VetteJohn

I was reading another thread about NCRS verses Gold judging and a question popped in my head. All of us know that NCRS has manuals for their judging, what is used for Bloomington Gold judging?

z06scentair

They use excerpts from the NcRs manual.

Mike Terry

Yeah and if you are wanting to become a parts Vendor you had better read the rules real close. NO F/S CARS on your parts swap meet area. That is why I will not be attending this year. It is my booth space and I pay for it I should be able to put what ever I want on it. After all there are a lot of vendors that sell things that have NOTHING to do with Corvettes or Corvette parts. I will not be going.

vettebuyer6369

Pretty sure the OPs question has everything to do with Corvette judging and nothing to do with vendor rules.

rfn026

You have to go back in history. NCRS was the only group. Noland Adams, Dave Borroughs and some other folks were instrumental in the early days of NCRS. Then we had the usual petty feuds and people broke off. Dave took the NCRS rulebook and started Bloomington Gold.

What make all of this unique is that NCRS is still a car club. Bloomington Gold is a privately held corporation.

Richard Newton

redvetracr

Tim Thorpe Corvette restorer extraordinaire is or was the Bloomington gold `67 Corvette head judge and a CF member, he posts here under the name Thorpes Corvettes, why not send him a PM and ask.

JohnZ

BG judges use their NCRS knowledge from what they have in their head; Bloomington Gold has no manuals, and no manuals are allowed on the judging field. Bloomington judging is four judges, each covering either interior, exterior, underhood, or chassis, all working at the same time on the same car, for 23 minutes. NCRS Flight Judging is five two-person teams, each team working independently, covering Operations, Exterior, Interior, Mechanical, and Chassis, usually for about 45-50 minutes per team.

VetteJohn

Thanks to everyone for your replies. I don't plan on getting anything judged I was just curious. But not using manuals seems a poor way to have consistency.

emccomas

Now that's funny. Is WAS a joke, right?

histoy

If you do plan to have a car judged at both events, then have it judged at NCRS first. You will get a detailed report on any discrepancies found, then you can correct them prior to BG judging. That's the way we did it, and after getting the Top Flight Award it made getting the BG certification of our '82 Collector Edition an easy process.