darrelldavis

I don't expect that the VCCA has as many cars at their shows as AACA. The ten point rule only discriminates against the part of the country that gives them the most support. Eighty two percent live east of the Mississippi. If you go to a meet in the West, no problem. If you go to Hershey. Big problem. If the standard is 365 then every car scoring 365 should get a first junior. If they want to make the cars better move it to 370 or 375 but make it fair and equal at every meet.

On the ten point rule. I would be glad to email the petetion to any Region that is interested in seeing if their members would like to sign it. It bugs me that if you live out west, where I started this showing of cars about twenty years ago, 100 cars is a big National meet. In the east 600 cars is a National meet. It isn't fair to have a one car class in the west and a twenty car class in the east with the ten point spread. I know of no other car club who does this. My email address is: ddavis8839@aol.com

We had a meeting last evening of our Region and I presented a petetion to be mailed to Hulon McGraw asking AACA to eliminate the ten point rule. I told them to only sign the petetion if they thought that the rule should be changed. I was surprised that every member present signed the petetion. One thing we forget about this car show business. I figure that it costs me about $1000 to go to a show. I usually have a ways to go for the AGNM or out of state for a National meet and it seems to me that after about three of four of these getting a second junior because of the ten point rule a guy would give up. Or he could go west and get it on the first try because there are not many cars at the National meets out there.

I support doing away with the ten point rule. The car should stand on its own when competeting for an award. If you go to Hershey where there may be twenty cars in your class it is harder to get a first junior than at say a meet in the west where they have 100 cars total and you may have one other car in your class. The car is the same but the award may be very different. Also at the AGNM it is harder to get a first GN than a GN Senior. No other club does this that I know of. If a car makes the score it should get the award. I believe that with the advent of very perfectly restored cars we are chasing away the backbone of our hobby. Look at the attendance at Hershey over the past 15 years. If you remove DPC and HPOF you will be frightened by the numbers.