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Originally Posted by 007s 'Vert
Trophies? Lol.......who woulda thunk that a new car should get a trophy? Lol, ya i go to car shows and enter my car..........but mainly so i can have a sweet spot to park......thats my trophy!
Im old school when it comes to trophies for cars, when someone fully restores a classic and spends endless amounts of time and energy maintaining the car, im my opinion those folks deserve a trophy!
Anybody can mod and detail a newer car.....its easy! Heck they can even just take it to some shop and pay to have mods and details done on the car. To me, the only trophy they deserve is the pleasure of the result of their mods or detail work.
Trophies just sit there collecting dust until you die, then your kids just tnrow them all in the dumpster the trophies only have value to the individual that won them......and nobody else! The feeling that you get from donating to a good cause should be trophy enough...
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The point is that at a show specifically advertised as "
for any make any year all cars welcome" there should be an even-handedness of recognition across the whole range of cars entered. The physical award itself is irrelevant, although things like beer or coffee mugs and short drink tumblers with the event sponsors' names printed on them are at least things that can be put to good use (Philly Region SCCA used to pass those out to autocross trophy positions over 20 or more separate classes, at each of maybe 10 events a year).
By "even-handedness" I mean that the late models only get judged against the other late models and the classics against other classics. Not every award should be open to every car at the show (making everything nothing more than judges' variations on "best of show", as appears to have been the case here).
There are a few shows around where I live that I usually get out to as a spectator, and the bigger ones seem to do a good job of splitting classics, moderns, trucks, and imports off into separate classes each with their own trophies. I think one of them further subdivides at least some of the classes into "stock" vs "modified" . . . the lines between which may have to blur a bit as things like OE trim and other parts for the older cars that the judges can get a bit picky over become harder to source.
Norm