<VV> (VV) Antique Auto Club

[Robert Hill]

Putting all the Corvairs together usually would not be a problem; however,
the way many of the shows are set up, that would be a logistical nightmare
at judging time.  I wouldn't take it as the folks being elitist - they may
have had very good reasons why they did not want to have them all together.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu@roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> (VV) Antique Auto Club


> At 1414 02/02/2004 +0000, dodgeshelby@cafes.net wrote:
> >We do not have a separate class for Corvairs either and doubt we
> >will.  The AACA folks may think the Corvair people are elitist if they
> >feel they deserve their own class :-)
>
> My mistake... I didn't mean to say separate class, I meant to say grouped
> together, sorry for the misunderstanding.  I wouldn't have really expected
> an individual class for Vairs, Freudian slip on my part...
>
> What I'd *meant* to say was that the Vairs were just scattered among the
> rest, and the Gurus running the outing didn't wanna be bothered with
> requests for the Vairs to be grouped together as a club or as a single
> marque.   Sorry for the "class" error, I don't recall anyone in the
chapter
> ever asking for a separate class for Corvairs in any AACA outing... but
> they did ask to be allowed to group the Corvairs together but nobody
seemed
> interested in even addressing the question.
>
>
> > If you started breaking out
> >classes for everyone, it would get way too huge.
>
> That goes without saying.
>
>
> There were other issues at hand here, regarding the local chapter of AACA
> that I didn't bring up, since it's all water under the bridge now and
would
> serve no purpose.   But I stand by my original comments about how the
local
> Corvair chapter got little to no respect from the AACA in this area.   It
> was enough to leave a sour taste in the mouths o0f several people who
> participated in an outing with the AACA and attended several monthly
> meetings and tried to participate there as well but were hardly
> acknowledged at all.
>
> It was as if they didn't regard Corvairs as being worthy of any genuine
> status among the AACA.
>
>
> tony..
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