Congratulation to Bruce for bringing some sanity to this discussion. My feeling
is that we have museums for cars. We also have race tracks for cars.
A few decades back the Corvette owners in SVARA got real fussy about what was a
"real" race car. The result has been very few Corvettes are now involved in
vintage racing. The owners of the really significant Corvettes just decided to
skip the whole exercise. Almost all these significant Corvettes are now stored
in museums and private garages and never brought out to the track.
HSR on the other hand has let every single Porsche that even resembles a race
car compete. The result is that they have full fields. Friends of mine kid me
that it's becoming hard to tell the difference between a Porsche club event and
an HSR event. All of us know though which group has been the most succesful
over the past few years. When SVRA was purchased by HSR that sort of made
things clear.
On the other hand we have VSCCA that is really a private club for a few slect
individuals. They have a lot of fun too. They don't even bother with basic
safety which is why they concenetrate on the old small bore stuff. Hey- it
works for them.
We're now at the point where we have enough vintage events that everyone can
find a home. If you don't like the way a group is going join another group. We
seem to have found a solution and that solution is in having a number of
groups sanctioning a variety of events.
We can have the Pittsburgh Grand Prx for the old fussy guys and we can run with
HSR if all we want to do is drive fast. SVRA has gotten itself in the middle
and that works too.
Richard Newton
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