Best in Class at The Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance

[COOP]

Thanks to John Miller (John76) who coaxed me, I submitted my '72 Baikal tii awhile back for judging at the Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance which took place this past Sunday.

 

The car was accepted for the "Imported Passenger and Touring Cars through 1973" class, which was already plenty cool. 

 

Well, the car ended up winning Best in Class...I'm still floating on Cloud 9! Thank you again to John76...hanging out with him and his lovely Wife was one of the high points of a perfect day.

 

COOP

 

Edited July 19, 2017 by COOP

[stephers]

Right on, good for you. Beautiful car and I love Baikal

 

Rick

[Conserv]

Congrats, COOP!  Car is looking better than ever, and acquiring an amazing list of groundbreaking -- for a 2002tii -- honors and awards.  You done us good!

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

[bmdubl02]

Congratulations - beautiful mobile.

[Simeon]

They didn't notice the stick on trim then? 

 

only kidding, congratulations on the win and your beautiful car. 

[02Anders]

Congrats!!  Well done Sir...  

[SydneyTii]

Now that's a beautiful car, well deserved!

[adawil2002]

Congratulations! 

 

How many cars in the class?

[conkitchen]

Seinfeld would be proud

[PaulTWinterton]

[OriginalOwner]

FANTASTIC !!

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

 

[dang]

We've been represented!  Well done.

[fastricky]

2 hours ago, conkitchen said:

Seinfeld would be proud

Haha, I just saw that episode. Was it the same car?

[markmac]

I think you would be hard pressed to find a nicer example - anywhere.

[COOP]

14 hours ago, adawil2002 said:

Congratulations! 

 

How many cars in the class?

 

About a dozen cars in the class, including Alfas, BMW, Lancia, Mercedes & Volvo among others.  I guess the first "selection cut" occurred when they made the decision as to which vehicles would be invited to the CD for judging...they took about a month to make their decision on my car which had me wondering if I'd get a rejection letter.

 

The classes themselves seemed a bit strange to me...For example, there were a bunch of other Alfas (Veloces, etc) that were in a totally different "Sports Cars" class...and yet they raced against the 2002 back in the day and seemed of the same genre. At first, I thought that it might be a question of "door count" but no, there were plenty of 2-doors in my class as well...a bit random if you ask me and I would have loved to compete against those cars!

 

COOP