I think mkirsch and cd1 are on the right track. The two comments, as I read them, were more a jab at the correct police and about judges not being sticklers for originality. They can be all over the board on that issue. Some have no objection to an after-market seat, for example, as long as it was contemporaneous with the tractor. But others will bust you for having a marked Grade 5 bolt where the original was a dot-head.
You should take a great deal of pride in the work you did on your tractor, and if it gets you some recognition, you durned well earned it. And I, anyway, didn't read those remarks as trying to diminish that.
And that also gets to the question of judging and whether it whould be done at all. A fellow two rows over who had searched high and low and parted out three tractors to make one just to have everything exactly original, and then done all the mechanical and body and paint work and done it comparable to your own, could be upset at you winning with an aftermarket seat. Not saying it's right, but that's the way those things go.
I much prefer shows where exhibitors get a little medallion or tchotschke to stick on the side or under the cover of their tool chest.
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