<VV> Walk thru and spectate....

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All:  So far as I know, Bryan is correct.  The convention sites I've been to are open to the public.  Including the vendor area.  We do not employ security guard to check ID's.
 
Truth be told, at CCE's second convention, I had little time or money. Things were tight.  I had a LM Corvair 140/4sp.  It was the blue one, which I got from editor Mike, who got a silver LM 4 door 110/slushbox w'AC from me.  I drove up to see my aunt and uncle in Lake Zurich north of Chicago on Friday(?), drove down to whatever the convention was on Sat(?), walked thru the open doors and thru open rooms, walked out at the correct hour and watched the autocross, and drove home.  I was a CORSA member, without a name tag, but nobody said Boo! 
 
The next time CCE had a convention (2001), I was on the BoD with a Yenko Stinger clone that Herb Burkman and I shared as I entered all the events.  Since my car did not have a speedometer, he used the GPS from his airplane during the rally & ecomomy run.  We had a ball.  
 
At all the other conventions I've attended, I was registered, but generally walked around some w/o the the ID showing, except those years I was on the BoD.  Nobody recognized me, nobody said Boo at any of them.    
 
Thus, my experience is that anybody can walk into the host hotel and pretty much have the run of the place.  They just cannot enter any of the events or attend the awards din-din.  
 
So, as I think about my experience, I'm beginning to wonder what all the fuss in about.  Go figure.  Time to rethink this whole discussion?  Anybody else share my experiences and be willing to fuss-up?
 
Historically Yours,
                        James
 
Message: 1Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:53:57 -0500From: Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com>Subject: Re: <VV> membershipTo: vv virtualvairs at corvair.org

On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:26 PM, mike & bev mann wrote:

> in the future he may/may not buy a corvair but to make him pay money> to walk through a convention where he might develop a interest doesn't make> sense to me.

Just a note - there have been a few questions on this, as far as I know spectating at a convention has been free as a general rule. You have to be a member to participate. Plenty of people were at the Car Display on the last day of Kalamazoo who weren't CORSA members, and in fact the last few conventions I can think of went to a lot of trouble to make the show enjoyable and accessible for the general public.

--Bryan