Jerry,
It’s not my place to comment on JCNA rules and policy – it’s an extremely tough call within the context and environment of the USA Concours scene, and I am well aware of the difficulties and issues with my major involvement since the 1970s in the equivalent Australian ACJC Concours environment. But am also VERY aware of the difficulties and thanklessness for those involved setting rules and policy, and indeed also the Judges of the day. Never hear of a Judge being praised for his efforts and time, but you certainly hear the criticisms and complaints.
My agenda and intent is not for the purposes of just satisfying Concours Rules (different in USA, Australia and UK), but more to provide the detail of what is 100% correct (or as close as I can) with E-type tool-kits for the benefit, and dare I say education, of those interested in such things. And indeed, as I said before, to educate aspiring correct tool-kit owners, on how to spend their money wisely, including from the many offerings on Ebay, most claiming or carefully deceptively presenting as being correct/original when they in fact range from not-too-bad, to total rubbish. There are a few serial offenders on Ebay offering total rubbish, preying on uneducated cashed-up buyers.
Actually, in Australia, and with the many inquiries I get regularly worldwide (including USA, Europe and UK and lesser-profile countries), I find more interest in this level of originality detail and accuracy to be from owners, or aspiring restorers of top cars that they just want to get as-right-as-possible, regardless of whether they are interested in Concours or not, albeit I am also aware that some people present/show cars simply to whatever standard is necessary to get 100.0 points in a show. Each to their own, there are no rules.
But any tool-kit put together as per my detailed paper, will easily satisfy JCNA and ACJC and UK Concours Rules without debit, it’s just I go into things a lot deeper re detail and accuracy, than is required or expected in any Concours.
And “Original to a particular car” – I agree, how do you guarantee that 40-50 years later?
But after 40 years research into this level of detail, it’s very easy to identify non-original tool-kits (to a particular car) and non-original tools within an otherwise sound tool-kit, albeit again I should say ‘authentic’ as if it is the exact correct tool sourced from elsewhere, you cannot differentiate it from ‘original’.
I have no commercial agenda – it’s purely a hobby for me, as with all the various original research topics I tackle – not just Tool-Kits.
Email: mailto:rogerpayne@bigblue.net.au rogerpayne@bigblue.net.au