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AT NATIONAL CONCOURS

By Dave Sunderhaft

Our ‘92 968 Cabriolet was awarded 2nd place in Class at the National Porsche Parade Concours.  The Class consisted of 924s, 968s, 944s and 968s judged for Preservation. The Preservation Classes at Concours are judged based on originality, use, and presentation. Parade concours also has classes for Restoration and Presentation. Unlike those classes where judging is done on a demerit point system, Preservation is judged more subjectively comparing totality of one car’s originality, use, and preparation against the others in the class.

Our 968 fell a bit short in originality in that it lacked the original radio and the locking lug nuts.

As to Use, the winner was a 924. It was an original family-owned car from new that included pictures of the presenter detailing the car when he was 7 years old. While we have owned our car for 9 years and have driven it over 20,000 miles, including many PCA events around the country, it ultimately didn’t stand up in the Use category.

The winner was also better prepared on the underside than ours.

We have entered our 968 in three previous Parades finishing 4th twice.

We are very pleased with our second place. We knew going in we would be competing against the 924 which also won last year. We expected last year’s second place car to be there this year, but wasn’t. So, we have to thank the competition. 

Preparing the car for concours, sharing experiences with other competitors and talking about the uniqueness of our car is what we enjoy. This year our 2nd place makes the experience even better.