Not sure I have had a concours judge ever look at one of my cars. They normally passed on by swiftly, could never understand why..... Something about being shiny.
My old Velo Bel-Car won best Other Micro, or some such, at Hengrave Hall. Slightly spoilt by the disher outer refusing to give the trophy to me, due to inherited official Bond Club hate, I think. I found that amusing as not only had I no dealings with the chap but he was unaware that Hengrave was originally a BUMS Rally so he was clearly arguing for something we have now.
Now we do not have proper concours tests, as to many owners start blubbing, I will never know how good my cars are 'officially' (not that I greatly care). The thing is hid behind the peoples choice. 'I blame the people!' does not have the force of blaming an expert and ranting at him. Who wants to be judge under those circumstances. So we have a poor record of what good cars are really out there, only a record of what looks nice. Case in point the Nobel I had that won the Anti-concours trophy at the National. A bit of fun, I agree. In fact the car was running, used to be part of that award that the car was driven, but it was a more original car than half the badly restored rubbish on show. Eventually the peoples choice will mean a small campervan will be winning best in show and a tea tray called Arnold will be the Anti-Concours, it will mean much the same as we have now and is an expensive turn off.
Get it right, do it once and enjoy it. 'Simples'.
