MCACN 2017- Vintage Certification

[Steve Shauger]

Vintage Certification is again proud and excited to be a part of the MCACN experience. This is a must attend event. Come Join Us and have your car Vintage Certified at MCACN Nov 18th & 19th in Chicago

Vintage Certification™ is a judging program whose sole purpose is to recognize, provide status, provenance, and promote un-restored (survivor) vehicles. We believe it is the only program that focuses on documenting and benchmarking these cars. Our core certification team consists Brett Merryman, Chris White, Alex Sahely, Frank Badalson, Roger Gibson, Steve Shauger and other marque specialists based on make and model. Each core team member possesses over 30 years experience as restorers, collectors, historians and judges in the hobby. Typically we spend 3hrs examining in detail every segment of your car including the underbody on a lift. To learn more about Vintage Certification visit our website at www.vintagecertification.com or the MCACN show at www.mcacn.com. This is the perfect venue to have your vehicle certified. You will be among and exclusive group of enthusiast who participate in this exciting event.

We understand not every original car is 100% untouched, and we offer five levels of certification, based on the originality of the Vehicle.
Vintage Certifications™ five divisions:

Vintage Time Capsule - Vehicles that are 95+% unrestored in all reference areas
Vintage Legend - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in all reference areas.
Vintage Heritage - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in four reference areas.
Vintage Legacy - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in three reference areas
Vintage Reference - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in at least one reference area.

Reference Areas: Certification consists of two areas of consideration, Originality and Preservation. Reference areas are as follows:

• Engine Compartment Area
• Exterior Body
• Interior Body
• Underbody
• Trunk (except Corvette)

Vintage Certification Roster:
<span style="font-weight: bold"> This year looks to be a fabulous year for unrestored cars. How about a 1971 Hemi Challenger with 1,800 miles or a 1968 rs/ss L78 Camaro with 24k miles or ultra (only a handful built) 1967 Hemi Belvedere. Talk about a rare finds.



This is a partial and preliminary list, with several more in the queue to be announced. preview.....



1971 Old Cutlass Convertible
1972 Olds W30 442

1961 Corvette
1966 Corvette

1969 Grand Prix 428

1970 Buick Stage 1

1968 Z28 Camaro
1968 SS 7k miles
1969 COPO Chevelle 12k miles
1970 LS6 Chevelle

1967 Hemi GTX Convertible
1967 Hemi Belvedere
1971 Hemi Challenger






If you are interested in our program visit my website or email me. Space is limited due to the amount of time required to complete the Vintage Certification process.

If your car has been Vintage Certified already or rather just display your unrestored car we have space available in our Heritage display area, designated for non-judged unrestored cars.

[Over Anxious]

We attended that show for the first time in 2016. What a show

[Steve Shauger]

Vintage Certification Award requirements:

Vintage Time Capsule - Vehicles that are 95+% unrestored in all reference areas
Vintage Legend - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in all reference areas.
Vintage Heritage - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in four reference areas.
Vintage Legacy - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in Four reference areas
Vintage Reference - Vehicles that are 85+% unrestored in at least two /three reference areas.

Reference Areas: Certification consists of two areas of consideration, Originality and Preservation. The six Reference areas are as follows:

• Operation
• Engine Compartment Area
• Exterior Body
• Interior Body
• Underbody
• Trunk (where applicable)

Participant vehicles receiving awards after completing our 3hr thorough certification/inspection process are:

Robert Schumacher 1968 Chevelle- Time Capsule
Charles Lillard 1970 LS6 Chevelle - Legend
John Keane 1961 Corvette - Legend
Larry Sachs 1966 Corvette- Legend
Dave Beem 1968 Camaro Z28- Legend
Mark Bulaw 1969 RS/SS Camaro- Heritage
Jim McGreal 1968 RS/SS Camaro- Legacy
Dave Belk 1971 Cutlass Convertible - Legend
Bail Beck III 1971442 W30 Convertible- Reference
Scott Mancini 1969 Grand Prix SJ - Legend
Frank Karabetsos 1967 Belvedeere- Reference
Harry Snow 1970 Buick GS Stage 1- Legend

I want to thank all our Vintage Certification program participants. It was a truly amazing collection of cars.

Our Judges in alphabetical order:

• Frank Badalson
• Richard Johns
• Paul Martin
• Brett Merryman
• Steve Minore
• Dave Oglesby
• Alex Sahely
• Scott Smith
• Steve Shauger
• Scott Tiemann
• Chris White

I want to thank each judge for their tireless effort, enthusiasm and knowledge.


Steve Shauger

[Steve Shauger]

Here are the posters of cars that participated this year at MCACN.

[Steve Shauger]

A few more... The last picture is a 1968 Chevelle with 18k miles and is owned Robert Schumacher who bought it new.

[67since67]

Awesome group as usual Steve!! Thanks for posting!