Bill Hitchcock knew the judges missed one little flaw.
It was two summers ago in Lisle, Ill., outside of Chicago, and Hitchock was having his stellar 1964 LeSabre sport coupe judged in the Archival Class for all-original cars at the big Buick Club of America National Meet. He knew that if the judges looked hard enough, the could find at least one thing that would get him docked a point.
“They have a 400-point scoring system and they put two judges on this car and it got what’s called the Elite Award, which is 385 points or higher,” Hitchcock recalled. “I had to request my score from Nationals and I got it in the mail and I got 400 out of 400. They couldn’t find anything wrong.
“Well, the one thing that they missed was the oil filter was a NAPA. It wasn’t an AC filter, but it was turned and they couldn’t read the NAPA on it!”
Given that it batted .1000 in front of eagle-eyed Buick
