Okay, so now I'll defend SM a little (maybe that will get DG to respond to
my posts :^) ).
Paul:
Not reading SCC magazine is not the sort of thing to learn about what the SM
are IF one is to make a judgment about the vehicles they run. It is sort of
like someone protesting a movie before it is released ("Last Temptation of
Christ" {Scorcese?}, Howard Stern's "Private Parts"). See the movie and then
opine. Read the magazine then opine. Just because the clothes, music, audio
systems are not to your liking, doesn't mean that the group should not
"play" with us. SCC does report on this demographic with a favorable light,
and as with any mag, take it with a grain of salt.
Matt (no baggy clothes, AOR listener [& Stern], OEM stereos in my cars)
Murray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Foster" <pfoster@gdi.net>
> <<<One lousy article? Have you ever read the whole thing? Or at all? >>>
Paul responded thusly:
> No I didn't read it. And no, I doubt I'll ever read that magazine. I
don't
> read Cosmopolitan either. Nor do I read gun magazines, extreme sports
> magazines, religious magazines, or actually any magazines other than
> Autoweek, Road & Track and Panorama. But I don't think that necessarily
> makes me some sort of bad person. It just makes me a sports car nut as in
> the 'Sports Car' Club of America.
>
> But you stated it in a nutshell. It is a "hot-rodding" craze. It is not an
> autocrossing craze and it never will be even if we have a dress code that
> forces everybody to wear clothes 2 sizes too large.
>
> There are too few classes for this sort of nonsense. It will not attract
> lots of new autocrossers. It will attract people who like to tinker with
> with a particular type of car that for the most part don't happen to be
> sports cars (other than those 'sedanish' Camaros and those 'sedanish'
Civic
> Sis and the other exceptions someone decided to include because they are
> politically correct to a certain group of people.
>
> And yes, the far majority of them would be competing in some other class
if
> SM didn't exist.
>
> Paul Foster
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