<VV> Various - Salt Belt, Dues, 57 Chevys, Principles

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

There is no valid way to compare an interesting collectable car, the 
Corvair, with an automotive icon, ala the '32 Ford, , the '57 Chevy, and 
the Porsche Speedster.  Could that perspective be changed?

Most folks that live in the Salt Belt just have an entirely different 
perspective on automobiles as transportation, especially around Detroit, 
where folks employed in the manufacture of new cars (and many are) look 
upon those rusting out hulks as job security.  Opinion formed while 
employed at Great Lakes Steel in Ecorse.

Dues increases are not a matter of affordability for most of us.  It is 
a matter of principle.  The same principles that lead us to drive odd 
(to many folk's point of view) little cars briefly manufactured by 
General Motors and others (lclc, for example).

Perhaps the board needs to look at our publication, not as an expense, 
but as revenue producer -- ads, public sales, magazine subscriptions -- 
and as an advertising medium for selling Corvair ownership to the 
public, and CORSA membership to interested parties.   Just look at all 
the car magazines on the newsstand!  Heck, they sell subscriptions to 
Automotive Quarterly don't they?