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Re: Vintage race cars built today

To: Gt6steve@aol.com
Subject: Re: Vintage race cars built today
From: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:29:22 -0500
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:08:19 EDT Gt6steve@aol.com writes:
> Personally I see this whole argument as a case of elitism.  Naturally 
> if 
> you've got a Logbook you can raise your nose and sneer at the 
> Johny-come-latelies without your particular pedigree.  Appears in 
> every 
> aspect of life from racing to managing a McDonalds.  "I was here 
> first" makes 
> you special.  Doesn't make you a bad person, just says you're human

Well said.  It is interesting to note that those drawing all those many
lines always end up inside them themselves.

> To my way of thinking, Vintage Racing is about racing cars of a 
> particular 
> VINTAGE because those are the cars we enjoy.

Gee, me too!  Guess we were misinformed, eh ;)?

> having a 
> helluva lotta fun with a helluva lotta nice people

Me, too again!  I thought that was the point, rather than being dour
curators of museum pieces.

David Littlefield
'62 MGA MkII
'51 MGTD
'74 MG Midget vintage racer
'88 Jaguar XJ-S

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