<VV> Re on-line info

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Mike,

Good point about clubs - I'd say some of both.  The big clubs  
certainly contributed a lot to CORSA, but the smaller ones definitely  
benefit from people finding out about the chapter via CORSA.  And for  
the people who don't have a convenient chapter, CORSA is their contact  
to the rest of the community.

Also, there's this whole perception of CORSA as some sort of corporate  
entity.  It isn't.  Lots of things are the way they are because of one  
or two people who may or may not have been directors.  Case in point  
are conventions.  Conventions are run by a host club or group of  
clubs.  Yet things that go wrong are generally blamed on CORSA.  There  
are many references to the "CORSA business model".  Er, *what*  
business?  Yes, it's good to look at how businesses are run, but this  
isn't a business.  If the chapter running the convention event screws  
something up, it's not like someone's getting fired the next day, and  
it's unlikely that person will ever run the event again at a  
convention.  Although CORSA looks bad, it's not like it was a CORSA  
employee who made the mistake.  Somebody else posted about CORSA  
reducing what members get.  Uh, what's been removed?  I see more of  
everything, not less.  Sure it costs more, but so does everything  
else, even Corvairs.

Mike, you bring up the autocross where you didn't get to run in a  
certain class - had you read the rules?  Was the car legal and it was  
a bad call?  Did someone from CORSA tell you the car was eligible?  I  
showed up at my first autocross with an otherwise bone stock '65 Corsa  
with 14" wheels.  The SCCA guys looked at their rulebook and promptly  
put me in Modified where I got clobbered by gutted race cars on  
slicks.  Not exactly fun, but they were using published rules and I  
was at their event.  How is that unfair?

--Bryan

On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Test User wrote:

> let me ask you the question rephraised: did corsa create the local  
> clubs or did the local clubs create corsa? mike mann
>