peers. Judged by their peers? - Beauty is in
> the eye of the beholder. Your description is that of a Popularity
> Car Show.
>
> So - which car would win my theoretical concours????? Your
> Theoretical Concours desribes a Popularity Car Show. In Concours
> judging all five could win Gold or Not. There could possibly be
> damage done to the cars during the first 30 days which would result
> in deductions for condition. There is no intended winner in
> Concours Judging. Cars are judged against standards not each other.
>
> Ron Mitchell
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