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Re: AutoSalon and Cabin.	Fri, 17 May 2002 01:08

Here is there official responce. Hello Rodney, First of all, thank your for writing to us to express your opinions about our events, we do appreciate your wishes for pre-1986 car to be a part of Auto Salon as there are few if any car shows in existence that offer the type of fun and excitement to entrants as our events offer. To answer your question will take some explanation. The Auto Salon show series was launched in 1996 as a new concept for car shows in Australia, being specifically focussed on late-model & high-tech modified cars. The reason we did this is because this aspect of car enthusiam was not catered for at the time by any of the existing shows. We feel our car entrants and our audience expect a certain look, vibe and atmosphere at our events that separate it from other well known events like Summernats, Jamboree, Small Car Sunday et-al. We also believe that we deliver this for them better than anyone else. In creating Auto Salon we have also influenced a specific style of car building which appeals to our audience and possibly not to enthusiasts of non- Auto Salon style cars. While influencing this style we also created what we believe is a progressive and fair judging system based heavily on what we refer to as 'car fashion', which compared to 'traditional' car shows is rather different to judge as it takes into account trends and fashion as much as it does build integrity. How, for example, do you put a strict judging criterion on an award like 'Bachelor of Babes', or even 'Check out Those Rims'? I have been involved with Auto Salon judging since day one, and have created the new judging system that has progressively become more stringent for regular car build areas like paint, interior and body as the Auto Salon car builders have themselves progressed from simple wheels and lowering jobs through to the wonderful creations you see winning awards like 'King of Auto Salon' these days. Still, we specialise in judging 'car fashion', and applying a separate and new judging system for older cars that are commonly built to be successful in 'traditional' events would mean introducing a whole new discipline to not only the judges, but many of the entrants as well. We have repeated requests from street machiners to enter Auto Salon, and we also respectfully refuse entry to these cars also, as again these entrants would expect a certain style of car judging we cannot provide to the levels of their expectations. Another issue is simply differentiating ourselves from other shows, and that is quite easily done with drawing the line on post-1986. We will also be applying this guideline to our new Drag Combat drag racing series, as we feel that owners of older model cars, like with car shows, already have many other events that cater to their racing, judging, and fashion tastes. In regards having older model rotary cars at our event. At the Final Battle 2001 this event featured an area called the 'Rotary Zone', which was an experiment to see of Sydney's rotary tuning houses could benefit from being incorporated into Auto Salon events as paying traders. We don't dictate to our paying traders what types of car they can bring in to show off their products, as we usually find most stick to late-model cars anyway as they know that this is what Auto Salon caters for. The rotary workshops, however, still prefered to display R100 through RX7 vehicles as this is still the majority of their business. We had six specific rotary awards for these cars, but in hindsight we didn't feel they 'fit' as well as they might have. This is why the Rotary Zone did not appear at Sydney show in May this year, and instead we introduced the Radio Controlled car section to expand our event. In closing, the Cabin Group is comfortable with our current position in the market of car shows organisation. We enjoy large crowds and have a base of car builders nationally that are thriving in their 'private' environment. We will not risk upsetting this successful formula while it is still working so well and I hope you can understand this. Also, we wish to leave 'traditional' car show organisation and judging to the experts in these fields, so that car builders like many of the members of Toymods can achieve the success they set out to do. Again I thank you for your email, and I hope this clears many of your questions. Regards, Damon Dupriez Cabin Group P/L [Report message to a moderator]

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