I've always been a bit in awe of the lengths to which concours folk are prepare to go in order to achieve levels of perfection beyond anything the cars knew when they left the factory, but I've personally never felt the need to achieve particularly low levels of miles driven per hour polishing. It comes from the days when I used to use my car to go to work, and the idea of washing the dirt off and drying it before putting it away didn't really hold any appeal on a filthy wet dark night in November after a long day at work.
One question that has occasionally crossed my mind is why there isn't a 'Mechanics' concours, for the engineering rather than the cosmetics. I completely get that people like not having dust behind their throttle pedal or the pile on their carpet all brushed the same way, but I'm wondering why there isn't the same market for stuff like beautifully made alloy brackets, or nicely turned fittings, or stunning bits of welding like you see on SimonH's SiFab stuff. What we used to call 'Trick' stuff on bikes. Stuff that on a concours that would lose points for non-originality.
Not polished necessarily, no gaudy 'dress up' alloy covers over cheap hose clamps, just lovely engineering. Stuff that makes you drool when you're wandering around a race paddock.
