All is alive and well in Thicko Village... come by our pits some time...
young and old...
----- Original Message -----
From: cfchrist <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: that fate thing
> sorry i got up on my soap box a little long there. i just see that the
> average age of participants in car shows and racing is slowly going up!
as
> fewer and fewer people are being exposed to racing and shows. i notice
that
> at the races the stands are a ghost town. i see at car shows very few
> younger individuals. even at hillclimbs that in the 50's and 60's drew
as
> many as 150-200 entrants are overjoyed to see 50-75 entrants. where have
we
> gone? in spite of outings (caravaning / meetings etc.) there is just no
> contact with the general public. it has become an underground kind of
> affair. i see the same thing in my train (ho scale) hobby. you never
> tell someone you collect (concieved as play with) toy trains for fear of
> being acused of being a child/baby by associates and friends. so you
never
> discuss it! untill you bump into an old friend at a show remarking" i
> didn't know you......". car shows are the same thing and so is
racing.
> in a sleeping society how do you wake someone up?
>
> chuck.
> burning my soap box!
>
>
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