<VV> Conventions

[Sethracer at aol.com]

The cost of travel and the advancing age of the Corvairs (and many of their 
 owners) will impact both the locations chosen for Corsa conventions, and  
the timing/scheduling of convention events. I have been attending Corsa  
conventions since 1975, all of them since 1980. Events and schedules have  
changed over the years, usually for good reasons. Some of the earliest  
conventions ended on the Sunday, with awards for the Sunday autocross given out  the 
day after the Saturday night banquet. People just kind of dispersed after  
the event. Availability of sites for the autocross, often local parking  
lots, usually drove the slalom event to a Weekend day. Only recently have  the 
autocrosses been able to be held on weekdays at all. 
 
In the early days, more people did drive long distances to the  convention. 
Many younger folks and families took long driving  vacations in their 
Corvair. Not so much of that anymore. As the conventions  shifted to more 
"regional" events, appealing more to the folks a day or two  days away, moving the 
events to the weekdays, allowing weekends for traveling  made sense, since 
it allowed one week of vacation to be spent on vacation, using  weekends for 
traveling time. If indeed, the area of participation shrinks again,  perhaps 
due to costs, the day schedule could shift again, maybe back to the  
weekend, since less travel time would be needed. 
 
In the past, the local host clubs have run both the Economy Run and the  
Rally on the same day. In order to allow folks to run only one or the other, a 
 reasonable option, care must be taken in planning the routes. If Corsa or  
the local club wants to shrink back a day, this is really the only option. 
The  Lexington car display, on the downtown streets was a really successful  
event. Much of that was due to the outstanding support of the city. That 
support  is hard to come by today as many city governments and Chamber of 
Commerce have  moved head into sand due to budget constraints. Perhaps Cedar 
Rapids will  overcome this. 
 
If folks  would prefer changes to the way the convention is scheduled, they 
would have to  make their wishes known. Besides writing here, a note to the 
Corsa directors -  _corsabod at corvair.org_ (mailto:corsabod at corvair.org)  - 
will get them  your message. 

Seth Emerson

C's the Day! -  Corvair, Camaro, Corvette