Congratulations to Robert. Let me take a minute to explain what is taking place with Roberts car. He shows the car at Antique Automobile Club of America National Meets. AACA has about six national meets across the country each year. They have the normal 5 person judging teams that point judge the cars and in addition to this they have what is known as the National Awards Judging Team that also looks at every car. The National Awards Team is made up of experienced judges that have many years of judging experence, they do not point judge the cars, they look for the best of the best, those cars that stand about the rest. At each National Meet they nominate those cars that are clearly standing above the others. On average about 6000 cars are shown at these National Meets each year and about 4 to 5 hundred are picked by the National Team to be nominated for what is known as a National Award. Roberts car has been chosen and was nominated to recieve one of these special awards. Each owner of cars that were nominated recieved a letter at the end of the show season advising them of their nomination. They are asked to send in 2 photos of their car, on the first Saturday of December the National Awards team meets in Hershey, PA to select the winners. This group of 4 to 5 hundred nominatees is narrowed down to fifty some winners. The winners are then notified and asked to attend the Annual Meeting that is held each year in Philidelphia, Pa in February where the awards are presented. They literally roll out the red carpet for the winners. This is the highest award given by AACA, Roberts car has recieved the second highest award given, that was being nominated, let's hope he gets the letter advising him to report to Philadelphia to recieve their highest award.
These National Awards Trophis are kept at AACA headquarters in Hershey, the winners are presented with a very nice and expensive trophy for themselves and their names are engraved on the real trophy that is on display in Hershey.
Go Robert!!!
PS, the AACA's mission statement is to restore automobiles to the condition in which the dealer could have prepared the vehicle for sale using factory approved equpment or accessories. The judges look first at correctness and then at workmanship