Try joining similar local organizations and taking your vehicle out to their
meets. You might be surprised at the reaction of some of the public!
-- Regards,Geoff Winnington-Ball MAPLE LEAF UP! ==> Zephyr, Ontario, Canada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maple Leaf Up - The Canadian Army Overseas in WW2 http://jump.to/mapleleafup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Morgan Blanchard wrote:
> Folks: > I grew up in a little town called Pacific Grove California which is > right next to Pebble Beach and 20 minutes from Laguna Secca Raceway. Every > year the Pebble Beach Golf Club holds the most prestigious Concours De > Eligance (I think) in the world. Litteraly billions of dollars of vintage > vehicles come to these shows and at another time of the year Laguna Secca > holds one of the most prestigious vintage race meets in the US, where > people bring there vintage race cars, also valued in the hundreds of > millions, and actualy race them. Both events get world wide positive > coverage, and hundreds of thousands of people go to them in person. Now > don't get me wrong, there are some problems with these events, they are > pretty elitest, participation is realy expensive, etc, but, we are doing > our selves no service by letting an artificial barrier exist between us and > the fellow who restores and owns a Bugatti. Our vehicles are classic cars > (trucks or whatever). We should make a serious effort to get closer to the > rest of the classic car world rather than let our selves be pushed out on > the fringes. Why you ask? Some one brought up the point that old MVs are > echologicaly unsound, well let me tell you, you will never see a bigger > smokeing pig than a 1920s race car, hell some of them only had a single > compression ring and relied on oil blow by to lubricate the top end. They > go down the track followed by their own smoke screen! So if the Feds start > getting uppity about the harmfull effects of old cars, those guys are going > to lobby hard for an exemption for cassic vehicles, AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF > MONEY TO DO IT! We need to be part of the mainstream of clasic car > collecting to be included in that effort rather than be an easily seperated > fringe group that the government in its feal good politics, can bump off > with no political down side. I urge all of you to start takeing your > vehicles to classic car meets. You will get to meet different vehicle > people than you would meet at an MV meet (in fact you will also meet the > folks who make up the great undecided in America) and you will have a > chance to make a good impression on them and show them that you, and your > green machine, are a valuable part of the effort to preserve the history of > automotive technology. And maybe, just maybe, when the government does try > something stupid, they will remember what a nice guy you were, and that the > old green bomber was kind of neat, and they won't go for it.
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