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.