Long version of the story...
The year the picture was taken, I finished 2nd in my field, behind the red cobra behind me. And rightfully so, that car was perfect.
I put in my online registration next year, and was called on by the show manager about two hours after I submitted my registration. He told me that the car wasn't really "ford" enough to be in the show.
I told him it was ford engined, ford transmissioned, ford reared. How much more ford do you need?
He told me that it wasnt something people would be interested in seeing.
I told him that I finished second in my field last year. Its a show field vote... If you entered a car, you get to vote. So they voted me to second place, even though they didn't want to see me?
He said that the car was never produced in a ford plant
I said neither were the cobra replicas next to me.
He says "but the originals were"
I says, nope, Shelby shoehorned a 289 into an AC Ace, which is not a ford car.
He finally just says that we could go round all day, but his answer is no.
I spoke with the guy with the Cobra that was behind me at the next years show, and he asked where my car was. I told him the story, and he said that a class member was very upset not to have placed, and he believed that he filed a grievance with the right person, and I was out.
So much for the show being "All things Ford"
and equal, sounds like a black fellas left leg to me.
