In a message dated 5/11/02 2:31:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pethier@isd.net
writes:
> The VTR convention is, and should be, the "big tent". I'd encourage
> everyone to come and bring a Triumph. I want to see them all, from the
> shabbiest "bloody miracle" to the most meticulously-restored show car.
>
>
I'd agree with you Phil, except that for the 2001 event (the last day
show) in Breckenridge, I showed up as a walk in with my rather scruffy
looking daily driver Spitfire (I live in Colorado, so it's not much of a
drive.) Now, I know this is normally a bad thing, and was prepared to have
to pay a few extra $ to put the car on the field simply as an late entry.
Except that it wasn't a few extra $, it was somewhere over 75$, and I would
have had to enter some other number of events to have it put on the field.
I was really quite dissapointed, and parked it in the parking lot next
door. Whether I heard the gentleman at the gate correctly about the
requirements could be questioned, but my impression at the time was that the
VTR event was more geared towards people who had driven from a ways away,
and was a few day event geared towards those long-distance people and
excluded the random local TR drivers who were fortunate enough to have the
VTR event in their home state.
It was a good show otherwise, but seemed rather more stuffy than other
shows I've been too, at least after having been turned back at the gate.
-Greg Tobin
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