Here is the "Rest of the story" , as Paul Harvey would say:
I was at the Goodguys show , since it is about 20 miles from me. I brought my 67 GT500 (see it in the Member's Rides section) , and my friend brought his 70 Orbit Orange RAIV 4 speed Judge. Both of our cars were displayed with all the paperwork proving they were real, etc. Saturday we were informed that we had to come back Sunday , because we won "big awards". So , of course , you can imagine our suprise when we got the "Ford Muscle" and " Sensational Seventies" awards , and didn't even place for the "Muscle Car of the Year" award. Nothing against the cars that did place, but they were pretty questionable. A 68 GT350 that the owner admitted was painted 10 years ago and he someday "was going to undercoat it and clean up the undercarriage" (automatic car, lots wrong), the 70 GT500 was very nice , a little lacking in body work, but it had "eyes", the CLONE Yenko that the owner may admit now is a clone, but during the show and even during his acceptance speech raved about how real it was and how rare Yenkos are!!, the 68 Camaro was pretty but had radial tires and sat all wrong, like it had air shocks with 200 psi in them, and it was an off color.
I have to say that the final picks (and the clone winning) was somewhat odd. The cars were nice , but there were better cars there. If I had a nickel for everybody that came by my GT500 and said that it was hands down the best car there I could at least buy a bratwurst . And I heard a lot of people grumbling about the clone.
All this just confirms that I need to try harder to avoid these shows where the picks are purely political and the judges have the slightest clue as to what they are looking at.
I am just glad the Yenko owner finally fessed up. It was a good looking car , but c'mon , if that is what we were in it for we would all build clones. There is something to be said about having a real car. It is history. And I am also proud to say that while 99.9% of the other cars at the show were being loaded in and out of trailers all weekend, our two cars were commuting back and forth each day ! One tank of race gas per trip in the GT500 !
So now you know "the rest of the story" - or at least my version!
Colin
