The judging sheets comprise of seven pages and each page are about two feet long. One for engine bay, interior etc etc......You can get deducted from dust on a part to a blemish on a piece of trim and anything and everything in between. My car has three judges on it and it took roughly an hour and a half.....
To score above 990 is a phenomenal feat....the average scoring was in the 970’s and that’s still gold btw....
When the judges got done and they were all Mopar’s guys we chatted for about 45 minutes about Mopar’s and hearing about their cars and the Chicago club they are a part of. Very professional, knowledgeable and down to earth guys. Two of them swung by again the next day.
Per the words of one judge about my car he is what he said, “It was a personal pleasure for me to judge your car which was a wonderful example of an original car, thank you personally for bringing this car here and retaining true history.”
This is why I chose MCACN, a show for die Hard car enthusiasts....
Now for the deductions:
1. Passenger side rear sail panel was not as tight as the driver side(was supposed to be .5)
2. Reproduction washer jar but original cap. This totally blew by me and others....it was on the car originally and the car had no reproduction parts on it. It was yellowed and had a stain plus was correctly dated on the back. I didn’t even question it. Oh well, I told him would the two nos ones at home suffice, lol...the tip off was the direction of the cap, cores ones face the radiator. Newer reproductions face the correct way but will still get dinged because they are an obvious reproduction....
3. A slight blemish on a windlace mounding on the passenger side. Just needs to be polished.
4. Rear passenger window molding the lower rear corner on the passenger side sit slightly higher than the driver side. No fix it is tight on the glass and the down trim. They always fit crappy and I nudged then a bit in that but no go.....
5. Two holes on the left and right frames rails had a bend and this was due to a previous owner strapping the car down. The body shop fixed the rear two but forgot the front two...this was noticed when I got the car but it was painted at that point. Fixable but wasn’t a priority....
Now do see you just how picky of a process that is!
