Car show elitists

OK well I;ve only read page 1 of this thread but can say...

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Originally Posted by Sprint

Attended a car show today...

To give you an idea, one lady was there with her (and her husbands) XW GT, very well presented and restored to a standard which seemed to me to be better than new, everything that should be cad plated was nice and shiny, nothing showed any signs of corrosion, and there she was, out with a spray bottle and cloth cleaning what looked good enough to eat off already.....

My god she got cranky when I asked her why she'd gone to such efforts, only to use a non genuine ryco oil filter.....

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I don't blame her.
My uncle used to restore Holdens, and many to (as someone mentioned) a standard better than factory. Why ? Well why not.

He had an FJ of his on display at a car show when some knob jockey came up and abused him because the hub caps weren't painted in the correct shade of red for the year the particular vehicle was produced.. blah blah blah. Frankly the bloke was lucky he didn't cop a fist in the teeth.

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Originally Posted by 2_door

snt being the beauty of being Australian about having choices and freedom to do as I want...and not being judgemental and critical of the choices we have.

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I say spend every last dollar on your pride and joy or drive it every day and be proud, just dont judge me :(

each to their own and lets be happy we have choices :p

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Amen brother.




Brian Hjelm says.. cars are meant to be driven.

Brian .. I agree completely.

G'day Brian Hjelm & PhilipA :)

Can either of you remember the recruitment desks at Mascot airport when the migrant planes came in, from memory about once a month, I took some personel from Zetland down a couple of times,they said that Ford GMH and themselves would set up a desk each, and recruit the required number each needed as they came out of customs :D

cheers

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Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Brian Hjelm & PhilipA :)

Can either of you remember the recruitment desks at Mascot airport when the migrant planes came in, from memory about once a month, I took some personel from Zetland down a couple of times,they said that Ford GMH and themselves would set up a desk each, and recruit the required number each needed as they came out of customs :D

cheers

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Uncle, we always, or almost always, as Elvis said in that Blue Hawaii song, needed assembly labour, hence the permanent newspaper ads. Better jobs were readily available then. Even quite well paid clerical jobs went unfilled for weeks at a time. Mind you, plenty of other factories had similar problems.

Australians would not do process work for the wages on offer. The only Aussies in the plant other than foremen and supervisors were blokes who had been there for ever and probably could not get anything better or blokes who would soon leave. "Wogs" worked in factories. On payday the phrase used was "going down the plant to pay the wogs".

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Originally Posted by PhilipA

Ford had a riot in 1975 where among other things they tried to break into the computer room at Broadmeadows to disable it.

I recall that they were stirred up by English communist Trade unionists who had emigrated because they were blacklisted in UK.

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My old man worked in the computer room in 1975 ill ask him about it

Vlad, I gave up judging long ago. I got sick of the arguments.

But here are the basics. In a high end concours any fault will lose points. If you are hoping for a trophy in a heavily contested class then your car must be perfect in every way. The Holden with the wrong colour accents in the hub caps would not get a first prize, nor would the Falcon GT with the wrong filter.

Categories are:-

A+ - Fresh or almost fresh restoration, perfect in every detail, showing no signs of wear and tear or almost none. Or - A 1st Class low mileage original, everything correct, and showing only minor wear and tear.

The original would win.

Categories A and A- are progressively lesser than A+ but still very, very, good cars.

B+ - Complete and correct or almost correct in good condition needing only a little work to be A- or A.

A more worn original or an older but still good restoration is in this category.

C - Restorable, essentially complete and sound, often registered and usable, a good prospect for restoration to B or A without major problems locating missing or unserviceable bits.

Anything less is a parts car or an incomplete and damaged or badly neglected car requiring ground up restoration.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

We could not use certain Mediterranean ethnic groups in the lead fill and solder discing stations. They were alleged to have a genetic sensitivity to lead in excess of the norm. Most new assemblers started in the body shop particularly on spot welding stations and North Europeans on lead.

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Dunlop Australia had a similar rule for these reasons in their battery factory in the seventies. Not sure the reason or if it is known why the research has been around for many years to show they adsorb lead more easily and hence have problems. One of those can see the outcome but cannot prove how it happened cases.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

We could not use certain Mediterranean ethnic groups in the lead fill and solder discing stations. They were alleged to have a genetic sensitivity to lead in excess of the norm. Most new assemblers started in the body shop particularly on spot welding stations and North Europeans on lead.
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You probably meant "a higher tolerance to the norm".

I think I know who did that research! It was Dr Josef Mengele, he had a research facility in Oświęcim Poland. A lot of his work has been discredited since originally published.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

You probably meant "a higher tolerance to the norm".

I think I know who did that research! It was Dr Josef Mengele, he had a research facility in Oświęcim Poland. A lot of his work has been discredited since originally published.

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Whoever and whatever. Our personnel people were convinced of this and we could not employ certain "wogs" in the lead areas.

Brian it was more a local car show that a concours d'elegance !

The bloke making the criticism was a complet tosser.

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Originally Posted by VladTepes

Brian it was more a local car show that a concours d'elegance !

The bloke making the criticism was a complet tosser.

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Unfortunately, Vlad, ******* are in oversupply.