Ron,
You are probably right on that, I am sometimes gullible on someone being honest in their judgement to further gain on them selves. You would think or at least hope that you were, but I would think if you had a modified class, and you were in Original maybe, but most of know or era of cats, but would nice to have a more senior knowledgeable person in each group.
Safety check was done on the " hidden" cars only, if all the cars were done, (a checklist) so any member could do it.
And you would think that that as many ashtrays theses cars have you would check the darn lighter, but we usually don't, I know my GPS works, good enough for me, not sure I have ever checked the element lol , will have to just to see know.

Bill Hickle