I applied to the Concours d' Elegance car show in Cincinnati with my low mileage FD and 10th AE. I got the invitation in the mail today and I was very excited. I assumed both cars made it in but they only chose one for this pristigious car show. Can you guess which one? That's right the FC was chosen over the FD. Both cars are pristine but the panel picked the 10th AE.

There was only 7 or 8 Asian cars picked to be in this event. This is the second year there is an Asian group. From what I read, last year there was an FB entered. There will be some phenomnal cars at this show and I will put up the pics in June. The show is June 13th & 14th. I am very excited.

 

Sweet! I might have to go to that, it's not that far.

 

Here are some of the other car classes.

Pre war Classics 1925-1948
Pre war Vintage 1925-1942
Antique thru 1924
Collector American 1946-1968
Collector Foreign 1946-1975
Sports- Classic thru 1959
Sports-Collector 1960-1975
Collector Asian All Years(I'm in!)
Racing-All Years
American Performance 1961-1971
Motorcycles All Years
Future Classic 1975-Present
I've lived here over 25 years but thought this was just for antiques.

The Featured Marque this year is Excellence in German Design and Engineering. That should be cool. The show is at Ault Park which is very nice.

 

Damn that is right down the street from my house! I will definitely be attending that. Can't wait to see your 10AE man.

 

Not really a suprise.* The FC will always be greater than the FD to me.

 

nice. i might come check it out.

 

cool! start cleaning...

 

thats cool!!

in my eyes, the 88 aniversary was just a American market thing.. nothing special outside of north america imo.

 

Thanks guys. it will be cool. I'm already a freak about keeping cars clean and I've never had a car in a show, definitly not one like this. I'll be a wackjob over this. In a good way.

The cars are judged not 100% on their condition like other shows but on things like color scheme, historical significance, design, stuff like that. There will be an NSX, a 240Z, I think the first Honda 200, a Toyota 2000GT. I think I got those last two right. Anyway the competition doesn't seem that tuff but they seemed excited about the Honda. Can you believe that? I guess the historical relevance means more. I would think a sports car with a Wankel engine would be more historical just because there's no pistons. i dunno, maybe I'm bias.

 

Good luck Rick, I have no doubt about you being a freak cleaning the car.
I wish you were closer and I let you clean my vert wheels.

 

Your vert wheels? Are the wheels messed up? Buff em down and paint em.lol

As good as Grace looks I have enough work to do on her beleive it or not. The engine bay looks great to me but i'll have to detail it for the show. That will be the biggest thing. The body and interior are so awesome that a good coat of NXT on the paint will be all it needs. I'll just clean the interior a little and she'll be good to go.

 

Come over and detail my car

Any good tips for cleaning some dirty door panels I just picked up?

 

rxdrift
I think you can handle the dirty doors. If not, bring them over.

 

Sweet, that sounds like it will be fun. Representing the 10th AE's!

 

Take a ton of pics!

 

absolutely

 

yeah rick post up some pics, even some of you cleaning her. I miss her but some how am glad you have her and will be showing her

 

ive done a few car shows with my tr3, its fun to get the car all cleaned up.

read the rules too, if you're in a judged class, they have you test all the features too

 

Congrats man, thats quite an honor.

john ny

 

Well the Concours d' Elegance was today and my AE did us proud. She took Best of Class. Beat 3 Z cars that were perfect in my eyes. The NSX was like brand new. There was an MR2 that looked like it came off the showroom floor.
I won a crystal trophy and a blue ribbon. There looked to be 300 or more cars in the show in different catagories. Looked like there were at least 10,000 or more people at the show at one time. It was very exciting to say the least. I'll try to put up some pics of some of the class winners.

 

lets see the engine bay on that 10 AE.

 

more pics

 

This was right before the show.

 

How the heck is even the coolant overflow bottle not discolored?

THAT ENGINE BAY IS AMAZING!

 

That is cool, I am not surprised at all that they chose the 10anny..

What a neat thing to be a part of. What are the miles on your 10th?