Bloomington Gold Awards Day (Saturday) - Gold Award, 98%

The Z06 received 98% of the possible judging points at Bloomington Gold, a great score for a top profile event like Bloomington Gold and considering that we just finished the restoration 1 week before.  There's a few areas we can tune up.  The majority of the points lost are correctable (e.g. putting in original spark plugs, correcting a couple of fasteners).  The big verification was the paint originality.  I found a set of original #44 spark plugs at the show, so those will go in prior to the next event and we'll tune up a few other items noted.

We painted this car in lacquer with a focus on original factory quality...that doesn't necessarily mean a beautiful paint job everywhere.  While the paint job is spectacular, we didn't buff out all the orange peel in the paint, and we didn't even buff under the belt line (we only waxed the paint).  We also lightly covered areas under the doors, and the front and rear valence panels....all these factors are consistent with a factory production paint job.  Getting verification that our paint job was consistent with a factory job was huge for us and Tony's Corvette's who did the restoration.

After the presentation of the Gold award

Lining up the Corvette's for the awards reception.

C2's and C3's lined up to receive their awards

After the awards, the Z06 is being loaded on to the truck to go back to Tony's Corvette's in Maryland.  Next judging event is the NCRS National's judging in South Carolina on July 14.

Loaded and strapped down in the transport truck.

We loaded it in the front of the truck so it doesn't need to be moved as other vehicles are delivered.

This car is also going on the truck.  It's owned by Dana Mecum...it's the first ever Z28 Camero.  It's a 1967 Camero and it went right into racing when it was built.

This car is also going on the truck.  It's a 1968 Z28 Camero convertible.  It's the only Z28 convertible ever built and was made for a GM executive in 1968.  I was chatting with Dana Mecum's collection curator, Jim Smith, who told me about the car.

The Z28 convertible also came with every possible option when built in 1968.

Bloomington Gold Judging Day (Friday) at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Friday, June 21 is the day the Bloomington Gold Judges review and judge the car.  There's a total of 8,520 points and, to be awarded a Gold Certificate, a car can only lose up to 5% of the points (95% correct).  The judging areas are similar to the NCRS as they review the VIN and Trim tags, Engine Compartment, Chassis, Body & Wheels, Interior, and then Operations - ensuring everything works properly (lights, radio, fan, etc).  All went well today, we'll find out our score on Saturday in the awards ceremony. 

First set of judges are reviewing the VIN and trim tags for accuracy and authenticity. That's judge Bill Calirico over the engine compartment, and Gary Naber in the white shirt on the far right. 

Couple of shots prior to the judging.

Prior to judging, in the garage area.

Set up with fender covers for the engine compartment judging.

There was an all original Silver/Red '63 judged next to mine.  14k original miles.  Quite a car. The car was purchased in the early 1970's by it's current owner and coincidentally, the handler of this car (Bob Zimmerman) was the guy that bought my other Corvette, a 1963 Roadster, in 1972.  He was with a dealer at the time.

Judging the Engine Compartment (Marty Fowler on left of the car), Exterior (Carlton Colclough, also the team leader for the 1963 NCRS judging team, right side), and Interior (Mike Hack, kneeling in the driver's door).

Ben Smith on lying in the back judging the Chassis.

C1 Judging just behind the C2's.

The other C2's out on display for judging.

First day at Bloomington Gold in Indiana

I arrived Indiana today and took the Z06 off the truck and got it into my garage space.  It started raining just as I took it off the truck, so I was lucky to get it into the garage quickly.  It transported well, all in one piece.

Unloading off the Mecum transport truck

I took it off the truck

I got it to the garage and dried it off...looks great

Gotta love the Indy Speedway

This year Bloomington is showcasing 1969 Corvettes

It likes to rain in Indy....We almost had a flood in the later afternoon.

Loading the Z06 to go to the Bloomington Gold Show

Next show is Wednesday, June 19-Saturday June 22.  Bloomington Gold, held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.  The truck came today to load up the car and transport to Indiana by Wednesday.

June 15, 2019 - NCRS Mason Dixon Chapter Judging - 99.8% Score - WOW

Today is the first judging for the Z06 Corvette.  NCRS (National Corvette Restoration Society) is an organization that hold judging events.  The judging is to judge the authenticity of the Corvettes for correctness to the day it rolled off the assembly line at the factory.  They judge 5 areas:

Interior - Is everything in the interior correct
Exterior - Is the paint correct and applied correctly.
Mechanical - Are all the mechanical parts installed and installed correctly
Chassis - are all the components on the frame installed and correct
Operations - Does everything work properly

There are a total of 4510 points that can be obtained and the goal is to get at least a 94% score as you then get a Top Flight score.  We were happy to lose only 8 points out of the 4510 which translates to a 99.8% correct.  After 19 months and all the research to ensure correctness, we were very please with the score.  Here's some shots of the judging event: