FCA NW Region Concours 2015

Last years concours was kind of a disaster.  The car wasn't finished and I was still installing parts at midnight.  The car ended up with a third place, but with only four cars in the class, clearly an also ran.

This year, due to my procrastination, there were still several projects to be completed.  But having a firm date is a good motivator for me.

1. Remade the radio antenna pad.
2. New leather on the fuel release surround.
3. The trunk carpet got finished.
4. Fender vents glued in.
5. Euro rear registration frame fit to the body and Italian registration plates installed.
6. Driver's seat opened seams stitched up.
7. Tested all of the lights and fixed the under hood light switch.

I finished the last task around 8 PM the night before.  At least it wasn't midnight.

The judging went well, at least I didn't break off the headlight stalk this year.  All of the lights worked along with everything else.

There were only three cars in my class, a 275 GTS, 365 2+2 and my 330 GT 2+2.

With three awards, I was assured to get a trophy.  I knew that I would give the GTS a run for the money (that car was best in class last year), but it's hard to have judges put a 2+2 car ahead of a spyder.  However, in the end my car did earn First in the Vintage V12 class with a Platino certificate.  The GTS is a very nice car, did receive a Platino certificate and won Best of Show.

In addition, I was awarded the NWRFCA Ferrari Concours d'Elegance Enzo Ferrari Perpetual Excellence Award for this year.  This came out of the blue, but in hind sight, a committee member came over a week or so to talk about 330s and the conversation evolved into my history with the Ferrari community.  Now I understand the visit.

The Forest Grove Concours is in a week.  I figured that since I did so much work to get the car ready for this one, I might as well do two in a row.  It's a couple hundred miles away in Oregon, so the cleaning preparation will be more of a challenge.