While I'm almost always in "lurk mode", I can't let this one go unanswered.
The VTR annual convention is much more than a single event! It is a 3 day
celebration of the use of Triumph automobiles in all forms of competition.
This includes Auto-X, Rally, Funkhana, and non-competitive touring. The
requirement that you mention has been in place for many years to insure that
folks don't just show up with their "trailer queens" and the only time the
wheels get to roll is to unload them from the fully enclosed "Wells Cargo"
trailers that dragged them to the event. It is a very great shame that,
inspite of living close by, you didn't avail yourself of the opportunity to
join in with the (close to) 300 other owners, some of whom did indeed come a
long way to be there! Grasshopper, you have much to learn!
I speak as someone who began attending these back before they were VTR
events, and as the co-host of the 1999 convention in Portland Maine. We had
a lot of participants who were "locals", including some who were only there
to work the event. I assure you that they all (myself included) paid the
$75 registration fee, even if they only entered 1 or 2 events. The real
value of a VTR convention is in "being there". This year's is in Red Wing
Minn., and I encourage you to make the trip and see what you missed last
year.
Tom Walling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Tobin" <gtobin@channelpoint.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Car shows- slight rant
> In a message dated 5/11/02 2:31:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pethier@isd.net
>
> writes:
> > The VTR convention is, and should be, the "big tent". I'd encourage
> > everyone to come and bring a Triumph. I want to see them all, from the
> > shabbiest "bloody miracle" to the most meticulously-restored show car.
> >
> >
> I'd agree with you Phil, except that for the 2001 event (the last day
> show) in Breckenridge, I showed up as a walk in with my rather scruffy
> looking daily driver Spitfire (I live in Colorado, so it's not much of a
> drive.) Now, I know this is normally a bad thing, and was prepared to
have
> to pay a few extra $ to put the car on the field simply as an late entry.
> Except that it wasn't a few extra $, it was somewhere over 75$, and I
would
> have had to enter some other number of events to have it put on the field.
>
> I was really quite dissapointed, and parked it in the parking lot next
> door. Whether I heard the gentleman at the gate correctly about the
> requirements could be questioned, but my impression at the time was that
the
> VTR event was more geared towards people who had driven from a ways away,
> and was a few day event geared towards those long-distance people and
> excluded the random local TR drivers who were fortunate enough to have the
> VTR event in their home state.
>
> It was a good show otherwise, but seemed rather more stuffy than other
> shows I've been too, at least after having been turned back at the gate.
>
> -Greg Tobin
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