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The WCA show was better than it had been in years. Friday attendance was down, but a lot of nice cars were on display Saturday. Tom Clary's Supercar Seminar had a small attendance but was interesting. There was no announcements for the seminars and that made knowing times very difficult. With rain during Tom's seminar I expected a full house, but without a PA system Friday it was just lost in the shuffle. Seminars that I have been with in the past were very well attended, the ball was dropped on this one. The Diamond judging was very long and difficult. The average judging sheets were over 80 pages long and longer depending on options. The cars were judged in rotating teams. The problem was there were not enough judges to handle the amount of cars. Some of the judges would not judge certain cars because of first hand knowledge of owners etc. We started judging at @8:30 AM and closed the books on the last car at 10:30 PM. With no breaks for the team that I was on this made for a terrible day. I was not able to be with my car and was not able to spend any time with all the people that attended. Without any real breaks and all the money we spent to be there it was a real problem. We missed the show and cruise Saturday night. I might as well had left the car at home. This was not the way that I wanted to spend my weekend. We packed it up and left Saturday night. I think the majority of the show was good. The cars that we looked at were nice. The final total was the 68 Yenko and the 69 ZL/1 recieved a Diamond and the 69 Yenko and 68 Z/28 had Gold awards.
In closing, I feel the club is going in the right direction, but a lot of details need to be corrected for the next one. Diamond Judging needs to have more help. That's my take on the show....