The Road To Best of Show!
Coming soon, on this very thread, is "The Road To Best of Show," the story of how an ambulance could ever be awarded something so prized at a CLC event amidst a field of museum-quality coupes, sedans, touring cars and professional cars--and, also, the kind of People's Choice Caddy's that you want to trade your rig for and drive home. Having gotten soundly beaten, thrashed, humbled, annhiliated at Ripon 2013, it would NEVER occur to me EVER to enter into an event where I might be judged. The '72 Superior Spaceship mentioned here, which took top honors there, convinced me I would never win an award in this lifetime--James has too many doo-dads attached to that coach and seems to me to be lurking everywhere at these events--I do not want to get beaten like that again. I am very competitive but am smart enough to avoid situations where I am over-matched. So at this event, I parked my Criterion in the back corner, opened all the doors and just walked around and oohed and ahhed at a selection of Cadillacs so impressive that I have only ever seen cars this nice at a Concours-caliber event. On the dash I.D. slip that I had to fill out, where it requested "Interesting Points:" I simply wrote, "It's Big!" So I was not planning on winning anything. And having won an honor so great to a car guy, I am humbled by all the work yet to do on the car, the debt I owe the members of the Professional Car Society who have either kept me on the straight & narrow or fueled the very addiction that continues to pull them away from more profitable pursuits, and the devotion that each of these Cadillac purists I met yesterday so plainly possess given the quality and condition of their cars. So, the insider story of work so exhausting that I do not look forward to recounting the experience in words is forthcoming. Thank you, Rick, for forwarding this news. Had I learned of any other ambulance in this club winning such an award my curiosity would be piqued. Remind me, though, to tell you about getting pulled over by an actual ambulance (why didn't you guys tell me that that could happen?), and my recent interaction with the Hells Angels. More to come.