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From: Paul Zahornasky <p.zahornasky@att.net>
> Just what in the world is a wire wheel?
>
> Yes, I know what it is. My point is that the wire wheel died almost
thirty
> years ago, before I was born probably. As our older members leave and get
> replaced by newer (younger) members, the wire wheel has less and less
> meaning. When I think of a Sports Car, I think of wide low profile tires
on
> alloy rims, not thin bias ply, tube type tyres on skinny wire wheels that
> need to be trued every once in a while.
>
> Times change. We should change the wire wheel to something that better
> represents the current cars owned by our members.
Suffer through a war story for me:
I was attached to NASA for a couple of years after the headquarters ditched
the old blue meatball (an image of the Earth with an orbiting spacecraft)
and adopted a newer (possibly hipper) logo, promptly dubbed the "NASA worm."
You don't see the worm anymore, though -- after several years, our fearless
leaders figured out that the blue meatball was more recognizable -- even to
people who hadn't been born when the last moon shot came home.
There's a certain value to continuity and remembering where you started.
I'm willing to bet that more of the newer members than you'd think recognize
a wire wheel, and would probably associate a low-profile tire on a mag wheel
with Hot Wheels sooner than with the SCCA. That doesn't mean change isn't
desirable, just that you shouldn't jettison what you started with, just
because it's "old" -- you might find it's not as outdated as you think.
Jamie
'92 Prelude Si
Speed Demon Racing
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr
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